Lou Reed RIP

this is my favorite thread today

my friend started that lou reed death hoax about five years ago

remember that, internet?

remember that, morbs?

and it's called ... bad luck

is not funny

http://www.jefframirez.com/ilx/reed.bmp

NEVER FORGET

http://dangerbird.tripod.com/reed/loucover/mistrial.jpg

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/day/05_09_2001.html

I'm currently watching season 2 of Suddenly Susan and can't believe how good he was. RIP

CNN is reporting it was a strokes

slip away

the correct title of this thread would be "COME ANTICIPATE LAURIE ANDERSON BEING ON THE MARKET AGAIN"

nabisco, nabisco mystic

never got to play football for the coach ;_;

hay morbs

i can't find this anywhere in the news. can you provide a link please?

hee hee

http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/images/mzine/Cov2007_5.jpg

www.perezhilton.com

i'm sure lou is jammin with max roach right now in heaven RIP ;_;

with fidel on the conga RIP

if there's a band in heaven lou is replacing all of its members with yules right now

check out my gigantic dick 8===========================================D

OUT OF OUR LIVES BUT NEVER OUT OF OUR HEARTS

NEVER FORGET 8/24/07 THE DAY WE LOST TWO AMERICAN HEROS

oh boy i'm laughing

thanks for being such a dick morbs

RIP THE ORIGINAL RAPPER

<morbs>cubans don't play congas</morbs>

EVERYBODY POST YOUR FAVORITE MEMORIES OF LOU REED HERE

#1. "THE VELVET UNDERGROUND"

#2. EATING A MARS BAR OUT OF MICK JAGGERS PUSSY

#3. "THE RAVEN" A++++++++++++++++++++++ WOULD LISTEN AGAIN

#4 8===========================================D

#5. MY DAD LOVES LOU REED

#6. ALL OF THE MEMORIES OF LOU REED

LOU REED RUMORS FILL THE BROADWAY ARCADE

PUDDING FILLS PEREZ HILTON

omg max do we have the same dad?!?!

#7. THE TIME THAT LOU REED REVEALED THAT ALLY AND I WERE HALF-SISTERS

i move we re-name ILX "THE LOU REED MEMORIAL MESSAGE BOARD"

Lou Reed PWN3D

They say he didn't have an enemy
His was a greatness to behold
He was the last surviving progeny
The last one on this side of the world

He measured half a mile from tip to tail
silver and black with powerful fins
They say he could split a mountain in two
That's how we got the Grand Canyon

Last Great American Whale [x4]

Some say they saw him at the Great Lakes
Some say they saw him off the coast of Florida
My mother said she saw him in Chinatown
but you can't always trust your mother

Off the Carolinas the sun shines brightly in the day
The lighthouse glow ghostly there at night
The chief of a local tribe had killed a racist mayor's son
and he'd been on death row since 1958

The mayor's kid was a rowdy pig
spit on Indians and lots worse
The old chief buried a hatchet in his head
life compared to death for him seemed worse

The tribal brothers gathered in the lighthouse to sing
and tried to conjure up a storm or rain
The harbor parted and the great whale sprang full up
and caused a hugh tidal wave

The wave crushed the jail and freed the chief
The tribe let out a roar
The whites were drowned
the browns and reds set free
but sadly one thing more

Some local yokel member of the NRA
kept a bazooka in his living room
and thinking he had the chief in his sight
blew the whale's brains out with a lead harpoon

Last Great American Whale [x4]

Well Americans don't care for much of anything
land and water the least
And animal life is low on the totem pole
with human life not worth more than infected yeast

Americans don't care too much for beauty
They'll shit in a river, dump battery acid in a stream
They'll watch dead rats wash up on the beach
and complain if they can't swim

They say things are done for the majority
Don't believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear
It's a lot like what my painter friend Donald said to me
"Stick a fork in their ass and turn them over, they're done"

http://bobchaos.com/squeeze/mailedD1.jpg

Eggplant, Rufus, Dummy-star, and The Glob.

FOR LOU REED RIP B. THE BEGGINING OF TIME - D. 2007

Goodbye Lou Reed
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did

Loneliness was tough
The toughest role you ever played
Hollywood created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid
Even when you died
Oh the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say
Was that Marilyn was found in the nude

Goodbye Lou Reed
From the young man in the 22nd row
Who sees you as something as more than sexual
More than just our Marilyn Monroe

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http://krant.telegraaf.nl/krant/ditjaar/hetjaar1999/fotos/jaar99.07.jul.088.089.johnjohn.jpg

"Of all the people I have known, he was the most...human"

xp

our world will never be the same

Fuck this guy. I am trading him off of my team in Madden as soon as I get home.

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I'd like to say a few words about a guy I know, a friend of mine. His name is Lou Reed, and he has the heart of a giant and that rare form of courage which allows him to kid himself and his opponent -- cancer. He has a mental attitude which makes me proud to have a friend who spells out "courage," 24 hours a day, every day of his life. Now, you flatter me by giving me this award. But I say to you here and now, Lou Reed is the man of courage who should receive this award. It's mine tonight and Lou Reed's tomorrow. I love Lou Reed. And I'd like all of you to love him too. And tonight, you hit your knees: please ask God to love him.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4RBQ7D4s4qk

MODS: PLS MOVE THIS TO ILM WHY BECAUSE IT'D BE INTERSTING

otm

http://www.monochrom.at/english/pictures/zappa.jpg

It's very rare in life to know someone who affects things; changes them in a positive way. I've been lucky enough to have known some in my life: Andy Warhol, Doc Pomus. People whose vision and integrity was such that it moved the world a bit. People who, through the articulation of their talents and intelligence, were able to leave things better than they had found them. People who were not only not in it for the money, to paraphrase Lou Reed. Lou Reed was such a person and of the many regrets I have in life, not knowing him a lot better is one of them.

Whether writing symphonies, satirical broadsides or casting a caustic glow across the frontier of madness that makes up the American political landscape; whether testifying before Congress to put the PMRC in its rightful lowly place, or acting as a cultural conduit for President Vaclav Havel and the Czech government, Lou was a force for reason and honesty in the business deficient in those areas. As we reward some with money for the amusement they supply to the cultural masses, I think the induction of Lou Reed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame distinguishes the Hall as well as the inductee. (applause)

Musicians usually cannot speak. That's why they communicate through their instruments. But Lou was one who could. And because music is pure, the musician is pure as well and when Lou spoke he demonstrated the power of purity. Who will do that now? I admired Lou greatly and I know he admired me. It gives me great pleasure to give this award to his daughter, Edie Brickell.

We called the Miami Herald says it's all rumors and they've got nothing on the cops mobilising. US State Department also says its just rumors, in a nice bit of non-denying denial

GREG FITZSIMMONS WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT SEEING LOU REED'S DICK N BALLS AT THE GYM ON THE RADIO

Cheney putting CBGB 2 into fast-track now

as a result of am0n being a gigantic dick.

#63 - Mamie says:

If this is true,Perez will be the first blogger to unveil a international news. The death of a dictator. Something hidden by higher authorities. This is out of this worl news. Bravo Perez. How did you learn about this???

Rock Hardy = echidnas_arf?

RIP Lou's mullet from late late 80s ;_;

The Nomorbius R.I.P.

http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/rnames-nf/Reed+Lou

as per his instructions, reed's corpse was mummified and displayed in a hotel lobby:

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NICO FOUND ALIVE IN JERSEY; LIVES WITH 16 CATS AND 4 GOLDFISH

can someone please animate this omg

http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/images/mzine/LouReed_1.jpg

Lou Reed RIP

yule be missed

loubot still with us i hope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMIgZmmO1c4

Durnit! I had him in my Dead Pool (and got excited and sad at the same time).

Max, I am in awe of your posts here. And ghost rider's photos followed it up beautifully. I think there's been a lot accomplished on this thread today. Well done, folks.

LOU REED RUMORS FILL THE BROADWAY ARCADE

-- Eazy, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:07 (Yesterday) Link

PUDDING FILLS PEREZ HILTON

-- jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:08 (Yesterday) Link

These ARE supposed to be Mark E. Smith lyrics right??

the fact that jimmy scott still lives while lou reed is dead is frankly, bullshit.

thanks for reading,

brownie

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music/antonybackstage.jpg

I want to know if people frequenting this thread know that Tony Wilson has died and who he was. Thanx

Hey, you stole my line on the Daft Punk thread!

:)

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

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/antonybackstage2.gif
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ok that is fucking awesome

shit gets weird over here at 5 in the morning

HE WAS NEVER HERE

holy shit

Durnit! I had him in my Dead Pool (and got excited and sad at the same time).
Your Dead Pool to his Lou was such a perfect wit.

Our thread is very beautiful tonight.

Edward III, that is total awesomeness.

what the fucking hell...

what do you do when you don't have a pipe or papers? make bong from drinking container?

that was totally on the wrong thread yo

yeah, lou's all about heroin, duh

Nah, I think Maria's got her heart in the right place. I was going to say that a drinking container is the correct answer to the question posed.

r.i.p. guitar strings ;_;

http://www.gearwire.com/media/gg-may94-m-daddario-large.jpg

i move we re-name ILX "THE LOU REED MEMORIAL MESSAGE BOARD"

-- max, Friday, August 24, 2007 3:09 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Link

this movement never got enough support

RIP big man

lol, my first response: "THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY LOU REED DIED WITHOUT MY EVER HEARING!!!!!!!"

Then I remembered that I had heard he just got married like two weeks ago or something.

He could still have died!

You're right! Didn't I read a tabloid or an issue of Bizarre once about someone marrying a dead woman?

That must be it.

yesterday i went to a see an important buddhist teacher whos never been to america before - before he came out to teach lou reed popped up on stage unannounced and played three songs o_O :)

Lou will die just after all the cockroaches, but before Keith Richards.

I spoke to him on the phone a couple of days ago; he was as cantankerous as I'd been led to expect.

well, calling someone in the middle of the night to sell time shares will do that

ZING

ha ha!

I want to know, though, what Lou said.

AUTHOR / ARTIST

yesterday i went to a see an important buddhist teacher whos never been to america before - before he came out to teach lou reed popped up on stage unannounced and played three songs o_O :)

-- jhøshea, Sunday, May 18, 2008 9:07 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

o_O_o_0_D_@_;_0_o !!!!

one day Lou Reed will be really dead, and all of you will regret posting on this thread!!

(or will you...)

No, no...

Yes, yes, he will haunt your soul!

Looking at the photo upthread, I wonder if Bette Midler discussed Doc Pomus at all with Lou and Jimmy Scott?

jho !!!! :D :D :D

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/93557/2

god you people piss me off.

but it's a lolsworthy thread when it's about fidel castro!

Lou is really looking like a leather Willem Dafoe in a wig these days.

Say that three times fast.

thatthatthat

oh gosh, not another one!

wot, again?

Tza!

rip

what a disaster for headless guitar manufacturers

This and the Lisa Kudrow thread always throw me for a moment.

fuck this thread

that's no way to talk about someone who's passed.
show some respect.

fake death be not proud

Not long now, look at that terrible picture of him: http://www.tmz.com/2010/09/08/susan-boyle-lou-reed-perfect-day-americas-got-talent-walk-off-show/

I hope you're proud of yourself, Susan Boyle.

dunno, aside from being all leathery-skinned, i bet lou is in the shape of his life these days. all that tai chi, you know?
http://www.loureed.com/new/news/imgs/kungfu.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album6/simonreed.jpg
Would you be able to do something like that, Paul Simon?

Susan, if you're reading this do a cover of 'I Keep a Close Watch', just to piss Laughing Lou off.

Okay seeing that cover with Lou, the sword and 'The secrets of hung men' together = WTH.

Not sure if I should read that literally or as some classical Chinese philosopher's name.

I just saw your comment on the also revived Susan Boyle thread and I hope you're proud of yourself, Mark G.

lol @ Lou making Susan Boyle cry

lou has always fiercely protected that song from inferior cover versions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN90xB7DswE

C'mon Lou, that sweet sweet Hallelujah money can pay for a llooooooot of tai chi lessons

maybe she should offer to have his instructor do moves during her performance?

She should just do Leonard Cohen's "One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong," which I've always thought "Perfect Day" rips off.

Yes, Lou had to specifically give permission for that one as well, which he did.

And then said he wouldn't have if he'd known it was"English"...

jokingly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XdmWa0aGu8

tho to be fair, lou may be a gretchen bleiler fan.

If someone had just told Lou that Susan was a dude...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album6/simonreed.jpg
You're gonna reap just what you sow, Lou Reed

So, did he give permission for Robbie Williams to do "Walk on the Wild Side" last night?

squeeze's cover >>>>>>>>> all other vu covers

/my week of being a contrarian

uhh
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/11/lou_reed_apologizes_to_susan_b.html

hahahahaha

lou is a funny guy

So, he directed this video without leaving NY, right?

was totally waiting for her to walk off the edge of that pier tbh

q: do artists have any control over releases a cover of a song they have written?

No, unless it's altered significantly. Unless the alteration is parody, which is covered by the laws of free speech.

ah right cheers.

i know tom waits has tried to suppress covers in the past, presumably even "straight" ones.

huh, really? i dunno, it seems like a weird thing to do -- having someone cover you song is easy money, right?

Yeah, but the particular cover that he blocked was for an advert.

Screaming Jay Hawkins did "Heartattack and Vine". It was still issued as a single tho.

Robert Smith blocked an e.p. by Terry Edwards, who did 3 cure songs with his trumpet.

I guess it was significantly different enough. Or maybe he was able to just be plain awkward to delay it coming out...

Tom Waits blocked Frito-Lay from having a fake Tom Waits do a fake Tom Waits song.

http://images.derstandard.at/2010/11/03/1288665900861.jpg
yikes lou is looking old these days. also looking scary.

amphibian

also looks like my grandma!

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/1982_Blade_Runner/982BLR_Joe_Turkel_002.jpg

gollum with glasses

also: Show me some men who look like old lesbians!

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i guess she's doing another of lou's songs on this album?

i've been away from the board for the last week, but in case this hasn't been mentioned?
Exclusive: Metallica and Lou Reed Join Forces on New Album
It was an improbable match: Lou Reed's cutting-monotone voice and explicit stories of desire and despair, lashed to Metallica's apocalyptic charge. It is now a perfect fit. In a recent rapid series of sessions at Metallica's studio north of San Francisco, the New York king of avant-rock and the world's bestselling thrash-metal band have recorded a new studio album together that is unlike any either artist has made before. The record, not yet titled, features 10 songs composed by Reed with significant arrangement contributions by the band that suggest a raging union of his 1973 noir classic, Berlin, and Metallica's '86 crusher, Master of Puppets.


"A marriage made in heaven," Reed says in his first interview about the project, in the studio lounge during a break. "I knew it from the first day we played together: 'Oh, man, this is perfection, right in front of me.' "


"I don't think we've ever felt this free," Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich says, sitting next to Reed on a couch. "There's nothing that's totally outside of the boundary for us, nothing that feels like 'Oh, what happens if we go there?' The strength of us" – he gestures at Reed – "is it feels like we cannot land on a wrong place."


"They're bringing Metallica, with all that power," Reed confirms. "And because they're pretty sophisticated, wherever I go, they're still with me."


Reed and Metallica first played together in October 2009, at the 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts in New York. Ulrich, singer-guitarist James Hetfield, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo backed Reed on two of his classic songs. "We knew from then," Reed says, "that we were made for each other." He and the band first planned to cut an album of his older material, "fallen jewels that no one remembered," as Reed puts it. That changed a week before Reed showed up at Metallica's studio. He called the band, proposing a record of songs he'd written for Lulu, a theatrical production of stories by the German author Frank Wedekind, directed by Robert Wilson and currently running in Berlin.


"Lars and I listened to the stuff," Hetfield says of Reed's demos, "and it was like, 'Wow, this is very different.' It was scary at first, because the music was so open. But then I thought, 'This could go anywhere.' " Metallica started writing parts built from vocal rhythms and electronic patterns on the demos.


The result is at once unpredictable and viciously tight. "Pumping Blood" opens with a drone that breaks into a crunching march, goes into speed-metal gear and breaks into free-fall sections – all over seven minutes, cut live in one take. Another track, "Mistress Dread," features Reed singing across a relentless staccato riff played at manic velocity. "It doesn't feel like we're his backup band," Hammett claims. "It feels like we're a different band, in a situation we've never been in before." And, Trujillo notes, "it's making us a better band."


Metallica: Three Decades of Metal Mayhem

Ulrich says the album is "90 percent" finished. But there are no release plans yet. Reed does not have a record deal, and Metallica are no longer on Warner Bros. "We are free to go wherever," Ulrich says. "I'm obviously psyched for people to hear this, in whatever way we feel is right."


Hetfield has one condition. "I told Lou I want to be there when people hear it," he says, grinning. "I want to see their faces."

oh yeah, it was mentioned

this is just getting ridiculous with the revives now

Lou Reed/Metallica Collabo Anticipation Thread

i've been away from the board for the last week, but in case this hasn't been mentioned?

(xpost obv)

Surprised PP didn't post Jackie Harvey image.

sorrrrry, i see it has been discussed extensively. anyway, RIP.

On that day no prisoners were taken

i wonder who's ass Lou Reed thinks he could kick

I have been made to understand that his music is infused with the New Yawk attitude.

So that's something to reckon with.

Plus his tai chi is fairly bad-ass at this point, if you ask the women from the Senior Center that he does push hands with

I notice he had a question and answer forum on his website - I wonder how long before he got so freakin sick of answering questions.
Plus no one can ever work with him for long before they have a falling out - whats his problem

Now, this may be sheer projection on my part, but I think he is still p.o.'ed about the, what's the word? oh yeah, "shit-ass" level of carbonation in his Diet Slice that he ordered in the early nineties at nathan's

were you the server or witness to this shitass declaration?

ok, i'm not sure how much personal detail i should go into, but remember that movie like water for chocolate, about the irascible pushing-forty mouse who becomes a godiva addict against the backdrop of an erotic thriller setting in bogota? well, it was like that but replace the magical realism sense of whimsy with garden variety despair in a friendly's restaurant circa '91. all the reeses pieces in the world are not going to make that sundae any brighter. lou was wearing a leather jacket. i can tell you that. with confidence. he had some generic brand of reeses pieces bedazzled onto the arms and shoulders iirc

Checked out Lou's Q&A page.

He answers with great forebearance from 2007 to 2008, but there's 6 pages after that to the current day without any answers.

I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time...

lol - he was like WTF this sucks why did I think tihs would be a good idea

dell - did you become erect?

i'm going to be honest with you-- after they had that sea-change in uniforms at friendly's circa early '89 i have never achieved tumescence in one of their restaurants, try as i might have

pizza hut is a different story i guess tho. something about the introduction of the "hand-tossed" concept just got my blood flowing

also it was around the same time they started adding msg to their oregano shakers, so you can likely guess what that added up to

AHA! SO Lou Reed was WORKING at Friendlies - that makes sense, he was hard up for cash that year

yeh he tried to introduce a "songs for drella" patty melt, but the mgmt weren't having any of it

"Song for Patty Melt" would have sold more copies

yeah, as likely as not

he did achieve some unsightly rash from standing too close to the steam coming out of the electronic dishwashers, though

Then he sued them for stealing his Sundae Morning idea, and that was the end of that.

pretty much, yeah

The person who made this Happy Ending had no pride:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.slashfood.com/media/2009/05/icecream5.jpg

HE did get the idea for "Egg Cream" there which was originally titled "Lookin' at the Shift Manager's Ass While I Make Sundaes"

yah could be just me but imho a comely derriere is fairly approximated by the just the right proportion of seltzer and chocolate syrup

If I recall Van Morrison also worked there at the time as the dishwasher and they would have argument allot and try to out-do each other. Morrison could never make a good enough "happy ending"

yeah well when you hand the job to the wrong fellow it just gets messy, like spilling an egg cream all over your distressed khaki jorts. truly, what can one do?

Have a Danish

one time lou lined up all these egg creams and then went around to all his co-workers, pointing to his handiwork and doing his best "mr. gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL" gipper impression

yes, Arle Gourndon was not pleased - she was the night manager - a woman in her 50's , led a life of many defeats, one divorce, and addicted to hostess Ding DOngs

smooth creamy filling . the urge. it's a disease, ppl just don't get it

You should have given him a mayonnaise soda.

you gotta understand, this was n.e., not the j.d. southern states

senator you polish a turd

that whole southern sequence of states is confounding | feel like they are all drunk on sweet tea, cypress and backhanded compliments?

truly, is that any way to run a confederacy?

I wish I was in the land of cotton, bad times there are not forgotton!

those generic reeses pieces go down easily enough, but you're inevitably knee-deep in regret two days later ime

maybe i'm just getting old, but i feel okay in standing up in a roomful of dignitaries and saying that i don't need anymore of this "mac and me" dandruff

speaking truth to power

they banned red dye #2 for a reason ppl . it's not "natural" for your mcnuggets to spontaneously transform into peeps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNkcJhFxD-Q

wtf I thought this song was about being Irish and called the wearing of the green

i would like to announce, in this very thread, that i will be touring w/ metallica in lieu of lou

we will miss u

no worries, i'll regularly be posting "i miss you" to ilx on stage

please store a cash of reeses in your colon as a tribute

Lou Reed recovering after liver transplant:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/01/lou-reed-liver-transplant

yeah, that was a lived liver.

are you looking forward to his death

More sensational, but this has more quotes from Laurie Anderson

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/10092969/Lou-Reed-saved-by-liver-transplant-after-years-of-drugs-and-alcohol-take-their-toll.html

No I am not looking forward to his death.

But again, I am reminded:

Is life worth living? Depends on the liver.

yeah, without your liver you're fucked imo

good comments in the telegraph piece

what is this about quotes from loni anderson?

http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/27/2773/AELTD00Z/posters/loni-anderson.jpg

Lou was big on WKRP.

Nice how the Telegraph can't bother to get the name of The Cleveland Clinic right despite four tries.

Man poor Louie Anderson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCq4SqGStzE

the best thing he ever did

oh, state of grace. awwwwwww, state of grace.

Lulu vs. The Velvet Underground & Nico: The Poll

wake up, the dream is over

get the coffee, turn the lights on

Here's some awesome Lou none of that fake shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUgz-rZuRc

Just trying to negate the last few posts

Hope you're OK Sweet Lou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH9X1sm4Uv8

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf2pF5oMdP4

wow markers waterface showdown

http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/brk2ifurinmilwke/nerdfight.gif

what is the starting bid for lou reed's liver on ebay?

lou and michael bloomberg have the same accent.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-liver-complains-of-difficulty-working-with-lou,32669/

i just want to hear lou sing that he is the table

Lou is his own best friend

RIP.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-reed-velvet-underground-leader-and-rock-pioneer-dead-at-71-20131027

gd

whoa

Damn. RIP, Lou.

Unexpected!

he's literally come out of nowhere to die there, Alfred

any other sources?

at least he lived long enough to get a gently waspish valedictory swipe from ilx' most august man of letters

http://en.mediamass.net/people/lou-reed/deathhoax.html

ignore that

RIP :(

this still hasn't been confirmed by nyt, bbc or any ned raggett social media platform

RIP

welp, i always assumed this was true whenever the thread got bumped. Sorry Lou.

so you're saying now you give a fuck.

I believe this was started in response to the RIP Fidel thread, which i tot believed. anyhoo...

if there's a band in heaven lou is replacing all of its members with yules right now

― ghost rider, Friday, August 24, 2007 6:02 PM

wow. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jTkTukfjZM

he signed Mistrial for me, and was pleasant about it.

He taught me what the colored girls say.

He scowled at me once.

Did not see this coming. Damn.

Only seeing it reported by RS at the moment ...

he was a complete nonentity in my life but his passing seems to affect many people so rip guy, if you are really dead this time

Huffpo reporting it too

This is awful news. Reviled as Lulu was, Reed cared a lot about the project and I think to the end he remained a dude who wanted to create music.

Guess he's up in heaven now, arguing about amphetamines with Lester Bangs...

Was worried about this when he cancelled his tour a few months ago.

I guess thats another way of saying "too soon." I liked his review of Yeezus a lot.

Sorry xp

Gonna miss this irascible loony

Huff Post cited RS as source.

xpost Every single place reporting this links to the RS article. No other confirmation yet. Which does not negate its veracity, but ...

Anyway, watch your back, Iggy!

c'mon guys the Daily Mail has it! Must be true!

Holy crap! RIP

If this is true, I mainly feel sad for Laurie Anderson.

An old friend died a couple of weeks ago, someone I remember spending a lot of time with at university, a lot of it playing Lou Reed and Velvets records while off our faces at like 2am. It was only last week I put Berlin on and pretty much lost my shit at the last four tracks, devastating. RIP.

c'mon guys the Daily Mail has it! Must be true!

― kate78, Sunday, October 27, 2013 6:09 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

When Vanity Fair magazine asked him to give his definition of abject misery a few years ago, Reed's response was simply: "Being interviewed by an English journalist".

rip lou

the fuck is actually rn

like is every media outlet phoning RS, getting told yeah its true, then waiting an indeterminate length of time before conceding RS aren't making this up

Yes they are all getting on their phones and calling Rolling Stone.

blow me you landill shithead

landfill oy

srsly like really given the number of journalists here can someone explain what the protocol is when a single source is claiming something like this?

Here in the big city we got a word
For those who would bed their beloved big bird
And make a mockery of our freedoms
Without even using a condom
Without even saying " no "
By god we have a name for people like that
It's - hey motherfucker

now it is.....foxnews

xposts I'm sure they're all trying to confirm independently. But I can also imagine that that's hard, especially on a Sunday, and it's not hard to believe that RS happens to have sources on this that others don't have easy access to.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1498177.1382897594!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/spl563730-005.jpg

John Cale's last revenge: being the single source for Jon Dolan.

"I get scared in Sweden."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xduERw9BSns

IMDb's headline: "Lou Reed, 'Walk on the Wild Side' Singer, Dead at 71"

I guess, but still, *sigh*

Better than "Beloved Honda scooter pitchman."

Still no story in the New York Times. That will be the nail in the coffin, so to speak, for me.

"Recent Metallica Collaborator"

beloved Metallica collaborator

guardian confirming it now as well. RIP lou

his agent confirmed it to the Graun a couple of minutes ago

xp

Re Blue clip about his Dodgers departure trauma, I always took him for a Mets fan, cuz first time I saw him live (Capitol Theater, Passaic NJ, 1984) the crowd chanted "Looooouuu" and he said "That sounds like you want Mookie Wilson."

So wait, this weekend Arthur C. Danto and Lou Reed, two guys with a strong Warhol connection. Who is the third one who should be running scared?

Iggy?

Yesterday the woman who voiced Mrs. Krabappel died.

aka Carol the Receptionist

Yeah, Guardian cites his agent, though no story yet ...

:(

legit sad abt this regardless of the inevitability

I'm mostly glad I went to see him a few times when I had the chance. Got to hear Laurie playing the Cale part while he sang "Venus in Furs," that counted as a lifetime musical highlight.

aka Carol the Receptionist

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, October 27, 2013 6:40 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and elite match game panelist.

last great american whale

i just loved the way in which he was just so straightforward about stuff (his way of writing a song and his subject matter). no bullshit, i mean people may say he glamorised a certain seediness but that was his life

If you tie a contact mike to a new-born baby and spin it by the umbilical cord, think of the sound.

Lulu-Last great american album

The British rock band The Who took to twitter, "R.I.P. Lou Reed. Walk on the peaceful side."

Each band member wrote a word

OK, now it's on the Times site.

Whether we're talking about music or attitude or leather jackets or lifestyle or whatever, if it weren't for Lou Reed, so many people wouldn't have had stuff to like. RIP, you old grouch.

Was Lulu his last release? That's up there with Transformers The Movie being the last performance of Orson Welles.

I am in the laundromat but when I get back upstairs I'm gonna play waves of fear

fuck

lol matt i also thought of orson welles when i realized lulu was his last release

Was Lulu his last release? That's up there with Transformers The Movie being the last performance of Orson Welles.

actually fuck that "junior dad" is amazing

phaps Chaplin & A Countess From Hong Kong is more like it

The liver takes it all

Sober since the 1880s and a practitioner of Tai Chi, Mr. Reed had a liver transplant in May 2013 in Cleveland.

Was his last official released anything his Peter Gabriel cover?

I used to see him and Laurie eating sushi all the time in midtown in the mid-90s at our favorite spot, but I never said anything because, you know, that's Lou Reed. He's got more attitude than anyone in Jersey.

"I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset
The light on your door to show that you're home."

RIP good sir

ugh, just found out

RIP lou reed

now it's all up to max

Only just starting to shake off a bastard of a hangover, I'm supposed to be going to a party now and all I really wanna do is drink wine and bump drella velvets mmm even transformer for the 1st time in about a decade; at least I know what my comedown music will be tomorrow.

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

yes

Someone just mentioned that it was almost 44 years to the day after the Live 1969 shows in San Francisco.

Is the 3CD version of WL/WH still happening in December now?

Lou wasnt about the drink and drugs yknow, sometimes he just wanted to play football for the coach too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwLlvcDi4PQ

oooh .. that picture with laurie.
damn.

i only have the one vu album, vu + nico, playing it now.
it encapsulates so much of what i love about music.
always been worried about getting more that i would be disappointed given how special the debut is.
a weird reaction i know, but thats the way it is ..

rest easy fella ..

you should really listen to all of their studio albums plus 1969: VU Live and the compilation titled "VU". they are a different band without Nico but not a worse one. each of the albums is different, in my view, and special in its own way

you are missing out on some of the best music ever if you've never heard that stuff

i guess squeeze isn't up there with the immortals. that's their only subpar release

hat trick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDRjsKcFC9g

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

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.

Alfred and Doran's are both great, Christgau's is terrible. As an ilxor said on twitter, paraphrasing here, it was nice of Christgau to spend a few pages of his autobiography mentioning Lour Reed.

Tracer: concentrate on Quine's work.

i love the blue mask. its magic and has magical healing properties.

i mean you could call the blue mask chamber rock too but the tone is soooooooo perfect and i don't think he ever got such a perfect sound again. or i missed it if he did.

currently enjoying the lengthy sister rays on the quine tapes

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.

― scott seward, Monday, October 28, 2013 10:32 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

New York was also my last contemporary Lou purchase, but I dug it at the time; the sound mostly, as he'd finally gotten away from his failed attempts at drummachinery. But I haven't listened to it since 1989, and I don't see myself revisiting it.

Also saw him on that tour, but I was into the record, so I didn't mind that he played the whole thing. The drummer was fucking fantastic; I still remember him lurching into "Romeo Had Juliet" like it was yesterday. Can't remember his name, though (different drummer than on the record). I don't remember Lou taking many, or any, solos, and his lame guitarist lamed up the joint by playing the "Walk On The Wild Side" saxophone solo note-for-note on guitar.

All I remember about the Feelies' set was the sound was muddy.

full disclosure: I haven't listened to The Blue Mask in at least 20 years, so ymmv. (and the only lyrics i recall well are "The Day John Kennedy Died," wtf with that one)

Just listened to it this morning for the first time in (counts on fingers, counts again to make sure, fuck, that's a long time) 23 years. It more than holds up, but yeah, the Kennedy song is kind of goofy.

Goofy Lou is almost my favourite Lou

Yessssss

btw, brilliant piece, Alfred.

Aw guys

Yeah, 2nded, 3rded, 4thed -- terrific piece. I think you're right on about what made him great and what didn't. (Also right on that I gave Berlin the dutiful couple of listens when I dutifully bought it years ago, and have rarely returned to it.)

Coley

mine second was 'the doors' movie

ha. me too. first was REM covering "Pale Blue Eyes" on Dead Letter Office although I guess I had probably heard Walk on the Wild Side by that point too.

so funny talking to christgau last week at harvard about byron. they have never met in person. i don't know why i thought that was strange. always feel like everyone must know each other. but byron always proud of his lone wolf status. xgau still kinda peeved about byron and the sonic youth song-title thing. which i admit i kinda thought was funny. that he was still a little mad. in my old age i get along really well with byron AND the dean.

Alfred's piece is good, but I dunno, it doesn't mention Wussy at all, what's up with that?

I had probably read about the Velvet Underground in CREEM or RS, and I found a cheapo compilation LP used, maybe 1982? It had "I Heard Her Call My Name" on it, which hooked me right away - could not believe that solo. I somehow convinced my mom to buy me the $18 copy of WL/WH that was on the wall of a local record store - this was an unheard-of sum for an album in 1983/84, but the records were all out of print and hard to find until the '86 reissues. I found a French pressing of the 3rd album used somewhere later that year and then I think I found VU and Nico last. Lou's solo work was pretty much a given then, lots of people had copies of Transformer and/or R&R Animal. New Sensations was also big then.

This was my gateway record:

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/25300000/Velvet-Underground-the-velvet-underground-25381527-399-400.jpg

Blue Mask is great though "Women" isn't a strong track. The way into the album is the slow-burn raveup that leads out of "My House" imo

So Byron's writing for Arthur mag these days. Hadn't read him much in ages, but used to read he and the Dean both.

The Legs Mcneil obit of Lou was much more about Legs than about Lou, and not very insightful about either.

Byron's been writing for Arthur since it began

haha that times piece on the warhol/shrink party from '66 doesn't even mention reed, calls cale the VU's "leader"

My wife is very bummed. Lou Reed was her one big idol who lived a long time, but she never had a chance to catch live. She's turned me on to some of his later albums like Set The Twilight Reeling and Songs For Drella, which I didn't catch when they first came out. Lotta good stuff there that's maybe not as well appreciated as the classics.

Alfred's piece is good, but I dunno, it doesn't mention Wussy at all, what's up with that?

― some dude

wussied out

His article was the ycleption in that regard.

haha that times piece on the warhol/shrink party from '66 doesn't even mention reed, calls cale the VU's "leader"

I know right? Found that article via the Times' Sam Sifton on Twitter btw.

first was REM covering "Pale Blue Eyes" on Dead Letter Office although I guess I had probably heard Walk on the Wild Side by that point too.

I am trying to remember how/when I encountered Lou beyond "Walk on the Wild Side," which was in regular rotation on my local rock station in the early '80s. I'm pretty sure my dad picked up a copy of The Blue Mask used, out of curiosity, but I don't think he liked it because I don't remember ever hearing it. I just remember the cover. Dead Letter Office was almost certainly the first place I heard "Pale Blue Eyes," and Sister Lovers was where I first heard "Femme Fatale." Then suddenly in 1985 they were being talked about everywhere, because of VU and also because of Psychocandy. JAMC is the first (of many) bands that I remember being tagged as Velvet acolytes. Anyway, at some point in there I bought the whole run from Nico to Loaded and figured out what the fuss was about. But it's funny to think that there was nearly a 20-year period when they really didn't get talked about very much outside a fairly small critical circle.

1993 was my year: three different Velvets covers, peaking with Bryan Ferry's "All Tomorrow's Eyes," then downhill with Duran Duran ("Femme Fatale") and Billy Idol ("Heroin"). Intrigued, I bought Words and Music of Lou Reed, which for many of us was the only way to hear the big VU songs before the mid nineties remasters.

The hard one to track down in the mid-late '80s was Loaded, which iirc was not reissued when VU came out. (The first three were, I think.) After months of trawling I finally turned it up in a used bin.

Weird, because I remember Loaded being the only one in print in the US when I bought it, which would have been summer of 1980.

Loaded was on a different label than the others

Oh, Cowboy Junkies doing "Sweet Jane" (on MTV no less) was another profile-boosting moment. At a time that Cowboy Junkies had a higher profile than VU.

Sister Lovers was where I first heard "Femme Fatale."

huh, that's interesting. I didn't hear Big Star until several years after I had first heard VU. Sister Lovers in particular was hard to find for a while iirc.

Yes, Loaded was after they got signed to the Atlantic subsidiary Cotillion. The others were on Verve.

xpost Yeah, that was a fluke purchase for me. I'd heard Big Star touted as this power-pop legend and went looking for their records. The only thing I could find in print at my local store was a copy of Sister Lovers, in one of its forms (don't remember the label). It was not at all what I was expecting, but I totally fell in love with it. I didn't hear #1 Record and Radio City until several years later, when they came out on a combined CD.

Was Lou Reed the first out rock star?

I bought Loaded new in 1985; wasn't particularly hard to find, and I don't know if it ever went out of print between 1970-1985.

First memories of Lou Reed was "I Love You, Suzanne" and him holding the Atari joystick.

That Honda commercial was on all the time and even today when I see a photo of him -- even that door one upthread -- I hear his voice in my head say, "Don't settle for walkin'."

There was this brief period where I was discovering that all these 80s rock stars were also big in the 70s. Oh wow, Robert Plant used to have really long hair. Freddie Mercury's in a leotard!

And somewhere along the line, I saw the cover of The Velvet Underground and thought, Whoa, so that's what Lou Reed's eyes look like.

I had a hell of a time finding Loaded in 1989. Ended up ordering it on CD and receiving vinyl instead.

I found 1969 Live and The VU & Nico (still sealed) at Vinyl Solution in Tuscaloosa in 1982, and Loaded not long after that. 2nd & 3rd albums didn't happen until the 1986 reissues, but some songs from those two were available on the 1980 comp Rock and Roll Diary 1967-1980.

how available were the RCA solo albums in the mid eighties?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm8n0vhVJcg this is how i'll remember him

Alfred - used LPs were cheap and plentiful back then, but I never saw the 1st one for some reason.

I'd guess the RCA albums were generally in print? You'd have to order them, of course, in most stores. A store like Tower might have kept certain titles in stock.

Only RCA title I saw new in the 80s was Transformer. The other RCA titles were used (and insanely expensive, particularly at a notorious suburban Chicago record store), except for Rock 'n' Roll Animal, but that had gotten the RCA "Best Buy" half-assed pseudo-reissue treatment.

Yup. Some of us bought a few of those RCAs on eight-track, a format we might have otherwise shunned.

Yeah, I remember seeing Transformer a lot, that's pretty much it for that era.

The Lou Reed album I remember seeing most at record stores was Mistrial, because by 1987 it was in every remainder bin everywhere.

Now that I think about it, that definitely sounds right. When I bought a used copy of the first album, I remember thinking, "You never see this."

I'm thinking he got higher promo budgets b/w New Sensations and Magic and Loss.

when he did the amex magazine ad my local record store taped it to the plastic divider in the vinyl bins and wrote SELLOUT on it in sharpie

that was raven records in knoxville, tennessee, fact fans

https://twitter.com/GaizkaMendieta6/status/394837463531012096/photo/1

Alfred - used LPs were cheap and plentiful back then, but I never saw the 1st one for some reason.

I bought Coney Island Baby in the late 80s. Transformer was definitely around. NEVER saw the 1st one either, still don't really. Rock n Roll Animal also really common.

The Lou Reed album I remember seeing most at record stores was Mistrial, because by 1987 it was in every remainder bin everywhere.

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, October 28, 2013 2:34 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Bought the cassette on release day. First song: "Neat!" Every song thereafter: "uh...oh..."

"Metal Machine Music" was pretty hard to find (paid $40 for the first copy I saw, in '89)

yeah was gonna mention that, I never saw a copy of that until a few years ago.

I remember Loaded being available as a mid price lp in the 80s. I think that cover was well known though I don't think I was familiar with the record until a while later. THink I came to the s/t 3rd lp a while later too, though I think it was that record that a lot of 80s Australian & possibly NZ bands were being compared to.
I was familiar with & Nico in my early teens and used to go around at school singing what I knew of Waiting For The Man. Think I got WL/WH a year or so later but got it with the UK cover.

I also remember that there was a Velvets history in NME in '79 or '80 when I think the 1st lp was reissued. Wishing I'd made sure I had the gatefold sleeve version of the lp when I picked it up in 81 or 82 cos it does add to the cover. THink it may have been a couple of £ more expensive at a time i didn't have oodles of money though.

Save Mistrial for the sake of "Tell It to Your Heart" and "I Remember You."

"I bought Loaded new in 1985;"

same here. or maybe 1984? it was perfect for all the acid i was taking. and i bought new sensations when it came out. and i had growing up in public on tape. dollar cut-out. i also had some Pear Records budget double album that had stuff from the first album and live stuff from Lou Reed Live on it. i played that thing a zillion times. my brother had all the lou solo i think, but i didn't really listen to his copies. got everything else bit by bit as the years went by. i don't remember when in the 80's i got the rest of the velvets stuff.

oh and the live at max's album. bought that new around the time i got loaded. those two you could find.

Yeah, I bought New Sensations around the same time, on cassette. I remember seeing the video for "I Love You, Suzanne" on an ABC Saturday morning video show aimed at kids, hosted by Wolfman Jack.

Lou in the wild: last Friday I heard "New Sensations" on the local "classic rock" station. This is one of those "classic rock" stations that's far more likely to play Warrant or Whitesnake than Humble Pie or Bad Company; as such, the likelihood that you'll even hear "Walk On The Wild Side" is zilch. "New Sensations" was a serious left-field pick.

Cardinal Ravasi's homage to Lou Reed: https://twitter.com/CardRavasi/status/394756812576006145

you're going to tweet just what you post

xpost -- Well I didn't expect THAT.

"New Sensations" wasn't even a single!

I remember seeing the video for "I Love You, Suzanne" on an ABC Saturday morning video show aimed at kids, hosted by Wolfman Jack.

Yes! I remember this show too. It's where I saw "What's Love Got to Do with It" by Tina Turner for the first time.

NYC eateries talk about Lou's change to a macrobiotic diet:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/dining/for-lou-reeds-chefs-a-walk-on-the-mild-side.html

http://www.missionmission.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/giffer.gif

(Osage St in the Mission in SF)

I mean this in the best way possible: It's no surprise that this is easily the most entertaining RIP thread I've read this year.

i would like to thank my local libraries for having some of the recorded output of VU and Lou Reed. Otherwise I don't think I would have ever heard that stuff in high school. IIRC there wasn't much solo Cale, but there was Eno and Cale bc I distinctly remember liking "Spinning Away".

Yeah I got Velvet Underground & Nico from my local public library.

good ol' 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

ann powers:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/10/27/240841092/what-lou-reed-taught-me

carl wilson:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2013/10/lou_read_obit_an_appreciation_of_the_velvet_underground_frontman.single.html

I love Rob Sheff's, particularly for explaining why Lou was an awesome guitarist.

x-post- My university radio station in 1979 was run by Radio/tv/film majors who wanted to get jobs at top 40 stations and believed that the university's am carrier current station heard only in buildings on campus and the low-watt FM station should just imitate commercial top 40 radio of the time. But they let us djs get a few token choices of our own per hour on the air. Freshman me found the Velvets back in the record library, and played "Heroin" in the wee hours on the AM station. The program director later disdainfully asked why I would choose to play a song with that title. She then listened to it, and said "sounds like that guy is on heroin." I forgot how I responded, but she dealt with it (she was a graduating senior), and eventually me and others transformed the Fm station into a free-form one where such a question was never asked again.

What a shitty excuse for a program director!

I wanna talk to that program director, she threw a cup at curmudgeon.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/today-particularly-rough-day-for-east-village-junk,34367/

Does anybody know where I can find that 1979 WPIX radio show with Lou and Cale? The link for it on that tumblr is gone.

So, older people, did "I Love You, Suzanne" and "No Money Down" get daytime MTV play? Their respective album's chart positions suggest he was actually selling records, peaking of course with New York (certified gold).

Does anybody know where I can find that 1979 WPIX radio show with Lou and Cale? The link for it on that tumblr is gone.

tylerw has it

Seem to remember "Suzanne" being played a lot, vaguely remember there being a video.

So, older people, did "I Love You, Suzanne" and "No Money Down" get daytime MTV play?

I had a cassette "Best Of" of Reed's 70s solo stuff and got "New York" when it came out, but I didn't hear any of his other 80s records until I got to college and plundered the radio station. vague recollection of some late night performance (Letterman?) of "Joystick" or something like that.

looks like that was "Video Violence" actually, 1986...?

I just saw it. Eek.

"My Red Joystick" got play too apparently.

tylerw has it

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier)

oh, thanks! Hadn't dug deep enough into the other thread.

Lou did an in-store signing at Tower Records on W4th in support of that album. I went and remember being surprised when my friend from Canarsie asking him which of his albums was his favorite. I tensed up a little in anticipation of the response which turned out to merely be "I like 'em all."

"Suzanne" and "No Money Down" were in regular rotation on MTV, but the former more than the latter. The live "Video Violence" (1986 Giants Stadium Amnesty Int'l show) was shown a lot, too (VJ Dweezil Zappa called it "the worst guitar solo of all time").

(not nearly as notable as getting Iggy Pop's signature at the Tower in Austin)

Just saw a piece on Lou on NBC news. Clips of "Heroin" and Metal Machine Music were played. On national network TV.

and by Brian Williams himself! He sounded moved.

and he mentioned Vaclev Havel!

I didn't say I liked the Art of Noise, I said I liked the sound of it. People I like are Afrika Bambataa and Soul Sonic Force. Rikki Lee Jones. Run DMC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6-Nnq8BQ86M

i have one of those cringeworthy memories of doing an oral report on heroin for my american studies class in 1985 and turning all the lights off and putting the shades down and playing "heroin" for the class on a boombox. i was trying to be deep.

lol

oh Scott that's excellent. I did mostly the same with the Cure's Killing an Arab in my English class (we were reading The Stranger or Outsider or whichever one that was..)

Yup. Some of us bought a few of those RCAs on eight-track, a format we might have otherwise shunned.

My greatest record find of all time was finding the 8-track of Metal Machine Music at a truck stop in Barstow. Probably had been there since the release.

VU&N and WL/WH were pretty difficult to find in the early 80s. I found both of them used at Rhino Records in Claremont - the banana had been peeled, but even then finding an intact one was cost-prohibitive.

I found both of them used at Rhino Records in Claremont

!

this was my record store as a young'un

I had Patti Smith's Radio Ethiopia on 8-track. It was so hard to find music I liked on used 8-tracks back in the early 80s (wasn't going to buy new just for the car).

I remember the VU 3rd being hard to find one in the 70s, with WL/WH being the easiest, and VU&N being not that bad. Don't remember whether Loaded was easy or not.

I bought MMM when it came out; when in high school a department store near me (Two Guys) kept the Billboard top 200 LPs on display (and on sale - $3.99 for single-LPs), and believe it or not MMM made the cut. Some pretty obscure stuff will show up in the top-200.

I also found great stuff at the Claremont Rhino.

luc sante:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/10/lou-reed-gardenia-and-snowflake.html

SFJ:

The famous quotation, widely attributed to Brian Eno, that “only a thousand people bought the Velvet Underground’s début, but they all started bands” is not wrong; if anything, it is conservative, though we have to range over many albums to size up Reed’s impact. “What Goes On” gave us the Feelies; “Sister Ray” gave us Spacemen 3; the third, self-titled Velvet Underground album gave us Galaxie 500, and maybe a chunk of the independent rock music made in New Zealand during the late nineteen-eighties. Reed’s tendency toward structural simplicity married to noise, and a faith that no word was above his listener’s head, is at the root of so much music that I am scared to make a list, in fear of the counterlists that will point out everyone who is missing.

On the Pixies’ 1987 début, “Come On Pilgrim,” Frank Black sang, “I wanna be a singer like Lou Reed.” That’s a fairly solid citation, so we’ve got one, for sure. We could venture further and say that David Byrne, Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus, and Ian Curtis would have thought very differently about music if not for Reed’s existence. The real list of who loved Lou Reed songs is probably something like “everyone,” though that doesn’t do much for anyone looking to find something to listen to right now.

i can't remember ever reading lou talking about dylan or dylan talking about lou. in an interview or whatever. like, what did lou think when he first heard dylan?

Think they decided never to talk to or about each other because of Nico. Cherchez la femme.

In the mid-1960s, when the Velvet Underground was first trying to make it, someone, possibly Andy Warhol, was trying to get Dylan to see Lou Reed's young band. Robbie Robertson went to see the Velvets instead, and was not impressed. Referring to Reed, Robertson said, "That guitar player, he ain't nothin' ". Reed retorted by saying that Dylan's songs were "marijuana leftovers", and something like "Dylan is the type of person you'd want to punch out at a party."

Reed praised Dylan at length in RS' '89 cover story -- said he made his assistant buy Down it the Groove so he could listen to "Rank Strangers to Me," as if working for Lou wasn't penance enough.

And he did a ripping job of covering "Foot of Pride" in '92.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIvfgVCJm4A

gaizka mendieta obviously has a lou reed story too https://twitter.com/GaizkaMendieta6/status/394837463531012096/photo/1

i can't remember ever reading lou talking about dylan or dylan talking about lou. in an interview or whatever. like, what did lou think when he first heard dylan?
iirc according to the transformer bio lou felt slighted that his songs weren't revered as much as dylan's.

i can't remember ever reading lou talking about dylan or dylan talking about lou. in an interview or whatever. like, what did lou think when he first heard dylan?

― scott seward, Monday, October 28, 2013 5:32 PM (35 minutes ago)

Take a listen to the Peel Slowly & See demo disc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9xQ-xwz6lM

Prominent Men, I guess, but the other demos, Albert R? Maybe I just don't remember them correctly (the lugubrious Cale ones I am thinking of...)

but that's not Lou, duh--sorry, disregard (sleepless)

Yeah I need to revisit them, but I remember there were some alt. takes or demos that sounded just as Dylan-esque as "Prominent Men".

I imagine it would be time-consuming to isolate the takes within the long unindexed tracks.

Maybe this one too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmmMy-712ZA

Kinda reminds me of "These Days".

Speaking of the Nico+Dylan+Lou connection, didn't Lou play the guitar on Nico's "I'll Keep It With Mine"?

love that version

Nope. Wiki informs me that Jackson Browne plays on that track.

Run Run Run is pretty Dylanesque in the verses!

i have no doubt that a fiery pissed off jew storming the barricades of pop music in the early 60's influenced lou in a big way! i mean everyone took from dylan. in dress or attitude or song. and i know they were apparently friendly in the 80's? just never actually heard lou say anything about him later. but maybe he didn't want to remind people of dylan when talking about his own stuff because HE was the genius.

i mean they have always reminded me of each other.

this is pretty rocking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUH8VrIC1j8

great sound and video on that clip too.

"tatters" one of those songs i don't know cuz i never listened to that album and now of course i want to listen to that album.

scott, you need Ecstacy! If you see a copy in your store, give it a listen.

btw Dylan said he wished he'd written "Doin' The Things That We Want To."

Lou Reed appeared at the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Celebration Concert at Madison Square Garden, October 16, 1992. Although "Tangled Up In Blue" was allegedly considered, Reed covered the relatively obscure "Foot Of Pride", a 1983 song finally released in 1991. It was widely praised as one of the highlights of the evening.

"I chose 'Foot Of Pride' because I just got back from an eight-month tour. Once a day I would listen to it and just fall down laughing. I always go out and get the latest Dylan album. Bob Dylan can turn a phrase, man. Like the album Down In The Groove, his choice of songs. 'Going Ninety Miles an Hour Down A Dead End Street' - I'd give anything if I could have written that. . .

"That was as much fun as I could ever have, as much fun as anyone could legally have."

yeah, lou's foot of pride is great. gives me chills. they should have done a duet at some point! ah, well.

punk magazine #1 interview w/ lou reed - worth hunting around for a copy of? i was surprised it wasn't easily locatable online

they were only a year apart age-wise. dylan a year older.

I was on that Tower autograph line too, Redd.

Did you go to the Film Forum later? Was that when it was still on Watts Street?

the byron coley obit is pretty good

heh i don't know, but it was. I got Iggy and the Ramones too, prob also at Tower. xp

that tatters clip is a+ thanks scott

This story is great: https://www.facebook.com/coveredwithstars/posts/10201200272501581

https://twitter.com/ValEKilmer/status/395030630586523648

late to the pile-on but Alfred that obit was fuckin lovely

If you have 75 minutes to spare...
Lou Reed - American Masters bio/doc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjPuF-CYuic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awKdDIw504E

late to the pile-on but Alfred that obit was fuckin lovely

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl

thanks!

By a "pointless" reunion tour, you obv meant bcz the VU didn't play New York.

or Hialeah.

I always thought Lou thought Dylan was the bee's knees like everyone else in the 60's. "What Goes On" in particular struck me as very Dylan-like. "Baby be good, do what you should" just imagine Bob Dylan singing that.

By a "pointless" reunion tour, you obv meant bcz the VU didn't play New York.

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 8:09 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can't find the exact quote, but I seem to remember the only thing Cale and Reed agreed on for the US leg of the tour (which was obviously cancelled when they fell out again) was that they wouldn't play New York. Reed said something like, "Fuck that place; they didn't want us then, so they don't get to see us now."

Hey Lou, I wanna boogie wit choo, I wanna boogie wit choooaaooowwww

Baby be gooooood
Do watcha shouuuuuld

Well, at least they played in Kansas, that time..

(actually, srsly, Why is Max's called "Kansas City")

According to http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/2009/03/maxs-kansas-city-new-yorks-celebrity.html?m=1

The mysterious name purportedly comes from one of Ruskin's more famous clients from the Ninth Circle, poet Joel Oppenheimer . According to a documentary on Max's Kansas City, Oppenheimer heard Ruskin wanted to open a steakhouse and claims, "When I was a kid, all the steakhouses had Kansas City on the menu because the best steak was Kansas City-cut, so I thought it should be 'something Kansas City.'"

Although people have suspected the 'Max' comes from fellow poet Max Finstein, Oppenheimer claims a more logical origin. "Wouldn't you eat at a place called Max's? I said, 'Mickey, believe me, it's Max's Kansas City.' Two days later, he called back again and said, 'I don't know why, but I mentioned the name to some people, and they all loved it.'"

Great promo photo of Lou rocking the back-to-front trousers look, a look that sadly never caught on afaik.

https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q73/s480x480/1236804_10151878793040953_858584813_n.jpg

http://s2.dmcdn.net/e0SE/160x120-0CT.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1ZzIx3X.jpg

http://www.maggiesfarm.it/talking156d.jpg

I wore back-to-front trousers one day in 1980. There were witnesses.

Reed said something like, "Fuck that place; they didn't want us then, so they don't get to see us now."

Too bad the pricks didn't know half the haters had died in the interim. Still I would've traveled to see em, maybe.

I don't understand the whole "asshole or not" thing when a star dies. I'm a big fan of many jerks, and a friend of mine has been in two of the worst movies I've ever seen.

my friend matt krefting is THE number one lou fan i know and this is really good and sweet:

http://kreftingmoondawn.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/how-do-you-think-it-feels-and-when-do-you-think-it-stops/

That Krefting-piece is beautiful. The Letterman-performance he mentions was incredible!

yeah, i esp enjoyed the pizza place coda. never read so many obits for the same person.

from the electrical audio boards:

"In the mid- and late-Nineties, my wife worked at a place owned by a guy named Tony. Tony is a famous artist, and is/was good friends with Lou Reed (as well as a wide variety of other personalities). Aside from being his master printer, my wife's responsibilities included answering the phone when Tony wasn't around. She was always terrified that it might be Lou Reed calling, as even Tony would say that Lou was a difficult person and hard to talk to.

So the phone rings and my wife answers. Long pause. "Is Tony there?"

"Sorry, he's not here. Can I take a message for him?"

Long pause.

"Yeah. This is Lou. Say, I just got my wife these doves. I dunno what to feed these fucking things. Does Tony know what I'm supposed to feed these fucking doves?"

"Hi Lou, I don't know, I'll ask Tony to call you when he gets in."

"Do you think they want some steak? I've got some meat. I'll see if they want some meat. Have Tony call me."

Lou bought Laurie some doves and then fed them meat.

Resquiat, sir."

I wanna talk to that Reed, man, he threw a dove at his Laurie.

Herbie Flowers on composing the "wild side" bass line:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBXUP5GqYJs

^ blew my mind. I always assumed it was two overdubbed acoustic basses, not an acoustic and a Fender Jazz.

thats great.

I wonder what Herbie Flowers makes of Can I Kick It

So, older people, did "I Love You, Suzanne" and "No Money Down" get daytime MTV play?

MTV staged/taped for later airing a series of concert shows in '84-85 called "Rock Influences," and Reed headlined the show I saw on the New Sensations tour. NYC theme; openers included Jim Carroll, and Run-D.M.C., who got booed off the stage in about 10 minutes. (Passaic NJ, def not by the ppl who lived there)

Lou Bega insists that Lou Reed died, not Lou Bega

i do think there's a huge swath of people who think of lou reed as some guy who had one memorable ditty (walk on the wild side) once upon a time, like he was david essex or something.

listening to new york, remembering that WXRT played the shit out of this, deep cuts included, not just when it came out but for a few years after. in 93 I had a English professor who insisted upon playing songs from this and discussing them like poetry and the experience was so embarrassing that I never thought I'd come back to the album. it's not bad really.

there's this whole thing about lou being a prick to journalists but if you read his Invisible Jukebox in the wire he comes across as like this affable excitable nerd "omg this miles record!!" and it made me lose all sympathy for any interviewer that he ever treated like shit cause like, all he wanted to do was talk about records! And surely this was plain! and if you can't do that, you don't deserve the job.

yeah, he only got pissed off when people would ask questions about his public image, or how he felt about how certain of records were "perceived" by different sorts of audiences, etc. after forty-odd years journalists should have gotten the gist.

Also bristled at questions about his personal life. Presumably because he was smart enough to know that shit didnt matter.

i do think there's a huge swath of people who think of lou reed as some guy who had one memorable ditty (walk on the wild side) once upon a time, like he was david essex or something.

heh in the UK we used to have this carcrash called "the culture show" and I remember the host flirting w reed and basically asking tough questions like "why are you so great" and "why do your toes taste so nice" and at the end of the interview lou said "just so you know, there is now one english journalist I like". The scoundrel!

From earlier this year, and worth noting:

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/rachel_lou_reeds_transsexual_muse

but Redd, we're in New York.

I was just about to ask why is Rachel such a big unknown this far on.

thanks for that Ned

"why do your toes taste so nice"

pretty sure Lou would have answered this

At least I knew the name Rachel if not much else but Bettye Kronstadt I never heard about at all until I read the Luc Sante thing.

xp I'm paraphrasing I guess

Thread reminds me that I once played in band with fourth-rate Lou Reed imitator and when he gave me a tape to learn tunes off it was recorded over cassette version of Michael Franks album with "Popsicle Toes."

bum bum bum popsicle toes
bum bum bum popsicle toes

I guess result of my poll was that older people at the very least knew the big songs off Loaded and the first Velvet albums as well as some of the solo stuff whereas the discerning youth of today know all the Velvet Underground albums as well as some Factory anecdotes and other biographical material. But yeah, after all it is New York City which is the place where.

Reed answered questions about his appearance in the commercial, telling the students that Honda was supporting him more then he was supporting the brand, and Bob Dylan, saying that everyone was lucky to be alive on earth with Dylan, among others, recalled Gass.

my straw poll, first Velvets album

I knew Walk on the Wild Side and that was about it, and then in college I read a book that mentioned the song Venus in Furs, so I went out and found a used copy of Velvet Underground & Nico, my first Lou/Velvets purchase. And then I read the Venus in Furs book and came to the realization that I would have been more content just knowing the song but it was an educational excursion. And I fell in love with Nico for a good while as a result so I owe Lou quite a lot.

Anyone dip into his photography at all? I have his New York book of photos, I dig it.

The final interview, apparently: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/29/lou-reed-last-interview

i do think there's a huge swath of people who think of lou reed as some guy who had one memorable ditty (walk on the wild side) once upon a time, like he was david essex or something.

This is me, pretty much. I've never cared for classic rock or punk rock, so I couldn't really name any other song by the dude than "Walk on the Wild Side" (which I prefer as the Finnish-language cover version done by the great jazz/pop singer Lasse Mårtenson) and "Perfect Day" (which I wouldn't know if it wasn't for Trainspotting). I'm not trying to be willfully ignorant, and I recognize that a lot of people were influenced by Reed, but IMO in the year 2013 his legacy is so far in the past, and/or heard in such marginal genres, that even someone quite knowledgable in pop music might not know him for anything else than those two hits, unless he was specifically into the specific subgenres of rock where he might still be valued highly.

That said, I've nothing against the dude, just wanted to point out that people who know him for only one or two tunes aren't necessarily ignorant. RIP.

p

wow tell us more about not liking rock music tuomas never heard that before what a fascinating posting style keep up
the good work

Haha, from that interview story:

"Don't mention David Bowie's album," his publicist warned, half-jokingly, as the interviewer before me left. "The last guy who did that got the wrong side of Lou."

When I was kid all I knew about Lou Reed was this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2JXy1Z9ovs

Does Perfect Day ever get performed on X Factor or similar shows?

Tuomas only mourns true musical visionaries and legends:

Scatman John: C/D?

well lotsa ppl just like horrible contemporary pop

Tuomas only mourns true musical visionaries and legends:

Scatman John: C/D?

I had no idea the amount you mourn a musician should be proportionate to his historical importance. It's sad that both of them died, but Scatman John's dead made me sadder than Lou Reed's, because his music meant more to me personally, and because he was only in his 50s when he died.

Thread taking inevitable turn here