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Title: His Life was Saved by Rock n' Roll
Post by: pmcd9 on October 28, 2013, 09:59:29 pm

Lou Reed is Dead (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-reed-velvet-underground-leader-and-rock-pioneer-dead-at-71-20131027)

Alternate thread title: 'A Perfect Day' to Die!

Title: Re: His Life was Saved by Rock n' Roll
Post by: theinevitable on October 29, 2013, 01:17:22 am

Man, that guy. So many songs I love. So many guitar sounds. So many cool lyrics.

I cannot overstate the importance of discovering the VU and punk to my psyche as an adolescent. I needed desperately to know that out there in the world, there was another way of being cool that had nothing to do with pastel polo shirts and fuck*ng field hockey players in your dad's BMW. I could know I was cool in my own way, and what those people thought about me meant nothing. Except, also, I wasn't cool in the punk/indie/whatever way either. That came later. What rapping about drug deals and drive-bys has been for my mid 20s, songs about transvestites and shooting heroin were for my teens. It isn't about identifying with the content-- it's about an attitude, the struggle of being a person, whatever. I am mostly a guy who is doing alright in life, most of the time, but I will always identify with the fuck-ups and losers because I will always feel like one, kind of, for some reason.

Thanks Lou Reed. My understanding of you as a person is probably 90% based on myths. I think I'm happy keeping it that way.