Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning
To think that he actually died on a Sunday morning...I started thinking back to my early teens. Getting the 'Peel Slowly And See' box set out of our local library for weeks on end, completely immersing myself, trying to explain to my classmates how beautiful ugly sounds can be, and how cool these guys were.
And then I thought of the many late teenage house parties. The ones where we'd sleep over together in a pile on some parent's bed. Wake up feeling rough but full of laughter, wade out through the empty vessels from the night before, and put this song on the first thing we did. The best hangover song in the world.
Lou Reed - Goodnight Ladies
Ah, the sleaze, the sneer, the slyness, and tucked in amongst it all; the pure sentiment. A formula he perfected.Velvet Underground - I Found A Reason
I do believe...I'm not so sure Lou. But it's a grand and necessary delusion if nothing else.
You are what you perceive
What comes is better than what came before
Lou Reed - Sad Song
Berlin, one of the bleakest, most affecting albums I know. The Bed is almost too much to listen to, esp. now, but then comes this, and what a perfect closer it is. Unbearable sadness made to sound like a triumph. An overcoming. A lifesaver.Lou Reed - The Raven
And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - nevermore!
Thanks for the songs Lou. Thanks for making wonderful life-changing music out of the ugly, odd and painful things in life.
