RIP Lou Reed

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

Always partial to this live set:

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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...

 

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

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

 

And, Pontif, how are you?

 

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/

 

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?