{"id":920,"date":"2007-11-12T10:50:03","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T15:50:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T16:38:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T16:38:40","slug":"lou-reed-as-his-music-was-meant-to-sound-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lou-reed-as-his-music-was-meant-to-sound-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Lou Reed&#8230;As His Music Was Meant to Sound!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QByK38A8qW4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nHearing Lou&#8217;s music as it was meant to sound requires a little work in today&#8217;s clip. The interviewer asks questions in English and French; Lou seems to understand whatever&#8217;s thrown his way and answer back in English. French subtitles will aid our French-speaking readers. First, Lou discusses the universality of New York humor and love. Then, as the YouTube clock runs down to the <strong>4:05<\/strong> mark, a discussion of the album <em>Magic &amp; Loss<\/em> ensues. A minute later, after the interviewer bemoans the public&#8217;s dismissal of this masterpiece and encourages viewers to revisit the album, our always forward-thinking hero says, <strong>&#8220;Now they should hear the new one, <em>then<\/em> they should go back and listen to <em>Magic &amp; Loss<\/em>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To those of you who have questioned the point of this Rock Town Hall series, I hope this answers some of your questions. Believe Lou: hear his music as it was meant to sound and see if it doesn&#8217;t enrich your experience of hearing earlier releases as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing Lou&#8217;s music as it was meant to sound requires a little work in today&#8217;s clip. The interviewer asks questions in English and French; Lou seems to understand whatever&#8217;s thrown his way and answer back in English. French subtitles will aid our French-speaking readers. First, Lou discusses the universality of New York humor and love. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lou-reed-as-his-music-was-meant-to-sound-17\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}