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Post by kingstokie on Oct 27, 2013 17:53:19 GMT
Can't believe it. aged 71.
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Post by harryburrows on Oct 27, 2013 18:08:19 GMT
A true legend R.I.P. LOU
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Post by NG4POTTERS on Oct 27, 2013 18:28:02 GMT
Absolutely gutted. The music he made, with the velvets in particular has had a massive impact and influence on my life. A 15 year old kid smoking a bit of dope and feeling my way into rock culture. Someone gives me two tapes. One has Stooges raw power/ Mc5 kick out the jams on it. The other had Ramones ramones/ Velvet underground and nico. Safe to say those two tapes sent me on a journey that i'm still on today. Bless you lou reed. R.I.P you fantastic man.
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Post by Okie Stokie. on Oct 27, 2013 18:41:02 GMT
R.I.P. Lou Reed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2013 18:53:47 GMT
Very very sad news. Lou was a fantastic man, great singer and songwriter....a legend.
RIP Lou
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2013 18:57:16 GMT
RIP Lou... P.S...Why didn't JoinOz tell us this news...Can someone pop round and see if he is OK.
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Post by harryburrows on Oct 27, 2013 19:01:15 GMT
RIP Lou... P.S...Why didn't JoinOz tell us this news...Can someone pop round and see if he is OK. Still in bed
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2013 19:03:08 GMT
RIP Lou... P.S...Why didn't JoinOz tell us this news...Can someone pop round and see if he is OK. Still in bed Jo will be gutted. Not that Lou Reed has passed away, but that he didn't break the news.
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Post by harryburrows on Oct 27, 2013 19:05:06 GMT
Jo will be gutted. Not that Lou Reed has passed away, but that he didn't break the news. You snooze you loose
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Post by Paul Spencer on Oct 27, 2013 19:06:55 GMT
Very sad news.
'And Nico' is probably my all time favourite album.
You'll be missed Lou.
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Post by harrysburrow on Oct 27, 2013 19:21:14 GMT
RIP.
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Post by steino72 on Oct 27, 2013 19:27:48 GMT
RIP - Ledge, saw him for his ecstasy album, which was a let down, but he made superb music with Nico, John Cale et al...
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Post by jonah77 on Oct 27, 2013 20:12:06 GMT
RIP.He did some incredibly original and ground breaking stuff.
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Post by lastoftheldk on Oct 27, 2013 21:49:08 GMT
RIP
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Post by NG4POTTERS on Oct 27, 2013 22:17:28 GMT
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Post by ukcstokie on Oct 28, 2013 0:23:03 GMT
New York is a brilliant album. RIP
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Post by dutchstokie on Oct 28, 2013 6:59:53 GMT
Only ever saw him once in 87 supporting U2 at Wembley on The Joushua Tree tour but what a performance.......arguably as good as U2
RIP a legend
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Post by starkiller on Oct 28, 2013 8:01:30 GMT
The current state of music is appalling.
Nothing to replace the true musical pioneers like Reed when they're gone.
In the next 10 years we're going to be losing a lot of them.
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Post by ukcstokie on Oct 28, 2013 8:40:26 GMT
I was up in the morning with the TV blarin' brush my teeth sittin' watchin' the news All the beaches were closed the ocean was a Red Sea but there was no one there to part it in two There was no fresh salad 'cause there's hypos in the cabbage Staten Island disappeared at noon And they say the Midwest is in great distress and NASA blew up the moon
The ozone layer has no ozone anymore and you're gonna leave me for the guy next door I'm sick of you I'm sick of you
They arrested the mayor for an illegal favor sold the Empire State to Japan And Oliver North married William Secord and gave birth to a little Teheran And the Ayatollah bought a nuclear warship if he dies he wants to go out in style And there's nothing to eat that don't carry the stink of some human waste dumped in the Nile
Well one thing is certainly true no one here knows what to do And I'm sick of you I'm sick of you
The radio said there were 400 dead in some small town in Arkansas Some whacked out trucker drove into a nuclear reactor and killed everybody he saw Now he's on Morton Downey and he's glowing and shining doctors say this is a medical advance They say the bad makes the good and there's something to be learned in every human experience
Well I know one thing that really is true this here's a zoo and the keeper ain't you And I'm sick of it I'm sick of you
They ordained the Trumps and then he got the mumps and died being treated at Mt. Sinai And my best friend Bill died from a poison pill some wired doctor prescribed for stress My arms and legs are shrunk, the food all has lumps they discovered some animal no one's ever seen It was an inside trader eating a rubber tire after running over Rudy Giuliani
They say the president's dead, no one can find his head it's been missing now for weeks But no one noticed it, he had seemed so fit and I'm Sick of it
I'm sick of you I'm so sick of you bye-bye-bye
Bye, bye, bye
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Post by albertcamel on Oct 28, 2013 9:40:10 GMT
A Sad Day
Agree with Roots comments. Lou Reed, the Velvet Underground and NIco were part of the soundtrack of my youth and opened up an appreciation of punk, New York new wave and the UK post punk bands.
The Velvets are one of the most influential bands ever. Lou was a great song writer but his guitar playing is often overlooked. The songs are very simple and beautiful but with dark lyrics about drug abuse and the seedier side of New York.
All the VU albums are brilliant and I particularly like Transformer, Berlin (not an easy listen) and Coney Island Baby.
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Post by albertcamel on Oct 28, 2013 10:01:26 GMT
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Post by redstriper on Oct 28, 2013 10:11:16 GMT
RIP... not a perfect day. He's going even further underground now...
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Post by JoeinOz on Oct 28, 2013 11:18:49 GMT
RIP Lou
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2013 14:07:41 GMT
Hey Joe. You gave us all quite a scare there when some imposter broke the news, we were quite worried about you, in fact I was gonna send Skippy round to check on you..." He's down a mine shaft"...........
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2013 4:19:21 GMT
I'm really pissed off with this news. Any artist would sell their souls to create albums like "New York" or "Songs for 'Drella", but this is a tiny fraction of his catalogue. Lou was totally relevant from the sixties until his death. The cultural earthquake that was initiated by The Velvet Underground cannot be over emphasised. So much great work and totally his own man throughout. A truly great American.
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Post by iglugluk on Oct 29, 2013 13:40:09 GMT
RIP to a great musical artist. Good on him for living a full life.
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