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"

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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.

"New York" is the most boring album he ever put out imo.

it's so weird how overlooked his first album is

Agree with both of these last two

New York" is the most boring album he ever put out imo.

― Scottish Country Tweerking (Tom D.),

until 1992

"New York" vs "I Love You Suzanne"

xp hmm maybe perfect isn't the best word, just meant to say that it's an outstanding album and the solo reed I've listened to the most

I like most of his stuff anyway

New Sensations is an OK album

i have always enjoyed listening to new york. that is something i cannot say about a lot of albums by him. i like the journalistic aspect of it. it must be his wordiest album, he talks and talks and talks. i just love to listen to his voice. especially on take no prisoners...

It's not a bad album it's just the Lou Reed album I'm least likely to listen to.

New York starts out so incredibly strong w/the first three tracks that it can almost convince you it's a great album, but there's a lot of dross there

though i love a lot of it

New Sensations is one that I was surprised how good it was

Same. It would be in the lower reaches of a top ten. I love the opening trio, "There is No Time," and "Dime Store Mystery."

you have a higher tolerance than I do for fretless bass and I would've included Take No Prisoners for the laffs

"Lou Reed wanted to be normal" really does encapsulate him well tho

We are all normal and we want our feedback.

I've been listening to New York a lot and I really like it.

"it's so weird how overlooked his first album is"

that's because it was out of print for ages and he allegedly didn't like it.

To me the indispensibles are Transformer, Berlin, Blue Mask, New York, Magic, and Drella.

if you love those I'm p confident you'll love Set the Twilight Reeling and Ecstacy

I like Coney Island a lot, but title track is by far the best thing on it

Street Hassle I only put on for the title track

I listen to my (imaginary) Lulu EP every once in a while, it goes:

1. "Brandenburg Gate"
2. "The View"
3. "Iced Honey"
4. "Junior Dad"

"dragon" or gtfo

alfred's convinced me i need to spend more time with new sensations

yeah and that's totally fair it's perhaps an underrated record, just personally, and I know it's nagl to second guess other peoples' taste, but I think you shouldn't need to pretend it's the best Lou Reed album to convince people to revisit it

I know some of you love that 80s production and so yes if that's your favorite sound then OK maybe somehow New Sensation becomes the best Lou Reed album but I think most Lou Reed fans, it's not their fav sound and not what they go to Lou Reed for

will have to give Dragon another listen...

I love it in spite of the production. These are the songs Lou Reed should've been writing in 1984, extensions of what he attempted on The Blue Mask.

idk every Lou fan I know loves NS.

I don't think I've ever actually listened to the entire thing tbh

The outro of "New Sensations" kills me. It honors the terrific line, "I want the principles of a timeless muse."

idk every Lou fan I know loves NS.

"Hey bro' what's the woyd, talkin' 'bout my friend Geo-eo-eo-rge"

shit he died again!?

rip

5 years today.

Miss u boo

been listening to those 1970 demos he did after leaving the Velvets a lot over the last couple of weeks
also this clip of him talking about hearing the Ramones for the first time in 1975 is great (starts at 1:20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-f2rz2G9AI

That is fantastic!

love Lou's line there: "They are their own dream."

He was at his best talking about music, for sure.

where’s the Will Hermes bio?

I saw on a social media site that Will Hermes mentioned spending time in November at a secluded writers retreat place. Maybe we can presume he was working on the book. He’s still writing for Rolling Stone on occasion.

There’s a book out now that consists of Lou Reed interviews from the 1970s and later, called My Week Beats Your Year

https://hatandbeard.com/products/my-week-beats-your-year-encounters-with-lou-reed

I was at this residency with Will and we roadtripped to Liberty University (!) together for a bizarre tour.

I shld clarify that this was *last* November and he was still working on it.

8 years gone today.

It doesn’t feel like that long ago!

There's a bit of magic in everything
and then some loss to even things out

Love this from 2009 with Laurie A and John Zorn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUr8oRfG1AM

I remember it like it was … several years ago.

It kinda feels about 8 years ago tbh

Yep

Weird, I didn't even know the anniversary was coming up and got a compulsion to listen to New York last night. And then the Blue Mask.

Was there ever a source for the Donald Fagen/Lou Reed story other than the comments section of Alex in NYC's blog?

Hmm. Upon further inspection, hat post seems legit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dok5uv9HrT8

In fine form here, even between songs. Fucking nuts version of Street Hassle here.

New Sensations!

his post "wild side"/pre "street hassle" remarks in the video lamanti posted three weeks ago are honestly profound

this might get interesting
https://loureed.bandcamp.com/album/the-power-of-the-heart-a-tribute-to-lou-reed