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Editors’ Notes

After leaving The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed started his solo career with this unusual debut. Seven cuts here were reworkings of then-unreleased Velvet Underground songs (some VU studio versions surfaced later, while "Ocean" and "Lisa Says" also appeared on a VU live album). On Lou Reed they were played by session musicians, including Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman of Yes. "Berlin" was later rerecorded for the album bearing its name. These are excellent Reed tunes, and the passion and power of "I Can't Stand It," "Walk and Talk It," and "Lisa Says" can't be muted by their unusual circumstances of their recording. Reed's voice is in strong form, and he brings a haunted quality to the studio decadence of "Going Down," "Berlin," and "Ride into the Sun." Though the album wasn't a commercial success at the time, in retrospect it's an important album in Reed's development and features several of his finest tunes. 

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Lou Reed

An underated record
I Can't Stand It, Walk and Talk It, Lisa Says, I Love You, Wild Child, Love Makes You Feel, Ride Into the Sun, and Ocean were al VU songs
Berlin was re-recorded for "Berlin"

Ok

I really like Lisa says

An un-promising start to a brilliant career

A guy as prolifically created as Lou Reed could have been expected to record a debut solo album of new material and to have performed it w/ a band more reflective of his unique aesthetic sense. Instead we have this canned, formulaic reiteration of unreleased Velvet Underground material (all of which, without exception, was performed much more compellingly by the VU- see the excellent "VU" and "Another VU" albums). I like this version of 'Berlin', but that album was a much stronger performance and, for me, constitutes the real debut of Lou as a solo performer. Lou said, after the release of "Sally Can't Dance," his highest charting album, that the less involved he was with the recording of an album the better it sold. While that may or may not have been so, his lack of involvement is clearly evident here and much to the album's detriment.

Biography

Born: March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, NY

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

The career of Lou Reed defied capsule summarization. Like David Bowie (whom Reed directly inspired in many ways), he made over his image many times, mutating from theatrical glam rocker to strung-out junkie to avant-garde noiseman to straight rock & roller to your average guy. Few would deny Reed's immense importance and considerable achievements. As has often been written, he expanded the vocabulary of rock & roll lyrics into the previously forbidden territory of kinky sex, drug use (and...
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