Lou Reed: Original Album Classics + Rock 'n' Roll Animal 1974 + Street Hassle 1978 + The Blue Mask 1982

 

Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician, songwriter, and poet. He was the guitarist, lead singer, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades. While he flirted with mainstream

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

success between 1970 (when he left the Velvet Underground) and 2013 (when he succumbed to liver disease), he most often played to a large cult following that only occasionally expanded into mainstream visibility. However, his songwriting -- unusually literate and often embracing themes that flouted society's conventions, especially in terms of drugs and sex -- broke fresh ground that other artists would follow, and his willingness to confront his audience made him a vitally important precursor to the punk revolution of the mid- to late '70s. 
                               

His eponymous solo debut, Lou Reed, was released in January 1972, with members of Yes in the line-up. Success came when David Bowie and Mick Ronson produced his next album Transformer.

It included the songs "Walk on the Wild Side," "Perfect Day", and "Satellite of Love." An important album for the LGBT community, Transformer put Reed on the map. However, the fame that came with it worsened his pre-existing alcoholism. He released his next album, the bleak story cycle titled Berlin and produced by Bob Ezrin, in 1973. The album was trashed by rock critics, frustrating Reed. Subsequent years saw opinion on the album slowly change, and the record is now considered one of Reed's major works.
                          

In his catalog, he covered a remarkable amount of stylistic ground -- introspective singer/songwriter

(Lou Reed), glam (Transformer), art rock (Berlin), hard rock (Rock N' Roll Animal), noise (Metal Machine Music), confessional proto-punk (Street Hassle), jazz-infused rock (The Bells), upbeat pop/rock (New Sensations), social commentary (New York), and ambitious literary adaptations (The Raven). For all his creative shape-shifting, however, he never failed to sound like Lou Reed, with his ineffable downtown cool and dour outlook informing it all. 
                             

 

Lou Reed is recognized as an art rock legend, a major glam rock pioneer and an experimental rock

and roll star. He was also very influential in the development of punk rock and has been called the "Godfather of Punk" on several occasions. Reed also explored other sonorities such as jazz-infused rock, noise music, pop rock, and hard rock. Reed's songwriting style has been described as "unusually literate" and often contained themes considered to be transgressive. Reed was heavily influenced by literature and poetry, and strived to apply creative autonomy allowed in literature to rock music.
                    

Reed had hepatitis and diabetes for several years. He was treated with interferons but developed liver cancer. In May 2013, he underwent a liver transplant at the Cleveland Clinic.Afterward, he

wrote on his website of feeling "bigger and stronger" than ever. On October 27, 2013, however, he died from liver disease at his home in East Hampton, New York, at the age of 71. He was cremated and the ashes were given to his family. His widow, Laurie Anderson, said his last days were peaceful, and described him as a "prince and a fighter". David Byrne, Patti Smith, David Bowie, Morrissey, Miley Cyrus, Iggy Pop, Courtney Love, Lenny Kravitz, and many others also paid tribute to Reed. Former Velvet Underground members Moe Tucker and John Cale made statements on Reed's death, and those from outside the music industry paid their respects such as Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi.
                        

LOU REED - ORIGINAL ALBUM CLASSICS
                                             

Lou Reed – Original Album Classics
Label: RCA – 88697304732, Sony BMG Music Entertainment – 
Series: Original Album Classics – 88697304732
Format: Box Set, Compilation, Stereo
Country:Europe
Released:2008
Genre: Rock
Style: Art Rock, Glam, Classic Rock

                                     

CD1.  LOU REED - LOU REED 1972        

                                           

    
01. I Can't Stand It    2:34
02. Going Down    2:53
03. Walk And Talk It    3:38
04. Lisa Says    5:29
05. Berlin    5:13
06. I Love You    2:16
07. Wild Child    4:39
08. Love Makes You Feel    3:09
09. Ride Into The Sun    3:13
10. Ocean    5:04

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CD2.  LOU REED - TRANSFORMER 1972    

                                     

    
01. Vicious    2:56
02. Andy's Chest    3:17
03. Perfect Day    3:43
04. Hangin' 'Round    3:39
05. Walk On The Wild Side    4:12
06. Make Up    2:56
07. Satellite Of Love    3:40
08. Wagon Wheel    3:19
09. New York Telephone Conversation    1:31
10. I'm So Free    3:07
11. Goodnight Ladies   4:19
Arranged By – Herbie Flowers
Baritone Saxophone – Ronnie Ross
Piano, Recorder – Mick Ronson
Tuba – Herbie Flowers
    

TRANSFORMER BONUS TRACKS        

    
12. Hangin' 'Round (Acoustic Demo Version)    3:58
13. Perfect Day/Transformer Radio Spot    4:50

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CD3.  LOU REED - BERLIN 1973    

                                

01. Berlin   3:25
Piano – Allan Macmillan    
02. Lady Day   3:40
Bass – Gene Martynec
Drums – B.J. Wilson
03. Men Of Good Fortune   4:38
Piano – Blue Weaver    
04. Caroline Says I    3:57
05. How Do You Think It Feels    3:42
06. Oh Jim    5:15
07. Caroline Says II    4:13
08. The Kids   7:55
Bass – Tony Levin
Drums – B.J. Wilson    
09. The Bed   5:51
Acoustic Guitar, Synthesizer, Arranged By [Vocals] – GeneMartyne
10. Sad Song    6:57

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CD4.  LOU REED - SALLY CAN'T DANCE 1974    

                               

   
01. Ride Sally Ride    4:06
02. Animal Language    3:05
03. Baby Face    5:06
04. N.Y. Stars    4:02
05. Kill Your Sons    3:40
06. Ennui    3:43
07. Sally Can't Dance    4:12
08. Billy    5:10

BONUS TRACKS            

09. Good Taste (Previously Unreleased)    3:30
10. Sally Can't Dance (Single Version)

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CD5.  LOU REED - CONEY ISLAND BABY 1975        

                                 

   
01. Crazy Feeling    2:50
02. Charley's Girl    2:35
03. She's My Best Friend    6:00
04. Kicks    6:00
05. A Gift    3:45
06. Ooohhh Baby    3:45
07. Nobody's Business    3:45
08. Coney Island Baby    6:350

BONUS TRACKS        

    
09. Nowhere At All    3:18
10. Downtown Dirt    4:18
11. Leave Me Alone    5:35
12. Crazy Feeling    2:39
13. She's My Best Friend (Alternate Version)    4:09
14. Coney Island Baby (Alternate Version)    5:42

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LOU REED - ROCK 'N' ROLL ANIMAL 1974
                          

Lou Reed – Rock N Roll Animal
Label: RCA – 07863 67948 2, BMG – 07863 67948 2
Format: CD, Album, Reissue 2000
Country: Europe
Released: 1974
Genre: Rock
Style: Hard Rock, Glam

TRACKS

                                      

01. Intro / Sweet Jane    (7:46)
1a. Intro (Written-By – Steve)    
1b. Sweet Jane    
02. Heroin    13:13
03. How Do You Think It Feels    3:41
04. Caroline Says I    4:07
05. White Light / White Heat    4:55
06. Lady Day    4:06
07. Rock 'N' Roll    10:22

LINE - UP

Bass – Prakash John
Drums – Pentti Glan
Guitar – Dick Wagner, Steve Hunter
Keyboards – Ray Colcord
Written-By – Lou Reed (tracks: 1 to 7), Steve Hunter (tracks: 1)

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LOU REED - STREET HASSLE 1978
                              

Lou Reed – Street Hassle
Label: Arista – 07822-18499-2
Format: CD, Album, Reissue 1992
Country: US
Released: 1978
Genre: Rock
Style: Classic Rock

TRACKS

                                

01. Gimmie Some Good Times    3:15
02. Dirt    4:58
03. Street Hassle    (11:00)
3a. Waltzing Matilda    
3b. Street Hassle    
3c. Slipaway    
04. I Wanna Be Black    2:52
05. Real Good Time Together    3:19
06. Shooting Star    3:09
07. Leave Me Alone    4:44
08. Wait    3:14

LINE - UP

                                       

Vocals – Lou Reed
Backing Vocals – Angela Howard, Christine Wiltshire, Genya Ravan, Jo'Anna Cameron, Stuart Heinrich (tracks: 7)
Bass – Lou Reed
Bass [Lead Bass] – Steve Friedman (tracks: 7)
Drums – Michael Suchorsky
Guitar – Lou Reed, Stuart Heinrich (tracks: 3)
Piano – Lou Reed, Michael Fonfara (tracks: 4, 6)
Saxophone [Amplified] – Marty Fogle

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LOU REED - THE BLUE MASK 1982
                       

Lou Reed – The Blue Mask
Label: RCA – ND84780
Format: CD, Album, Reissue 1990
Country: UK & Europe
Released: 1982    
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock

TRACKS

                              

01. My House    5:21
02. Women    4:55
03. Underneath The Bottle    2:27
04. The Gun    3:37
05. The Blue Mask    5:00
06. Average Guy    3:10
07. The Heroine    3:00
08. Waves Of Fear    4:10
09. The Day John Kennedy Died    4:05
10. Heavenly Arms    4:45

LINE - UP

                            

Vocals, Guitar – Lou Reed
Bass, Backing Vocals – Fernando Saunders
Drums – Doane Perry
Guitar – Robert Quine
Written-By – Lou Reed

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Goodbye Great Man

LOU  REED  :  PERFECT  DAY  LYRICS

What a perfect day, drink Sangria in the park
Later when it gets dark, we go home
Ooh such a perfect day feed animals in the zoo
Then later a movie, too and then home

It's such a perfect day, I'm glad I spend it with you
Such a perfect day you just keep me hanging on
You just keep me hanging on

Oh such a perfect day, weekenders on our own
It's such fun

Such perfect day you made me forget myself
I thought I was someone else, someone good

Oh, it's such a perfect day, I'm glad I spent it with you
Such a perfect day you just keep me hanging on
You just keep me hanging on

You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow

Oh what a perfect day
Oh such a perfect day
Ooh such a perfect day

Lou Reed : The Raven 2003

The Raven is a concept album by Lou Reed released in 2003 . Its goal is to recount the short stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe through word and song . Both "The Bed" and " Perfect Day " are new and very different versions of well-known Reed songs from previous albums , and the song " Fire Music " is noise music . In addition to Reed it features a number of guest vocalists including Laurie Anderson , David Bowie , Antony Hegarty , Steve Buscemi and Willem Dafoe . The producer , Hal Willner , had previously overseen the Poe tribute album Closed on Account of Rabies .



The recording was simultaneously released as a two-disc set of recordings and in an edited single-disc version .

This is the Limited Edition 2 -CD Set .

Lou Reed has called The Raven " A movie for the mind " and that description just begins to capture this double CD's phantasmagoric impact . Though it's based on the writings of Edgar Allan Poe , The Raven is less a strictly literary or musical work than a dreamlike evocation of Poe's obsessions : Loss , Guilt , Violence , Self-destruction and failed bids for redemption . Of course , those have been Reed's own obsessions for more than three decades . It's an artistic marriage that could hardly have been made in heaven -- the album's demonic power clearly emanates from the fires down below .

In that subversive spirit , The Raven will confound purists of every stripe . Most provocatively , Reed is far more faithful to the spirit than to the letter of Poe's work . He stirs verses from "Annabel Lee " , "The Bells" and " The Fall of the House of Usher " into a hallucinogenic stew , boldly altering Poe's language and adding his own as impulse dictates . On the other hand , the readings by actors such as Willem Dafoe , Elizabeth Ashley and Amanda Plummer not to mention the serene deconstruction of Reed's "Perfect Day" by the otherworldly singer Antony will bewilder the rock & roll animals among Reed's following .

Open-minded listeners , however , will revel in The Raven's impurities , its Poe-like perversions . Heaven and hell collide in Reed's raucous duet with the Blind Boys of Alabama on " I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum) " and he revisits the purgative roar of Metal Machine Music on the instrumental " Fire Music " On " Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song) " meanwhile , he delivers some of the most personal lyrics of his career . " One thinks of what one hoped to be " he sings , " and then faces reality " . The reality here is that Reed has once again stretched the boundaries of popular music and , in doing so , has honored Edgar Allan Poe's illustrious legacy , along with his own .


ANTHONY DECURTIS
Rolling Stone Magazine


Disc 1: Act 1

1. The Conqueror Worm
2. Overture
3. ld Poe
4. Prologue (Ligiea)
5. Edgar Allan Poe
6. The Valley of Unrest
7. Call on Me
8. The City in the Sea / Shadow
9. A Thousand Departed Friends
10. Change
11. The Fall of the House of Usher
12. The Bed
13. Perfect Day
14. The Raven
15. Balloon
MP3 Size 121 MB
Bitrate 320

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Disc 2: Act 2

1. Broadway Song
2. The Tell-Tale Heart (Pt. 1)
3. Blind Rage
4. The Tell-Tale Heart (Pt. 2)
5. Burning Embers
6. Imp of the Perverse
7. Vanishing Act
8. The Cask
9. Guilty , spoken
10. Guilty , sung
11. A Wild Being from Birth
12. I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum) Listen this track . It' s great !!!
13. Science of the Mind
14. Annabel Lee - The Bells
15. Hop Frog
16. Every Frog Has His Day
17. Tripitena's Speech
18. Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song)
19. Courtly Orangutans
20. Fire Music
21. Guardian Angel

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Bitrate 320

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Ornette Coleman : alto saxophone on " Guilty "
Laurie Anderson : vocals on " Call On Me "
Antony Hegarty : vocals on " Perfect Day "
David Bowie : vocals on "Hop Frog"
The Blind Boys of Alabama : backing vocals on "I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendulum)"
Willem Dafoe : voice on "The Raven" and "The Cask"
Steve Buscemi : voice on "Broadway Song" , "Old Poe" & "The Cask"



THE CONQUEROR WORM

Lo! 't is a gala night
A mystic throng bedecked
Sit in a theater to see
A play of hopes and fears
While the orchestra breathes fitfully
The music of the spheres

Mimes, mutter and mumble low
Mere puppets they, who come and go
Disguised as gods
They shift the scenery to and fro
Inevitably trapped by invisible Wo

This motley drama
to be sure
Will not be forgotten

A phantom chased for evermore
Never seized by the crowd
Through they circle
Returning to the same spot
Circle and return to the selfsame spot
Always to the selfsame spot
With much of madness and more of sin
And horror and mimic rout
The soul of the plot
Out
out are the lights
out all
And over each dying form
The curtain a funeral pall
Comes with the rush of a storm
The angels haggard and wan
Unveiling and uprising affirm
That the play is the tragedy "Man"
And its hero the Conqueror Worm

I WANNA KNOW

Under the intense scrutiny of Ligeia's eyes
I have felt the full knowledge
And force of their expression
And yet been unable to possess it
And have felt it leave me
As so many other things have left
The letter half-read
The bottle half-drunk
Finding
Finding in the commonest objects of the universe
A circle of analogies
Of metaphors
Ooohhh
For that expression
Which has been willfully
withheld from me
The access to the inner soul denied
I wanna know, ooohhh
I wanna know
I wanna know, oh
I wanna know
In consideration
In consideration of the faculties and impulses
Of the human soul
Of the human soul
In consideration
Of our arrogance
Of our arrogance
Our radical, primitive irreducible arrogance of reason
We have all overlooked the propensity
We saw no need for it
The paradoxical something which we may call perverseness
Perverseness
Through its promptings we act without
Comprehensible object
We act for the reason we should not
We act for the reason we should not
For certain minds this is absolutely irre-, irre-
irresistible
irresistible
The conviction of the wrong
Or impolicy of an action
Is often the unconquerable force
The unconquerable force
It is a primitive impulse
It is a primitive impulse
Primitive impulse
The overwhelming tendency
The overwhelming tendency to do
Wrong for the wrong's sake
To do wrong for the wrong's sake
We persist in acts
Because we feel that we
should not persist in them
Because we feel we, feel we
should not persist, per-, persist in them, ah
Ooohhh
So I wanna know