TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Lou Reed
Lou Reed
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.2104
Lou Reed Album Rankings
1
David Bowiehas never been shy about acknowledging his influences, and since the boho decadence and sexual ambiguity ofthe Velvet Underground's music had a major impact onBowie's work, it was only fitt
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2
Lou Reed practically invented rock perversion. With the Velvet Underground, he wrote pioneering songs about S&M, drag queens and "Heroin.
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3
New York City figured so prominently in Lou Reed's music for so long that it's surprising it took him until 1989 to make an album simply calledNew York, a set of 14 scenes and sketches that represents
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4
From 1972'sTransformeronward, Lou Reed spent most of the '70s playing the druggy decadence card for all it was worth, with increasingly mixed results.
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5
After Lou Reed disbanded that seminal experimental art-rock band The Velvet Underground, he decided a solo career was the way to go.
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6
I wanna be black, I wanna have some natural rhythm, and shoot twenty feet of jism, too.
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7
Track listing: 1) My House; 2) Women; 3) Underneath The Bottle; 4) The Gun ; 5) The Blue Mask; 6) Average Guy; 7) The Heroine; 8) Waves Of Fear ; 9) The Day John Kennedy Died; 10) Heavenly Arms .
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8
After you've devoted an entire album to the ultimate concept – death and the mourning after – what do you do for an encore? If you're from New York and you're Lou Reed, you write about the k
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9
Like every one of Lou Reed's albums,Legendary Heartsdemands of its listener a commitment far greater and certainly more discomforting than that of the average record.
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10
New Sensationsis a long-overdue delight that's all the more exciting for being completely unexpected.
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11
This is the kind of beautiful album that Reed knows he can make in his sleep yet seldom does.
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12
Track listing: 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 Bodil
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13
Track listing: 1) I Can't Stand It ; 2) Going Down; 3) Walk And Talk It ; 4) Lisa Says; 5) Berlin ; 6) I Love You; 7) Wild Child; 8) Love Makes You Feel; 9) Ride Into The Sun; 10) Ocean .
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14
Never one for the slick, safe live recording, Reed outdid himself on this 1978 double.
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15
Lou Reed concert albums have been plentiful but never as intimate as Animal Serenade , taped last June.
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16
Track listing: 1) Stupid Man; 2) Disco Mystic ; 3) I Want To Boogie With You; 4) With You; 5) Looking For Love; 6) City Lights ; 7) All Through The Night ; 8) Families; 9) The Bells.
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17
Between 1982 and 1984, Lou Reed put together the best band of his solo career, recorded three superb albums, and left behind a fine live double after two rapturously received world tours -- not a bad
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18
The Raven... does fly on the side of the bizarre, but it holds some rich pickings.
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19
Track listing: 1) How Do You Speak To An Angel; 2) My OId Man; 3) Keep Away; 4) Growing Up In Public; 5) Standing On Ceremony; 6) So Alone ; 7) Love Is Here To Stay; 8) The Power Of Positive Drinking;
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20
In January of 1972, before any of them had established themselves as solo performers, the three semi-estranged principles of the disbanded Velvet Underground found themselves in Europe at the same tim
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21
Having assembled a troupe featuring Willam Dafoe, Steve Buscemi, and David Bowie, Lou Reed does for Poe what Warhol did for soup cans.
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22
Call Lou Reed's new live album anything butRock n Roll Animal II.That classic 1974 concert recording captured the debauched essence of Lou Reed in all his fucked-up rock-star glory.
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23
Track listing: 1) Ride Sally Ride; 2) Animal Language; 3) Baby Face ; 4) N. Y. Stars; 5) Kill Your Sons ; 6) Ennui; 7) Sally Can't Dance; 8) Billy.
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24
I'm currently listening to this album in Windows Media Player version 9, complete with 5.1 surround sound speakers.
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25
"I do Lou Reed better thananybody, so I thought I'd get in on it," Reed says at one point during this double live set, and that seems to sum up the album's theme quite well.
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26
Long time readers of this site will know i'm not overly fond of live albums, often choosing to not review them altogether than struggle to say something that might be of interest about them.
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27
Perhaps the fact that Lou Reed's curious career continues is more important than what he does with it at this particular stage.
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31
Rock and Roll Heart was Lou Reed's first album for Arista Records, and one senses that he wanted to come up with something saleable for his new sponsors.
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43
Lou Reed's calm, yet ominous song "Perfect Day" has been attracting attention since it first appeared on his Transformer album in 1972, particularly in the U.K., and particularly in the mid- '90s.
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48
Another year, another Lou Reed compilation. Or perhaps more accurately -- come the early 21st century, another year, another few Lou Reed compilations.
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51
Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed was the standard record company "hits" compilation surveying Reed's five-year, eight-album sojourn at RCA from 1972 to 1976.
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52
Robert Quine has said that the personal and musical differences that led to the end of his working relationship with Lou Reed had put a wall between them well before he finally gave Reed his notice.
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54
An unwieldy title for a collection that could, just as easily, have been titled after "Walk on the Wild Side" alone.
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59
Lou Reed is very much an album-oriented artist, and those who think they may develop a serious interest in his work are better advised to seek individual titles than compilations.
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