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RIP Lou Reed

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Gator, Oct 27, 2013.

  1. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Lou Reed was great, and very influential. And yet, I think he's also overrated.
     
  2. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    A1 of the NYT tomorrow or not?
     
  3. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    Hardcore New York legend. I'd be very surprised if it isn't on A1.
     
  4. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    Give me an issue, I'll give you a tissue. You can wipe my ass with it.

    Great lyric. Great advice. I've kinda lived by it.

    RIP, Louuuuuuuuuu.

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    I'd love to have watched his life ... from a safe distance.
     
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  5. Gator

    Gator Well-Known Member

    When Cate Blanchett played Bob Dylan?
     
  6. I Should Coco

    I Should Coco Well-Known Member

    RIP to someone I always considered a poet more than a musician. A damn fine poet.

    "I'm Waiting for the Man" is one of the first songs I learned to play on guitar, and its lyrics still ring true for junkies/tweakers today:

    "I'm feeling good, I'm feeling oh so fine
    Until tomorrow, but that's just some other time
    I'm waiting for my man"

    I always enjoyed his "New York" album, too ... another set of songs with stinging lyrics.
     
  7. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    I think he'll be there too. Times Twitter feed was awash in Lou Reed links today.
     
  8. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    On my way home from work in NYC one night there was a guy talking to my coworker and I about music. He says, "Yeah, I've been a Lou Reed fan all my life."

    I asked him, "What do you think was better, Berlin or Transformer?"

    He looks at me with a puzzled look and says, "Huh?"

    "Look dude, don't say you've been a Lou Reed fan your whole life, you've never heard of Berlin or Transformer, so you don't know dick about Lou Reed.

    Him: "Berlin? Transformer? Never heard of them."
     
  9. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    The person who needs to see that will unfortunately never, ever click on this thread.
     
  10. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    I never realized Laurie Anderson and Lou were married. Fascinating.

    BTW, that Rolling Stone obit is a pretty nice piece of journalism on a man who died today.
     
  11. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    RIP to a real original....take a walk on the wild side.....

    One of my all-time fave live tracks from any artists (the intro alone makes it a classic)....turn this fucker up.....

     
  12. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    He'd been sick.
     
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