Lou Reed

Lou Reed - Walk On The Wildside (2010) Music

Posted by Melaron at Oct. 28, 2011

The career of Lou Reed defies capsule summarization. Like David Bowie (whom Reed directly inspired in many ways), he has made over his image many times, mutating from theatrical glam rocker to scary-looking junkie to avant-garde noiseman to straight rock & roller to your average guy. A firmer grasp of rock's earthier qualities has ensured a more consistent career path than Bowie's, particularly in his latter years. Yet his catalog is extremely inconsistent, in both quality and stylistic orientation. Liking one Lou Reed LP, or several, or all of the ones he did in a particular era, is no guarantee that you'll like all of them, or even most of them. Few would deny Reed's immense importance and considerable achievements, however. As has often been written, he expanded the vocabulary of rock & roll lyrics into the previously forbidden territory of kinky sex, drug use (and abuse), decadence, transvestites, homosexuality, and suicidal depression.

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Lou Reed - Transmission Impossible (2015) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Oct. 15, 2015

After quitting the Velvet Underground in August 1970, Lou Reed took a job at his father's tax accounting firm. In 1971 he signed a recording contract with RCA Records and recorded his first solo album in London with top session musicians including Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman. The album, Lou Reed, contained smoothly produced versions of unreleased Velvet Underground songs, some of which had originally been recorded by the Velvets for Loaded but shelved. The record was largely overlooked by most music critics and it did not sell well. In December 72, Reed released Transformer.

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Lou Reed - Magic And Loss (1992) Music

Posted by popsakov at April 20, 2024

Magic and Loss is the sixteenth album by Lou Reed. Originally released in 1992 on Sire Records, the concept album was Reed's highest peaking album on the UK Albums Chart, reaching No. 6. Magic and Loss was voted the 16th best album of the year in The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll for 1992. Robert Christgau, the poll's creator, disapproved of the voters' support of an album he felt was a "failed concept" marred by Reed's uninteresting views on death. Christgau gave it a "neither" grade in his own review, indicating an album that does not warrant repeated listening despite coherent craft and one or two highlights. In a positive review, Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune said that the album shows "a great rocker at the peak of his powers: Striking tunes, gripping lyrics, honest emotion stripped of melodrama."

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Classic Albums - Lou Reed: Transformer (2007) Music

Posted by Melaron at Oct. 7, 2011

Classic Albums - Lou Reed: Transformer (2007)
DVD-5 | Runtime: 80 min. | 3,65 Gb | Copy: Untouched
Video: PAL, MPEG Video at 6 043 Kbps, 720 x 576 (1.778) at 25.000 fps | Audio: AC-3 2 ch. at 224 Kbps, 48.0 KHz
Genre: Rock, Pop/Rock | Label: Eagle Rock Entertainment Ltd | Subtitles: German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French

Lou Reed with the help of Andy Warhol at the 'Factory', made The Velvet Underground a massively influential band. However it was Transformer, Lou Reed's second solo album, which took him from cult hero of The Velvet Underground to international superstar status. The program takes a track-by-track look at the album, which was produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson. In an exclusive interview in New York, Lou Reed talks of the making of the album and together with Ken Scott, the original engineer, takes us through the multi-track tapes of 'Perfect Day', 'Vicious', 'Satellite Of Love' and 'Walk On The Wild Side' amongst others.

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Lou Reed - Take No Prisoners - Live (1978) [2CD] {2006 Japan MiniLP BVCM-37746/47} [Repost] Music

Posted by ruskaval at June 3, 2011

Lou Reed - Take No Prisoners - Live (1978) [2CD] {2006 Japan MiniLP BVCM-37746/47}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC+CUE+LOG -> 692 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 23 Mb
© 2006 Arista / BMG Japan | BVCM-37746/47
Rock / Hard Rock / Proto-Punk

Never one for the slick, safe live recording, Reed outdid himself on this 1978 double. Street Hassle (also '78) had brought him halfway back from the brink he'd braved with Metal Machine Music, but here the well-known songs' loose outlines are just irrelevant backdrops for extended miserabilist rants against fans, friends and critics. A cross between Lenny Bruce and Alex Ferguson, Lou bitches about the injustice of it all as the nervous, ignored band jam through "Sweet Jane", "Walk On The Wild Side" et al. Reed as great, grizzling punk grinch.

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Lou Reed - Transformer (1972) {Reissue} Music

Posted by popsakov at Nov. 21, 2023

Lou Reed - Transformer (1972) {Reissue}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 241 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 127 Mb
Full Scans | 00:37:07 | RAR 5% Recovery
Glam Rock | RCA #ND83806

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of the Velvet Underground, and his solo career spanned five decades. Reed began a solo career in 1972. Reed was known for his distinctive deadpan voice and poetic lyrics, and for pioneering and coining the term ostrich guitar tuning. Rolling Stone magazine voted Reed's 1989 New York album the 19th best of the 1980s. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included two albums by Reed as a solo artist: Transformer and Berlin. Transformer is the second studio album by American rock musician Lou Reed. Produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson, the album was released in November 1972 through RCA Records.

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Lou Reed - Set The Twilight Reeling (1996) Music

Posted by popsakov at July 1, 2024

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of the Velvet Underground, and his solo career spanned five decades. Reed began a solo career in 1972. Reed was known for his distinctive deadpan voice and poetic lyrics, and for pioneering and coining the term ostrich guitar tuning. Rolling Stone magazine voted Reed's 1989 New York album the 19th best of the 1980s. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included two albums by Reed as a solo artist: Transformer and Berlin. Set the Twilight Reeling is the seventeenth solo album by rock musician Lou Reed. As noted on the lyric sheet, "Finish Line" was Reed's tribute to Velvet Underground guitarist Sterling Morrison, who had died the previous year.

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Lou Reed - Between Thought And Expression. The Lou Reed Anthology [3CD] (1992) Music

Posted by Hungry Mind at June 22, 2012

In October 1990, Lou Reed interviewed Vaclav Havel, playwright, poet, president of the newly emancipated Czechoslovakia, and – surprisingly? – a Velvet Underground fan. During the course of their conversation, Havel handed Reed a book. "These are your lyrics, hand-printed and translated into Czechoslovakian. There were only 200 of them. They were very dangerous to have. People went to jail." Nobody will go to jail for owning Between Thought and Expression, but Reed's lyrics remain dangerous – not, as in Communist Czechoslovakia, for what they are, but for what they say. Deactivating society's most fail-safe mechanisms, he tells secrets, lifts shrouds, and, at his best, depicts a reality so harsh, so harrowing, that it becomes almost fantastical. Nobody could live like that. Nobody could love like that. And, surely, nobody could think like that. Between Thought and Expression, three discs and four hours culling Reed's own personal favorites from a then-25-year career, presents that reality without distraction.

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Lou Reed & Kris Kristofferson - The Bottom Line Archive Series: In Their Own Words With Vin Scelsa (2017/2018) [24/44] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at May 27, 2018

Lou Reed & Kris Kristofferson - The Bottom Line Archive Series: In Their Own Words With Vin Scelsa (2017/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 95:22 minutes | 0.99 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

The Bottom Line Archive Series presents its next release: the once-in-a-lifetime live performance by Lou Reed and Kris Kristofferson at the height of their craft, set for release September 15. Recorded at the legendary Bottom Line club in Greenwich Village, the album presents an evening of music, songwriting and storytelling – intimate, acoustic, historic. The Bottom Line Archive label is distributed via BFD/Red; BFD is a division of Bob Frank Entertainment.

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Lou Reed - Magic And Loss (1992) Music

Posted by jorbeles at March 5, 2009

Lou Reed - Magic And Loss (1992)
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This is an album about death – and how to live with it. It is an eyewitness account, documented in compelling song, of a losing battle with cancer, the mourning after and the little miracles that, for the mourner, mark the beginning of the healing process. It will probably bum you out the first couple of times through. (Rolling Stones)

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