Lou Reed RIP
 

Just saw this on twitter don't have confirmation but seems to be legit.

yep :(
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...at-71-20131027

edit: CNN and BBC don't even seem to have a story at the moment though... which is a bit weird 40 minutes after the RS report.

:(

gonna listen to Berlin.

Gutted. There's a tendency when such and such a musician dies to overblow what they did for music. However, it really can be said that Lou Reed helped change music in a massive way and for the better at that.
Even if you don't like his music, you have to respect that he did what he wanted and how he wanted without ever compromising the music. R.I.P you miserable arse. Oh and Metal Machine Music ruled.

RIP

Search for "Lou Reed" in the forum and you'll read a lot of negative stuff. Now don't you feel like an asshole?

fuck, i just read it 15 minutes ago. SUCKS.

whoever wrote bad shit about that guy can gnaw the rotten skull of ronald reagan in his grave

Just been listening to some velvet underground.
The last section of I'm Sticking With You is so so beautiful.

i'm without words...this is very sad. my favourite velvet gonne, but not his music.
rip Mr Reed.
see you sister ray.

Hes sucking on that ding dong in heaven now

Lou made it ok to suck the cock of the football coach. For that alone I'm grateful he existed.

i just listened to the whole of transformer and it put me in the best of moods

---

Goodnight ladies
ladies goodnight
It's time to say
goodbye, let me tell you, now

Goodnight ladies
ladies goodnight
It's time to say
goodbye

Now, all night long
you've been drinking your tequilla
But now you've sucked
your lemon peel dry, so why not get high, high, high and
Goodnight ladies
ladies goodnight

Goodnight ladies
ah, ladies goodnight
It's time to say
goodbye

Goodnight sweet ladies
ah, ladies goodnight
It's time to say
goodbye, bye-bye

Ah, we've been together
for the longest time
But now it's time to get high
come on, let's get high, high, high
And goodnight ladies
ladies goodnight

Oh, I'm still missing my other half
oh, it must be something I did in the past
Don't it just make you wanna laugh
it's a lonely Saturday night

Oh, nobody calls me on the telephone
I put another record on my stereo
But I'm still singing a song of you
it's a lonely Saturday night

Now, if I was an actor
or a dancer who is glamorous
then, you know, amorous life would soon be mine
But now the tinsel light of star break
is all that's left to applaud my heart break
and eleven o'clock I watch the network news

Oh, woh, woh, something tells me that you're really gone
you said we could be friends
but that's not what's not what I want
Ah, anyway, my TV-dinner's almost done
it's a lonely Saturday night
I mean to tell you, it's a lonely Saturday night
One more word, it's a lonely Saturday night

What a bummer. He surely was an icon among the icons.

holy fuck what the fuck

Seriously, do a search "Lou Reed" on the forum. It's really interesting.

this just really bums me out. VU was huge to me. Huge. Like that represent this whole era of my life. Ugh. So sad.

What's the first song he'll play with Sterling in heaven? I'm guessing "Rock n' Roll."

This is really damn sad...

fav band. man

Wait what? Tony Iommi survived Uncle Lou? Lord have His mercy! :(

R.I.P. I think there will be nomore VU-reunions.

if there's a heaven im not sure lou is goin there...

I had read that Laurie had canceled her appearance with the Kronos Quartet in Austin earlier this month.

Maybe Lou's condition was the reason?

“LOU REED, 71″ by Byron Coley

LOU REED, 71

the easiest heroes are consistent
but the ones who really shape us
are random maniacs
whose work we stumble across
at times in our lives
we desperately need misdirection

and so it was i met the music of lou reed
through a guy named buzz
who’d bought the first velvets album
but didn’t like it
just the way he hadn’t liked the first mothers album
a month earlier
which meant i got each for a buck

there is literally no way to describe
the way that record hit me
i was a ten year old seventh grader
and the first time i played the album
i was transformed into someone else
someone who knew more than my contemporaries
even if i couldn’t quite shake it all out

lou and john and sterling and moe
gave me much more info
than i could understand
but they did it in a way
i loved so intuitively
with music exploding in such amazing directions
it made sense on a molecular level

and through the years i followed lou
good scenes, bad scenes, he put us through it all
but we kinda paid attention
because, after all
this motherfucker
this lou reed

this electroshocked cocksucking bastard
who put out many more lousy records than good
was the father of everyone i’ve ever known
and i never thought he’d die
and i really miss him

more than i ever thought i would

— Byron Coley

"the velvet underground was the first band ever that was fresh to death" -kanye west (not really but he should've said that)

RIP

Glad I saw him perform at least once. VU will always be one of my favourite bands.

rip louis ck

Dedicated to Uncle Lou, I think this tune best fits the somberness of the occasion. This is the DEFINITIVE version, nothing touches it, epically good, especially the bridge..

Berlin from American Poet live recording 1972.. this is my fucking favorite.

I'm real miserable at the mo, real fucking miserable. what a god he was.

too busy sucking on my ding dong

still feels unreal and then sad again.

I don't get it, Rob. Is that supposed to be funny? If so, then why am I so pissed off?

I didn't make it. I thought it was hilarious, playing off of the "squares" severe lack of actual info about the underground freaks who create the culture they (the "squares") happen to live in.

Like the fucks who wear sonic youth t shirts because sonic youth are a known "cool" thing, but who know fucking jack shit about the music, and the band.

Yeah, I figured you didn't make it.

I guess I was wondering if you were saying, "Whoever made this should be hung and anyone who buys it should be shot!!" Or if was more like, "Let's laugh at idiots." You answered my question. It was the latter.

I was once on the piss with a friend of mine around town. We stopped off at a cash machine, whilst there there was a group of people stood near by. One of them had a Goo t-shirt on. Me being drunk I ambled over to talk to them about it. When I asked if he liked Sonic Youth he just looked at me blankly and said "wut". That was it, I just went nuts, not embarrassingly nuts but enough to call him a "fucking poser" and so on. Anyway that's my story. GOODNIGHT! Oh and don't be a lameass and wear band t-shirts if you have no idea who they are.

When I was in highschool my gutter punk friend and I would annihilate posers by (in a seemingly friendly way) approaching folks in various band t-shirts or with band patches on their backpacks and asking them, "Did you go to the show last week/month at such-and-such.." or "isn't such-and-such a fucking kick ass record.." and they would be baffled because they didn't even know the band on their t-shirt was playing last week. Then we'd just walk away, leaving them feeling like a shallow poser without even having to directly call them out.

I think Lou Reed wold have thought it was funny, although it was very hard to tell whether Lou enjoyed humor. it is one thing to be funny, and another to enjoy laughing at oneself.

He's on the front of this weeks Village Voice

http://www.villagevoice.com/flipbook...-2013-4435631/