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| | Lou Reed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Reed said later his goals were "to bring the sensitivities of the novel to rock music," or to write the Great American Novel in a record album. | | | David Bowie and Mick Ronson produced the album and introduced Reed to mainstream pop audiences. | | | Lewis Allen "Lou" Reed (born March 2, 1942), is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter, originally from Brooklyn, New York. |
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| | Lou Reed |
| | Lou himself was never happy with the record, and it has entered history as "the sellout album". | | | Lou's latest for the XXth century is a lengthy live album, recorded at the Meltdown Festival in London in 1997. | | | Lou Reed must have been the only chap not to be afraid to record such kind of songs - bare, stripped down rockers with not a single wink neither to glam nor to heavy metal - in 1972. |
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| | Amazon.com: Transformer: Music: Lou Reed |
| | Lou Reed's self-titled solo debut, released in early 1972, is often overlooked; in fact, it was an interesting and creative album that had some strong points. | | | All through the track you can imagine Reed on a dimly lit stage, smoking a cigarette and in his sleepers and undershirt, unshaven and just a bit drunk; the song is a perfect closing number, which compliments the atmosphere of the entire album, and leaves the listener smiling sadly and entirely satisfied. | | | Likewise, the lengthy text in the liner notes will be of interest to you, whether you're a Lou Reed die-hard, or this album is your first introduction to his music. |
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| | TrouserPress.com :: Lou Reed |
| | Ultimately, Reed brings it all together in the title track, which closes the album. | | | Reed's influence began with the Velvet Underground's predilection for forbidden fruit in its lyrics, and raging electric chaos in its music. | | | A highly principled free-thinker, Reed has provided inspiration, direction and songs for bands with a taste for the seamier side of the rock sensibility. |
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| | Arts Unlimited Arts features Not a perfect day |
| | Reed is playing at the local concert hall, which looks made to measure for Reed in its concrete misery - the Barbican meets Belmarsh prison. | | | Soon after his most commercial album, Transformer, Reed made his least-commercial record, Metal Machine Music, an album of feedback. | | | It's not quite Berlin, where Reed made probably the most depressing album ever and named it after the city, but downtown Stuttgart is pretty bleak in its own right. |
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| | American Masters . Lou Reed PBS |
| | From punk rock to grunge, Reed has had an unparalleled influence on the American music scene. | | | A counterpoint to the booming impersonal economy of the 1980s and 1990s, Reed has asserted a brutal honesty into both his music and lyrics that demands the full attention of contemporary listeners. | | | Reed’s seminal 1972 album TRANSFORMER, produced by David Bowie, signaled the beginning of what music critics termed "glam rock." Epitomized by gender blurring, highly dramatic lighting, and explosive concert tours, glam rock brought Lou Reed to a new height of fame. |
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| | Kungfu Magazine: Magazine Feature Article |
| | Lou Reed’s cult status as the godfather of punk, vanguard of the avant-garde, and rock n’ roll survivor has made him the stuff of legend. | | | Reed’s latest CD based on this work was recently released this winter. | | | He was the main force and songwriter of the seminal (and Andy Warhol-produced) band the Velvet Underground whose subject matter and themes changed the course of music forever. |
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| | Lou Reed: The Raven - PopMatters Music Review |
| | Reed's voice takes on a cracked, Dylanesque croak on two songs inspired by Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart": the loud, paranoiac "Blind Rage", as well as on the brooding "Burning Embers". | | | The Raven, as it turns out, is more spoken word than rock 'n' roll, and longtime Reed fans may be a bit disappointed to learn that Lou sings on only 13 of the album's 46 tracks. | | | Forget the single CD, 21-track version of this album; it's useless, it's garbage, it goes against everything Reed intended to create with this project; it's the record company's idea, thinking the buying public won't dig a two-hour, 46-track double album. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/r/reedlou-raven.shtml
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| | Salon.com People Lou Reed |
| | What distinguishes the Velvets here is, rather, their approach to these themes: Where those other songwriters arrived at bleakness over the course of a song, this was a foregone conclusion for the VU; their albums began on the edge and simply proceeded to crawl around the other side for the next 45 minutes. | | | He has suggested that he's demonstrated enough musical and lyrical variety (in, say, "Songs for Drella" and "Magic and Loss") to earn a return to classic Lou Reed. | | | The world first heard of Reed in the late '60s, in connection with the Velvet Underground, the band the world had never heard of anyway. |
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| | Rolling Stone : The Bells : Review |
| | What Reed may not realize is that, through this very song, some reconciliation is effected, because he's fulfilled a promise that very few of us are ever able to keep by finally being able to forgive and love in spite of all the tragedies that go down in every family. | | | Like all of Reed's people on this record, he's looking for love. | | | The first indication that we've got something very different here is the no-bullshit cover art; the second, a cursory listening to the lyrics. |
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http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/210478
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| | Lou Reed Lyrics Part 1, Photos, Pictures, Paroles, Letras, Text for every songs |
| | Lou Reed mostly consisted of flaccid versions of songs dating back to the Velvet days, and he could have really used the group to punch them up, as the many outtake versions of these tunes that he actually recorded with the Velvet Underground (some of which didn't surface until about 25 years later) prove. | | | Reed closed the '90s with an album that saw him explore relationships, 1996's Set the Twilight Reeling (many speculated that the album was biographical and focused on his union with performance artist Laurie Anderson), which turned out to not be one of Reed's more critically acclaimed releases. | | | If Reed had never made any solo records, his work as the principal lead singer and songwriter for the Velvets would have still ensured his stature as one of the greatest rock visionaries of all time. |
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| | Lou Reed: Transformer ---Ink blot Magazine |
| | From 1965-70 Lou Reed was the guitarist and main songwriter with The Velvet Underground, the most influential cult band in the history of rock. | | | Transformer is one of the most ridiculous albums ever released by a rock 'n' roll icon of Lou Reed's stature. | | | The Velvets' music obviously lived on the same dark side of town as Reed's seedy lyrical fascinations. |
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| | Lou Reed |
| | Lou Reed: the life of a rocker who knows all the hard places. | | | Rock elder statesman Lou Reed has a new album and a new lease on life.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers) | | | Reed started writing songs for a record company after graduating from college. |
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| | Amazon.com: New York: Music: Lou Reed |
| | This is why it was a moment of high anticipation when, in 1989, Lou Reed released this, one of his finest solo records. | | | Lou Reed expresses his deep affection for his beloved city with moving lyrics and carefully structured guitar | | | Reed never cultivated a more satisfying blend of Rock 'N Roll and his patented street poetry as on this album. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Lou Reed: Music |
| | As Lou Reed albums go, this one is average. | | | Had Dylan written this album (or Reed had recorded it in 78 or 2003), it would have been heralded as one of his best: from Wild Child - "I was talking to Chuck, in his Ghengis Khan suit and his wizards hat" is pure Dylan. | | | Interwoven into these songs is Lou's own narrative of what he was feeling at the time - perhaps all songs are like that. |
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| | CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Reed, Lou |
| | Lou Reed goes from mild to wild as he talks about his new album | | | "Metal Machine Music," Lou Reed's notorious bastard-child of an album, will get a new lease on life in concert. | | | Ticket details for the Toronto show have not been announced. |
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| | The New, Happier Lou Reed (NY Rock) |
| | Although the Velvets never attained superstar status, they remain one of the most influential bands on rock music today. | | | The band’s first album -- with the famous banana peel cover -- was designed and supposedly produced by Andy Warhol, although it’s generally assumed that Warhol’s production duties on the record were somewhat limited. | | | And we love you when, some 20 years later, you do an about face and say that you “always go out and get the latest Dylan album. |
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| | Lou Reed Books |
| | In 2001 Lou Reed, legendary theater director Robert Wilson, and an all-star cast presented the musical POEtry at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. | | | As the title says, this is a biography of Lou Reed more oriented to his music and live appearances. | | | Reed’s subsequent studio adaptation, The Raven, has been hailed as one of his more daring and challenging albums. |
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| | Lou Reed |
| | Lou Reed: The New York Album (1991) (V).... | | | Lou Reed: The New York Album (1991) (V) Edades de Lulú, Las (1990) (song "Walk on the wild side") | | | Best Use Of Lou Song In A Movie |
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| | Laughing Lou Reed |
| | Of course I knew that Lou Reed had done TV commercials before, but he'd only used bullshit Bowie songs like "Take a Walk on the Wild Side" or songs like "Perfect Day," which, though good, aren't well-known and certainly aren't among the best songs ever recorded by the Velvets. | | | "It's not the song, it's two chords," Reed says [about Nissan's use of "Heroin" in a TV commercial]. | | | What does it take to make famously stone-faced rocker Lou Reed crack a smile? |
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| | Lou Reed Reveling In Remixes |
| | Lou Reed looks set for a return to the U.K. singles chart with the July 19 release by NuLife/BMG of a pop remix of "Satellite of Love," originally produced by David Bowie and included on Reed's classic 1972 album "Transformer." The new mix, by London team Dab Hands, has been personally approved by Reed. | | | Reed not only gave the green light for a full commercial release of the track -- which was never a U.K. single in its original version -- but is fully involved in promoting the single. | | | Maybe I will now that I've got my own studio set up." |
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| | Designing Furniture for Lou Reed's Apartment |
| | Based on the Zivic piano shape that first caught Reed’s eye, it’s supplemented by a rolling black-velvet appendage that connects by four strong magnets. | | | Soft Rock: The heated granite floor in the living room is covered in large patches of hand-stitched suede. | | | It had always bothered me. It’s a song about Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Warhol, where he sings, ‘You get less time for stealing a car / I remember thinking as I heard my own record in a bar.’ And I said to him, ‘Listen, Lou. |
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| | Idle Mind - Lou Reed CompuServe Transcript |
| | The Ostrich guitar was a guitar I used on a record called the | | | (#39,Lou Reed) It'll be a heavy guitar record- uptempo and probably not | | | (#6,Charlene) Lou, is it true that you once released an album that was only |
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| | Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music |
| | If you're wondering "Why on earth is Lou Reed in the AmbiEntrance!?", perhaps you're too young to remember his 1975 kiss-off to the music industry... | | | Experimentationalists and noise-freaks will feel Metal Machine Music coursing through their veins, while the serenity-minded should have the forethought to stay away. | | | at the end of the finishing assault, Metal Machine Music Part IV, Reed had engineers create a locked groove so that the record literally wouldn't stop playing its final wrenching seconds until someone manually lifted the needle (or pulled the plug). |
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| | Interview with Lou Reed: The Gospel According to Lou (NY Rock) |
| | True, he’s never been much of a singer, but nobody can speak songs as well as Lou Reed and few have influenced today’s music as much as he has. | | | Lou in Concert at the Knitting Factory (Feb '97) | | | I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. |
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| | Lou Reed |
| | His collaboration with John Cale on Songs For Drella (1990) may be the decade’s most magnetic record. | | | Each of her reactions brings a taunting refrain from Reed — "What a lovely feminine thing to do." | | | You can’t help but wonder who the women are that Reed betrays with fanciful efficiency throughout Ecstasy. |
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| | Lou Reed - Wikiquote |
| | If we really want to save music let alone Rock N Roll then go to those Techno Dance Clubs I mean they have all these loud ass speakers, everyone is always there partying, and so that's how Rock is saved from unwanted Capatalistic Corporation music. | | | And also if all those metal,grunge,rock,and hey even those gangstas want to play then why not start off like the Beatles in Cafe's,Pubs,and Bars instead of MTV".-Lou Reed in an interview with Ketnet. | | | Lou Reed (born March 2, 1942) is an American rock musician. |
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| | Lou Reed Guitar Archive: Album-Index |
| | Soul Man (7" version) [Sam Moore and Lou Reed: 7" single, 1986] | | | Walk On The Wild Side (different lyrics) [Lou Reed: rehearsal, 1971] | | | Spine Music (studio version) [Lou Reed: radio broadcast, Nov 29, 1998] |
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| | Lou Reed - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | Lou Reed - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links | | | Browse artists: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # |
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| | ride into the sun |
| | Welcome to the official fanlisting for the musical god, Lou Reed. | | | Lou was one of the founders of the Velvet Underground, one of the most influential bands in history, and his solo career has spaned over three decades. | | | He truly is a one of a kind artist whose influence and talent have yet to be paralleled. |
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| | Rolling Stone : Lou Reed |
| | The Velvet Underground may have influenced hundreds of bands since the late 1960s, but it was Lou Reed's second solo... | | | MFA Lou Reed on Fats Domino's The Fat Man | | | Who knows more about Lou Reed than you? |
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| | VH1.com : Lou Reed : Artist Main |
| | Sign up now to receive every bit of juicy, up-to-the-minute news, album release info and much more delivered straight to your inbox! | | | Lou Reed's Obsession With Edgar Allan Poe Spawns The Raven | | | Like David Bowie (whom Reed directly inspired in many ways), he has made over his image many times, mutating from theatrical glam-rocker to scary looking junkie to avant-garde noiseman to straig... |
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| | rocknroll.net:Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground |
| | I was a huge Lou Reed fan and was mildly irritated that there were like 42 message boards for U2 and none for the artists who gave them their inspiration. | | | Thankfully, many others have picked up my slack and Lou has put up his own page. | | | And folks from the world over started showing up in my logs. |
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| | The New York Times: A Conversation with Lou Reed |
| | Listen in as Lou Reed riffs about his musical career with Times music critic Jon Pareles and explains why he was born to rock. | | | You can also download the video permanently to your computer. | | | For answers to the most frequently asked questions about TimesTalks Online, please browse our FAQ. |
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| | The Wild Side Of Lou Reed |
| | Lou Reed: If God showed up tomorrow and said Do you want to be President? | | | devoted to the "wild" side of Lou Reed's career: | | | Don't miss the "quiet" side of Lou Reed on: |
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