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From '' Life In Exile After Abdication ''
Label: 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Watts Records – MOE 7-1
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1989
Tracklist
A1 Hey Mersh!
Drums – Joe Martinelli, Scott Jarvis
Guitar – Kate Messer
Guitar, Bass – Hank Beckmeyer
Lead Guitar – Lou Reed
Vocals, Guitar – Moe Tucker
Written-By – Moe Tucker
A2 Spam Again
Drums – Scott Jarvis
Lead Guitar – Jad Fair
Percussion – Hank Beckmeyer, Jad Fair, Joe Martinelli, Kate Messer, Kim Gordon, M.C. Kostek, Moe Tucker
Slide Guitar – Hank Beckmeyer
Twelve-String Guitar – Kate Messer
Vocals, Guitar – Moe Tucker
Written-By – Moe Tucker
A3 Goodnight Irene
Backing Vocals – Hank Beckmeyer, Joe Martinelli, Kate Messer
Vocals, Guitar – Moe Tucker
Written-By – Huddie Ledbetter, John A. Lomax
A4 Chase
Arranged By – Hank Beckmeyer, Jad Fair, Kate Messer, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Moe Tucker, Thurston Moore
Bass – Kim Gordon
Congas – Kate Messer
Cymbal – Jad Fair
Drums – Moe Tucker
Guitar – Hank Beckmeyer, Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore
Written-By – Moe Tucker
A5 Andy
Acoustic Guitar – Kate Messer
Guitar – Hank Beckmeyer, Jad Fair
Vocals, Guitar, Piano – Moe Tucker
Written-By – Moe Tucker
B1 Work
Bass – Barry Stock
Drums – Scott Jarvis
Guitar – Kate Messer
Lead Guitar, Bass – Hank Beckmeyer
Vocals – Moe Tucker
Written-By – Moe Tucker
B2 Pale Blue Eyes
Backing Vocals – Daniel Johnston, Don Fleming, Hank Beckmeyer, Jad Fair, Kate Messer, Kim Gordon, Moe Tucker, Rob Elk, Scott Jarvis
Bass – Kim Gordon
Guitar – Hank Beckmeyer
Lead Guitar – Lou Reed
Vocals, Drums, Guitar – Moe Tucker
Written-By – Lou Reed
B3 Bo Diddley
Backing Vocals – Hank Beckmeyer, Jad Fair, Kate Messer, Kim Gordon, Moe Tucker, Scott Jarvis
Bass – Kim Gordon
Drums – Steve Shelley
Vocals, Guitar – Moe Tucker
Written-By – Bo Diddley
B4 Talk So Mean
Bass – Kim Gordon
Drums – Scott Jarvis
Piano – Ann Marie Ear
Twelve-String Guitar – Kate Messer
Vocals, Guitar – Moe Tucker
Written-By – Moe Tucker
B5 Do It Right
Vocals – Moe Tucker
Vocals, Piano – Daniel Johnston
Written-By – Daniel Johnston, Jad Fair
Arranged By – Daniel Johnston (track: B5), Moe Tucker (tracks: A1 to A3, A5 to B4)
Musician – Hank Beckmeyer, Jad Fair, Kate Messer, Moe Tucker
Musician [Special Guests] – Ann Marie Ear, Barry Stock, Daniel Johnston, Don Fleming, Joe Martinelli, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Lou Reed, M.C. Kostek, Rob Elk, Scott Jarvis, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore
Producer, Mixed By – Moe Tucker
Recorded March, 1988 at Noise New York/NYC, N.Y. and June-October, 1988 at Mirror Image/Gainesville, FL.
Mixed Friday & Saturday - December, 1988 at Cheshire Sound/Atlanta, GA.
All songs published by (M. Tucker/BMI) except
A3 (Ledbetter & Lomax/BMI)
B2 (Oakfield Ave. Music, Ltd./BMI)
B3 (Arc Music/BMI)
B5 (Sit Boy Girl Music/BMI)
© 1989 50 Skidillion Watts/Dutch East
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"Pale Blue Eyes" is a song written by Lou Reed and performed by The Velvet Underground.
It was included on the band's eponymous 1969 album The Velvet Underground.
"Pale Blue Eyes" - along with a number of Reed's other songs - was inspired by his college sweetheart and muse, Shelly Albin, who indeed had pale blue eyes.
The original song has five verses.
First verse starts: "Sometimes I feel so happy; sometimes I feel so sad." The refrain goes: "Linger on your pale blue eyes".
When deciding on a song to play for the first reunion of The Velvet Underground at the Fondation Cartier in 1990, Lou Reed initially said he wanted to play "Pale Blue Eyes", but when someone reminded him that the song was from after John Cale's tenure with the band, Reed declared "then it will have to be Heroin".
Cover versions
"Pale Blue Eyes" has been covered by a number of artists.
In addition to Lou Reed and Maureen Tucker from Velvet Underground, also Eric Andersen, Alejandro Escovedo, Crowded House, Neil Finn, Counting Crows, Hole, Marisa Monte, R.E.M., Tom McRae, Paul Quinn And Edwyn Collins, Patti Smith and Fistful of Mercy have their own versions of this song. The Kills also performed the song live in 2009.
An instrumental version of the song was used in Julian Schnabel's 2007 film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
The song was also used in a scene of the 2008 film August, as well as 2009's "Adventureland."
The original song was featured during the final scenes of the January 25, 2009 episode of Cold Case (CBS) entitled "The Brush Man".
This program regularly features music popular during the time when the cold case being investigated had occurred.
Although the murder in this episode occurred in 1967, "Pale Blue Eyes" was on the album entitled "The Velvet Underground" that was released in 1969. The song was also featured in an episode of Crossing Jordan and an episode of Fringe. |