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Lou Reed, Berlin

Audio CD

Disk ID: 972345

Disk length: 49m 49s (10 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1973

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Berlin 3:25
2. Lady Day 3:39
3. Men of good fortune 4:36
4. Caroline says 3:57
5. How do you think it feels 3:43
6. Oh Jim 5:12
7. Caroline says II 4:13
8. The kids 7:53
9. The bed 5:51
10. Sad song 7:13

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Review

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

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Berlin

Tracks: 10, Disk length: 49m 53s (+0m 4s)

Berlin

Tracks: 9 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 49m 40s (-1m 51s)

Berlin

Tracks: 10, Disk length: 49m 37s (-1m 48s)

Berlin

Tracks: 10, Disk length: 49m 36s (-1m 47s)

Berlin

Tracks: 10, Disk length: 49m 35s (-1m 46s)

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