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 ]

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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 ]

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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 ]

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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 ]

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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 production    [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. PICTURE DISC. The gathering of three former Velvet Underground members at the Bataclan in January 1972 is something that can easily be remembered as one of the most important events in the popular music panorama of the Seventies. The venue was too small for the crowd that milled around attempting to witness what was expected to be a true VU reunion. Far from being that, this gig was however an awesome performance by three of the most controversial icons of the 60s cultural revolution. Here the   [ read more ]

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In 1982, 12 years after he left the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed released The Blue Mask, the first album where he lived up to the potential he displayed in the most groundbreaking of all American rock bands. The Blue Mask was Reed's first album after he overcame a long-standing addiction to alcohol and drugs, and it reveals a renewed focus and dedication to craft ? for the first time in years, Reed had written an entire album's worth of moving, compelling songs, and was performing them with keen skill and g   [ read more ]

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Lou Reed has been the subject of many compilations, one of them being 2003's double-disc, 31-track NYC Man: The Ultimate Lou Reed Collection, which covers everything from the Velvet Underground to 2003's The Raven. It opens up with an unreleased alternate take of "Who Am I" from The Raven, then often substitutes studio cuts with live performances, including a healthy selection from Live in Italy and Perfect Night: Live in London (only one cut from Rock 'n' Roll Animal, strangely e   [ read more ]

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Some say this was Lou Reed's worst studio album. A lot of people had that opinion about a little album called THE WHITE ALBUM.

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In 1974, after the commercial disaster of his album Berlin, Lou Reed needed a hit, and Rock N Roll Animal was a rare display of commercial acumen on his part, just the right album at just the right time. Recorded in concert with Reed's crack road band at the peak of their form, Rock N Roll Animal offered a set of his most anthemic songs (most dating from his days with the Velvet Underground) in arrangements that presented his lean, effective melodies and street-level lyrics in their most u   [ read more ]

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For a guy who has only scored one bona fide hit single in the course of 35 years, Lou Reed sure has more than his share of "greatest-hits" compilations in his discography, most of which make clear that his career doesn't lend itself to an especially coherent single-disc overview, primarily because of the stylistic diversity and creative ups and downs of his work (especially in the '70s and '80s, the primary focus of this set). The Platinum & Gold Collection, Reed's installment in BMG's new serie   [ read more ]

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Reed's first solo album, with "Walk It & Talk It," "Wild Child," and "Lisa Says" being particular standouts. ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide

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