I don't give a fuck either.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link
this is my favorite thread today
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 24 August 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link
my friend started that lou reed death hoax about five years ago
remember that, internet?
― cutty, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link
remember that, morbs?
― cutty, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link
and it's called ... bad luck
― sexyDancer, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link
is not funny
― blueski, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.jefframirez.com/ilx/reed.bmp
― jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link
NEVER FORGET
http://dangerbird.tripod.com/reed/loucover/mistrial.jpg
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/day/05_09_2001.html
― cutty, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm currently watching season 2 of Suddenly Susan and can't believe how good he was. RIP
― brownie, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link
CNN is reporting it was a strokes
― brownie, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
slip away
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
the correct title of this thread would be "COME ANTICIPATE LAURIE ANDERSON BEING ON THE MARKET AGAIN"
― nabisco, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
nabisco, nabisco mystic
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
never got to play football for the coach ;_;
― ghost rider, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link
hay morbs
i can't find this anywhere in the news. can you provide a link please?
― jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
hee hee
― cutty, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link
http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/images/mzine/Cov2007_5.jpg
― kingfish, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link
www.perezhilton.com
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 24 August 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link
i'm sure lou is jammin with max roach right now in heaven RIP ;_;
― cutty, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
with fidel on the conga RIP
― jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
if there's a band in heaven lou is replacing all of its members with yules right now
― ghost rider, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
check out my gigantic dick 8===========================================D
― am0n, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
OUT OF OUR LIVES BUT NEVER OUT OF OUR HEARTS
― max, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
NEVER FORGET 8/24/07 THE DAY WE LOST TWO AMERICAN HEROS
oh boy i'm laughing
thanks for being such a dick morbs
― cutty, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link
RIP THE ORIGINAL RAPPER
― ghost rider, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link
<morbs>cubans don't play congas</morbs>
― cutty, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
EVERYBODY POST YOUR FAVORITE MEMORIES OF LOU REED HERE
― max, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
#1. "THE VELVET UNDERGROUND"
#2. EATING A MARS BAR OUT OF MICK JAGGERS PUSSY
#3. "THE RAVEN" A++++++++++++++++++++++ WOULD LISTEN AGAIN
― max, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link
#4 8===========================================D
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 24 August 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link
#5. MY DAD LOVES LOU REED
#6. ALL OF THE MEMORIES OF LOU REED
LOU REED RUMORS FILL THE BROADWAY ARCADE
― Eazy, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link
PUDDING FILLS PEREZ HILTON
― jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
omg max do we have the same dad?!?!
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 24 August 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
#7. THE TIME THAT LOU REED REVEALED THAT ALLY AND I WERE HALF-SISTERS
― max, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
i move we re-name ILX "THE LOU REED MEMORIAL MESSAGE BOARD"
― max, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Lou Reed PWN3D
― jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
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
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"
― ghost rider, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
http://bobchaos.com/squeeze/mailedD1.jpg
― ghost rider, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Eggplant, Rufus, Dummy-star, and The Glob.
― Eazy, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― max, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
http://timesunion.com/photogalleries/pics_reagan2/images/6.jpg
― ghost rider, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link
http://krant.telegraaf.nl/krant/ditjaar/hetjaar1999/fotos/jaar99.07.jul.088.089.johnjohn.jpg
― ghost rider, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link
"Of all the people I have known, he was the most...human"
xp
― kingfish, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link
our world will never be the same
― max, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Fuck this guy. I am trading him off of my team in Madden as soon as I get home.
― jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link
"New York" is the most boring album he ever put out imo.
― Scottish Country Tweerking (Tom D.), Monday, 10 September 2018 12:05 (five years ago) link
it's so weird how overlooked his first album is
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 September 2018 12:06 (five years ago) link
Agree with both of these last two
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 September 2018 12:09 (five years ago) link
New York" is the most boring album he ever put out imo.
― Scottish Country Tweerking (Tom D.),
until 1992
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 September 2018 12:26 (five years ago) link
"New York" vs "I Love You Suzanne"
― Mark G, Monday, 10 September 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
xp hmm maybe perfect isn't the best word, just meant to say that it's an outstanding album and the solo reed I've listened to the most
I like most of his stuff anyway
New Sensations is an OK album
― niels, Monday, 10 September 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
i have always enjoyed listening to new york. that is something i cannot say about a lot of albums by him. i like the journalistic aspect of it. it must be his wordiest album, he talks and talks and talks. i just love to listen to his voice. especially on take no prisoners...
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 10 September 2018 13:17 (five years ago) link
It's not a bad album it's just the Lou Reed album I'm least likely to listen to.
― Scottish Country Tweerking (Tom D.), Monday, 10 September 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
New York starts out so incredibly strong w/the first three tracks that it can almost convince you it's a great album, but there's a lot of dross there
though i love a lot of it
New Sensations is one that I was surprised how good it was
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 September 2018 14:13 (five years ago) link
Same. It would be in the lower reaches of a top ten. I love the opening trio, "There is No Time," and "Dime Store Mystery."
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 September 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
you have a higher tolerance than I do for fretless bass and I would've included Take No Prisoners for the laffs
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 September 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
"Lou Reed wanted to be normal" really does encapsulate him well tho
We are all normal and we want our feedback.
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 September 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
I've been listening to New York a lot and I really like it.
"it's so weird how overlooked his first album is"
that's because it was out of print for ages and he allegedly didn't like it.
To me the indispensibles are Transformer, Berlin, Blue Mask, New York, Magic, and Drella.
― akm, Monday, 10 September 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
if you love those I'm p confident you'll love Set the Twilight Reeling and Ecstacy
I like Coney Island a lot, but title track is by far the best thing on it
Street Hassle I only put on for the title track
I listen to my (imaginary) Lulu EP every once in a while, it goes:
1. "Brandenburg Gate"2. "The View"3. "Iced Honey"4. "Junior Dad"
― niels, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 06:45 (five years ago) link
"dragon" or gtfo
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link
alfred's convinced me i need to spend more time with new sensations
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
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
― niels, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
will have to give Dragon another listen...
― niels, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
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.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
idk every Lou fan I know loves NS.
I don't think I've ever actually listened to the entire thing tbh
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
The outro of "New Sensations" kills me. It honors the terrific line, "I want the principles of a timeless muse."
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
"Hey bro' what's the woyd, talkin' 'bout my friend Geo-eo-eo-rge"
― Scottish Country Tweerking (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
shit he died again!?
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
rip
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
5 years today.
― greta van vliet (morrisp), Saturday, 27 October 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
Miss u boo
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 27 October 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
been listening to those 1970 demos he did after leaving the Velvets a lot over the last couple of weeksalso 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
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 27 October 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
That is fantastic!
― JRN, Saturday, 27 October 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link
love Lou's line there: "They are their own dream."
― tylerw, Saturday, 27 October 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link
He was at his best talking about music, for sure.
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 October 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
where’s the Will Hermes bio?
― Tales of Jazz Ulysses (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 03:52 (four years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
I was at this residency with Will and we roadtripped to Liberty University (!) together for a bizarre tour.
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
I shld clarify that this was *last* November and he was still working on it.
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
8 years gone today.
― Mule, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 21:53 (two years ago) link
It doesn’t feel like that long ago!
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 21:55 (two years ago) link
There's a bit of magic in everythingand then some loss to even things out
― brimstead, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:05 (two years ago) link
Love this from 2009 with Laurie A and John Zorn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUr8oRfG1AM
― Mule, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:06 (two years ago) link
I remember it like it was … several years ago.
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
It kinda feels about 8 years ago tbh
― Mule, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:33 (two years ago) link
Yep
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 23:13 (two years ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 23:15 (two years ago) link
Was there ever a source for the Donald Fagen/Lou Reed story other than the comments section of Alex in NYC's blog?
― Build My Gallows Hi Hi Hi (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 03:56 (two years ago) link
Hmm. Upon further inspection, hat post seems legit.
― Mr. Art-I-Ficial (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 04:28 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dok5uv9HrT8
In fine form here, even between songs. Fucking nuts version of Street Hassle here.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 09:13 (two years ago) link
New Sensations!
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Saturday, 30 July 2022 22:34 (two years ago) link
his post "wild side"/pre "street hassle" remarks in the video lamanti posted three weeks ago are honestly profound
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 30 July 2022 23:33 (two years ago) link
this might get interestinghttps://loureed.bandcamp.com/album/the-power-of-the-heart-a-tribute-to-lou-reed
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 31 March 2024 16:08 (five months ago) link