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Lou Reed - Berlin (1973)
by Nightjar Fri May 01, 2020 8:04 pm
I'm saving this for Sunday.
Because I'll probably need cheering up.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo9nZEalABQ&list=PLiN-7mukU_RGbweUWFyTznmRrFPIg16Zn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_(Lou_Reed_album)
https://www.discogs.com/Lou-Reed-Berlin/release/4896252
Side A
A1 - Berlin
A2 - Lady Day
A3 - Men of Good Fortune
A4 - Caroline Says I
A5 - How Do You Think It Feels
A6 - Oh, Jim
Side B
B1 - Caroline Says II
B2 - The Kids
B3 - The Bed
B4 - Sad Song
Because I'll probably need cheering up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo9nZEalABQ&list=PLiN-7mukU_RGbweUWFyTznmRrFPIg16Zn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_(Lou_Reed_album)
https://www.discogs.com/Lou-Reed-Berlin/release/4896252
Side A
A1 - Berlin
A2 - Lady Day
A3 - Men of Good Fortune
A4 - Caroline Says I
A5 - How Do You Think It Feels
A6 - Oh, Jim
Side B
B1 - Caroline Says II
B2 - The Kids
B3 - The Bed
B4 - Sad Song
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Re: Lou Reed - Berlin (1973)
by Nightjar Sun May 03, 2020 6:50 pm
Stephen Davis, in a December 1973 review for Rolling Stone, felt the album was a "disaster"; he disliked the world of "paranoia, schizophrenia, degradation, pill-induced violence and suicide" that the album introduced to the listener, and disliked Reed's "spoken and shouted" performance.
Robert Christgau in a February 1974 review for Creem felt that the story about "two drug addicts who fall into sadie-mazie in thrillingly decadent Berlin" was "lousy" and the music was "only competent".
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Re: Lou Reed - Berlin (1973)
by Nightjar Sun May 03, 2020 6:51 pm
Perhaps we should do Sally Can't Dance instead? 
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Re: Lou Reed - Berlin (1973)
by Nightjar Sun May 03, 2020 7:43 pm
8:30pm?
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Re: Lou Reed - Berlin (1973)
by Nightjar Sun May 03, 2020 7:51 pm
Does anyone actually know this album before we listen to it BTW?
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by Nightjar Sun May 03, 2020 8:22 pm
Look, OK then.
I went through a brief Lou Reed phase, but then got over it and came to the conclusion that he's a kind of charlatan.
That said, there are a lot of albums and songs by him I love, but he's very difficult to like bother as person and storyteller and many of his albums and individual songs and (especially lyrics) are risible and beneath contempt.
Insulting even.
This album however is arguably (me arguing with myself basically) one of the 10-or-so best albums ever created.
It's an titanic success.
A bone fide masterpiece.
Ergo, I fear none of your criticism.
It is what it is.
I went through a brief Lou Reed phase, but then got over it and came to the conclusion that he's a kind of charlatan.
That said, there are a lot of albums and songs by him I love, but he's very difficult to like bother as person and storyteller and many of his albums and individual songs and (especially lyrics) are risible and beneath contempt.
Insulting even.
This album however is arguably (me arguing with myself basically) one of the 10-or-so best albums ever created.
It's an titanic success.
A bone fide masterpiece.
Ergo, I fear none of your criticism.
It is what it is.
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Re: Lou Reed - Berlin (1973)
by Nightjar Sun May 03, 2020 8:25 pm
In fact it's so good that, after a long period passing wherein I've not listened to it all all, I'm thoroughly thrilled to experience it again.
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Re: Lou Reed - Berlin (1973)
by The Call of the Wendigo Sun May 03, 2020 8:30 pm
It's started! 
Track 1 - Berlin.
Track 1 - Berlin.
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Re: Lou Reed - Berlin (1973)
by Nightjar Sun May 03, 2020 8:30 pm
Discordancy!
Confusion.
Confusion.
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by The Call of the Wendigo Sun May 03, 2020 8:30 pm
Piano.
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by Guest Sun May 03, 2020 8:31 pm
I bet he had to give half the royaliets on this album to the writer of happy birthday.
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by Nightjar Sun May 03, 2020 8:31 pm
It was... Paradise.
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Re: Lou Reed - Berlin (1973)
by Nightjar Sun May 03, 2020 8:32 pm
WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:IS this Tom Waits?
Tom Waits was only 3 when this came out.
He looked 50 though.
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Re: Lou Reed - Berlin (1973)
by Nightjar Sun May 03, 2020 8:33 pm
It doesn't get any more cheerful than this BTW.
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