Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

Tragic. I sold my house in Petworth and moved out on the day before the great storm. Tree smashed through the roof, fortunately not injuring the new owners.

 

On my playlists right now:

Abba, Bobby Darin, Def Leppard, REM, Queen, Black Sabbath, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, The Kinks, The Verve, The Who, Rolling Stones, Guns n Roses, Pearl Jam, Michael Jackson, Jackson 5, SClub 7(lol) Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Nine Inch Nails, Suede, Oasis, Blur, Placebo, Fleetwood Mac, Eminem, Tupac, Iron Maiden, Bob Dylan, Bob marley, Amy Winehous, Greenday, Elvis (presley and Costello) AC/DC Led Zeppelin The Police, Billy Joel.

and lots more.

 

Sounds pretty broad to me .

I had not heard of warren Zevon until after he died .

You cannot expect everyone to have heard of every Great musician ( LR was great IMHO but probably not for others ) .

 

Wow. My apologies. So your not a child after all.

 

You're.

 

I checked out those youtube links though. Maybe my daughter will like them.

 

Concrete post and boards with slide in panels are a must. Forget wooden posts. Buy cheap buy thrice as they say.

 

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Thank you and you are of course quite correct.

I stopped being a pedant a while ago as I discovered that people very quickly start to dislike you and can become quite rude and I wouldn't like to be like that with you.

 

That's a great playlist and makes it all the more remarkable that you'd never heard of Lou Reed. As I said, I wasn't having a pop, it just seems very odd that one of the stalwarts of an era you clearly like somehow completely passed you by?

 

It is weird.

 

Did you not know the songs Perfect Day or Walk On The Wild Side? That would also be weird and lead me to suspect shenanigans....!

 

you may not have heard of Lou Reed but you must have heard of The Velvet Underground?

 

Lou Reed, the songwriter and guitarist who co-founded the Velvet Underground, has died aged 71. Over a career spanning almost 50 years, he became one of the most influential musicians in rock history.

Reed died in Southampton, New York, of an ailment related to a liver transplant he had in May, according to Andrew Wylie, his literary agent, who added that Reed had been in poor health for months.

Iggy Pop, the singer-songwriter, said it was “devastating news”, and John Cale, who co-founded the Velvet Underground with Reed, tweeted: “The world has lost a fine songwriter and poet. I’ve lost my school-yard buddy.”

As lead singer and songwriter of the Velvet Underground, Reed was one of the original voices of rock. He was also a solo artist renowned for Walk on the Wild Side and Perfect Day.

His songs addressed domestic abuse, sexuality, drug addiction, adultery, prostitution and suicide, but with the performance artist Laurie Anderson he formed one of the longest and strongest relationships in music. They were together for 21 years and married for five.

She nursed him through his liver transplant, necessitated by his long-term drug and alcohol addictions. At the time she said: “I don’t think he’ll ever totally recover from this.”

Reed was never satisfied producing music that pleased the critics. Although he achieved success with Transformer, he followed this with Metal Machine Music, described by one critic as “over an hour of screaming, steady-state electronic noise”.

Reed’s work evoked his fascination and struggle with drugs and alcohol. Heroin, written in 1964 and released with the Velvet Underground in 1967, featured the line: “Heroin, be the death of me/Heroin, it’s my wife and it’s my life.”

In 1973, Reed told Lester Bangs, a journalist: “I’m getting tired of liquor because there’s just nothing strong enough.”

Of his drug taking, he said: “I take drugs just because, in the 20th century, in a technological age living in the city, there are certain drugs you have to take just to keep yourself normal like a caveman.”

His hatred of journalists did not stop critics venerating Reed’s songs, including I’ll Be Your Mirror, Jesus and Perfect Day.

Born in Brooklyn in 1942, Reed received electro-convulsive therapy as a teenager to “cure” his bisexuality. One of his closest professional relationships was with Andy Warhol, the pop artist and Velvet Underground manager. In later years, Reed continued to divide the critics. When he produced a double album with Metallica, Quietus, a music website, called it “a candidate for one of the worst albums ever made”.

“Who cares?” Reed snapped, when critics were mentioned. “I never wrote for them then, I don’t write for them now. I write for me.”

 

Know of the songs. Didn't know who they were by.

 

I loved Placebo's first album. I was so dissapointed when I bought the follow up.

 

They covered the song **** You by Archive - one of the most strangely unrecognised bands in the UK, despite huge success across Europe.

 

Cheick Tiote given 7 month suspended prison sentence for possessing a fake driving license.

 

Did I hear he bought a fake one in Belgium..?

 

Yep, he paid just under £13k for it.