Talk:I Heard Her Call My Name

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"I've got my eye balls on my knees" refers to nodding out on heroin I believe.

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"Hearing" a dead person
The song could be about someone with auditory hallucination (hearing "voices"), a symptom of schizophrenia and mania, a condition associated with certain cases of bipolar disorder. R Waldo WCU (talk) 04:35, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * RS? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.111.40.207 (talk) 13:42, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

A passing comment - not on the article but on the band, ignore it if you like
"In their biography Uptight, the band claimed they were unhappy with the recording of "I Heard Her Call My Name", saying that the recording was a poor attempt to capture the energy of live versions of the song." I can't resist pointing out that it's the responsibility of bands in a studio to ensure that their recordings are as good as they want them to be. If the studio version of I Heard Her Call My Name isn't as good as the band wanted it to be, tough: they should have made sure that it was better. They had money, time and one of the best producers available. I quite like the Velvet Underground, but I find it hard to take them seriously as musicians precisely because of comments like this. Lexo (talk) 00:13, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, they did NOT have much money or studio time, as the group was always a complete commercial failure until at least 10 years after they broke up, and the complaint was about the producer and the record company's decisions on the mix. Plenty of Reliable Sources to back this up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.111.40.207 (talk) 13:45, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Reply to "passing comment"
Considering the costs of recording studio time and the fact that the group was never a commercial success, I don't see how the previous comment is justified. Waldo WCU (talk) 02:35, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

"I find it hard to take them seriously as musicians precisely because of comments like this."

Don't be so literal, Uptight was Victor Bockris assuring Andy Warhol got the credit due him for nurturing the band, not a band "biography". That they were unhappy with the sound of their 2d album didn't mean they were blaming anyone else. The band members were unhappy with the sound AND accepted responsibility for the poor recording quality of the White Light/White Heat album (Unterberger,2009). Faced with engineers and a record company (Tom Wilson being the ultimate hands-off producer) interested in pop-sounding hits, the band chose to ignore studio strictures and totally overloaded the sound in the interests of DIY. For all the distortion and the off-putting mix, Heard Her Call My Name is a genius pop song and the perfect intro to Sister Ray.– — Preceding unsigned comment added by Forzalazio (talk • contribs) 13:48, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

another comment on the passing comment...
"In their biography Uptight, the band claimed they were unhappy with the recording of "I Heard Her Call My Name", saying that the recording was a poor attempt to capture the energy of live versions of the song."

I can't find that in the book - at least, not by searching Google Books and Amazon Look Inside. What I did find was this quote from John Cale:

"'I Heard Her Call My Name' and 'Here She Comes Now' evolved in the studio. We never performed them live." (p. 88)

and this from Sterling Morrison:

"I quit the group for a couple of days because I thought they chose the wrong mix for 'I Heard Her Call My Name', one of our best songs that was completely ruined in the studio." (p. 89)

Looks like someone was a little "off" in their paraphrasing. --Rosekelleher (talk) 12:42, 23 February 2015 (UTC)