Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader and Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71

Soot and Stars · Oct 28, 2013

METALPRIEST said:
Maybe this will be the boost for many people to buy it now

I really would hope that people don't change their minds on it all of a sudden. It's just opinions after all and a sincere dislike is way better than changing your mind because of death. I just think it's too bad he didn't end on a high note doing the elder statesmen role with a young(er) band like Johnny Cash did. Johnny went out on top and left musically with very vital powerful albums with the same limitations of age that Lou had. Johnny just happened to have a great mind in Rick Rubin to help him at the end. I can see why Lou and Metallica was more of a failed attempt but I still think peoples hatred of everything new Metallica does really put an otherwise interesting experiment into a greatly exaggerated context as far as how bad it really was.

METALPRIEST · Oct 28, 2013

Can't disagree with ya

Tray73 · Oct 28, 2013

Was shocked and saddened when I saw this on the news yesterday. R.I.P. Lou.

Music Wench · Oct 28, 2013

R.I.P. Lou Reed. He was one of the reasons I really wanted to go to college in NYC. I remember thinking how cool it would be to run into Lou Reed. Sad news indeed.

TheSound · Oct 28, 2013

I think 'Lulu' is still one of the very few albums in my life that I was fully intending to get... but then I decided not to based purely on critics reviews, as it was so universally/unanimously slated as being a disaster, and so I figured that they couldn't possibly all be wrong. And I still haven't heard it, so yes, him dying doesn't change anything, though inevitably for some reason back catalogue sales do pick up when an artist of any standing and repuation dies.

WinstonLennon · Oct 28, 2013

Still my favourite

Rest in peace dear lou,
soon i'll be with you.
Until the coming of that day,
we'll remind you everyday.

Riff Raff · Oct 28, 2013

METALPRIEST said:
Maybe this will be the boost for many people to buy it now

It would be a silly reason to buy it especially if they still hate the album like tons of people do including myself. I remember Lou Reed for all the good music he did in his solo career and Velvet Underground. That is what he should be remembered for.

TheSound · Oct 29, 2013

Got kinda nostalgic for Lou yesterday, and I dug out his 'New York' album, partly I suppose because I now live here and he was so synonymous with NYC his whole life, and I'd forgotten he did this typically descriptive track, which is also appropriate at this time of year...

'Halloween Parade'

mrJim · Oct 30, 2013

TheSound said:
Got kinda nostalgic for Lou yesterday, and I dug out his 'New York' album, partly I suppose because I now live here and he was so synonymous with NYC his whole life, and I'd forgotten he did this typically descriptive track, which is also appropriate at this time of year...

'Halloween Parade'

Great Album too, I listen to it farily regularly.Awesome

Aktivator · Oct 30, 2013

RIP Sweet Lou

I've been playing VU and Lou Reed solo albums for the past two days.
I remember moving into NYC in the summer of 1987 and going out for late night walks in Tribeca playing Transformer on my sony walkman. Boy has the neighborhood changed back then it was a walk on the wild side.

I first saw Lou at the Bottom Line in June of 1980. I guess it was recorded

Lou Reed-Vicious Bottom Line, NYC 1980

First song I thought of when I heard the news was this gem:
VU-Pale Blue Eyes

Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader and Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71

Soot and Stars

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