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Mbfg (Mbfg)
Username: Mbfg

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 5.64.102.187
Posted on Sunday, October 27, 2013 - 08:20 pm:   

Another great falls. 2013 has ben marked by a dark and sad harvest of the good and the great. Now one of modern music's great innovators is gone.

S'long Lou, and thanks for the fantastic music.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 86.24.62.55
Posted on Sunday, October 27, 2013 - 10:50 pm:   

An iron spike has just been driven through my heart. Rock's great Prince of Darkness is dead! We've had the magic and now the loss... fucking gutted.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 86.24.62.55
Posted on Monday, October 28, 2013 - 09:57 am:   

I'm off work today and have selected five albums to listen to back to back while getting very drunk. It's what Lou would have wanted:

'The Velvet Underground & Nico' (1967) - one of the 5 greatest albums of the glorious 1960s and the one that still sounds most astonishingly modern. This was when rock 'n' roll came of age. No more waiting for the man now, Lou. He found ya.

'Berlin' (1973) - one of the greatest and most emotionally affecting concept albums in rock history.

'The Blue Mask' (1982) - an existential howl of rage that saw the man's muse explode with renewed passion.

'Magic And Loss' (1992) - another concept album of stupefying genius about grief and facing one's own mortality that no one else in music could even come close to emulating.

'The Raven' (2003) - his last unassailably great concept album, a harrowing and brilliant double album ode to the macabre genius of Poe that remains a great personal favourite of mine.

That only leaves Dylan and Young left of my Holy Trinity of the greatest singer/songwriters who ever lived.
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Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.118.89.232
Posted on Monday, October 28, 2013 - 12:09 pm:   

I had a weak spot for the man. Favourite album: New York.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 86.24.62.55
Posted on Monday, October 28, 2013 - 01:18 pm:   

That's my favourite album too, Hubert. I play it all the time and it was the one that first got me into the man back in the 80s. There's not even a remotely weak track on that epic rocker!

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