Lou Reed has passed away. I am not happy.
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The Velvet Underground was one of my favorite R&R bands of all time.
I have all of their albums.
And his album, “Berlin,” was one of my all-time most beloved “dark” R&R classics.
RIP, Lou.
What an amazing life.
Wow. His live album from NYC was a big part of my soundtrack in the late 70s and early 80s. He had many desciples and imitators but none as authentic as he.
“Viscious” was so good I named a badass Alpha hampster who thought he could boss me around after it. Believe it or not that actually made sense and was a proper tribute — or so it seemed at the time. 🙂
Lou first appeared to me with his collaboration with Metallica, entitled Lulu. As a big-time Metallica fan, I gave it a listen, but I’m not sure what he and the band were intending because it was awful.
Still, it’s a sad day. RIP.
I guess that with many artists some stuff works and some does not. I’ve never been much of a follower of his. But 71 is really young. RIP.
You need to listen to the Velvet Underground. The Metallica stuff is not representative.
RIP. A dark and unique voice.
“Give me your poor, your tired, your hungry, I’ll piss on them”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z3TPwOT31g
[BooMan, how do you post videos? I copied the youtube embed code and couldn’t post it here]
Click on Embed and use that one.
Looks like part of the embed code is missing for that one.
The video isn’t standard size, and it won’t give the native code to embed. 🙁
“That’s what the Statue of Bigotry says.”
Damn. We’re getting to that point where probably in the next decade or so we’re going to lose a lot of what’s left of the old-line 60’s/70’s rockers. Very weird to stand witness to the end of classic rock.
RIP Lou. You achieved the dream of all artists: you made your great truth an indelible part of our culture
I was in my teens when I would have first heard of Lou Reed and his earlier band, VU. Once I got familiarized with those classic recordings, much of what I was listening to right around the turn of the 1980s made so much more sense. There was a period between the late 1960s and early 1980s where pop musicians were willing to explore what the avant-garde had to offer, and Lou Reed was right at the ground floor of that movement.
Not everything that Lou Reed recorded clicked with me, but if nothing else, I could almost always appreciate the direction he was trying to take. RIP.
And here’s Lou Reed’s take down of the right-wing political machine:
Sex with your Parents:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7SxQIkH8Mk
Total domination.
My first concert was Lou Reed on the New York tour–that was pretty awesome. I think I listened to Loaded about 10,000 times when I was in college. Hard to believe that he’s gone.
What’s that sound, velvet underground
I am heartbroken.
It hurts, it really really hurts.
“How in the world were they making that sound/ velvet underground…”
Godspeed Lou…
The NYT’s obit has no balls.
There is no real effort to understand what Lou Reed means. What he meant to the City. How big his footprint is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AA2tq6u7T0
A great dub of a classic.