Andy Warhol gave us some important things: soup cans as art, 15 hour movies of a guy snoring and . . . the Velvet Underground. Two out of three of these things we at The Balcony are big fans of. In Lesson 74 of the 101 Series we take a look at the band that invented noise and its leader, the Coney Island Baby himself, Mr. Lou Reed. Celebrating the man’s life, we pick tracks from the band and his solo years to prove just how ugly beautiful things can be. Or how ugly beautiful things can’t be. We’re not sure. Just make sure you’ve got $26 in your hand.
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