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RIP Lou Reed

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

  1. albert77

    albert77 Well-Known Member

    Wasn't a huge Lou Reed fan, but I liked his better stuff, and I really liked the New York album, especially Dirty Blvd.

    The line in there about, "give me your tired, your poor, I'll piss on 'em. That's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor, huddled masses, let's club 'em to death, get it over with, and dump 'em on the boulevard," is classic Lou.

    RIP to a true original. I feel like another part of my youth is gone.
     
  2. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    I'd really like to sit through all of Lou Reed's albums, from The Velvet Underground and Nico through Lulu, at once.

    I never will, to be honest, and it would take at least two days, but it'd be rather interesting.
     
  3. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    I would think Metal Machine Music and Songs For Lulu would seriously test your resolve.
     
  4. Joe Williams

    Joe Williams Well-Known Member

    Always partial to this live set:

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  5. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    Critically, he has worse.

    I'm listening to New York all the way through right now on YouTube (http://bit.ly/1dBMOdp), and it's fantastic. I don't think I've listened to this in full ever, though I certainly remember a bunch of the songs. It's dated in a way that The Velvet Underground's stuff isn't, but the music is great.
     
  6. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    Tonight, I listened to Transformer, Berlin, Coney Island Baby and New York. Berlin still is my favorite. It's like Closer or Disintegration on the sad scale, but grittier and meaner.
     
  7. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    I was one of those who bought it and didn't form a band, but still a great album . ..
     
  8. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    And the colored girls say
    "Doo do doo do doo do do doo ..."

    One of my favorite singers ever... "Perfect Day" is one of those songs that just gives me chills every time I hear it... Such a great song...

    RIP...
     
  9. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    "Good Evening Mr. Waldheim" is always a blast.

    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=66qe76gkCxo
     
  10. joe

    joe Active Member

    And, Pontif, how are you?
     
  11. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    This is pretty cool, Herbie Flowers on the creation of the iconic bass line in "Walk on the Wild Side":

    http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2013/10/28/herbie-flowers-the-story-behind-lou-reeds-walk-on-the-wild-side-bass-line/
     
  12. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    So here's Reed with Leon Wilkeson, Ronnie Van Zant and Leslie West in 1974. Who'd have thought the fat guy would be the last one living from that group?

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