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?
― flopson, Monday, 28 October 2013 01:22 (ten years ago) link
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
― flopson, Monday, 28 October 2013 01:31 (ten years ago) link
i hope all the jamokes who called 'lulu' unlistenable feel sorry now
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 28 October 2013 01:50 (ten years ago) link
ecstasy is the best fucking record, jesus
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 28 October 2013 01:50 (ten years ago) link
maaaaaaaadyou just make me maaaaad
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 October 2013 01:54 (ten years ago) link
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 lineThat finds a wealth in divisionAnd some kinds of love Are mistaken for fission
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 28 October 2013 01:54 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeM6UqtGBdM
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Monday, 28 October 2013 01:57 (ten years ago) link
xgau: http://www.spin.com/articles/lou-reed-robert-christgau-toesucker-blues/
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 October 2013 01:59 (ten years ago) link
I wonder if/when we'll hear from Mo, Cale, and Bowie?
CNN was talking to Mo by phone
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 28 October 2013 02:14 (ten years ago) link
http://jcofficialnews.tumblr.com/
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 28 October 2013 02:25 (ten years ago) link
RIP. I can still remember the first time I ever heard "Sunday Morning". It was like being transported to a cosmic womb.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 28 October 2013 02:40 (ten years ago) link
Wonder how Jonathan Richman is taking this?
― Waiting For The Ufas (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 28 October 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Waiting For The Ufas (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 28 October 2013 02:43 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-c8brLf2HQ
― scott seward, Monday, 28 October 2013 02:53 (ten years ago) link
fave krautrock lou:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdkG3zMf19A
― scott seward, Monday, 28 October 2013 03:12 (ten years ago) link
Crossed my mind too.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 October 2013 04:55 (ten years ago) link
Alfred does the business:
http://thequietus.com/articles/13708-lou-reed-obituary
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 October 2013 10:57 (ten years ago) link
Lou Reed is not dead.
― MatthewK, Monday, 28 October 2013 11:09 (ten years ago) link
short but sweet from John Cale
http://werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/index.html
― piscesx, Monday, 28 October 2013 11:35 (ten years ago) link
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
― piscesx, Monday, 28 October 2013 13:42 (ten years ago) link
Was meaning to recommend that.
― Waiting For The Ufas (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 28 October 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Monday, October 28, 2013 6:57 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Beautiful piece.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 28 October 2013 13:53 (ten years ago) link
who tells that Nico story in Please Kill Me?
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 October 2013 13:56 (ten years ago) link
https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/1385415_10152603133192137_768662356_n.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 28 October 2013 14:06 (ten years ago) link
Alfred nailed it.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 28 October 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 October 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
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
― piscesx, Monday, 28 October 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
nice! yeah that is really good and def better than the album
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 28 October 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
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.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 October 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 28 October 2013 19:31 (ten years ago) link
Haha that's great! Like the sonic equivalent of "hey, who farted? (it was me)"
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 28 October 2013 19:36 (ten years ago) link
Alfred's dismissal of "Transformer" and "Berlin" irks me but otherwise a decent article.
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Monday, 28 October 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
Great article, AS.
Klosterman:http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9892086/remembering-lou-reed
― Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Monday, 28 October 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
Klosterman ugh so terrible
hey look at thishttp://www.missionmission.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/giffer.gif
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 28 October 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Monday, 28 October 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
Dean Wareham:
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/28/dean_wareham_on_lou_reed_velvet_underground_seemed_to_appear_fully_formed_beyond_influence/
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 01:28 (ten years ago) link
"Something Happened" an unheralded track from the Permanent Record soundtrack: http://youtu.be/q01kmT8iDYs
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 01:29 (ten years ago) link
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?
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 01:35 (ten years ago) link
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
― Waiting For The Ufas (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 01:46 (ten years ago) link
the live version of "Heroin" is my favorite.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 02:16 (ten years ago) link
Think I'd rather listen to Eat A Peach.
― Waiting For The Ufas (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 02:19 (ten years ago) link
they are such big rock records though. detroit rock city lou. i love that about them.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 02:21 (ten years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 02:22 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRoBbusqM7M
― scott seward, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 02:27 (ten years ago) link
so much fun!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 02:28 (ten years ago) link
Fun too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1GwPyBHMOs
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 02:47 (ten years ago) link