Songs for Drella
1990 · 57 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 466 VOTES · DIR. Edward Lachman
Overview
Songs for Drella is a concept album by Lou Reed and John Cale, both formerly of The Velvet Underground, and is dedicated to the memory of Andy Warhol, their mentor, who had died unexpectedly in 1987. Drella was a nickname for Warhol coined by Warhol Superstar Ondine, a contraction of Dracula and Cinderella, used by Warhol's crowd. The song cycle focuses on Warhol's interpersonal relations and experiences, with songs falling roughly into three categories: Warhol's first-person perspective (which makes up the vast majority of the album), third-person narratives chronicling events and affairs, and first-person commentaries on Warhol by Reed and Cale themselves. The songs on the album are, to some extent, in chronological order.
Dialogue Timeline — 631 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:05:10 SMALLTOWN
00:06:59 There is only one good thing about small town
00:09:57 I think I got a job today they want me to draw some shoes
00:12:35 A portrait that moves
00:14:32 Andy was a Catholic
00:15:53 Andy sat down to talk one day
00:17:56 While those downtown macho painters
00:21:24 Starlight open wide
00:23:35 Starlight let us in that magic room
00:26:11 Are always disappointed when they meet me
00:29:02 project them upon the ceiling
00:32:08 and have an open house no more
00:34:43 Friends have said to lock the door
00:36:28 I never said give up control
00:39:15 Valerie Solanis waved her gun pointing at the floor
00:41:58 At dinner I'm the one who pays
00:44:32 my skin was good, my nose was thin
00:46:39 So I got a flashlight and I was scared
00:47:52 And he's been looking really great
00:48:57 but you can never tell anybody anything, I've learned that.
00:50:30 And then later they had to take blood out of my hand
00:53:18 and never turn back
00:57:03 I thought you were self-assured
00:59:15 Goodnight, Andy