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DISGRACELAND

Lou Reed (An Origin Story) Pt. 2

DISGRACELAND

Jake Brennan

True Crime, Music, Society & Culture

4.613.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 39 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. For a full list of contributors, see the show notes at disgracelandpod.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, this goes Jake Brennan here. Listen to new episodes of Discrets Land from season

0:10.8

11 every Tuesday and catch the after party episodes every Thursday. This is where we go

0:16.1

deeper into the artist's stories. I'll share what I'm reading, listening to, and what

0:19.7

I'm watching, and I'll respond to your messages and questions, and of course, I'll be reading

0:23.2

the phone book.

0:24.2

You've probably realized that we're releasing a lot of previously exclusive episodes this

0:28.2

month. We've got episodes on Studio 54, Prince, the Missfits, Selena, way more that you've

0:32.9

probably never heard before. You can listen to all those episodes in a bunch more Discrets

0:36.4

Land right now wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts, I Heart Radio, Spotify

0:41.3

Stitcher, Cast Box, Amazon Music, you get the picture where everywhere thank you for listening.

0:46.1

Let's get into it.

0:47.5

Discrets Land is a production of Double Elvis.

0:58.2

Lou Reed, his band, The Velvet Underground, the wide cast of Larger than Life, Slash,

1:12.4

Low Life, New York City characters that he wrote about are so compelling that two episodes

1:17.5

were needed to properly tell this tall tale.

1:21.0

If you're just getting hip to this now, I suggest you hip pause and go back to the previous

1:25.4

episode of Discrets Land, part one of the Lou Reed origin story, where we discuss the

1:31.0

criminality depicted in The Velvet Underground songs, The Gift, Waiting for My Man, Heroin,

1:37.0

and The Murder Mystery.

1:39.0

Lou's story continues in this episode through the VU songs, Rock and Roll, Sweet Jane, Run,

1:44.8

Run, Run, Venus and Furs, and Albeer Mir.

1:48.6

All great music.

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