Lou Reed ‎– Original Album Series 5CD

Lou Reed ‎– Original Album Series

The man from Brooklyn had long since decisively expanded the vocabulary of rock'n roll - both as a member of The Velvet Underground and with early solo albums like the '72 classic "Transformer." But in the late '80s, his "Walk On The Wild Side" (the single hit) took a few surprising turns once again. And be it only that Lou Reed finally titled an album simply "New York", after his hometown had served him as a creative playground for so long. The nearly 1-hour song cycle has remained his best, most coherent solo work to this day - as personal as it is profound, as biting as it is humorous, and with new comrades-in-arms such as guitarist Mike Rathke and bassist Rob Wassermann, it has been implemented in an unpretentiously energetic manner. With "Dime Store Mystery" Reed also succeeded in a beautiful homage to his mentor Andy Warhol, who died in 1987. Songs For Drella" continues this thread. The album reunited Reed with John Cale in a spectacular collaboration, a good 20 years after the latter had left the Velvet Underground. Musically restrained and thus entirely focused on the story(s), the duo succeeded in creating a richly detailed, moving portrait that looked far beyond the public Warhol image. Surprisingly little morbid came across then 1992 "Magic And Loss", considering that Lou Reed dealt on this album exclusively with illness and death, after he had lost two friends within a year to cancer. With "Set The Twilight Reeling" and songs like "Egg Cream" Reed then returned to the fun of life and loud guitars, before "Ecstasy" explored the dark side of lust and love at the turn of the millennium in tracks like "Paronoia Key Of E", "Mad" or "White Prism". He also came up with the 18-minute feedback orgy "Like A Possum" - don't say Lou Reed has already run out of surprises...

Tracklist:
New York
1. Romeo Had Juliette
2. Halloween Parade
3. Dirty Blvd.
4. Endless Cycle
5. There is No Time
6. Last Great American Whale
7. Beginning of a Great Adventure
8. Busload of Faith
9. Sick of You
10. Hold On
11. Good Evening Mr. Waldheim
12. Xmas In February
13. Strawman
14. Dime Store Mystery

Songs For Drella
1. Smalltown
2. Open House
3. Style It Takes
4. Work
5. Trouble With Classicists
6. Starlight
7. Faces and Names
8. Images
9. Slip Away (A Warning)
10. It Wasn't Me
11. I Believe
12. Nobody But You
13. A Dream
14. Forever Changed
15. Hello It's Me

Magic And Loss
1. Dorita - the Spirit
2. What's Good - the Thesis
3. Power and Glory - the Situation
4. Magician - Internally
5. Sword of Damocles - Externally
6. Goodby Mass - In a Chapel Bodily Termination
7. Cremation - Ashes To Ashes
8. Dreamin' - Escape
9. No Chance - Regret
10. Warrior King - Revenge
11. Harry's Circumcision - Reverie Gone Astray
12. Gassed and Stoked - Loss
13. Power and Glory Part Ii - Magic - Transformation
14. Magic and Loss - the Summation

Set The Twilight Reeling
1. Egg Cream
2. Nyc Man
3. Finish Line
4. Trade In
5. Hang On To Your Emotions
6. Sex With Your Parents (Motherfucker) Part Ii - Live Lp Version
7. Hookywooky
8. The Propostion
9. Adventurer
10. Riptide
11. Set the Twilight Reeling

Ecstasy
1. Paranoia Key of E
2. Mystic Child
3. Mad
4. Ecstasy
5. Modern Dance
6. Tatters
7. Future Farmers of America
8. Turning Time Around
9. White Prism
10. Rock Minuet
11. Baton Rouge
12. Like a Possum
13. Rouge
14. Big Sky

Label: Warner Records
Released: 2017