Late, late night rerun of Lou Reed on SNL

replacement · Post by **replacement** » 28 May 2006 00:54

If you live in the U.S., NBC broadcasts really old reruns of Saturday Night Live around 2 to 3 a.m. early Sunday morning (check your local listings).

Tonight (or tomorrow morning, depending on how you look at it), they're showing one with Lou Reed. It's from 1985/1986, and it's hosted by the late comedian Sam Kinison. Lou performs two songs, "I Love You Suzanne" and "The Original Wrapper." These broadcasts show the ENTIRE episode, unlike the reruns on Comedy Central and E!, so you'll be able to see both performances. Tape or TiVo it!

GroovyMusic · Post by **GroovyMusic** » 28 May 2006 01:34

Sorry for not being completely on topic, but what exactly do you mean by "ENTIRE episode"?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 28 May 2006 02:13

Cool, thanks for the headsup.

replacement · Post by **replacement** » 29 May 2006 00:58

SNL is usually 90 minutes, but syndicated reruns on cable are edited down to an hour. Usually they cut out one of the musical numbers to accommodate the shorter time.

This was a pretty bad episode of SNL, but Lou was entertaining. Pretty slick, VERY 80's, but Lou was having fun and even though the tempo was too fast, "I Love You, Suzanne" went off pretty well (esp. when he sings 'I love you when you're good, good, good, good, good, I love you when you're bad, bad, bad, bad, bad....')

MJG196 · Post by **MJG196** » 30 May 2006 11:40

This is already making the rounds on torrent sites! Grabbed it yesterday.

MJG196 · Post by **MJG196** » 31 May 2006 00:01

Pretty cool! Wow...the Original Wrapper has NOT aged well. At all. This is where the worst phase of Lou's career began - WE NEED MORE SYNTHS!

BTW, who was the drummer?

lostblues · Post by **lostblues** » 31 May 2006 18:17

yep. i second that!

mistrial.... lck...lck

this is the only record from Lou that is not in my possession. I even never heard it in full.

replacement · Post by **replacement** » 07 Jun 2006 00:27

TERRIBLE album, especially compared to the previous three (talk about coitus interruptus). Just be thankful he played something from New Sensations instead of sticking with Mistrial for both numbers.

Actually, to be fair, Mistrial does have three good tunes. "No Money Down," "Mama's Got A Lover," and "Tell It To Your Heart" would've made decent singles. Not his best songs, but they'er tuneful, catchy, and warm without getting sappy.

MJG196 · Post by **MJG196** » 06 Sep 2006 03:52

Tonight my 3-year old was misbehaving, so I made him watch The Original Crapper from SNL as punishment. Even at three years old, he knows 1980's garbage when he hears it! He put his hands over his ears and kept yelling, "Daddy, this sucks! This sucks!"

I am not joking, either.

Doctor Bob · Post by **Doctor Bob** » 06 Sep 2006 07:34

mg196 wrote:Tonight my 3-year old was misbehaving, so I made him watch The Original Crapper from SNL as punishment. Even at three years old, he knows 1980's garbage when he hears it! He put his hands over his ears and kept yelling, "Daddy, this sucks! This sucks!"

I am not joking, either.

Play him White Light/White Heat in mono and then tell us what he thought of it (just interested)