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Topic: RIP Lou Reed or 'Good Riddance you Old b*****d' Posted: November 06 2013 at 12:08
I was listening to Lou Reed's album "Set the Twilight Reeling" (1996) last night, and this bit of lyric from the song "Trade In" struck me:
"Take me over to the window", my heart said to my head
Please set me on fire, so we can start again
I was so wrong that it's funny and I can't apologize
But instead you can be everything that I'm not, the second that I die
Just thought I'd share that. Why'd you have to die, Lou....
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Posted: November 06 2013 at 09:42
Guldbamsen wrote:
Earthmover wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:
To our neighbors:
What a beautiful fall! Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light. Water surrounding us.
Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years, and even though we’re city people this is our spiritual home.
Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital and come home to Springs. And we made it!
Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy
and dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature. He died on
Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai
chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.
Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain
and beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible joy he
felt for life. Long live the beauty that comes down and through and
onto all of us.
— Laurie Anderson his loving wife and eternal friend
would you like to read my "Berlin" album review which i wrote for the student paper?
that almost made me cry
Well it made me shed a tear or two. Very beautiful and thoughtful writing of Laurie, and she is, of course, so right that it hurts.
I'm not sure this piece of "news" has yet fully crystallised in my head.... He seems right there, when I pop on Transformer or Berlin or some Velvet Underground. I guess Lou will always be here with me in some form or another.
Used up a lot of my weekend talking to my old friend about music in general and got to talking about our good friend Lou. We were and still are so big fans of his that his recent passing almost feels unfathomable. Here's a guy that you've never met in your life, yet still he's had a remarkable influence on your youth, your musical adventures and just the way he wrapped his lips around words was also something of a revelation to a young and impressionable David.
I'm not sure what else to say, other than I love his music and words.
would you like to read my "Berlin" album review which i wrote for the student paper?
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Posted: November 05 2013 at 17:38
Metalmarsh89 wrote:
moshkito wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:
I don't like his music, but the guy definitely had a large influence on the rock n' roll, so he definitely gets my respect for that. Good to know all musicians don't die at 27.
Just get the album "Rock'n'Roll Animal", and then you can see that those lyrics are not fake pop music crap. And that is the main difference, between work like this and just flighty old pop crap that so many "progressive" bands love to use!
I have tried, and occasionally continue to do so, though not with that album. I do have his recent album "Lulu", and I don't disagree with you about his lyrics. The album is a neat idea and executed well, but his voice hurts my head somewhere on the inside.
Rock n Roll Animal is probably one of the more accessible Reed albums and the guitarists on it eventually ended up with Alice Cooper a few years later. It's my personal favorite though I also like Transformer quite a bit which is accesible imo.
But even so Reed and VU can be acquired tastes and not everyone's cup of tea.
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Posted: November 05 2013 at 12:04
moshkito wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:
I don't like his music, but the guy definitely had a large influence on the rock n' roll, so he definitely gets my respect for that. Good to know all musicians don't die at 27.
Just get the album "Rock'n'Roll Animal", and then you can see that those lyrics are not fake pop music crap. And that is the main difference, between work like this and just flighty old pop crap that so many "progressive" bands love to use!
I have tried, and occasionally continue to do so, though not with that album. I do have his recent album "Lulu", and I don't disagree with you about his lyrics. The album is a neat idea and executed well, but his voice hurts my head somewhere on the inside.
What a beautiful fall! Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light. Water surrounding us.
Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years, and even though we’re city people this is our spiritual home.
Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital and come home to Springs. And we made it!
Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy
and dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature. He died on
Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai
chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.
Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain
and beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible joy he
felt for life. Long live the beauty that comes down and through and
onto all of us.
— Laurie Anderson his loving wife and eternal friend
that almost made me cry
Well it made me shed a tear or two. Very beautiful and thoughtful writing of Laurie, and she is, of course, so right that it hurts.
I'm not sure this piece of "news" has yet fully crystallised in my head.... He seems right there, when I pop on Transformer or Berlin or some Velvet Underground. I guess Lou will always be here with me in some form or another.
Used up a lot of my weekend talking to my old friend about music in general and got to talking about our good friend Lou. We were and still are so big fans of his that his recent passing almost feels unfathomable. Here's a guy that you've never met in your life, yet still he's had a remarkable influence on your youth, your musical adventures and just the way he wrapped his lips around words was also something of a revelation to a young and impressionable David.
I'm not sure what else to say, other than I love his music and words.
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Posted: November 05 2013 at 07:44
i saw a really nice docu of Lou Reed on NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Channel), interviews with people who were close to him artisticly and privatly and comercially
also this one is very good portrait of him in a section of his carear
Have been a Lou Reed fan for as long as I can remember.....he was brought up in my hometown, just a few blocks away. Yeah, LR was an a****le, but he was honest. If you came across as pretentious, he'd tell you in no uncertain terms. I'll miss his music....a new LR album was always an event, something to run to the record store for. Even Lulu has its moments, but I put on Ecstasy when I heard of his death....just a great album of Lou doing what he does best.....Rock Minuet and Like a Possum were revelations!
f**k, I wish Lou was still around.
I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
What a beautiful fall! Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light. Water surrounding us.
Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years, and even though we’re city people this is our spiritual home.
Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital and come home to Springs. And we made it!
Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy
and dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature. He died on
Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai
chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.
Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain
and beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible joy he
felt for life. Long live the beauty that comes down and through and
onto all of us.
— Laurie Anderson his loving wife and eternal friend
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Posted: November 02 2013 at 15:16
Metalmarsh89 wrote:
I don't like his music, but the guy definitely had a large influence on the rock n' roll, so he definitely gets my respect for that. Good to know all musicians don't die at 27.
Just get the album "Rock'n'Roll Animal", and then you can see that those lyrics are not fake pop music crap. And that is the main difference, between work like this and just flighty old pop crap that so many "progressive" bands love to use!
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Posted: November 01 2013 at 05:31
To our neighbors:
What a beautiful fall! Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light. Water surrounding us.
Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years, and even though we’re city people this is our spiritual home.
Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital and come home to Springs. And we made it!
Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy
and dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature. He died on
Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai
chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.
Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain
and beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible joy he
felt for life. Long live the beauty that comes down and through and
onto all of us.
— Laurie Anderson his loving wife and eternal friend
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted: October 30 2013 at 00:07
I don't like his music, but the guy definitely had a large influence on the rock n' roll, so he definitely gets my respect for that. Good to know all musicians don't die at 27.
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Posted: October 29 2013 at 19:09
If nothing else changing the title to "Good Riddance..." got me to read it! I rarely look at the RIP threads.
I'm not a fan of Lou's but I do recognize and appreciate his contributions to the DIY aspect of music. VU proved that you don't have to be a stellar musician to make an impact.
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