Lou Reed (An Origin Story) Pt. 2
DISGRACELAND
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4.6 • 13.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Lou Reed blurred the lines between fact and fiction when it came to his past. To him, it was all a walk on the wild side anyway. After exploring his life in Part 1 through his lyrics for the Velvet Underground songs “The Gift”, “Waiting For My Man”, “Heroin” and “The Murder Mystery”, Part 2 continues through the songs “Rock And Roll”, “Sweet Jane”, “Run, Run, Run”, “Venus In Furs”, and “I’ll Be Your Mirror,” because tall tales and music led Lou all the way home.
This episode was originally published on March 28, 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. |
| 0:20.0 | Lou Reed, his band The Velvet Underground, the wide cast of larger-than-life-slash-low-life New York City characters that he wrote about are so compelling that two episodes were needed to properly tell this tall tale. |
| 0:33.8 | If you're just getting hip to this now, I suggest you hit pause and go back to the previous episode of Disgraceland, |
| 0:40.4 | part one of the Lou Reed origin story, where we discuss the criminality depicted in the Velvet Underground songs, |
| 0:47.1 | The Gift, Waiting for My Man, Heroin, and the Murder Mystery. |
| 0:52.0 | Lou's story continues in this episode, |
| 0:54.6 | through the VU songs, |
| 0:55.9 | rock and roll, sweet Jane, |
| 0:57.7 | Run, Run, Run, Run, Venus and Furs, |
| 0:59.8 | and I'll Be Your Mirror. |
| 1:01.7 | All great music. |
| 1:04.4 | Unlike that music I played for you |
| 1:06.2 | at the top of the show, |
| 1:07.7 | that wasn't great music. |
| 1:09.7 | That was a preset loop for my Melotron called Sweet and Sour |
| 1:13.5 | Dreams, MK, 2. I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to make it with you |
| 1:20.7 | by bread. And why would I play you that specific slice of limp-risted stalker cheese, could I afford it? |
| 1:29.1 | Because that was the number one song in America on August 23rd, 1970. |
| 1:35.8 | And that was the day Lou Reed played his last show with the Velvet Underground, |
| 1:40.5 | bringing to an end the origin story of one of the most compelling and coolest figures in rock and roll history. |
| 1:48.0 | On this episode, amphetamine addiction, lone shark assassins, switchblade types, chains, whips, mirrored lips, and Lou Reed goes home. |
| 2:00.0 | I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Disgraceland. The $26 in my hand made no sense. The $26 in my hand made no sense. |
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