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Lou Reed's Birthday: Our Seven Favorite Songs for the Singer's 70th
- Posted on Mar 2nd 2012 5:01PM by Theo Spielberg
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The man is mercurial to say the least, but from David Bowie to the Strokes, music is indebted to Lou Reed. To remind ourselves to that end, we have created a list of our seven favorite Lou Reed songs in honor of his 70th birthday. (We also restricted ourselves to his solo career because, well, we gotta draw a line somewhere.)
- 'Street Hassle'
- 'Vicious'
- 'Crazy Feeling'
- 'Caroline Says II'
- 'Walk on the Wild Side'
- 'Charley's Girl'
- 'Satellite of Love'
- Runners Up
- Presidents Who Rocked
- Thomas Jefferson, violinist
- John Quincy Adams, flautist
- John Tyler, fiddler
- Chester A. Arthur, banjoist
- Warren G. Harding, multi-instrumentalist
- Calvin Coolidge, harmonica player
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, pianist
- Harry Truman, pianist
- Richard Nixon, pianist/accordion player
- Bill Clinton, saxophonist
- Best Musician/Author Collaborations
- U2 and Salman Rushdie
- Beck and David Eggers
- The Clash and Allen Ginsberg
- Ben Folds and Nick Hornby
- Kurt Cobain and William S. Borroughs
- Justin Rutledge and Michael Ondaatje
- Paul Simon and Derek Walcott
- Paul Oakenfold and Hunter S. Thompson
- Shooter Jennings and Stephen King
- One Ring Zero and Margaret Atwood and Others
- Musicians Who Dissed the Grammys
- Jay-Z
- Eminem
- Sinead O'Connor
- Toby Keith
- 50 Cent
- Motorhead
- Bon Iver
- 12 Artists Who Bombed on SNL
- Sinead O'Connor, October 3, 1992
- Ke$ha, April 17, 2010
- Cypress Hill, October 2, 1993
- Coldplay, October 25, 2008
- The Go-Gos, November 14, 1981
- Frank Zappa, October 21, 1978
- Britney Spears, October 13, 2003
- Laura Branigan, December 4, 1982
- Kanye West, December 13, 2008
- Linkin Park, February 5, 2011
- Taylor Swift, January 10, 2009
- Ashlee Simpson, October 23, 2004
- Musicians and Their Wild Rides
- Courtney Love
- Adele
- Judas Priest
- Andre 3000
- The Beatles
- Jimi Hendrix
- Bob Dylan and John Sebastian
- Def Leppard's Phil Collen
- Wayne Coyne
- Elvis
- Michael Jackson
- Sonny and Cher
- Nelly
- Ellie Goulding
- Queen Latifah
- Black Eyed Peas
- Keith Moon
- Steven Tyler
- Vince Neil
- Lemmy
- Bo Diddley
- Bono
- Artists to Watch in 2012
- Gotye
- Polica
- The Black Belles
- Pujol
- Lissy Trullie
- Sharon Van Etten
- Bleached
- Firehorse
- Kathleen Edwards
- Doomtree
- Howler
- Michael Kiwanuka
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March 02 2012 at 7:37 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyOn the poll for the best of Lou Reed ,where are we supposed to vote? There is no place. I just went back to the begining and choose "Walk On The Wild Side".One of the best songs ever written And as the story goes he wrote it on a bus and shaved his legs to get in the part.And he did!!
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