344 - Lou Reed - Berlin - Tom Rhodes
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EPISODE SUMMARY:
Is suffering necessary to the creation of art? Does an artist need to experience darkness in order to have a perspective worth listening to? Without the hardships he experienced in his life, art rock icon Lou Reed may never have crafted something so totally unique and devastatingly sad as his 1973 album Berlin. Either way, comedian and writer Tom Rhodes (Comedy Central, HuffPost) holds Lou up as one of the most interesting and literary musicians of all time, both due to and in spite of his more depressing qualities.
SHOW NOTES:
01:00 - Intro
09:45 - Never read the comments
18:30 - Love in the time of Napster
31:30 - More than just hits
36:45 - Pop Music Geek Supreme
45:15 - The story so far
57:45 - Stealing the cool
1:06:45 - Choosing a life
1:19:15 - Facts!
1:24:30 - Against excess
1:30:45 - Lightning round
1:38:30 - Outro/New music
Check out the music history of this album here.