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So, Lou Reed died....

Discussion in 'Swansea City' started by mikraswan, Oct 27, 2013.

  1. mikraswan

    mikraswan Well-Known Member

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    RIP


    [video=youtube;0KaWSOlASWc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KaWSOlASWc[/video]
     
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  2. neveroffsidereff

    neveroffsidereff Well-Known Member

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    Now that is sad news. RIP Lou. <rose>
     
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  3. Matthew Bound Still Lurks

    Matthew Bound Still Lurks Well-Known Member

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  4. PGFWhite

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    There's a few on this board walking on the wild side...................
     
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  5. swan_and_only

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    Gutted! The velvet underground is one of my favorite bands
     
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  6. PGFWhite

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    Do you know what velvet underground means?
     
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  7. PaGaNsWaN

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    ****! Lou Reed Died.. Awful news:emoticon-0106-cryin
     
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  8. Matthew Bound Still Lurks

    Matthew Bound Still Lurks Well-Known Member

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    No , tell me more
     
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  9. HonkyJack

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    wrote some of the sweetest music and some of the most deranged. the band name came from a book on SM. think i'll go and listen to Berlin
     
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    Honky, wasn't Berlin voted one of the worst albums of all time? Up there with Bowie's 'Tin Machine'

    Sad loss though, a true pioneer.
     
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  12. FieryJack

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    "Berlin" is an extraordinarily depressing album - but brilliant nonetheless.

    First heard the Velvet Underground as a teenager about 35 years ago.

    Absolute quality. No band has ever come close to them.

    Good to know that one of the driving forces behind their unique sound was the only non-American member: John Cale from Crynant up the Neath Valley.

    Got to see them at Wembley in '93 - but would have sold my grandma to have seen them at their peak in Boston or NYC in 1968.

    RIP Lou Reed.
     
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  13. Ffsdon'tpassittohim

    Ffsdon'tpassittohim Well-Known Member

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    Has anybody bothered to tell him though? Whoa how rad am I ?
     
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  14. FieryJack

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  16. mikraswan

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    [video=youtube;ffr0opfm6I4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffr0opfm6I4[/video]
     
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  17. mustyfrog

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    tbh the guy could not sing, he was an arrogant prick in interviews, shame he passed away but hardly an icon of music unless one was that way inclined
     
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  18. swan_and_only

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    Sorry musty couldn't disagree more! And the music should be judged on the art as a whole not just the vocals. And IMO perfect vocals would not suit the overall punk DIY sound the velvet's had. If it's not for you that's fine, but the band's that was influenced by then IMO are the greatest bands off the 70s, 80,s 90,s and 00!
     
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  19. HonkyJack

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    Reed may not have been the most tolerant of interviewees, he certainly didn't suffer fools. however his musical legacy can't be doubted. i love the quote of eno's that only 30,000 people may have bought the Velvets first album, however everyone that did formed a band.
     
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  20. FieryJack

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    http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...a=X&ei=odRvUvWBDcPwhQfxw4HABA&ved=0CDQQ9QEwAg

    Agree with that, swan and only.

    Vocally, Reed was pretty limited, but his voice is perfect for the songs he wrote.

    The acidic, sarcastic drawl of the vocal on "Waiting for the Man" is one of the coolest sounding deliveries ever.

    Dylan, technically, can't sing either - but imagine how neutered and daft his songs would sound if they were re-recorded by a
    "real" singer such as Michael Bolton.

    Various "proper" singers appeared on the charity version of "Perfect Day" but none come close to the intimacy, honesty or
    melancholy of Reed's defeated voice on the original.

    True, Reed was a cnut to interview. But I guess he had good reason to be: journalists were forever slating his albums.

    Reed, when with the VU, had the bollox and vision to bring literate lyrics into rock songs and to play determinedly rowdy,
    experimental and unfashionable music that was denied radio play and commercial success.

    The bloke is giant and a legend, whose VU songs, I've no doubt, will still be listened to in a 100 years time long after today's
    tinsel & tat pop music has been forgotten.
     
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