indra
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RIP Lou Reed
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bono_212
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Oh... Dear....
Wow. This is... Not a thread title I want to see.
Wow. This is... Not a thread title I want to see.
LuckyNumber7
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RIP. Can't believe that. Was lucky enough to have seen him at MSG.
prbiker15
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Well, this is quite shocking. Rest in Peace, Lou. 
LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
I haven't been this upset over a celebrity death since Alex Chilton passed. Part of the reason I had the guts to start recording music was because of how amazing VU sounded with no real expertise involved. I make my guitar tones with White Light/White Heat in mind. Their self titled has been there for me on many, many lonely nights.
Bye, Lou.
Bye, Lou.
Danny Boy
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
Well, this is quite shocking. Rest in Peace, Lou.
No offense, but didn't he just have a liver transplant recently? I don't think I have heard an update on his health since, but I wasn't exactly shocked by the news.
namkcuR
ONE love, blood, life
Satellite's gone
up to the skies
Thing like that drive me
out of my mind
R.I.P. Lou.
up to the skies
Thing like that drive me
out of my mind
R.I.P. Lou.
deep
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not that shocking, if any one knows his medical history
I was very lucky to see several, probably over a dozen live shows in club venues
in the 80s, probably caught some in the 70s too, a complete and total artist. the shows were uneven, ranging from very good to the heights of brilliance
some of the dates were at the Roxy on Sunset in Hollywood. They would do two shows a night, the second was to start at 10:30, he came on about 11, was supposed to stop around 12 - 12:30. He said he would play as long as we stayed. He was still going a little before 3 am. My friends were yelling at me to leave (I drove, fuck em), they told me he was back on the needle. He was, but the magic was there and not lost until today.
I was very lucky to see several, probably over a dozen live shows in club venues
in the 80s, probably caught some in the 70s too, a complete and total artist. the shows were uneven, ranging from very good to the heights of brilliance
some of the dates were at the Roxy on Sunset in Hollywood. They would do two shows a night, the second was to start at 10:30, he came on about 11, was supposed to stop around 12 - 12:30. He said he would play as long as we stayed. He was still going a little before 3 am. My friends were yelling at me to leave (I drove, fuck em), they told me he was back on the needle. He was, but the magic was there and not lost until today.
corianderstem
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God damn.
david
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phanan
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Fuck.
cobl04
45:33
Damn. RIP.
bollox
Refugee
This.
Is that Metallica collabo his last recorded output? Not that it diminishes him in any way, it's just kinda like Orson Welles' final performance being in Transformers.
bono_212
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He loved it, though, and the project seemed to make him so very happy.
bollox
Refugee
Search 'Sunday Morning' on YouTube, and The Velvet Underground is the sixth result after several videos for fucking Maroon 5 and a (admittedly not terrible) No Doubt song.
lazarus
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From the Random thread:
Lou's Between Thought And Expression was the first box set I ever bought, and aside from Iron Maidenreject he may have been the first artist whose backcatalog I explored with the intention of checking out everything (Dylan came a bit later). And like Dylan, even when the albums weren't phenomenal you could count on a handful of exceptional tracks.
Anyway, Street Hassle's title track is up there near the top of his output, but the album itself is uneven. New York is certainly a consistent high point in terms of writing. But I can't imagine anyone familiar with Lou's discography recommending either before The Blue Mask, which is an extremely personal album, dealing with childhood, his marriage, addiction, and his mentor Delmore Schwartz. And the music is out of this world, Lou sharing guitar duties with the great Robert Quine. There might not be a better LR album guitar-wise.
5 Stars from Rolling Stone:
Lou Reed: The Blue Mask : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
and a very enthusiastic one from Christgau:
The Blue Mask [RCA Victor, 1982]
After this becomes a cult classic, in a week or so, noncultists are gonna start complaining. "My Dedalus to your Bloom/Was such a perfect wit"? And then bringing in "perfect" again for a rhyme? What kind of "spirit of pure poetry" is that? One that honors the way people really talk. Never has Lou sounded more Ginsbergian, more let-it-all-hang-out than on this, his most controlled, plainspoken, deeply felt, and uninhibited album. Even his unnecessarily ideological heterosexuality is more an expression of mood than a statement of policy; he sounds glad to be alive, so that horror and pain become occasions for courage and eloquence as well as bitterness and sarcasm. Every song comes at the world from a slightly different angle, and every one makes the others stronger. Reed's voice--precise, conversational, stirring whether offhand or inspirational--sings his love of language itself, with Fernando Saunders's bass articulating his tenderness and the guitars of Robert Quine and Reed himself slashing out with an anger he understands better all the time. A
I also highly recommend the late-period Set The Twilight Reeling, which is probably his second-best guitar album, but this time he's playing everything himself. To say that it's drenched in feedback is an understatement. And while it mostly kicks ass, there's also some tender stuff in there as well, like his tribute to the recently-deceased Sterling Morrison.
Lou's Between Thought And Expression was the first box set I ever bought, and aside from Iron Maiden
reject he may have been the first artist whose backcatalog I explored with the intention of checking out everything (Dylan came a bit later). And like Dylan, even when the albums weren't phenomenal you could count on a handful of exceptional tracks.Anyway, Street Hassle's title track is up there near the top of his output, but the album itself is uneven. New York is certainly a consistent high point in terms of writing. But I can't imagine anyone familiar with Lou's discography recommending either before The Blue Mask, which is an extremely personal album, dealing with childhood, his marriage, addiction, and his mentor Delmore Schwartz. And the music is out of this world, Lou sharing guitar duties with the great Robert Quine. There might not be a better LR album guitar-wise.
5 Stars from Rolling Stone:
Lou Reed: The Blue Mask : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
and a very enthusiastic one from Christgau:
The Blue Mask [RCA Victor, 1982]
After this becomes a cult classic, in a week or so, noncultists are gonna start complaining. "My Dedalus to your Bloom/Was such a perfect wit"? And then bringing in "perfect" again for a rhyme? What kind of "spirit of pure poetry" is that? One that honors the way people really talk. Never has Lou sounded more Ginsbergian, more let-it-all-hang-out than on this, his most controlled, plainspoken, deeply felt, and uninhibited album. Even his unnecessarily ideological heterosexuality is more an expression of mood than a statement of policy; he sounds glad to be alive, so that horror and pain become occasions for courage and eloquence as well as bitterness and sarcasm. Every song comes at the world from a slightly different angle, and every one makes the others stronger. Reed's voice--precise, conversational, stirring whether offhand or inspirational--sings his love of language itself, with Fernando Saunders's bass articulating his tenderness and the guitars of Robert Quine and Reed himself slashing out with an anger he understands better all the time. A
I also highly recommend the late-period Set The Twilight Reeling, which is probably his second-best guitar album, but this time he's playing everything himself. To say that it's drenched in feedback is an understatement. And while it mostly kicks ass, there's also some tender stuff in there as well, like his tribute to the recently-deceased Sterling Morrison.
Popmartijn
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Very saddened by this news.
I think my discovery of the first VU record made me realise there was this whole other musical world outside the mainstream. I loved his New York street poetry. Street Hassle is a brilliant song. And a brilliant short story too.
Over the past week, when I was on holiday in NYC I kept hearing his songs in my head, especially those from the New York album as they referred several specific locations.
He will be terribly missed.
I think my discovery of the first VU record made me realise there was this whole other musical world outside the mainstream. I loved his New York street poetry. Street Hassle is a brilliant song. And a brilliant short story too.
Over the past week, when I was on holiday in NYC I kept hearing his songs in my head, especially those from the New York album as they referred several specific locations.
He will be terribly missed.
cobl04
45:33
Listened to Transformer on the way to work this morning. A great record. The more I think about him the sadder I get, he was obviously one of the most influential people in music.
Don't forget this track!
Gorillaz (feat. Lou Reed) - Some Kind Of Nature - YouTube
Don't forget this track!
Gorillaz (feat. Lou Reed) - Some Kind Of Nature - YouTube
cobl04
45:33
Hewson
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RIP.
Sad news.
Sad news.
GirlsAloudFan
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Those two chicks with Lou are pretty hot.
cobl04
45:33
Twitter, news websites and music blogs can't seem to agree on the wording of Eno's quote.
CrashedCarDriver
Refugee
cobl04
45:33
"Are you a homosexual or a transvestite?" "Sometimes." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeMIWCxHgQk
bollox
Refugee
Lou Reed reviews 'Yeezus'
I guess this caused a minor Internet stir a few months back, though I didn't read it at the time. Anyway, DAMN. Beautifully written and thoroughly thoughtful analysis. Completely shames every other review of Yeezus that I read, Lou just nails what makes it work as an album.
I guess this caused a minor Internet stir a few months back, though I didn't read it at the time. Anyway, DAMN. Beautifully written and thoroughly thoughtful analysis. Completely shames every other review of Yeezus that I read, Lou just nails what makes it work as an album.
bono_212
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I've been waiting all day to get home and watch this. I needed to smile.
cobl04
45:33
Yeah I loved that. Contrast that with the interview I posted!
I got stuck in a Wikipedia wormhole today and read up on Reed and Andy Warhol. It always amazes me that society has become a lot more prudish in the years since.
cobl04
45:33
What do people here think of Metal Machine Music? Anyone sat through it? I've read a wide range of opinions today, some condemning it as an absolute piece of shit, some respecting it for what it represents (a middle finger to his label, or just a big fuck you to preconceived notions of what an artist should do), some claiming it as a progenitor or punk/noise rock, some saying it's misunderstood genius and others genuinely loving it.
JJAsi
Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS
From VU's wiki page: " In a 1982 interview Brian Eno made the often repeated statement that while the first Velvet Underground album may have sold only 30,000 copies in its early years, "everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band." "
lazarus
Blue Crack Supplier
Is this legit? Like, I'm a little surprised Lou knows the origin of certain samples, or referencing Kanye videos...like I'm not saying I thought he was out of touch, but this seems a little too finger-on-the-pulse.
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