R.I.P. LOU REED

[oceanbrain]

RIP LOU,THANKS FOR THE MUSIC..............................................

ME THINKS NLF COULD BE 15 MINUTES LONG ON SAT 14TH DEC INSTEAD OF THE USUAL 10 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[meh]

Lou Reed

Goodbye dear friend
Goodbye gentle heart
The shy boy in shades
Who tried to act hard
Who was brash and rude
In public
But in private wrote
‘I’ll be your mirror’
Who loved his friends
And distained his enemies,
If even that
Who took popular music
And set it past the future
There still is no one who can match
The sounds that you made
Who transcended the limitations
Of popular music and wrote
Serious art
One of the holy trinity
(Dylan and Cohen the others)
Who made popular music literate
And stood up for those who could read
‘There’s nothing worse than active ignorance’
Goethe wrote that
‘You are the shadow setting in the sun’
I wrote that
As I bid the fare-thee-well
My heart breaks again
The mean-spirited, lost
And fragile, beautiful child
Who turned the world on its head

[Crocodiles]

A old alcoholic, drug taking, washed up musician who had a few hits decades ago, had released shit solo albums and lived of the back of one hit being played over and over again is dead.

Sorry to say it Mac sounds like you are next.

[Mr. Brian]

A old alcoholic, drug taking, washed up musician who had a few hits decades ago, had released shit solo albums and lived of the back of one hit being played over and over again is dead.

Sorry to say it Mac sounds like you are next.

I suppose if we are defining someone's legacy by their number of hits and their personal life then 90% of what I like (and most others here I would expect) can be cast aside. Lou's career has been spotty and even terrible at times but his impact and influence from the brilliant stuff can't be denied.

[zoouncaged]

I suppose if we are defining someone's legacy by their number of hits and their personal life then 90% of what I like (and most others here I would expect) can be cast aside. Lou's career has been spotty and even terrible at times but his impact and influence from the brilliant stuff can't be denied.

Hear, hear.

[meh]

A old alcoholic, drug taking, washed up musician who had a few hits decades ago, had released shit solo albums and lived of the back of one hit being played over and over again is dead.

Sorry to say it Mac sounds like you are next.

i trohught this was about lou, not ian mcculloch... ha...ha

[Stuart]

"I never liked The Beatles, I never really liked any British group, I don't think the British should play rock and roll... I never took British rock and roll seriously and I still don't." (Lou Reed speaking in 1983)


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24704260

[fat cherry]

The measured, level headded and totally non-reactionary obit (OK I'm lying, its the daily mail...)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2478118/Lou-Reed-enjoyed-VERY-debauched-walk-wild-excess-caught-him.html

[Kounelaki]

Neil Gaiman in The Guardian to counterbalance the Daily Heil
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/o ... ed-sandman

[withahip]

A old alcoholic, drug taking, washed up musician who had a few hits decades ago, had released shit solo albums and lived of the back of one hit being played over and over again is dead.

Sorry to say it Mac sounds like you are next.

You overlooked the first four V.U. albums.
And Sally Can't Dance is a good album.
Transformer has a number of good songs on it.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOmZimH00oo[/youtube]

[Tenapenny]

You overlooked the first four V.U. albums.
And Sally Can't Dance is a good album.
Transformer has a number of good songs on it.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOmZimH00oo[/youtube]

You overlooked the first four EATB albums.
And Candleland is a good album.
Slideling has a number of good songs on it.

[Sick4Tunz]

"I never liked The Beatles, I never really liked any British group, I don't think the British should play rock and roll... I never took British rock and roll seriously and I still don't." (Lou Reed speaking in 1983)

He has an attitude like Mac too.