the song with the most beautiful, most memorable melody on the album. as soon as cale comes in singing harmony it's sheer heaven. "fly me to the moon.... "
Maravilloso. Uno de los mejores discos del mundo, lo escuché por primera vez hace mucho mas de 20 años y nunca pude dejar de hacerlo. Un sonido diferente que trasciende las fronteras.
@dukeleopard . silly. this vidéo has been shot late 80's. in a MTV era, they are doing the opposite thing of what other artist were doing : a lipsynch version of their album. It's live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and this was showned LIVE on french TV on a saturday night............. can you believe it? I was watching!!!!! and it was a shock i bet none of the songs on this album was aired on american TV. even in their LP studio version. period!!!!
LYRICS Please Come over to 81st street I'm in the apartment above the bar You know can't miss it, it's across from this subway and the tacky store with the mylar scarves My skin's as pale as the outdoors moon My hair's silver like a Tiffany watch I like lots of people around me but don't kiss hello and please don't touch It's a Czechoslovakian custom my mother passed on to me The way to make friends Andy is invite them up for tea Open house, open house I've got a lot of cats, here's my favourite she's a lady called Sam I made a paper doll of her - you can have it That's what I did when I had St. Vitus dance It's a Czechoslovakian custom my mother passed on to me Give people little presents so they'll remember me Open house, open house Someone bring the vegetables, someone please bring heat My mother showed up yesterday, we need something to eat I think I got a job today they want me to draw shoes The ones I drew were old and used They told me to draw something new Open house, open house Fly me to the moon, fly me to a star But there are no stars in the New York sky They're all on the ground You scared yourself with music, I scared myself with paint I drew 550 different shoes today It almost made me faint Open house, open house
This was Lou in training for the fantastic Magic and Loss which is another great example of him writing about subject matters that other performers shy away from, or at the least will only touch on in passing. Lou Reed takes the whole theme of Warhol's life good and bad and examines the emotional aspects of everyone involved not just glossed over in a few lines in one song,and nobody else does that. Magic and Loss is another case of putting his and the other people's feelings and thoughts into really beautiful songs that aren't all do'wah-diddy bullshit and that is why you get emotional listening to them because they are real and honest and he has a brilliant way of making songs with no relevance to you have you feel like you are involved in the story he is relating to you....fuckin geniuses, because John has that same honesty otherwise he wouldn't have worked with Lou on this project, and although he is very humble in the liner notes on the record, it's far from the being a Lou Reed record with guest appearance by John Cale. Excellent
@gillesnewwave hmmm.... don't understand your point gillesnewwave... it's a video of a performance that is distinctly inferior to the studio performance. Prefer to listen to the album. The visuals of the video are utterly uninteresting too. Period. Love you though. Please, get a life :)
@gillesnewwave I am going to Paris soon and I am not an American. Hope to catch up with you. We can have cafe au lait and maybe even red wine and cheese.
When I listened to this song some 20 years ago, I did not understand the lyrics. I had not enough understanding of the english langage, and I was learning Italian at that moment. Thanx for the translation. I understand now that these lyrics are better than the seventies' daddy cool by Boney M. Do you know this last group ? Es ist ein deutsch Gruppe.
excuse moi, mais je crois... sorry, I'm not french but... open house is for sure not 'ouvre ta maison' en francais, that would mean open your house, that's not the right translation, correct it, before ppl think that's correct french
I still have the CD from when it came out. It must have been ahead of its time because when I load it on the computer a digitized picture of the album cover comes up. There's something compelling about this album, it gets a spin in my car's player every so often.
For a song about vampire murder group systemology, and how one may appoint others to oversee such at one's behest in the course of events, this is remarkably poetic of its expression, un grand témoignage de la musique et l'art des Msrs.Reed et Cale.
As depressing as anything on Berlin (especially sonically) as it details the attempted assassination of Andy Warhol or at least the conditions (Open house) that led to that event.And yes Loui and DJKew,brilliant.
John Cale/ Lou Reed... friend / reflection Love with Andy. If no one understands, it's a great play... with great music ..in my op. Listen to it all b4 knowing
