Talk:Lou Reed (album)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 18:39, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Great work! Good article.

I really like the "Cross-Reference" box, with its "Remarks" section. Let's keep that! It's "Good Article"-type stuff.

Thing is, Lou Reed is a relatively poor album and an overall failure, in many people's opinions, including mine (and I'm a BIG Lou Reed fan!) so this article isn't likely to get a lot of attention. But there's no shame in having a great article about a mediocre piece of work.

I think if everybody who cares gives the Lou Reed articles a little TLC, some of them could achieve "Good Article" status. Just like some of Lou's albums are great American masterpieces of songwriting. I think Reed is every bit as important as Pink Floyd (let me be honest: He's more important; more artistically influential and personally intriguing), and look at the attention they get on Wikipedia!

That's about it -- I could talk about the album itself for a few paragraphs, but that's not the purpose of these Talk pages. Good work, contributors, and I hope to contribute positively to some Lou Reed articles myself, before the year is over.

--Ben Culture (talk) 05:38, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]