beginning to see the light
heroin
i'm waiting for the man
pale blue eyes

start there

here's my actual answer to your life goals thread, chloe

Sweet Jane, Oh! Sweet Nuthin (their best song), White Light / White Heat

Add those to the mix.

Can't say I'm on board with this. I like "Oh! Sweet Nuthin" a lot, but I feel like it's pretty far removed from what made VU great. By the time they were recording Loaded they were under pressure to move towards a more radio-ready, straightforward rockn'roll sound, and though the songs turned out solid, they lack some of the fragile humanity and abject weirdness that made their earlier records sublime. If I'd never heard "Oh! Sweet Nuthin" before, I'd have a hard time telling it apart from hundreds of other 7-minute 'classic rock' jams. A really good one, but nothing as gripping as their noise freakouts, or as moving as their tenderest folk moments. Plus, I just can't accept that their best song would be one where Lou didn't even sing lead.

I agree with this. However, part of that is that its been beaten to death by most jam bands and rock bands on the circuit. It is a fantastic song but it is so outside of what made VU the band they were, or what I find sexy about them.

Although, god die, we will most likely be seeing a killer 10 minute version of it in a couple weeks with Rich Robinson on vox

To begin with, I'd just listen to their first album, but here it goes:

Waiting for the Man
Femme Fatale
Venus in Furs
Run, Run, Run
Heroin
European Son
White Light White Heat
Here She Come Now (Nirvana does a great cover)
Sister Ray
What Goes On
Pale Blue Eyes
Beginning to See the Light
Some Kind of Love
Who Loves the Sun
Rock And Roll
Sweet Jane
Hey Mr. Rain
Foggy Notion
I Can't Stand it Anymore
I'm Sticking With You

sweet thx

i mean, i always had some of their stuff like heroin and sweet jane and an album or 2 but i just got the rest of the discography

Basically just work your way chronologically until you lose interest.

Team Pete.

Fingers crossed.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...I know the story. And their 3rd record is my favorite and I love every song on their first three, save 3 songs that I can think of (the obvious ones). But I don't give a shit that Loaded was a sell-out or a reversal of what they'd been doing, I can (and do) go back and listen to those records whenever I want; the songs are really fucking good on all 4. And I don't know if Oh! Sweet Nuthin is actually their best song but it's the one I enjoy most when I'm listening to it, regardless of who's singing or the backstory. I think that's the kind of thing that makes a band great.

Plus it's such a great windows down, summer, highway song.

Here you go, Jorge. Bono's piece in Rolling Stone about Lou Reed...

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bono-remembers-lou-reeds-perfect-noise-20131106

I'm sure anyone who wants to hate it will find it easy to hate, but I enjoyed it and found it to be sincere, insightful, and funny.

"This is how I will remember him, a still figure in the eye of a metallic hurricane, an artist pulling strange shapes out of the formless void that is pop culture, a songwriter pulling melodies out of the dissonance of what Yeats called "this filthy modern tide" and, yes, pop's truly great poker face – with so much comedy dancing around those piercing eyes. The universe is not laughing today."

There are only 4 albums, just go to spotify or something and listen to them.

Personally, I like self-titled (3rd album) and Loaded the best.

That's a great eulogy. Bono is a pretty articulate young man

Great fucking song.

Listening to Reed...Mods can we change the title of this thread and make it the official Reed thread?

Goddamn do your job.

I'm assuming that "mod.s" word filters, yeah?

But if so that's not a Sarge filter - no self-respecting Aussie spells it like that.

i forgot lou reed died