Mentions (12)
"When I joined the sub I remember talking abt cool shit like Lou Reed and David Foster Wallace and now I'm supposed to care about guys who don't get pussy and laugh at virgin/short jokes."
"There are still cool things going on at the margins of culture, but nobody has crossed over who has had even a fraction of the sauce of someone like bowie or Lou Reed or 60s Dylan."
"We all like Lou Reed and Mark E. Smith. But the chance that the singer in your art school post punk band has the sauce to properly emulate those guys is pretty low."
"She was such a redscare girlie and didn't even know it. She adored Patti Smith and Lou Reed, she put me on to Tarantino, she was utterly self-effacing and riddled with post-Catholic guilt and gave me my chainsmoking habit."
"Anyways I sat her down and explained that I was also Lou Reed-maxing in my early days in college (leather jackets, shitty improvisational distorted guitar, sex with trans women, etc.) and she was like oh shit, rock on. Then she started doing the air guitar to the riff from Vicious while whistling an"
"all i'm saying is, there's no way one can doubt the influence of transformer & berlin, those two alone (along with his antics and fashion sense) inspired an entire generation of kids. for fucks sake BRIAN ENO said he wouldn't have had any desire to start making music if not for the VU."
"just wish I could fall into a nice deep sleep for a good long time why must the pleasantries of slumber be perceived as instant on our conscious end"
"Anyone have any recs for musicians that are/were scumbags, and have music that reflect that(so no Lou Reed)"
"I know it's probably gay to get wrapped up in the Velvets like an angsty 15 yr old but is it not close to the birth of punk? It's all so good…."
"Anyone have any recs for musicians that are/were scumbags, and have music that reflect that(so no Lou Reed)"
"I know it's probably gay to get wrapped up in the Velvets like an angsty 15 yr old but is it not close to the birth of punk?"
"I thought it was a decent look at the background of lou, cale and nico"