Lou Reed RIP

http://www.jefframirez.com/ilx/reed.bmp

NEVER FORGET

http://dangerbird.tripod.com/reed/loucover/mistrial.jpg

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/day/05_09_2001.html

I'm currently watching season 2 of Suddenly Susan and can't believe how good he was. RIP

CNN is reporting it was a strokes

slip away

the correct title of this thread would be "COME ANTICIPATE LAURIE ANDERSON BEING ON THE MARKET AGAIN"

nabisco, nabisco mystic

never got to play football for the coach ;_;

hay morbs

i can't find this anywhere in the news. can you provide a link please?

hee hee

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i'm sure lou is jammin with max roach right now in heaven RIP ;_;

with fidel on the conga RIP

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

check out my gigantic dick 8===========================================D

OUT OF OUR LIVES BUT NEVER OUT OF OUR HEARTS

NEVER FORGET 8/24/07 THE DAY WE LOST TWO AMERICAN HEROS

oh boy i'm laughing

thanks for being such a dick morbs

RIP THE ORIGINAL RAPPER

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EVERYBODY POST YOUR FAVORITE MEMORIES OF LOU REED HERE

#1. "THE VELVET UNDERGROUND"

#2. EATING A MARS BAR OUT OF MICK JAGGERS PUSSY

#3. "THE RAVEN" A++++++++++++++++++++++ WOULD LISTEN AGAIN

#4 8===========================================D

#5. MY DAD LOVES LOU REED

#6. ALL OF THE MEMORIES OF LOU REED

LOU REED RUMORS FILL THE BROADWAY ARCADE

PUDDING FILLS PEREZ HILTON

omg max do we have the same dad?!?!

#7. THE TIME THAT LOU REED REVEALED THAT ALLY AND I WERE HALF-SISTERS

i move we re-name ILX "THE LOU REED MEMORIAL MESSAGE BOARD"

Lou Reed PWN3D

They say he didn't have an enemy
His was a greatness to behold
He was the last surviving progeny
The last one on this side of the world

He measured half a mile from tip to tail
silver and black with powerful fins
They say he could split a mountain in two
That's how we got the Grand Canyon

Last Great American Whale [x4]

Some say they saw him at the Great Lakes
Some say they saw him off the coast of Florida
My mother said she saw him in Chinatown
but you can't always trust your mother

Off the Carolinas the sun shines brightly in the day
The lighthouse glow ghostly there at night
The chief of a local tribe had killed a racist mayor's son
and he'd been on death row since 1958

The mayor's kid was a rowdy pig
spit on Indians and lots worse
The old chief buried a hatchet in his head
life compared to death for him seemed worse

The tribal brothers gathered in the lighthouse to sing
and tried to conjure up a storm or rain
The harbor parted and the great whale sprang full up
and caused a hugh tidal wave

The wave crushed the jail and freed the chief
The tribe let out a roar
The whites were drowned
the browns and reds set free
but sadly one thing more

Some local yokel member of the NRA
kept a bazooka in his living room
and thinking he had the chief in his sight
blew the whale's brains out with a lead harpoon

Last Great American Whale [x4]

Well Americans don't care for much of anything
land and water the least
And animal life is low on the totem pole
with human life not worth more than infected yeast

Americans don't care too much for beauty
They'll shit in a river, dump battery acid in a stream
They'll watch dead rats wash up on the beach
and complain if they can't swim

They say things are done for the majority
Don't believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear
It's a lot like what my painter friend Donald said to me
"Stick a fork in their ass and turn them over, they're done"

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Eggplant, Rufus, Dummy-star, and The Glob.

FOR LOU REED RIP B. THE BEGGINING OF TIME - D. 2007

Goodbye Lou Reed
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did

Loneliness was tough
The toughest role you ever played
Hollywood created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid
Even when you died
Oh the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say
Was that Marilyn was found in the nude

Goodbye Lou Reed
From the young man in the 22nd row
Who sees you as something as more than sexual
More than just our Marilyn Monroe

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"Of all the people I have known, he was the most...human"

xp

our world will never be the same

Fuck this guy. I am trading him off of my team in Madden as soon as I get home.

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I'd like to say a few words about a guy I know, a friend of mine. His name is Lou Reed, and he has the heart of a giant and that rare form of courage which allows him to kid himself and his opponent -- cancer. He has a mental attitude which makes me proud to have a friend who spells out "courage," 24 hours a day, every day of his life. Now, you flatter me by giving me this award. But I say to you here and now, Lou Reed is the man of courage who should receive this award. It's mine tonight and Lou Reed's tomorrow. I love Lou Reed. And I'd like all of you to love him too. And tonight, you hit your knees: please ask God to love him.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4RBQ7D4s4qk

MODS: PLS MOVE THIS TO ILM WHY BECAUSE IT'D BE INTERSTING

otm

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It's very rare in life to know someone who affects things; changes them in a positive way. I've been lucky enough to have known some in my life: Andy Warhol, Doc Pomus. People whose vision and integrity was such that it moved the world a bit. People who, through the articulation of their talents and intelligence, were able to leave things better than they had found them. People who were not only not in it for the money, to paraphrase Lou Reed. Lou Reed was such a person and of the many regrets I have in life, not knowing him a lot better is one of them.

Whether writing symphonies, satirical broadsides or casting a caustic glow across the frontier of madness that makes up the American political landscape; whether testifying before Congress to put the PMRC in its rightful lowly place, or acting as a cultural conduit for President Vaclav Havel and the Czech government, Lou was a force for reason and honesty in the business deficient in those areas. As we reward some with money for the amusement they supply to the cultural masses, I think the induction of Lou Reed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame distinguishes the Hall as well as the inductee. (applause)

Musicians usually cannot speak. That's why they communicate through their instruments. But Lou was one who could. And because music is pure, the musician is pure as well and when Lou spoke he demonstrated the power of purity. Who will do that now? I admired Lou greatly and I know he admired me. It gives me great pleasure to give this award to his daughter, Edie Brickell.

We called the Miami Herald says it's all rumors and they've got nothing on the cops mobilising. US State Department also says its just rumors, in a nice bit of non-denying denial

alfred's convinced me i need to spend more time with new sensations

yeah and that's totally fair it's perhaps an underrated record, just personally, and I know it's nagl to second guess other peoples' taste, but I think you shouldn't need to pretend it's the best Lou Reed album to convince people to revisit it

I know some of you love that 80s production and so yes if that's your favorite sound then OK maybe somehow New Sensation becomes the best Lou Reed album but I think most Lou Reed fans, it's not their fav sound and not what they go to Lou Reed for

will have to give Dragon another listen...

I love it in spite of the production. These are the songs Lou Reed should've been writing in 1984, extensions of what he attempted on The Blue Mask.

idk every Lou fan I know loves NS.

I don't think I've ever actually listened to the entire thing tbh

The outro of "New Sensations" kills me. It honors the terrific line, "I want the principles of a timeless muse."

idk every Lou fan I know loves NS.

"Hey bro' what's the woyd, talkin' 'bout my friend Geo-eo-eo-rge"

shit he died again!?

rip

5 years today.

Miss u boo

been listening to those 1970 demos he did after leaving the Velvets a lot over the last couple of weeks
also this clip of him talking about hearing the Ramones for the first time in 1975 is great (starts at 1:20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-f2rz2G9AI

That is fantastic!

love Lou's line there: "They are their own dream."

He was at his best talking about music, for sure.

where’s the Will Hermes bio?

I saw on a social media site that Will Hermes mentioned spending time in November at a secluded writers retreat place. Maybe we can presume he was working on the book. He’s still writing for Rolling Stone on occasion.

There’s a book out now that consists of Lou Reed interviews from the 1970s and later, called My Week Beats Your Year

https://hatandbeard.com/products/my-week-beats-your-year-encounters-with-lou-reed

I was at this residency with Will and we roadtripped to Liberty University (!) together for a bizarre tour.

I shld clarify that this was *last* November and he was still working on it.

8 years gone today.

It doesn’t feel like that long ago!

There's a bit of magic in everything
and then some loss to even things out

Love this from 2009 with Laurie A and John Zorn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUr8oRfG1AM

I remember it like it was … several years ago.

It kinda feels about 8 years ago tbh

Yep

Weird, I didn't even know the anniversary was coming up and got a compulsion to listen to New York last night. And then the Blue Mask.

Was there ever a source for the Donald Fagen/Lou Reed story other than the comments section of Alex in NYC's blog?

Hmm. Upon further inspection, hat post seems legit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dok5uv9HrT8

In fine form here, even between songs. Fucking nuts version of Street Hassle here.

New Sensations!

his post "wild side"/pre "street hassle" remarks in the video lamanti posted three weeks ago are honestly profound

this might get interesting
https://loureed.bandcamp.com/album/the-power-of-the-heart-a-tribute-to-lou-reed

I was watching a bit of that new Todd in the Shadows video about Lulu, and he notes (accurately, afaict) that "Transformer" and the first VU album have at best barely gone gold. How is that possible? It always blows my mind to hear that, say, "Never Mind the Bollocks" took 25 years to go platinum or whatever. You'd think given the amount of attention the Pistols (or Lou Reed/VU) got over the past several *decades* enough people would have bought the albums out of curiosity - or, hell, accidentally! - to drive those numbers up.

Rock 'n' Roll Animal and New York are Lou's only official solo gold albums.

There should be a separate certification for number of bands started per albums sold.

I think Lou was just as shocked as anyone. I thought it was adorable reading in (I think) the DeCurtis bio how with each 80s & 90s record Lou was always convinced that each one was a money-in-the-bank gold smash, if only the suits at Warners would promote it more, take out better magazine ads, get the "Hooky Wooky" vid played on MTV more, etc.

I've said for years that the fact that Lou Reed was able to hop from major label to major label for 40 years without ever selling any records is all the proof anyone needs that once upon a time, what music critics thought carried actual cultural weight.

good string of posts

I remember hearing Christgau doing a guest commentary on World Cafe back when Ecstasy(?) came out where he said something to the effect that Reed was one of the last prestige Rock artists a major label would be willing to continue to invest in because even if the records weren't doing big numbers on initial release, they'd still make money as steady-selling catalog items.

That said, I think his solo sales are handicapped a bit because a lot of those albums were frequently OOP (or--like Transformer--long only available in a substandard version) during the CD era.

Good thing I had some of them on eight track!

VU & Nico has Soundscanned more than 500k copies since 1991, and I’m sure if that includes Spotify streams, which are around half a billion for songs on that album. What does it take to be certified gold?

The record company has to submit the album to the RIAA.