Lou Reed RIP

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
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adjective
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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

Alfred's piece might be better

(def ends better imo)

I was intrigued to learn in the Metro this morning that Lou had collaborated with Lulu (they've corrected it on the online version)

Yeah, Alfred's is the keeper of all the pieces I've seen so far.

gee, I guess I need to listen to Ecstasy at some point

Alfred's piece is excellent!

I've come out of my closet, out in the streets, and am wearing my Sally Can't Dance t-shirt in work today

After Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols died of a heroin overdose, bandmate Johnny Rotten observed: ‘I blame it on too many Lou Reed albums.’

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Would have posted his final "door" pic, but Facebook has it on secured, and the only not-sec one was a DM pic, so..

Thanks, stevie and everyone!

So the DM chose to venerate Cory Montieth because of his many accomplishments, yet attempts to tarnish Lou Reed's legacy. Lou must be laughing from beyond.

Also, my conclusion: Lou Reed glamorised drugs because he lived to the age of 71.

Spin piece is surprisingly comprehensible for someone yclept Christgau.

Door pic?

http://i.imgur.com/lwCOlRq.jpg

Was that photo posted on Twitter before he died? Was it intended as some kind of final image?

Saw it on Facebook.

Alfred and John Doran's pieces are the two best I've seen thus far.

poll

I just don't think about music that deeply, and have to date ignored all the solo stuff until The Blue Mask. Sorta similar to my interest in Neil Young's career.

(obv I've heard some of the '72-81 stuff, but never sought it; maybe I own Berlin, don't remember)

the blue mask is so great.

mm, except I have literally ignored the entirety of Neil Young's career.

(except two things, a "Decade" CD I got from Fopp for £5, never played, and the "My My/Hey Hey" single what I have.)

last album i bought was new york. i didn't care for it at the time. haven't listened since. saw him on that tour and he made you sit through the entire new york album before he played other stuff. which was kind of a bummer at the time. the feelies opened up though and that made up for a lot. the new york tour show was kinda like chamber rock. so refined. like, this is "serious" rock.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/810311-velvet-underground-horrifies-psychiatrists-1966.html

"a short-lived torture of cacophony ... a combination of rock 'n' roll and Egyptian belly-dance music ... it seemed like a whole prison ward had escaped."

ha I remember when during an interview with Nick Cave, Jim DeRo went off unprompted about Lou Reed live shows being like "chamber rock" and I thought Cave was going to kill him. "He's a genius! Who are you to question him?"

what is he trying to do with that "faulty map that brought Columbus to New York" line anyway? parody historical ignorance?

After hearing "Walk on the Wild Side" I think my second exposure to him was his really good villainous performance in the Paul Simon movie.

mine second was 'the doors' movie

i mean "my"

maybe he was talking about Columbus Circle

are people serious about the blue mask? i mean... "i love women! they are great! so soft, so nice! the world would be terrible without women! ps no homo" and singing maybe every ninth note in tune, if we're being charitable. i dunno. i always read such great things about this record and it just sounds dreadful to me.

new york was the first lou reed record i ever knowingly heard, and i only got it because there was a video for dirty boulevard on MTV. i loved the hell out of that record. i listened to it a LOT. i had no idea who the velvet underground even were. i probably wouldn't have liked them very much.