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RIP. The Velvet Underground/Lou Reed's music really helped me during a hard part of my life.

• saturdaysaint 13y ago
  Same here. Especially the s/t third album and Loaded. It's hard to imagine in our era of blog/Reddit culture, where pathos is kind of freely available if you know where to look, how brave it was to talk about the dark corners of everyday life. Reed proclaimed these things - depression, uncertain relationships, body image issues, sexual kinks (along with flashes of happiness) - in often gorgeous pop songs. Their portraits of characters dealing with these were still almost unrivaled in their vulnerability and believability when I listened as a teenager in the 90's.