Joker Posted October 27, 2013 Posted October 27, 2013 Took a walk on the wild side.... May he rest in peace.
Chuck Most Posted October 28, 2013 Posted October 28, 2013 Hate hearing stuff like this. And for the record, I guess I should point out I'm one of the five people in the world who liked Metal Machine Music.
Harry P. Posted October 28, 2013 Author Posted October 28, 2013 Hate hearing stuff like this. And for the record, I guess I should point out I'm one of the five people in the world who liked Metal Machine Music. I think there might have been fewer than that...
Chuck Most Posted October 28, 2013 Posted October 28, 2013 I think there might have been fewer than that... Hey- Lester Bangs said it best. "If you ever thought that feedback was the best thing that ever happened to the guitar, well, Lou just got rid of the guitars."
Modelbuilder Mark Posted October 28, 2013 Posted October 28, 2013 Yup, the older I get, the more people that I have heard of that seem to die.
berr13 Posted October 28, 2013 Posted October 28, 2013 Goin' right now to dig out "Rock and roll animal" and put it on...
Harry P. Posted October 30, 2013 Author Posted October 30, 2013 one hit wonder He had several "hits." Dirty Boulevard... Sweet Jane... Walk on the Wild Side...Satellite of Love... but making the charts wasn't what he was interested in.
Greg Myers Posted October 30, 2013 Posted October 30, 2013 One Hit on the chart ,Walk on the Wild Side, money talk$, if it ain't on the chart.
Harry P. Posted October 30, 2013 Author Posted October 30, 2013 One Hit on the chart ,Walk on the Wild Side, money talk$, if it ain't on the chart. There is waaaaaaaaay more to music than just what's "on the charts."
Ace-Garageguy Posted October 30, 2013 Posted October 30, 2013 Yup, the older I get, the more people that I have heard of that seem to die. Wow, isn't that an odd coincidence...I've noticed that too. How very very strange...
Greg Myers Posted October 30, 2013 Posted October 30, 2013 Yep, Metal Machine Music much more that what;s on the charts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-Vy4VRRO30
Harry P. Posted October 31, 2013 Author Posted October 31, 2013 Yep, much more that what;s on the charts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-Vy4VRRO30 I told you he wasn't interested in the Top 40!
DonW Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 One Hit on the chart ,Walk on the Wild Side, money talk$, if it ain't on the chart. Yeah, Led Zeppelin never made it either, never troubled the singles charts over here! Seriously I have a lot of time for Lou Reed's music, that's my choice. If you don't then what are you doing on this thread? RIP Lou.
Greg Myers Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 (edited) no more than an opinion like everyone else. and you can add Hendrix and Joplin (Janis ) to the list of "dang, ain't got a hit" Jim fared a little better. Edited October 31, 2013 by Greg Myers
Harry P. Posted October 31, 2013 Author Posted October 31, 2013 no more than an opinion like everyone else. and you can add Hendrix and Joplin (Janis ) to the list of "dang, ain't got a hit" Jim fared a little better. I think your self-imposed "standard" of music being worthy only if it was a "hit" is incredibly shortsighted. You have missed a lot of good music over the years if all you ever listened to was Top 40 radio. But you're free to be shortsighted, of course... BTW... I have to agree on "Metal Machine Music." I don't get it. Pure self-indulgence as far as I can see.
Greg Myers Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 My son said he was "contracted" to one more album by the studio and he gave them the Metal Machine as a protest. "Here's your album" I'm outa here.
Chillyb1 Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 I started listening to the Velvet Underground in high school, circa 1980, just a few years before their resurgence both in the indie milieu and the broader musical culture, which led to releases of "The VU" and "Another View" in 1985 and 1986, both of which were essentially unreleased outtakes and demos. I already all this stuff on a rare bootleg (a three record box called "Everything You've Ever Heard About the Velvet Underground"), so I considered myself in the avant garde. I never bought "Squeeze" because that doesn't count! Of course this led to buying all of Lou's solo records, except for the first one, oddly, which has musicians such as Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman among other anomalies. [My brother and I also collected all the recordings of the other members: Some of John Cale's were great, some not so much; Maureen Tucker recorded only sporadically and Sterling Morrison not at all, except occasionally as a guest guitarist.] I was never all that taken with most of his records except for "Lou Reed Live" and "Rock 'n' Roll Animal" with fairly frequent listens to "Transformer" and "Berlin" while "Sally Can't Dance" and "Coney Island Baby" rarely made it to the turntable. With the release of "The Blue Mask" I was almost convinced that Lou was really making a comeback. However, I became disenchanted after that and really couldn't be bothered with any of his solo stuff, with the exception of "Metal Machine Music." I have that on vinyl with the continuous runout groove on side four and picked it up on CD as soon as it was released. A friend in high school even had it on 8-track tape, which we would listen to while driving around Sandusky, Ohio, while all the squares were into REO, Journey, Foreigner, Boston, Styx, Kansas, et cetera ad nauseum. In the event, Lou Reed was a huge influence on me because of all the other music the Velvet Underground led me to. I'm still an avid music enthusiast and have over the decades have acquired a wide ranging record collection and I listen to something at almost all times when I'm awake (and occasionally even when I'm asleep).
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