See you later, Lou Reed

[METALMAN]

Lou Reed wouldn't like something friendly and casual like that either. Something nice and stark, like "Lou Reed is dead", would be much more up his street!

[Sousa]

BIH Lou Reed you fuckin' bastard.

[Skummy]

Someone collared me during the interval at tonight's wrestling show to tell me this, and it really threw me. An absolute hero of mine - two of my old bands covered Velvets' tracks.

As cool as the Velvets were, though - and it's difficult to overstate how important they are - it's worth really remembering how much awesome music Lou Reed recorded in his solo career, and how varied his output was. The music press had this tendency to assume that the sum total of Lou Reed's recording career was "Walk On The Wild Side" and "Perfect Day", so whenever he did something they considered weird, they'd act as if he'd lost his mind - "what, he's recorded a concept album about Poe's 'The Raven'? What a nutjob!", or "he's doing an album with Metallica? Crazy old man, he's lost it!" - when, really, the glam-y, Bowie-esque stuff was the aberration. He was constantly pushing the envelope, constantly experimenting with all sorts of stuff.

Whether it was the subject matter of the Velvets' lyrics, the proto-drone of "Sister Ray", the noise of "Metal Machine Music", and the aforementioned "The Raven", which I absolutely adore, he was always out on a limb, doing something that no one else was doing. He was special, and he was one of my favourites.

And that's "Berlin". One of the best songs, one of the best albums. One of the best. Full stop.

[Hobo]

And speaking of The Raven:

[METALMAN]

First person to post something from the album he did with Metallica gets a slap

[Hobo]

It just occurred to me that while The Raven had an awful cover of Perfect Day by Anthony.

It also had Willem Defoe.

[tristy]

http://youtu.be/7zwAeV0xJsA‎

Transformer was the first Lou Reed album I ever heard.

[Sousa]

BIH Lou Reed you fuckin' bastard.

The Daily Mail echoes my sentiment but seems to be missing the irony part.

[TEOL]

Ended up happening to be in a bar full of people all singing this song together led by Amanda Palmer on piano:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYEC4TZsy-Y

It managed to make the fact that he'd died... well, significantly more surreal, but I poured one out for him.

[Hobo]

@jearleThe Daily Mail are using Lou Reed as a cautionary anti-drugs tale. Don’t do drugs or you may die at 71, respected the world over.

[METALMAN]

BIH Lou Reed you fuckin' bastard.

The Daily Mail echoes my sentiment but seems to be missing the irony part.

HE KILLED SID VICIOUS :( :(

[gunnar hendershow]

This was actually why I wrote "RIP" on my Facebook post about him. I thought it was funny.

[METALMAN]

hahahahaha

https://twitter.com/MileyCyrus/statuses/394531638732161026

[VerbalPuke]

At work yesterday we were having All Call, and the shirt was telling us how we lost a great hero last week. He says "Does anybody know who that is?" and I of course blurt out "Lou Reed".

Fucking none of the idiots I work with knew what the fuck I was talking about.

[Colly]

hahahahaha

https://twitter.com/MileyCyrus/statuses/394531638732161026

That's good, but not as good as:

1. Lou Bega receiving messages of sympathy in one of the more bizarre Chris Hoy/Foy incidents ever.

2. Metro (I think it was Metro) having to print a story correcting their previous statement that Reed had recorded an album with Metallica and Lulu.