News has just come through that Lou Reed has been found dead at home. I’m really saddened by that, he was someone who’d made 4 or 5 of my favourite LPs ever and probably inspired another 10 others. He was always described as cranky and/or cantankerous but I always thought that even in his bleakest recording moments there was a discernible trace of humour, however miniscule. I remember reading in an interview many years ago that he always tried to write lyrics like Raymond Chandler – I can’t think of a better way to write and you know what, by and large he got there.
I’m off to listen to him now.
R.I.P.
Last of the great rock n’ roll curmudgeons. It wasn’t the music as much as it was his attitude that I loved about Lou Reed. Though on the whole, Transformer is nothing short of genius start to finish.
Rather like Dylan he always seemed a very intelligent man in a pretty dumb business to me.
Great way to put it. And true.
He’ll now be taking the ultimate walk on the wild side. R.I.P. Lou Reed
Ahh shit.
I know it may sound trite but I’m just really saddened by it.