Search And Destroy: Lou Reed

I wonder if/when we'll hear from Mo, Cale, and Bowie?

best part in please kill me

You see, Lou and Nico had some kind of affair, both consummated and constipated, during the time he wrote these psychological love songs for her like "I'll Be Your Mirror" and "Femme Fatale." When it fell apart, we really learnt how Nico could be the mistress of the destructive one-liner. I remember one morning we had gathered at the Factory for a rehearsal. Nico came in late, as usual. Lou said hello to her in a rather cold way. Nico simply stood there. You could see she was waiting to reply, in her own time. Ages later, out of the blue, came her first words: "I cannot make love to Jews anymore."

ok this one maybe more apt:

Lou Reed: Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream. A whole generation running with a Fender bass... The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty? Perhaps I should die. After all, all the great blues singers did die. But life is getting better now. I don't want to die. Do I?

huge RIP. was very shook when i found out. they were playing Loaded at a record store today and i didn't even know why but i had a real moment listening to new age. loved this guy on so many levels: as a songwriter & vocalist, punk icon, also as like a mythical character; the electroshock therapy, how he's always said to be this crabby mean prick... so cool

i hope all the jamokes who called 'lulu' unlistenable feel sorry now

ecstasy is the best fucking record, jesus

maaaaaaaad
you just make me maaaaad

did anyone else come out thanks to "Some Kinda Love"? I have him to thank.

Not exactly but a young me got turned on by this misheard lyric:

For a bore is a straight line
That finds a wealth in division
And some kinds of love
Are mistaken for fission

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeM6UqtGBdM

xgau: http://www.spin.com/articles/lou-reed-robert-christgau-toesucker-blues/

I wonder if/when we'll hear from Mo, Cale, and Bowie?

CNN was talking to Mo by phone

http://jcofficialnews.tumblr.com/

RIP. I can still remember the first time I ever heard "Sunday Morning". It was like being transported to a cosmic womb.

Wonder how Jonathan Richman is taking this?

Listening to this Satellite of Love Live album which is pretty good but can't find any info about who is playing on it or when and where it was recorded. Just cheesy cover art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-c8brLf2HQ

fave krautrock lou:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdkG3zMf19A

Wonder how Jonathan Richman is taking this?

Crossed my mind too.

Alfred does the business:

http://thequietus.com/articles/13708-lou-reed-obituary

Lou Reed is not dead.

short but sweet from John Cale

http://werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/index.html

if anyone fancies seeing the 'Transformer' episode of Classic Albums it's here and is amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ilcorvojoe/search?query=lou

Was meaning to recommend that.

Alfred does the business:

http://thequietus.com/articles/13708-lou-reed-obituary

― Ned Raggett, Monday, October 28, 2013 6:57 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Beautiful piece.

who tells that Nico story in Please Kill Me?

https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/1385415_10152603133192137_768662356_n.jpg

Alfred nailed it.

He sure did. Haven't read Christgau in Spin yet. Saw on twitter that Geeta D. was busy preparing something last night. Not sure where that is gonna run.

Lou Reed RIP

That the ILE link

another link; some genius has uploaded the live '.. Drella' show to YouTube (still unavailable on DVD!) which is even better than the album version IMO. some amazing chemistry going on between Cale and Reed here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djwtXCzW5BY

nice! yeah that is really good and def better than the album

As for the notorious LULU, of course it's terrible, but that's beside the point.

yeah, i just don't get music criticism. Nice piece though.

I pre-emptively celebrated Lou Reed's life by playing Metal Machine Music in a fairly crowded older-person's dive bar on Friday. By minute 12 of the squalling industrial racket, I looked around as if I was confused and irritated (like everyone else was) so no one would point the finger at me.

Haha that's great! Like the sonic equivalent of "hey, who farted? (it was me)"

Alfred's dismissal of "Transformer" and "Berlin" irks me but otherwise a decent article.

Great article, AS.

Klosterman:
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9892086/remembering-lou-reed

Klosterman ugh so terrible

hey look at this
http://www.missionmission.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/giffer.gif

our geeta:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/10/lou_reed_s_metal_machine_music_the_artist_was_a_rock_god_he_was_also_a_big.html

Dean Wareham:

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/28/dean_wareham_on_lou_reed_velvet_underground_seemed_to_appear_fully_formed_beyond_influence/

"Something Happened" an unheralded track from the Permanent Record soundtrack: http://youtu.be/q01kmT8iDYs

The prime example is 1974’s live album “Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal,” which features Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter on guitar, playing dazzling über-rock reworkings of Velvets songs. Many V.U. purists hate this album — it appeals more to stoners and Deadheads — and yet was also a Saturday night staple for many partying teenagers and aspiring punks in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s

It's his best-selling album before New York, and I heard its version of "Sweet Jane" on AOR in the eighties, but does this memory coincide with yours?

Bought it because Xgau recommended it, seem to remember hearing it on the radio once or twice. But, as a purist, I never really warmed up to it

the live version of "Heroin" is my favorite.

as in: my favorite on a live Lou album.

both those live albums rule so much to me but i love dick and steve so much. vicious and satellite of love on lou reed live are probably my two favorites actually. as far as the material from the two albums.

Think I'd rather listen to Eat A Peach.

they are such big rock records though. detroit rock city lou. i love that about them.

and things changed quickly in lou world. its not like he toured like that forever. before you know it its jazzy sax and don cherry and lenny bruce and god knows what else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRoBbusqM7M

so much fun!