Sunday, October 27, 2013

I Think Lou Reed Is A Creep II

But now he's dead, it doesn't matter.

Listened to this just yesterday or Friday.Can't really apply causation here, but wouldn't it be neat if our watching a video/listening to a tune resulted in the almost immediate death of someone involved in the video?

As the editorial staff had no acquaintance w/ Mr. Reed (Legal name: Lewis Allen Rabinowitz.) we will relinquish the microphone to those who did:
K: Do you still think Lou Reed is a creep?
A(dny Shernoff): Well, I'm a fan of Lou Reed's. I guess he IS a creep, yeah.
And here's what Lou thought of you, fans & music consumers:Betcha can't listen all the way through. (Not that there's any reason to. Points to him for getting RCA to put it out, 'though.)

Weird Dave left this earlier (w/o context):Reed sure boxed himself in. 40+ yrs. of output & all we really care about are two evocative junk numbers from his first disc. Could have been remembered by this one, so ...We've used this title before. Other mention.

7 comments:

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

He may have been a creep but he was the hottest thing since World War Three.

Weird Dave said...

Just 'cause he was a creep doesn't mean I didn't like him.

Substance McGravitas said...

Betcha can't listen all the way through.

Hmm, what are you betting?

Unknown said...

I bought the album from the cut-out bin in 1975, took it home,and my buddy and I listened to it all the way through. We thought side three was the best, so we listened to it again. I have never listened to it again, until today.

M. Bouffant said...

Welching Editor:
Good find, B. (Had no idea.)

Rule of thumb is, artistes start sucking when they leave the band for a "solo career." Liked Berlin though.

Sorry, no betting w/ musical sophisticates who're beyond concepts like painful/not-painful or good/bad.

Also qualifying the (pretend) bet: All 1:34:36 at one sitting, or nothing!

I have never listened to it again, until today.
Exactly. You don't have to. (Cut-outs rule!) We were disappointed it was pulled from the market before we could hear it, & if we've heard it via YouTube in the last few yrs., we don't remember.

Side three, you say?

Substance McGravitas said...

Also qualifying the (pretend) bet: All 1:34:36 at one sitting, or nothing!

Um, okay. What's disturbing is the breaks between sides.

M. Bouffant said...

Audio Editorio:
Side breaks must be disturbing for the CD/mp3 generation. (But imagine having to stand up & move to hear the other side of an L.P. How did our generation survive?)