Lou Reed RIP

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

Why the fuck do people around here feel the need to augment thread titles with RIP whenever somebody dies?

The best way to honor Lou is to get cranky about stuff

hell yeah

I remember an essay from about 10 years ago by a woman who was in a Yoga class with Lou. The instructor tried to adjust his positioning and he screamed out in pain.

brimstead
You hit me with a flower

buzza
I'll put my band on your dick

hand

Apologies if anyone has already linked this, but it's great

http://oh-whiskers.tumblr.com/post/65264191945/lou-reed-dispels-rumors-of-his-death-on-snl-may

lou reed did a good cover of that song that bruce sprinsfag is famous for, 'i'm goin down' but lou reed did it like a bad motherfucker, no joke-- i havent had this record for at least 8 years, if any1 could wifi it to me, i would rsvp. ttyl

― luriqua, Saturday, August 25, 2007 2:49 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and Lou Reed did a fanfuckingtastic cover of Dylan's "Foot of Pride"

Uncle Lou!

Apologies if anyone has already linked this, but it's great

http://oh-whiskers.tumblr.com/post/65264191945/lou-reed-dispels-rumors-of-his-death-on-snl-may

I was looking for the actual clip earlier today...NBC had it up on the SNL page, but perhaps they pulled it today because the page won't load properly...one of the first things I think of whenever his demise was rumored.

Listening to Live 1969 now after having avoided music since hearing the news, which is finally hitting me and sinking in. RIP

Chrisgtau's obit, correct to single out his last thirty years.

"This kind of rock and roll proved more malleable than it first seemed — in 2006 I triangulated my favorite current American band, yclept Wussy, as merging the Velvet Underground and the Flying Burrito Brothers."

what the hell is that? a google search for it brings back this very article as the first result!

let us now kiss the culprit!

Glad xgau brings it. Well done.

Whoa.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/lou-reeds-contradictory-jewishness/

He had a more recent Israel connection, though: Last year, a new genus of velvet spider found living underground in Israel’s south was named after him. A team of researchers from the US and Europe named the spider Loureedia annulipes after finding the species in sand dunes near Halukim and Nitzana in the Negev desert.

The sand dunes near Haikunym and nabisco

Apologies if everybody else already knew about that velvet spider.

psychic savagery.

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Sunday, October 27, 2013 6:04 PM

it made me dream of nosferatu trapped on the isle of doctor moreau in the dark of the moon

"This kind of rock and roll proved more malleable than it first seemed — in 2006 I triangulated my favorite current American band, yclept Wussy, as merging the Velvet Underground and the Flying Burrito Brothers."

what the hell is that? a google search for it brings back this very article as the first result!

― socki (s1ocki), Sunday, October 27, 2013 10:09 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark

lmao

yclept Wussy.

I never said I was yclept!

yclept Jean

yclept palate

Lol james

yclept
ɪˈklɛpt/
adjective
archaic
adjective: yclept

1.
by the name of.

http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/The-Many-Reasons-to-Love-Wussy/ba-p/7259

pretty good band name

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