Search And Destroy: Lou Reed

but seriously, J0hn D, you should def. try to work "What are you, a fucking asshole?" into any future interviews you do.

I think I'm gonna go with "what are you fucking, an asshole?" just to put my own special spin on it

I'm not really sure why the song "Coney Island Baby" had never made an impression on me until now, but I sure dig it.

still creepy after all these years

Holy shit, this is amazing, Paris 1974. He's got the whole new wave thing down and punk hasn't even happened yet.
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Fopp are selling a box of 5 Lou Reed CDs for £15. I am playing the first record now. It sounds good, my hi-fi seems wired for rock! Transformer, Berlin, Sally Can't Dance, Coney Island Baby to come.

Bizarre: Mark S in summer 2001 was talking about digging through ancient threads

Those threads Egyptians to Mark S's Romans.

Does that make current ILX the Dark Ages or the Renaissance?

i think 'transformer' is a really wonderful, consistent record.

'berlin' i like, except for those plodding slow numbers at the end. lou's concept just isn't developed enough for me to buy into the tragedy of those tracks

I downloaded Hudson River Wind Meditations from emusic last month. Listening to it is like doing tai-chi without moving.

Berlin was a bit of a dissapointed i thought (when i heard it in 2005) I am still rooting for New York. Dirty Blvd is awesome :)

Rooting? Have you heard it? Don't believe the doubters, it's terrific!

Ever noticed how awesome Jack Bruce's bass parts are on Berlin?

'berlin' i like, except for those plodding slow numbers at the end.

!!! the last third with the slow numbers is the good part. I like the album in general but chunks of it are really dire - production/arrangements seem a bit wrong in places.

but if we paid attention to bad arrangements and dire production we'd never listen to Lou!

don't forget the occasionally god-awful singing!

speaking of which:
yeesh.

wow

What Would An Elvis Costello/Lou Reed Collabo Sound Like?

The sound of that collabo just made a child wake up and cry.

hmm. i have a sleeping child handy, let's see if i can duplicate the result...

nope. sleeping soundly. further study required.

(i actually like that clip, but it makes me want to hear just an elvis version of it.)

I've got one light sleeper that woke up and one sound sleeper that didn't so maybe I skewed the results a little bit.

Yeah, EC makes a lot of annoying pretentious career moves, but one has to admit the guy can sing.

But that EC / Lou performance seems a mess cos Lou's chorus talking is totally out of any rhythm - even with an old pro like EC I kept wondering how he could stay in time with that noise going on.

I think I'd rather hear them both play a full rock version of 'Wild Child'. Come on! I was talking to Chuck in his Ghengiz Khan suit and his wizard's hat ...

Still trying to get the measure of the first Lou Reed solo LP, but I like it; good stereo seems to help with this 1970s material.

Kind of worth it just for the very start of the solo career: the four bashes on the drum that start 'I Can't Stand It'

Listening to New York again for first time in years. It sounds terrific! The sound clear, clean, dynamic; the voice up-front and authoritative; all the material so good before they even started. I think it's often been said - even back in 1989 - that this LP's topical lyrical references would come to seem very dated - but that doesn't feel like a problem: a lot of it just isn't dated, and what is seems historically interesting. Maybe this really is the best solo LP.

I've just heard Transformer in full for the first time, and boy yes it IS strong!!

coney island baby still best lou reed solo album.

Yeah, that's the one I get the most pleasure out of ... Speaking of which, check this out: http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=90 for a rad version of "Kicks" with Don Cherry! Eeeyagh!

Still prefer The Blue Mask and New Sensations over the rest.

http://images.wolfgangsvault.com/lou-reed/fine-art-print/memorabilia/JSP0322-02-FP.jpg

my bro dug this up

so amused by Woodstock that tendrils grew right out of his brain.

Maybe this thread title should now be Seek & Destroy: Lou Reed, amirite?

Happy birthday, Lou!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwCwGBHd61s

Isn't that Little Lou though?

Some live albums up on Spotify from the Transformer tour. American Poet, Lou Reed Live & Wild, and Satellite of Love. All the same tracks though, some just have the stage patter edited out. Some real good versions, I especially like the Sweet Jane one.

xp that's from after Lou left the band and Doug Yule took over. Bowie made the same mistake though.

It was no mistake...

american poet is awesome, maybe one of my fave lou reed recordings ever. wayyyyyy different sound than the r&r animal stuff that followed.

also a number of interesting lou shows up on wolfgang's vault. was just listening to this weird one: http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/lou-reed-and-moogy-klingman-band/concerts/kansas-city-memorial-hall-may-02-1973.html
features moogy klingman of todd rundgren fame! of all people.

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu4k3hFxia1qgu4c9o1_500.jpg

speaking of that album, i'm reading that history of 70s NYC music and the author claims that it's lou in drag on the back cover. i'd heard that before as a rumor, but thought it was just a myth.
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4120/4794105448_da1812d416_b.jpg
that's not lou on the left is it? doesn't really look like him.

that is absolutely not Lou. Facial features aside, Lou doesn't have those legs gimme a break.

but if lou's also the one on the right then he's checking himself out which kind of makes sense

It was no mistake...

― dlp9001, Monday, March 5, 2012 2:20 PM

I didn't think so. Why then?

Lou Reed inspires name of new spider

this Bockris book is hilarious

Nico same late, as usual. Lou said 'Hello,' to her in a rather cold way, but just 'Hello,' or something. She 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.'

this book is very poorly edited

repeated quotes, wrong dates, "lead singer of Pere Ubu, Peter Laughner" etc

yeah it's a jumble for sure. some great stories, but not a great book. would love it if someone else tackled the life of lou. in that classic albums doc on transformer, one of the dude's is listed as lou's "biographer" -- i forget his name. but it seemed like he was the "official" biographer.

it's very heavy on the "dirt", so to speak, plus interview quotes from Lou, which are all quite funny. But yeah as with many other out-sized, cantankerous figures (James Brown, Dylan, etc.) sort of expect the definitive bio will have to wait til he's dead to be written.

Ooooh they're takin' her kids away!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVcHLZ4B1mY