Side A
Artist	Song
Lou Reed	Walk on the Wild Side [Take No Prisoners]
The Go! Team	Everyone's A VIP to Someone [instrumental]
Sly and the Family Stone	Everybody's A Star
The Breeders	Cannonball
Stone Temple Pilots	Lady Picture Show
The Byrds	Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Buzzcocks	Everybody's Happy Nowadays
Isaac Hayes	I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Dialogue from 'Reefer Madness'	"Gravity Check"
Flogging Molly	Drunken Lullabies
Sebadoh	Everybody's Been Burned
Oasis	She's Electric
Cheap Trick	He's A Whore
Bob Dorough and Friends	Schoolhouse Rock Theme
The Clash	Guns of Brixton [children's version]
Nouvelle Vague	Guns of Brixton
The Hives	The Hives Introduce the Metric System in Time
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Catholic School Girls Rule
Camper Van Beethoven	ZZ Top Goes to Egypt [instrumental]
Bob Dylan	Desolation Row

Comment:

Some badness, some goodness, some weirdness. Title from Lou Reed's stand-up routine - love the potshots taken at rock critics Robert Christgau (and his Consumer Guide of Rock) and John Rockwell . . . but but but it'd be fantastic to have a tape of Lester Bangs vs. Lou Reed from 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves.' And the Stone Temple Pilots track comes from digging up the first three STP CD's that have been left behind in old shoe boxes for the last few years after playing them a lot in high school and early college. 'Core' and 'Purple' both left a lot to be desired (deserving of critical beatdown and gathering lint circles in a box) and 'Tiny Music' actually holds up more than expected, as STP broke away from the grunge rock cliches and the desperate attempts to be a bad ass macho rock 'n' roll band (a la "Sex Type Thing" from 'Core'). Here's Robert Christgau's review of 'Take No Prisoners'. . . .

Lou Reed Live: Take No Prisoners [Arista, 1978]
Partly because your humble servant is attacked by name (along with John Rockwell) on what is essentially a comedy record, a few colleagues have rushed in with Don Rickles analogies, but that's not fair. Lenny Bruce is the obvious influence. Me, I don't play my greatest comedy albums, not even the real Lenny Bruce ones, as much as I do Rock n Roll Animal. I've heard Lou do two very different concerts during his Arista period that I'd love to check out again--Palladium November '76 and Bottom Line May '77. I'm sorry this isn't either. And I thank Lou for pronouncing my name right. C+

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