Berlin
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Eternally perverse, Reed responded to having a pop hit with Transformer by making a massive bummer of an album, built around reworked versions of a couple of older songs. Berlin is psychologically grueling and unremittingly dark (scariest moment: "The Kids," which ends with a very long tape of children screaming in terror), but the savage contrasts of its sound have gotten more impressive with time. The big production flourishes hit like a hangover, Reed's voice sounds like he's trying to stave off emotional involvement with his lyrics because it would hurt too much, and the multi-layered textures of "Oh Jim" surge and recede like details of a nightmare. The album takes strength to hear, and rewards it. --Douglas Wolk --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Berlin, Music, Lou Reed
Music:
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4
At the Crescendo, Vols. 1 & 2 [Live]
American Swinging in Paris [Import]