Lou Reed RIP

welp, i always assumed this was true whenever the thread got bumped. Sorry Lou.

so you're saying now you give a fuck.

I believe this was started in response to the RIP Fidel thread, which i tot believed. anyhoo...

if there's a band in heaven lou is replacing all of its members with yules right now

― ghost rider, Friday, August 24, 2007 6:02 PM

wow. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jTkTukfjZM

he signed Mistrial for me, and was pleasant about it.

He taught me what the colored girls say.

He scowled at me once.

Did not see this coming. Damn.

Only seeing it reported by RS at the moment ...

he was a complete nonentity in my life but his passing seems to affect many people so rip guy, if you are really dead this time

Huffpo reporting it too

This is awful news. Reviled as Lulu was, Reed cared a lot about the project and I think to the end he remained a dude who wanted to create music.

Guess he's up in heaven now, arguing about amphetamines with Lester Bangs...

Was worried about this when he cancelled his tour a few months ago.

I guess thats another way of saying "too soon." I liked his review of Yeezus a lot.

Sorry xp

Gonna miss this irascible loony

Huff Post cited RS as source.

xpost Every single place reporting this links to the RS article. No other confirmation yet. Which does not negate its veracity, but ...

Anyway, watch your back, Iggy!

c'mon guys the Daily Mail has it! Must be true!

Holy crap! RIP

If this is true, I mainly feel sad for Laurie Anderson.

An old friend died a couple of weeks ago, someone I remember spending a lot of time with at university, a lot of it playing Lou Reed and Velvets records while off our faces at like 2am. It was only last week I put Berlin on and pretty much lost my shit at the last four tracks, devastating. RIP.

c'mon guys the Daily Mail has it! Must be true!

― kate78, Sunday, October 27, 2013 6:09 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

When Vanity Fair magazine asked him to give his definition of abject misery a few years ago, Reed's response was simply: "Being interviewed by an English journalist".

rip lou

the fuck is actually rn

like is every media outlet phoning RS, getting told yeah its true, then waiting an indeterminate length of time before conceding RS aren't making this up

Yes they are all getting on their phones and calling Rolling Stone.

blow me you landill shithead

landfill oy

srsly like really given the number of journalists here can someone explain what the protocol is when a single source is claiming something like this?

Here in the big city we got a word
For those who would bed their beloved big bird
And make a mockery of our freedoms
Without even using a condom
Without even saying " no "
By god we have a name for people like that
It's - hey motherfucker

now it is.....foxnews

xposts I'm sure they're all trying to confirm independently. But I can also imagine that that's hard, especially on a Sunday, and it's not hard to believe that RS happens to have sources on this that others don't have easy access to.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1498177.1382897594!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/spl563730-005.jpg

John Cale's last revenge: being the single source for Jon Dolan.

"I get scared in Sweden."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xduERw9BSns

IMDb's headline: "Lou Reed, 'Walk on the Wild Side' Singer, Dead at 71"

I guess, but still, *sigh*

Better than "Beloved Honda scooter pitchman."

Still no story in the New York Times. That will be the nail in the coffin, so to speak, for me.

"Recent Metallica Collaborator"

beloved Metallica collaborator

guardian confirming it now as well. RIP lou

his agent confirmed it to the Graun a couple of minutes ago

xp

Re Blue clip about his Dodgers departure trauma, I always took him for a Mets fan, cuz first time I saw him live (Capitol Theater, Passaic NJ, 1984) the crowd chanted "Looooouuu" and he said "That sounds like you want Mookie Wilson."

So wait, this weekend Arthur C. Danto and Lou Reed, two guys with a strong Warhol connection. Who is the third one who should be running scared?

Iggy?

Yesterday the woman who voiced Mrs. Krabappel died.

aka Carol the Receptionist