The truth of your statement is contingent upon the task assigned them. Lou Reed might be the superior dungeonmaster, for example.

"You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike, but you don't care because you have overdosed on heroin."

Give me a break, Apo. Lou Reed is a superior dungeonmaster.

Occasionally I amuse myself by thinking about Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson's breakfast table conversation.

Pretty gnomic, I'd bet.

And all the colored grues go
Doot da doot da doot
Doot da doo doot da doot da doot.

I really love Lou Reed's cd New York.

Good Evening Mr. Walheim.

You want convoluted passageways? Try Courtney Love's brain.

The VU's early rehearsal recordings are interesting. Reed spends a lot of the time bitching at Cale: Too fast! Too slow, now! What the fuck is wrong with you!?

6: That album is such a boiled-down essence of New York as I was graduating from high school -- I can't listen to it all that often, because there's only so much being sixteen again anyone should go through, but it's great.

Now I'm humming 'Last Great American Whale.'

But the one after was just dreadful.

w-lfs-n is a reproof. To make room on my hard drive I just deleted Church of Anthrax. Sabotage, and Hobosapiens. Kept Paris 1919, Fear, and Vintage Violence.

Yeah, Cale is better than Reed.

was it ever in doubt?

I reviewed Set the Twilight Reeling for my high school newspaper and can't name any songs from it.

Wait, there was "Sex With Your Parents." Dumb song.

John Cale and Brian Eno's album of synth-pop is great. For those who liked the Moody Blues' "Your Wildest Years".

You people are all crazy.

Joe, are you saying that John Cale would make a better dungeonmaster?

This thread could get all Harry Potterish bout the meaning of "better" and Insufferable music snobs.
I know Cale is even a better songwriter, but now I can't get "Perfect Day" out of my head.

I can't believe I deleted Anthrax. I live in constant torment, even knowing that any additional storage will always be instantly filled. That's it. I am deleting Colosseum. Maybe just the live stuff.

was i supposed to not like that song?

Do you think Doug Yule sees these things and is like, shit, I could do that?

Cale may be superior to Reed, but neither of them could possibly beat Chinook at checkers.

15: Years s/b Dreams, yes?

Oh, come on. You didn't think it was embarrassing when Cale did a duet of "Half Past France" with Philippe Jaroussky?

I'd put a buck on Undead Marion Tinsley playing Chinook to a draw, using his zombi checkers powers.

"Heroin"

Only song to ever make my physically feel ill listening to it.

'Nuff said.

Not as embarrassing as Lou Reed's Edgar Allan Poe musical.

Is 25 praising or damning?

25/27 And since it was a collaboration (at least, Cale did his own parts) I'm not sure what it argues for, anyway.

John Cale is superior to Lou Reed

Um, Ben? That wasn't John Cale. It was Luciano Pavarotti.

But the one after was just dreadful.

If you are referring to Magic and Loss, then I beg to disagree. An underrated masterpiece, that one.

Without my glasses, it first looked like the title was John Cage is superior to Lou Reed. Then I looked at the video and noticed a large, lumpish figure next to a skinny one and thought to myself, neither looks like John Cage, and besides, he's dead.

Then I put my glasses on.

31: That said, John Cage was superior to Lou Reed.

25/27 And since it was a collaboration (at least, Cale did his own parts) I'm not sure what it argues for, anyway.

The viola makes the song.

Could anyone possibly doubt this? Still, I love that American Whale song.

Could anyone possibly doubt this?

Amazingly, yes.

33: exactly. Or at least, that's what elevates it.

Lou Reed's influence is broader by a mile, people. He was more important. Sheesh. Player haters.

And Transformer is better than any V.U. album, before or after Cale.

Are 37 and 38 supposed to be relevant?

Is John Cale supposed to be?

Heidi Klum is hotter than Giselle Bündschen.

Heidi Klum is hotter than Joe Drymala.

true courage, to explore difficult spaces in high priced art. too rare. too cool.
so, it didn't work. happens.

Nothing is better than "White Light / White Heat".

"Waldo Jeffers" would be a good internet handle.

Though others have already figured that out.

"Nothing is better than "White Light / White Heat".

Except the next two albums. Reed is right about tempo - Some Kind of Love & What Goes On are just right.

Did I tell you all of my instant dislike for VU & N when Andy MacKay played it to us and as "Here She Comes Again" started I spotted - "that's "I'm Free" by the Stones - and "Hitch Hike" by Marvin Gaye."?

Good, nay unique, guitar sound, though, about as white as you can get without being Todd Rundgren.