Title: Read this to your kids? You've gotta be kidding me.
Review: I think Lou Reed is (or at least was) a terrific songwriter. I even think he is a pretty good lyricist. But honestly, when will people realize that rock lyrics only very rarely qualify as poetic? This stuff is absolutely horrid on the printed page! What made the Velvets great was the menace of their sound, not Reed's pretentious dreck. Yeah, so he studied under Schwartz, therefore he's a poet. The power of rock music lies in the raw power of the music, not its lyrics. As Nietzsche would see it, it's the Dionysian vigor of music that makes it great, not stupid lyrics saying how great speed is. Lou Reed's a great rock star, but a lousy poet.Read this to your children? Are you kidding me? Do you want them to grow up to be self-hating, smack-shooting "street poets," or worse -- pretentious hipster narcissists? They'll hate you for it someday.-MD"The poet should not try to be admired as a poet." -Hegel on music
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