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Sin Agog
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Edited Apr 23, 2010, 23:17
Re: Who's best: Lou Reed or John Cale?
Apr 23, 2010, 23:16
singingringingtree wrote:
cale#s recs are generally "better", lou's a total dick, but cale never made anything as sea-changingly fabulous for me as "metal machine music" ... so .... who cares?


To be fair, they were both cantankerous sons of bitches. And you could make a pretty good case that MMM was an attempt to rip-off/expand upon Cale's Sun Blindness Music.

I love them both, but I think Lou often gets credited with a lot of Cale's achievements. Even V.U.'s folkier direction wasn't entirely Cale-free, considering he was there for cuts like Stephanie Says.
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