08 ‘The Kids’ – Berlin (1973) – Lou Reed
- November 12th, 2011
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- tinny, metallic acoustic guitar + vox
- bass joins with a nice woody sounding run – doubled? verbed?
- drums, slide guitar
- strange out of key flute in ‘solo’ + kids calling for their mother
- final verse all drops outs, just dry acoustic (titally unlike the original acst gtr sound) and vox (a lot closer)
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- lyric: (1. location 2. her 3. him 4. he says/she says 5. drug paranoia 6. hate 7. numb) 8. LOSS (9. the final act)
- lyric structure: A1 A2 B A1 A2 B
within A; lines 1,2,3 constant, lines 4,5,6 vary
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