Lou Reed RIP

legit sad abt this regardless of the inevitability

I'm mostly glad I went to see him a few times when I had the chance. Got to hear Laurie playing the Cale part while he sang "Venus in Furs," that counted as a lifetime musical highlight.

aka Carol the Receptionist

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, October 27, 2013 6:40 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and elite match game panelist.

last great american whale

i just loved the way in which he was just so straightforward about stuff (his way of writing a song and his subject matter). no bullshit, i mean people may say he glamorised a certain seediness but that was his life

If you tie a contact mike to a new-born baby and spin it by the umbilical cord, think of the sound.

Lulu-Last great american album

The British rock band The Who took to twitter, "R.I.P. Lou Reed. Walk on the peaceful side."

Each band member wrote a word

OK, now it's on the Times site.

Whether we're talking about music or attitude or leather jackets or lifestyle or whatever, if it weren't for Lou Reed, so many people wouldn't have had stuff to like. RIP, you old grouch.

Was Lulu his last release? That's up there with Transformers The Movie being the last performance of Orson Welles.

I am in the laundromat but when I get back upstairs I'm gonna play waves of fear

fuck

lol matt i also thought of orson welles when i realized lulu was his last release

Was Lulu his last release? That's up there with Transformers The Movie being the last performance of Orson Welles.

actually fuck that "junior dad" is amazing

phaps Chaplin & A Countess From Hong Kong is more like it

The liver takes it all

Sober since the 1880s and a practitioner of Tai Chi, Mr. Reed had a liver transplant in May 2013 in Cleveland.

Was his last official released anything his Peter Gabriel cover?

I used to see him and Laurie eating sushi all the time in midtown in the mid-90s at our favorite spot, but I never said anything because, you know, that's Lou Reed. He's got more attitude than anyone in Jersey.

"I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset
The light on your door to show that you're home."

RIP good sir

ugh, just found out

RIP lou reed

now it's all up to max

Only just starting to shake off a bastard of a hangover, I'm supposed to be going to a party now and all I really wanna do is drink wine and bump drella velvets mmm even transformer for the 1st time in about a decade; at least I know what my comedown music will be tomorrow.

Enjoying the idea that the big storm rattling the UK tonight is Lou's wrathful spirit

yes

Someone just mentioned that it was almost 44 years to the day after the Live 1969 shows in San Francisco.

Is the 3CD version of WL/WH still happening in December now?

Lou wasnt about the drink and drugs yknow, sometimes he just wanted to play football for the coach too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwLlvcDi4PQ

oooh .. that picture with laurie.
damn.

i only have the one vu album, vu + nico, playing it now.
it encapsulates so much of what i love about music.
always been worried about getting more that i would be disappointed given how special the debut is.
a weird reaction i know, but thats the way it is ..

rest easy fella ..

you should really listen to all of their studio albums plus 1969: VU Live and the compilation titled "VU". they are a different band without Nico but not a worse one. each of the albums is different, in my view, and special in its own way

you are missing out on some of the best music ever if you've never heard that stuff

i guess squeeze isn't up there with the immortals. that's their only subpar release

hat trick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDRjsKcFC9g

RIP

Enjoying the idea that the big storm rattling the UK tonight is Lou's wrathful spirit

― Jesus (wins), Sunday, October 27, 2013 7:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol. maybe the incoming transport issues will prevent a musician from having to talk to a journalist

RIP big man

btw : why is this thread on ile ?

Many of the group’s themes — among them love, sexual deviance, alienation, addiction, joy and spiritual transfiguration — stayed in Mr. Reed’s work through his long run of solo recordings. Among the most noteworthy of those records were “Transformer” (1973), “Berlin” (1973) and “New York” (1992). The most notorious, without question, was “Metal Machine Music” (1975).

Beloved of Mr. Reed and not too many others, “Metal Machine Music”

nytimes insightful as ever

oh I do believe
if you don't like things you leave
for someplace you've never been before

oh I do believe
you are what you perceive
what comes is better than what came before

RIP

i like the anecdote about the club manager who threatened to fire them if they kept playing "The Black Angel's Death Song".

psychic savagery.

the man finally turned up for him then.

Just got in the house after a long car journey..

Weird: I was playing the "Who loves the sun" single off a cdr I'd made of recent purchases, and after the b-side had played I turned onto R1, and they'd just played "Walk on the wild side", and were talking about his legacy. I wondered why, and then I wondered no more..

"Say a word for Lewis Reed..."

Not feeling the need to play his music, to be honest. His death feels like a famous building that's been torn down.

Mo Tucker reminiscing on CNN by phone!

RIP, so so obviously

glad to know there's already an RIP thread for my man. Why the fuck do people around here feel the need to augment thread titles with RIP whenever somebody dies?

Because they're dead?

This one was pre-augmented.

can some mod please go and add RIP to every thread about a person who is no longer alive?

otm