Lou Reed RIP

Enjoying the idea that the big storm rattling the UK tonight is Lou's wrathful spirit

― Jesus (wins), Sunday, October 27, 2013 7:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol. maybe the incoming transport issues will prevent a musician from having to talk to a journalist

RIP big man

btw : why is this thread on ile ?

Many of the group’s themes — among them love, sexual deviance, alienation, addiction, joy and spiritual transfiguration — stayed in Mr. Reed’s work through his long run of solo recordings. Among the most noteworthy of those records were “Transformer” (1973), “Berlin” (1973) and “New York” (1992). The most notorious, without question, was “Metal Machine Music” (1975).

Beloved of Mr. Reed and not too many others, “Metal Machine Music”

nytimes insightful as ever

oh I do believe
if you don't like things you leave
for someplace you've never been before

oh I do believe
you are what you perceive
what comes is better than what came before

RIP

i like the anecdote about the club manager who threatened to fire them if they kept playing "The Black Angel's Death Song".

psychic savagery.

the man finally turned up for him then.

Just got in the house after a long car journey..

Weird: I was playing the "Who loves the sun" single off a cdr I'd made of recent purchases, and after the b-side had played I turned onto R1, and they'd just played "Walk on the wild side", and were talking about his legacy. I wondered why, and then I wondered no more..

"Say a word for Lewis Reed..."

Not feeling the need to play his music, to be honest. His death feels like a famous building that's been torn down.

Mo Tucker reminiscing on CNN by phone!

RIP, so so obviously

glad to know there's already an RIP thread for my man. Why the fuck do people around here feel the need to augment thread titles with RIP whenever somebody dies?

Because they're dead?

This one was pre-augmented.

can some mod please go and add RIP to every thread about a person who is no longer alive?

otm

Why the fuck do people around here feel the need to augment thread titles with RIP whenever somebody dies?

The best way to honor Lou is to get cranky about stuff

hell yeah

I remember an essay from about 10 years ago by a woman who was in a Yoga class with Lou. The instructor tried to adjust his positioning and he screamed out in pain.

brimstead
You hit me with a flower

buzza
I'll put my band on your dick

hand

Apologies if anyone has already linked this, but it's great

http://oh-whiskers.tumblr.com/post/65264191945/lou-reed-dispels-rumors-of-his-death-on-snl-may

lou reed did a good cover of that song that bruce sprinsfag is famous for, 'i'm goin down' but lou reed did it like a bad motherfucker, no joke-- i havent had this record for at least 8 years, if any1 could wifi it to me, i would rsvp. ttyl

― luriqua, Saturday, August 25, 2007 2:49 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and Lou Reed did a fanfuckingtastic cover of Dylan's "Foot of Pride"

Uncle Lou!

Apologies if anyone has already linked this, but it's great

http://oh-whiskers.tumblr.com/post/65264191945/lou-reed-dispels-rumors-of-his-death-on-snl-may

I was looking for the actual clip earlier today...NBC had it up on the SNL page, but perhaps they pulled it today because the page won't load properly...one of the first things I think of whenever his demise was rumored.

Listening to Live 1969 now after having avoided music since hearing the news, which is finally hitting me and sinking in. RIP

Chrisgtau's obit, correct to single out his last thirty years.

"This kind of rock and roll proved more malleable than it first seemed — in 2006 I triangulated my favorite current American band, yclept Wussy, as merging the Velvet Underground and the Flying Burrito Brothers."

what the hell is that? a google search for it brings back this very article as the first result!

let us now kiss the culprit!

Glad xgau brings it. Well done.

Whoa.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/lou-reeds-contradictory-jewishness/

He had a more recent Israel connection, though: Last year, a new genus of velvet spider found living underground in Israel’s south was named after him. A team of researchers from the US and Europe named the spider Loureedia annulipes after finding the species in sand dunes near Halukim and Nitzana in the Negev desert.

The sand dunes near Haikunym and nabisco

Apologies if everybody else already knew about that velvet spider.

psychic savagery.

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Sunday, October 27, 2013 6:04 PM

it made me dream of nosferatu trapped on the isle of doctor moreau in the dark of the moon

"This kind of rock and roll proved more malleable than it first seemed — in 2006 I triangulated my favorite current American band, yclept Wussy, as merging the Velvet Underground and the Flying Burrito Brothers."

what the hell is that? a google search for it brings back this very article as the first result!

― socki (s1ocki), Sunday, October 27, 2013 10:09 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark

lmao

yclept Wussy.

I never said I was yclept!

yclept Jean

yclept palate

Lol james

yclept
ɪˈklɛpt/
adjective
archaic
adjective: yclept

1.
by the name of.

http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/The-Many-Reasons-to-Love-Wussy/ba-p/7259

pretty good band name

4 Hungry4Ass 2 pee on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xq1CJp_lgM

For those who missed the first time around: In Praise Of...Lou Reed "Take No Prisoners"

Being a permalink to the spot on that thread where tylerw linked to an incredible 1979 radio broadcast from WPIX-FM in NYC in which Lou was guest DJ and John Cale came by to visit.

Yeah, that's the way I continue to remember him, often ornery or grouchy, but more often a pussycat who cared.. It was always surprising that he did things like that radio show but his enthusiasm for rock&roll was something he protected, and kept all his life.

Also seek out his guest spot on Elvis Costello's tv show.

(xp) Yeah, good work James Redd and tylerw and all the other Lounuts on here, love you guys. Yesterday afternoon I saw Joe Boyd talking about how peoples' lives had been changed by Elvis... by Dylan... even by Syd Barrett! But I've never believed any of that romantic hyperbole... then I went to meet some old skool ILXors for some FAPing and that's when I heard Lou Reed was dead. I still don't believe Joe Boyd but Lou definitely had the greatest effect of any singer/songwriter/whatever on me, didn't change my life but changed something. Anyway, I was going to lapse into some maudlin reminsicing about my sister bringing home the 1st Velvets LP when I was, what, 13 or 14 and me sneaking it out in my schoolbag one morning to play in the school common room (I played "Heroin" of course!"), but I won't, even tho I just have. RIP Lou.

(Is it weird to wish I could read what Bimble would have to say about Lou right now? Probably)

that christgau piece is excellent