Lou Reed
The career of Lou Reed defies capsule summarization. Like David Bowie (whom Reed directly inspired in many ways), he has made over his image many times, mutating from theatrical glam rocker to scary-looking junkie to avant-garde noiseman to straight rock & roller to your average guy. A firmer grasp of rock's earthier qualities has ensured a more consistent career path than Bowie's, particularly in his latter years. Yet his catalog is extremely inconsistent, in both quality and stylistic orientation. Liking one Lou Reed LP, or several, or all of the ones he...[more]
![]()
This is an extra large black Lou Reed Coney Island Baby t-shirt, with the man in question dressed for success and coyly peaking out with one eye from behind a bowler (two eyes would = too sexy). Printed on 100% cotton Alstyle Apparel and Activewear shirts.
X-Large Shirt $19.99
Other people also bought:
Real Estate Real Estate, Animal Collective Fall Be Kind EP PRE-ORDER, Marina and the Diamonds The Crown Jewels EP
![]()
This is a small black Lou Reed Coney Island Baby t-shirt, with the man in question dressed for success and coyly peaking out with one eye from behind a bowler (two eyes would = too sexy). Printed on 100% cotton Alstyle Apparel and Activewear shirts.
Small Shirt $19.99
Other people also bought:
Sigur Ros Von, The Ramones California Sun, The Replacements I'll Be You
![]()
This is a large black Lou Reed Coney Island Baby t-shirt, with the man in question dressed for success and coyly peaking out with one eye from behind a bowler (two eyes would = too sexy). Printed on 100% cotton Alstyle Apparel and Activewear shirts.
Large Shirt $19.99
Other people also bought:
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures - Black T-Shirt, Yeah Yeah Yeahs Eyes Shirt, Bad Brains Capitol Shirt (Black)
![]()
This is a medium black Lou Reed Coney Island Baby t-shirt, with the man in question dressed for success and coyly peaking out with one eye from behind a bowler (two eyes would = too sexy). Printed on 100% cotton Alstyle Apparel and Activewear shirts.
Medium Shirt $19.99
Other people also bought:
Sigur Ros Von, The Ramones California Sun, The Replacements I'll Be You
![]()
At a time when widespread claims of "groundbreaking" and "daring" have rendered the terms all but meaningless, leave it to Lou Reed to breathe new life into the accolades that have followed him throughout his career. With The Raven, Reed delivers an extraordinary album that ranks alongside his most powerful and groundbreaking works. "The Raven record is the culmination of absolutely everything I've been working on, except for photography," says Reed. "All the ideas about sound, mixing, [ read more ]
CD $19.99
Other people also bought:
Loose Fur Loose Fur, Enon High Society, Beck Sea Change
![]()
VINYL FORMAT. Though it was dismissed as morbid and self-indulgent upon its initial 1973 release, critics and audiences alike have come to view Lou Reed's unquestionably grandiose concept album, Berlin, as one of the high points of his solo career. The album's narrative arc traces the trajectory of a doomed, defiantly self-destructive romance in the modern German city, and pits dark, cabaret influenced orchestration against Reed's deadpan vocals to remarkably chilling effect. The album's bleak, incis [ read more ]
2xLP $24.99
Other people also bought:
The Cure 4:13 Dream, Miles Davis Bitches Brew, The Clash Live at Shea Stadium
![]()
VINYL FORMAT. Transformer and "Walk on the Wild Side" were both major hits in 1972, to the surprise of both Lou Reed and the music industry, and with Reed suddenly a hot commodity, he used his newly won clout to make the most ambitious album of his career, Berlin. Berlin was the musical equivalent of a drug-addled kid set loose in a candy store; the album's songs, which form a loose story line about a doomed romance between two chemically fueled bohemians, were fleshed out with a huge, [ read more ]
LP $15.99
Other people also bought:
Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress, Crystal Stilts Alight of Night , Cat Power Jukebox
![]()
Containing a body of work that spans more than three decades, Pass Thru Fire is a stunning collection of the lyrics of an American original. Through his many incarnations-from proto punk to glam rocker to elder statesman of the avant garde-Lou Reed's work has maintained an undeniable vividness and raw beauty, fueled by precise character studies and rendered with an admirable shot of moral ambiguity. Beginning with his formative days in the Velvet Underground and continuing through his remarkable solo [ read more ]
Book $18.99
Other people also bought:
Mountains Choral, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Beware, Don Caballero Don Caballero 2
![]()
David Bowie has never been shy about acknowledging his influences, and since the boho decadence and sexual ambiguity of the Velvet Underground's music had a major impact on Bowie's work, it was only fitting that as Ziggy Stardust-mania was reaching its peak, Bowie would offer Lou Reed some much needed help with his career. Bowie and his right-hand man, Mick Ronson, crafted a new sound for Reed that was better fitting (and more commercially astute) than the ambivalent tone of his first solo album. Ronson a [ read more ]
CD $15.99
Other people also bought:
Cabaret Voltaire Original Sound of Sheffield '78/'82, T. Rex A Beard of Stars, American Analog Set Promise of Love
![]()
On this CD re-issue of the original 1975 RCA records disc, we hear an unrelenting, seeringly beautiful electro-acoustic composition for electric guitar and an array of "consumer-priced" sound-processing devices and amplifiers used by most bands of the mid-70's...inspired by La Monte Young's Dream Music installations, this one-time spontaneous production of Reed's pre-dated a great deal of rock-sound inspired new music (Branca, Chatham etc.) ...feedback and a lot of the Keith Richards-effec [ read more ]
CD $7.59
![]()
Though it was dismissed as morbid and self-indulgent upon its initial 1973 release, critics and audiences alike have come to view Lou Reed's unquestionably grandiose concept album, Berlin, as one of the high points of his solo career. The album's narrative arc traces the trajectory of a doomed, defiantly self-destructive romance in the modern German city, and pits dark, cabaret influenced orchestration against Reed's deadpan vocals to remarkably chilling effect. The album's bleak, incisive lyrics and [ read more ]
CD $13.99
Other people also bought:
Deerhunter Microcastle , Blitzen Trapper Furr , The Clash Live at Shea Stadium
![]()
Transformer and 'Walk on the Wild Side' were both major hits in 1972, to the surprise of both Lou Reed and the music industry, and with Reed suddenly a hot commodity, he used his newly won clout to make the most ambitious album of his career, Berlin. Berlin was the musical equivalent of a drug-addled kid set loose in a candy store; the album's songs, which form a loose story line about a doomed romance between two chemically fueled bohemians, were fleshed out with a huge, boomy product [ read more ]
MP3 $10.49
Other people also bought:
Phaser Sway, Miss Lonelyheart Average Appliance Lifespan, Lali Puna Tridecoder