Search And Destroy: Lou Reed

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!

Fun too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1GwPyBHMOs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1GwPyBHMOs

excellent piece alfred.

i'm sort of shocked at how bad klosterman's article is.

H8 klosterman to bits but "Some art is real" still beats out that"the world is poorer" lit-cliche bullshit

yeah but statements like this: "He proved that the only thing that truly mattered about an artist was the art' are as meaningless and corny as it gets

I don't disagree with what Klosterman says per se, but it's a really awful piece.

has ilx polled the velvet underground albums yet? i can't find anything.

wait, found it. Favourite Velvet Underground album (with extra facility) Surprised the self-titled (not the debut) beat White Light / White Heat.

LOU REED, 71″ by Byron Coley

LOU REED, 71

the easiest heroes are consistent
but the ones who really shape us
are random maniacs
whose work we stumble across
at times in our lives
we desperately need misdirection

and so it was i met the music of lou reed
through a guy named buzz
who’d bought the first velvets album
but didn’t like it
just the way he hadn’t liked the first mothers album
a month earlier
which meant i got each for a buck

there is literally no way to describe
the way that record hit me
i was a ten year old seventh grader
and the first time i played the album
i was transformed into someone else
someone who knew more than my contemporaries
even if i couldn’t quite shake it all out

lou and john and sterling and moe
gave me much more info
than i could understand
but they did it in a way
i loved so intuitively
with music exploding in such amazing directions
it made sense on a molecular level

and through the years i followed lou
good scenes, bad scenes, he put us through it all
but we kinda paid attention
because, after all
this motherfucker
this lou reed

this electroshocked cocksucking bastard
who put out many more lousy records than good
was the father of everyone i’ve ever known
and i never thought he’d die
and i really miss him

more than i ever thought i would

— Byron Coley

here's a little roundup of some lesser known classics that i wrote today:
http://vulture.com/2013/10/10-great-lesser-known-lou-reed-songs.html
[some of these might not be lesser known to y'all, but the idea was to go beyond the "big" tracks]
also this: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/65300804048/lou-no-way-i-can-possibly-sum-up-what-lou-reed
still really reeling about this, definitely the most upset I've ever been by a celebrity death...may have something to do with the fact that my dad is pretty much the same age and has been dealing with health problems as well.

Obviously on a Lou Reed kick at the mo...just downloaded the Stockholm 74 boot...my god it's great...Lou backed by Funkadelic...love it...

Wait, what?

excellent piece alfred.

― (emphasis Treeship's) (Treeship),

thanks!

Listening to Metal Machine Music for the very first time at time moment. Way less scary, and perhaps even way more melodic, than I've been led to believe.

just don't play it for your dog.

Play it for someone else's.