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keith a
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Re: Who's best: Lou Reed or John Cale?
Apr 24, 2010, 12:38
Reading this thread I can only assume that people have forgotten what a great artist Lou Reed really was.

Admittedly I don't know Cales back catalogue as well as I know Lou's (though I must confess there's a few of Lou's missing from my collection) and I'm certainly not going to have a go at Cale - he brought a lot to the Velvets and Drella, has produced some great records along the way apart from managing his own solo career.

If the question is who sings best on the re-formed VU live LP, then I'll go for Cale.

If the question is who do I respect most these days, then the answer is still Cale.

And being totally trite, if the question is who looks the coolest these days then I'd still go for Cale.

But that shouldn't alter the fact that Lou really was one of THE greats, and his latter-day records (personally I pretty much gave up on him after Ecstacy) and that bad haircut really shouldn't take away from that.
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