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Enjoy it ! ♥ Perfect Day is a song written by Lou Reed in 1972, originally featured on Transformer, Reed's second post-Velvet Underground solo album. Its fame was given a boost in the 1990s when it was featured in the 1996 film Trainspotting, and after its release as a star-studded charity single in 1997. Reed re-recorded the song for his 2003 album The Raven.

The original recording, like the rest of the Transformer album, was produced by David Bowie, with guitarist Mick Ronson providing the arrangement.The song has a somber vocal delivery and slow, piano-based instrumental backing balancing tones of sweet nostalgia ("it's such a perfect day, I'm glad I spent it with you") with an undercurrent of menace ("you're gonna reap just what you sow"). The line alludes to Galatians 6:7: "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

The song's lyrics are often considered to suggest simple, conventional romantic devotion, possibly alluding to Reed's relationship with Bettye Kronstadt (soon to become his first wife) and Reed's own conflicts with his sexuality, drug use, and ego. Some commentators have further seen the lyrical subtext as displaying Reed's romanticized attitude towards a period of his own addiction to heroin; this popular understanding of the song as an ode to addiction led to its inclusion in the soundtrack for Trainspotting, a film about the lives of heroin users.

In 1997 the track was showcased by the BBC in a lengthy corporate promotion of its diverse music coverage which was broadcast on BBC channels and in cinemas. It featured Lou Reed himself and other major artists in what the Financial Times described as "an astonishing line-up of world class performers". In reference to the licence fee, the film ends with the message "Whatever your musical taste, it is catered for by BBC Radio and Television. This is only possible thanks to the unique way the BBC is paid for by you. BBC. You make it what it is." This message appears over the repeated words "You're going to reap just what you sow" which The Guardian described as "a none too subtle message: keep writing the cheque." In response to accusations from commercial competitors that the corporation had wasted vast sums on the film it was revealed that each artist received a "token" £250 because of their belief in the BBC. Prompted by a huge public demand the track was released in October as a charity single for Children in Need, and Lou Reed said "I have never been more impressed with a performance of one of my songs." It was the UK's number one single for three weeks, in two separate spells. Selling over a million copies, the record contributed £2,125,000 to the charity's highest fundraising total in six years. The release featured two additional versions of the song: one entirely sung by female performers, one by male performers. The BBC also produced a Christmas version of the accompanying music video.

Lyrics :

Lou Reed & Friends version :

Just a perfect day, drink sangria in the park - Lou Reed

And then later, when it gets dark - Bono (U2)

We go home - Skye Edwards

Just a perfect day - David Bowie

Feed animals in the zoo - Suzanne Vega

Then later a movie too, and then home - Elton John

Oh, it's such a perfect day - Boyzone

I'm glad I spent it with you - Lesley Garrett

Oh, such a perfect day - Burning Spear

You just keep me hanging on - Bono

You just keep me hanging on - Thomas Allen

Just a perfect day. - Heather Small

Problems all left alone - Emmylou Harris

Weekenders on our own - Tammy Wynette

It's such fun - Shane McGowan

Just a perfect day - Dr John

You made me forget myself - David Bowie

I thought I was someone else - Robert Cray

Someone good.. yeah - Huey

Oh, it's such a perfect day - Ian Broudie

I'm glad I spent it with you - Gabrielle

Oh, such a perfect day - Dr John

You just keep me hanging on - Evan Dando

You must keep me hanging on - Emmylou Harris

You're going to reap just what you sow - Brett Anderson

You're going to reap - Joan Armatrading

Just what you sow - Laurie Anderson

You're going to reap just what you sow.. yeah - Heather Small

Oh, you're going to reap just what you sow - Tom Jones

You're going to reap just what you sow.. yeah - Heather Small

Oh, what a perfect day. - Lou Reed

Artists : Lou Reed, Bono, Skye Edwards, David Bowie,

Suzanne Vega, Elton John, Boyzone, Lesley Garret, Burning Spear, Sir Thomas Allen, Heather Small, Emmylou Harris,Tammy Wynette, Shane Macgowan, DR.John, Robert Cray, Ian Broudie, Gabrielle Evam Dando, Courtney Pine, Brett Anderson, Joan Armatrading, Laurie Anderson, Tom Jones ..

Reed's original recording was featured on an AT&T commercial featuring snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler that ran during the 2010 Olympics. Thank's for sharing !

Comments

7 years ago

Robert Goodwin

" I am no longer constipated"

7 years ago

Fred Bizkit

Metallica are the greatest metal/hard rock musicians of all time and they are Gentiles, they did NOT need to lower themselves by singing with Lou Reed.

7 years ago

Jack Dever

YOU JUST KEEP ME GRIMING ONSUCH A FILTHY DAY

7 years ago

michael tooke

this doesn't sound like the original at all. who are all those other people singing in there???

8 years ago

Sionnach1601

Can't stand this version of it.....why take a great song, fuck around with the phrasing just to make it sound 'different', for the sake of being 'different'?

9 years ago

Daniel Moen

Like the mix great song good video

9 years ago

Daniel Moen

Great song like the video

9 years ago

gisele Power

Oh, it’s such a perfect day

9 years ago

Simon Mikkelsen

a perfect day is an illusion , everyday can be perfect its all up to you, and how "you" work... i believe in that good days are coming and im happy enough about that!If one girl, one special girl drops down from the sky to me, sure it could be described as perfect... Or more science , not possible, and the believers... miracle! and the doubtful people , not possible... maybe it`s all up to you, i mean.. beliefs can move mountains.. maybe we are all living the perfect day over and over and we don't even feel it cause we where born on a perfect day.. hm ... maybe our dreams create this perfect day that people search... or maybe its just in our head, tv, other people we look at, days, weeks, years, change, future, the pass... hmm, maybe it`s just a thought of our mind there meaning something more, like push us, find out more, search for what we don't know.. search for this perfect day.. a perfect day can be said so much , my year now, i believe i had 3-5 , at least perfect days.. but like, i know it could be so much more better then they where.. so this name perfect day, have never really been, at least not for me.. hope it will though.. sorry about my English... peace from Simon 27, in Norway..

9 years ago

DIM VAS

Κομματάρα...

9 years ago

24fiedler30

es war ein wunderschöner tag, danke lou reed

9 years ago

Vera Sousa

lindo demais... nao foi dia, mas sim DIAS perfeitos so que eu nao sabia :(agora só SAUDADE...

9 years ago

Tim Pleick

rest in peace lou reed!!!!!perfect song;-)

10 years ago

Ricardo Serfaty

one of the most beautiful songs ever heard

10 years ago

smilynn4uwa

its such perfect day....NOT     : (

10 years ago

c23e

Amazed to see that they got so many people to sing a song about a day using heroin. Lou was always good at getting unpopular themes into the music charts - look at walk on the wild side and the time when that was a hit.

10 years ago

Shoupette No1

I am crying when i hear this song -

10 years ago

Howie Weinal

perfect for ps4 trailer

10 years ago

Dakoteus

haha, the ps4 perfect day commercial just came on.

10 years ago

Jenni81

Rip Lou Reed died Oct 27 2013

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