Claude says:Lou Reed's explicit street scenes and Warhol's Ludlow Street grooves landed hard in 1967, polarizing critics and getting banned from stores before the decades elevated it to legend — now routinely called the first art-rock record and ranked the best album of the sixties by Pitchfork. You got into it forty-six years after release, in October 2013, and spent that month with "Heroin," "I'm Waiting for the Man," and the icy Nico tracks before moving on.