Lou Reed is dead!!
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- KVRAF
- 4176 posts since 2 Feb, 2003 from lost in music
really sad news
R.I.P.
R.I.P.
sound is vibration, vibration is life
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- KVRAF
- 4801 posts since 1 Aug, 2005 from Warszawa, Poland
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- 22457 posts since 5 Sep, 2001
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 37545 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
The stuff he did with John Cale is brilliant too - have you heard Songs for Drella?deastman wrote:This is so sad and shocking. I loved his solo albums. For some reason, I never actually listened to the Velvet Underground until about two months ago, when I suddenly decided to listen to all their back catalog. They really made some tremendously groundbreaking music together.
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- KVRAF
- 6467 posts since 18 Jul, 2008 from New York
He was probably more influential than famous. If you are not a fan of Lou Reed, you are certainly a fan of a musician who is a fan of Lou Reed.
Journalist Lester Bangs had a legendary love-hate relationship with Lou which hit an antagonistic, fascinating low point in the article "Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves (or how I slugged it out with Lou Reed and stayed awake)." It's available in a book of Lester's writing. I don't think it's available online.
I still remember wandering around a store in the late 70s (or possibly early 80s) finding hundreds of copies of Metal Machine Music dumped in some back corner. It was probably harder to sell than nuclear waste.
Journalist Lester Bangs had a legendary love-hate relationship with Lou which hit an antagonistic, fascinating low point in the article "Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves (or how I slugged it out with Lou Reed and stayed awake)." It's available in a book of Lester's writing. I don't think it's available online.
I still remember wandering around a store in the late 70s (or possibly early 80s) finding hundreds of copies of Metal Machine Music dumped in some back corner. It was probably harder to sell than nuclear waste.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111343 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
holy f**k.
devastated
devastated
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- KVRAF
- 3878 posts since 28 Jun, 2009 from Wherever I lay my hat
Heh heh. I'm sure he would have smirked at that.Kriminal wrote:that was a waste of a good liver...
RIP, Lou. I always thought you were a bit overrated, and your latter-day, ambitious stuff brought your oft-times stilted lyrics to full bloom... but there are quite a few songs of yours which I love (Perfect Day and Walk on the Wild Side are not among them), and I will remember your New York album and of course Velvet Underground until I kick the bucket myself.
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- KVRist
- 377 posts since 13 Jul, 2003 from Berlin
Sad.
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- KVRian
- 530 posts since 30 Dec, 2011 from Europe
Rip Lou....aMUSEd wrote:The stuff he did with John Cale is brilliant too - have you heard Songs for Drella?deastman wrote:This is so sad and shocking. I loved his solo albums. For some reason, I never actually listened to the Velvet Underground until about two months ago, when I suddenly decided to listen to all their back catalog. They really made some tremendously groundbreaking music together.
this news made me feel like numb.
Strange day..and yes "Songs for Drella" is a great album, I bought it original, in tape many years ago.
Peace
D.
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- KVRAF
- 44242 posts since 11 Aug, 2008 from clown world
Kriminal wrote:that was a waste of a good liver...
Not really my cup of tea. That Lou-tallica, Meh-tallica stuff was quite embarrassing.
I never really got over Philip Lynott's (Thin Lizzy) sudden demise so if you were a fan of Lou Lou I can certainly relate. There's no denying, he was a Leg-End (Legend?) of our times.
Take a walk on the wild side. I said, hey man ...
This is the same method MJ used when he was working on Anthony Marinelli's Thriller.
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- 194 posts since 30 Aug, 2008
Lou has been dead for years. He was more of a lifestyle influence as opposed to musical.