Slaughter And The Dogs - I'm Waiting For The Man (The Velvet Underground Cover)

Описание: From '' Do It Dog Style ''
Label: Decca – SKL 5292
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1978

Tracklist
A1 Where Have All The Boot Boys Gone
A2 Victims Of The Vampire
A3 Boston Babies
A4 I'm Waiting For The Man
A5 I'm Mad
A6 Quick Joey Small
B1 You're A Bore
B2 Keep On Trying
B3 We Don't Care
B4 Since You Went Away
B5 Who Are The Mystery Girls
B6 Dame To Blame

Performer – Mike Rossi, Mad Muffet, Wayne Barrett, Zip Bates

Photography – Kevin Cummins

Engineer – Adrian Martins
Engineer [Assistant] – Craig Thomson

Producer – Nick Tauber

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"I'm Waiting for the Man" is a song by the American rock band The Velvet Underground, written by Lou Reed.
It was first released on their 1967 debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico.

The song is about purchasing 26 dollars worth of heroin in a Harlem brownstone near the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 125th Street in New York City.
The song is sung from the point of view of the purchaser who is presumably traveling to Harlem from another part of the city; the "man" in the song's title is a drug dealer.
Along with traditional guitar, bass, and drums, the song also features pounding, percussive rock-and-roll barrelhouse-style piano.
It is one of the band's more popular songs, and one of their many compositions featuring drugs as subject matter.
After leaving the band in 1970, Lou Reed continued to incorporate the song into his solo live performances. Reed does not often sing the song himself anymore.

In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it No.159 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Cover versions

Velvet Underground members Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico, and Maureen Tucker have all recorded solo versions.

Other artists who have recorded covers of the song include:

Bauhaus (with Nico).
Beck, a curiously discordant jangle .
Celibate Rifles.
David Bowie. A version of the song appeared on David Bowie's Live: Santa Monica '72 featuring Mick Ronson on guitar. This performance was used in the 2000 film Almost Famous. Bowie also performed the song on his Isolar tour of 1976, and one such performance appears on the Live Nassau Coliseum '76 records in the 2010 Special Edition and Deluxe Edition box set releases of the Station to Station album.
Eater, an unusually up-tempo 1978 version by punk teenagers.
Električni Orgazam, on their album of English language covers Les Chansones Populaires.
Été 67, on the Belgian (but not French) version of their eponymous first album
Beck-Page's The Yardbirds.
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) as a B-side to the extended-play version of Messages.
Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub on the 1989 album Hair.
The Riffs on the 2001 album Underground Kicks.
Samm Bennett.
Sheep on Drugs, on their 1997 album One For The Money.
Slaughter & The Dogs, on the 1978 album Do it Dog Style.
The Swayback.
U.K. Subs, B-side of the 1980 single Warhead.
Vanessa Paradis, on her eponymous 1992 English language debut album
Vitamin String Quartet.
Robert Caruso, bonus track to the Ecce Homo CD, 2008.

Live Covers

Bauhaus included a live version on Press The Eject And Give Me The Tape
Belle & Sebastian, recorded the song in 2001 and released on the BBC Sessions album.
Cheap Trick included a live recording of the song on the 1996 rarities collection Sex, America, Cheap Trick. Reportedly Robin Zander initially failed to learn the song's lyrics so Tom Petersson would sing it at early concerts.
David Bowie on Live at the Beeb.
Debbie Harry frequently ended her live sets with the song between 1989 and 1991.
late Smashing Pumpkins also incorporated the song in their live set list.
Pink Fairies often played the song, as on their reunion live album Live at the Roundhouse 1975.
Robert Plant and Jimmy Page played the song during their various incarnations in their Plant and Page tours. Robert Plant's Priory of Brian also did a cover of the song.
Tom Robinson, released as a live track on Rising Free.
Vic Ruggiero and Kepi Ghoulie.
Zwan.

Remixed forms and Lyric Use

2 Many DJs compilation album As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 uses the song's original recording in remixed form.
Death Cab for Cutie's lyric "To a brownstone, up three flights of stairs" in their song "No Joy in Mudville" is a direct, uncredited lift from "I'm Waiting For The Man".
The lyrics were used in the 2002 ballet by Édouard Lock and La La La Human Steps "Amelia" with completely different music by David Lang.

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