Street Hassle
Street Hassle is the eighth solo album by Lou Reed, originally released by Arista Records. The album is notable as the first commercially released pop album to employ binaural recording technology.Street Hassle combines live concert tapes (with overdubs) and studio recordings.
All of the songs on Street Hassle were written by Reed, including "Real Good Time Together", a track that dates back to his days as a member of The Velvet Underground.
The album was met with mostly positive reviews, with AllMusic's Mark Deming writing, "Raw, wounded, and unapologetically difficult, Street Hassle isn't the masterpiece Reed was shooting for, but it's still among the most powerful and compelling albums he released during the 1970s, and too personal and affecting to ignore."
Production
The studio tracks on Street Hassle were recorded in New York City, while the live recordings were made in Munich and Ludwigshafen, West Germany. Unlike most live albums, the audience is completely muted from the mix during the concert recordings.
Street Hassle (song)
"Street Hassle" is a song recorded by Lou Reed for his 1978 album of the same name. It is 10 minutes and 56 seconds long and divided into three distinct sections: "Waltzing Matilda," "Street Hassle," and "Slipaway." Part one, "Waltzing Matilda," describes a woman picking up and paying a male prostitute. In Part Two, "Street Hassle," a drug dealer speaks at length about the death of a woman in his apartment to her companion. Part Three, "Slipaway," contains a brief, uncredited, spoken word section by Bruce Springsteen (from 9:02 to 9:39) and a dirge sung by Reed about love and death. It was recorded in E major.
On the live album Animal Serenade, Reed says: "I wanted to write a song that had a great monologue set to rock. Something that could have been written by William Burroughs, Hubert Selby, John Rechy, Tennessee Williams, Nelson Algren, maybe a little Raymond Chandler. You mix it all up and you have 'Street Hassle'."
"Street Hassle" was included in 2008's The Pitchfork Media 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present.
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by Simple Minds
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by Lou Reed
Street Hassle
by: Simple Minds(this song is a cover, originally written and performed by Lou Reed)
Waltzing Matilda looked at her wallet
The sexy one smiled in dismay
She pulled out four twenties
'Cause she liked round figures
Everybody stay for a day
I think I'm on fire and you know I admire you
Quiet, why don't we slip away
Although I'm sure you're certain
It's a rarity me flirting
Sha-la-la-la They come on
Sha-la-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la-la Come on slip away
Sha-la-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la-la
Sha-la-la
Cascading lowly, he entered her slowly
And showed her where he comin' from
And sha-la-la-la Made love to her gently just like she had never cum
And sha-la-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la When the sun rose she meant to leave
And sha-la-la-la-la
sha-la-la-la You know, neither one regretted a thing
Say,
[Sha-la-la-la-la]
[Sha-la-la-la-la]
[Sha-la-la-la-la]
Come on slip away
Sha-la-la-la-la
[Sha-la-la-la-la]
Sha-la-la-la-la
[Sha-la-la-la-la]
Sha-la-la-la-la
[Sha-la-la-la-la]
Come on slip away
[Sha-la-la-la no]
[Sha-la-la-la-la]
[Sha-la-la-la no]
Sha-la-la-la-la Slip away
[Sha-la-la-la no] Slip away
Sha-la-la-la-la Come on slip away
[Sha-la-la-la no] Come on with me
[Sha-la-la-la no]
They need your loving so badly
[Sha-la-la-la no] We need your loving so
Slip away
Come on slip away
[Sha-la-la-la no] Come on slip away
We need your loving so badly, yeah
Slip away
[Sha-la-la-la-la]
[Sha-la-la-la-la]
[Sha-la-la-la-la]
[Sha-la-la-la-la]
[Sha-la-la-la-la no]
Sha-la-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la-la
Love has gone away
She took the ring from my finger
And there's nothing left to say
We need your loving so badly
We need your loving so
Come on slip away
Sha-la-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la
Love has gone away
She took the ring from my finger
And there's nothing left to say
We need your loving so badly
We need your lovin' so badly
Slip away
We need your lovin' so
Slip away
Slip away
Sha-la-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la-la