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The Music Thread Strikes Back

Awful news - he was fantastic. :(

Velvet Underground will be played at a loud volume this evening.
 
Sad news. Only started to listen to his work over the past couple of years.
 
very sad to hear this. he'd had a liver transplant earlier this year so i guess there could have been complications.

what an icon. he soundtracked a lot of good times for so many people.
 
"The band's influence on rock, art rock and punk was memorably summed up by Brian Eno's observation that although the first Velvet Underground album may have sold only 30,000 copies in its first few years, "everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band"."
 
Geoff Lloyd is an absolute star on Absolute Radio. Played my two requests. None stop Lou and VU for over an hour.

I'm properly gutted. Means a lot to me in a lot of ways.
 
Lou Reed was simply a wonderfully talented musician who will be sadly missed. Maybe it is time for him to take a walk on the wild side.

R.I.P. to one of rocks most underrated artists.
 
Currently listening to Velvet Underground & Nico. I just love it.
 
there are so many VU songs i like but Sweet Jane's one of my favourite's by any artist. it's going along nicely anyway and then he just throws in that killer line, "but anyone who ever had a heart, they wouldn't turn round and break it.." that line gets me every time i hear it, which is a lot of times.

VU and nico is a fine album but in the end i had to find a cd with most of that AND pale blue eyes on it, which is probably my 2nd favourite of theirs. i mean that's just another epic song. And also with i'm beginning to see the light on it as well. its a great collection that cd.
 
drat - double posted me.
here comes two of you, which one will you choose?
 
Just listened to Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots for the first time.

Goodness me.
 
Just got back from seeing Portico Quartet at the Glee club.
Just, wow with some of their stuff! Very different to the first time I saw them - more experimental & electronic.
They added 3 tracks which are new with a vocalist, which didn't do it at all for me. Vocals didn't fit the tracks.

The rest though, was really really good.
Think I need to buy their live & remixed double album very soon...
 
After several listens of Arcade Fire - Reflektor, I'm sorry to say that it's a bit of a mess and I really don't think much of it at all. :(

A couple of decent tracks (the title track is a bit of a grower, Here Comes the Night Time is good and It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus) as it's moments) but it's FAR too long and self-indulgent. Some tracks are just pretentious twaddle. And worst of all, it just doesn't feel like Arcade Fire. I'm all for a change of direction but I don't think this one has worked at all.

I really wanted to like it but if it wasn't Arcade Fire, there's no way I'd have sat through it as many times as I have.

What a crushing disappointment. :(
 
I adore Arcade Fire. I've been a fan since the start. Seen them live a ton of times.

Their debut is as good an album as I have ever heard. Their third album is one track too long, but nearly flawless.

In Tunnels, they have the best debut song and IMO the best track one side one ever.

In Wake Up, Rebellion, We Used To Wait, Ocean Of Noise, No Cars Go, you have well crafted, instantly recognisable great songs that will grace my top 50 quite happily.

This album though, so far, is a fucking mess.

Gutted to be brutally honest as I have been looking forward to it for three years.

It may be that I need to listen and persevere. But title track aside, and track 2, my God they've messed up.

It's like they've all brought their most obscure world music nonsense in and put it into a bowl. And said, lets get this one in somewhere!

James Murphy can fuck off too. LCD Soundsystem were ace. As a producer he can fuck off.

Self-indulgent, overly long, world music bollocks.
 
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