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Berlin (Remastered) (Import) (CD)

By: Lou Reed

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Berlin (Remastered) (Import) (CD) Album By Lou Reed
1   Berlin  
2   Lady Day  
3   Men Of Good Fortune  
4   Caroline Says  
5   How Do You Think It Feels  
6   Oh Jim  
7   Caroline Says  
8   Kids  
9   Bed  
10   Sad Song  
 

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Review

NME (9/18/93, p.19) - Ranked #33 among The Greatest Albums Of The '70s.
NME (8/12/00, p.29) - Ranked #28 in The NME "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums" - "...Heartbreak. Heroin. Dubonnet on ice. Reed poured all this badness into this bitter and twisted masterpiece..."
Q (5/92, p.103) - 5 Stars - Indispensable - "...a melancholy masterpiece...places Reed's dry narrative in sophisticated settings..."
The Wire (6/00, p.37) - "...Fascinating....Detailing a couple's breakup, a woman's breakdown and her eventual suicide.....succeeding despite itself..."

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Personnel: Lou Reed (vocals, acoustic guitar); Gene Martynec (acoustic guitar, synthesizer); Dick Wagner (electric guitar, background vocals); Steve Hunter (electric guitar); Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone); Randy Brecker (trumpet); Jon Pierson (bass trombone); Bob Ezrin (piano, mellotron, background vocals); Allan Macmillan, Blue Weaver (piano); Steve Winwood (organ, harmonium); Tony Levin, Jack Bruce (bass); B.J. Wilson, Aynsley Dunbar (drums); Dennis Ferrante, Steve Hyden, Elizabeth March (background vocals).
Recorded at Morgan Studios, London, England. Includes liner notes by Michael Hill.
After the success of his glam-rockish TRANSFORMER, the expectation was that Lou Reed would plow deeper into commercial territory. As usual, Reed delighted in confounding expectations. BERLIN is a song cycle that uses the decadence of its namesake and some Brecht/Weill-esque orchestrations to tell a story of two psychically damaged people and their doomed relationship. (Aided by Berlin producer Bob Ezrin, Pink Floyd would attempt a similar feat several years later on THE WALL). Far from the rock star poses of TRANSFORMER, BERLIN is lyrically and musically frank and blunt. The arrangements move from sophisticated, arch orchestation to naked-sounding acoustic sparseness, but the words are uniformly unflinching in their depiction of violence, addiction and desperation. Not for the faint of heart, BERLIN is a harrowing journey through the aforementioned tribulations, and one of Reed's most unusual, demanding, but ultimately rewarding albums.

Album Description

After the success of his glam-rockish TRANSFORMER, the expectation was that Lou Reed would plough deeper into commercial territory. As usual, Reed delighted in confounding expectations. BERLIN is a song cycle that uses the decadence of its namesake and some Brecht/Weill-esque orchestrations to tell a story of two psychically damaged people and their doomed relationship. (Aided by Berlin producer Bob Ezrin, Pink Floyd would attempt a similar feat several years later on THE WALL).
Far from the rock-star poses of TRANSFORMER, BERLIN is lyrically and musically frank and blunt. The arrangements move from sophisticated, arch orchestration to naked-sounding acoustic sparseness, but the words are uniformly unflinching in their depiction of violence, addiction, and desperation. Not for the faint of heart, BERLIN is a harrowing journey through the aforementioned tribulations, and one of Reed's most unusual, demanding, but ultimately rewarding albums.

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