Lou Reed Discography & Albums
The Velvet Underground
Albums
* 1967: The Velvet Underground & Nico
* 1968: White Light/White Heat
* 1969: The Velvet Underground
* 1970: Loaded
* 1973: Squeeze
Live Albums
* 1972: Live at Max's Kansas City
* 1974: 1969: The Velvet Underground Live
* 1993: Live MCMXCIII
* 2001: Final V.U. 1971–1973
* 2001: The Quine Tapes
Compilation Albums
* 1971: Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground featuring Nico
* 1985: VU
* 1986: Another View
* 1989: The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed
* 1991: Chronicles
* 1995: The Best of Lou Reed & Velvet Underground
* 1997: Fully Loaded
* 2000: The Best of The Velvet Underground: The Millennium Collection
* 2001: Rock and Roll: an Introduction to The Velvet Underground
* 2002: The Velvet Underground & Nico (Deluxe Edition)
* 2003: The Very Best of the Velvet Underground
* 2005: Gold
* 2008: Playlist Plus
Box Sets
* 1993: What Goes On
* 1995: Peel Slowly and See
Lou Reed Solo
Albums
* 1972: Lou Reed
* 1972: Transformer
* 1973: Berlin
* 1974: Sally Can't Dance
* 1975: Metal Machine Music
* 1975: Coney Island Baby
* 1976: Rock and Roll Heart
* 1978: Street Hassle
* 1979: The Bells
* 1980: Growing Up in Public
* 1982: The Blue Mask
* 1983: Legendary Hearts
* 1984: New Sensations
* 1986: Mistrial
* 1989: New York
* 1990: Songs for Drella
* 1992: Magic and Loss
* 1996: Set the Twilight Reeling
* 2000: Ecstasy
* 2003: The Raven
* 2007: Hudson River Wind Meditations
Live Albums
* 1974: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
* 1975: Lou Reed Live
* 1978: Live: Take No Prisoners
* 1984: Live in Italy
* 1996: Live in Concert
* 1998: Perfect Night: Live in London
* 2001: American Poet
* 2004: Animal Serenade
* 2004: Le Bataclan '72
* 2008: The Stone: Issue Three
* 2008: Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse
* 2008: The Creation of the Universe
Compilation Albums
* 1975: Walk on the Wild Side & Other Hits
* 1977: Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed
* 1980: Rock and Roll Diary: 1967–1980
* 1985: City Lights
* 1989: Retro
* 1995: The Best of Lou Reed & Velvet Underground
* 1996: Different Times: Lou Reed in the '70s
* 1997: Perfect Day
* 1998: Perfect Day
* 1999: The Definitive Collection
* 2000: The Very Best of Lou Reed
* 2002: Legendary Lou Reed
* 2003: NYC Man (The Ultimate Collection 1967–2003)
* 2004: NYC Man: Greatest Hits
Box Sets
* 1992: Between Thought and Expression: The Lou Reed Anthology
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Lou Reed Biography
Lou Reed (born March 2, 1942) is an American rock artist originally from Brooklyn, New York. Especially while a member of the The Velvet Underground in the 1960s, Reed broke new ground for the rock genre in several important dimensions, introducing more mature and intellectual themes to what was then considered a largely simplistic genre of music.Reed first found prominence as the guitarist and principal singer-songwriter of The Velvet Underground. The band, which lasted from 1965 until 1973 (with Reed departing in late 1970 after the Loaded sessions), gained relatively little notice during its life but is often considered the seed from which most alternative and underground traditions of rock music sprang. As the Velvet’s songwriter, Reed wrote about such taboo subjects as S&M (Venus In Furs), transvestites and transsexuals (Sister Ray, and Lady Godiva’s Operation), prostitution (There She Goes Again), and drug addiction (I’m Waiting for the Man, White Light/White Heat, Heroin).
As a guitarist, he made innovative use of abrasive distortion, volume-driven feedback, and nonstandard tunings. Reed’s flat, New York voice, stripped of superficial emotions and, like Bob Dylan’s, flaunting its lack of conventional training, was no less important to the music’s radical effect. One of rock’s most volatile personalities, Reed made inconsistent albums that frustrated critics. The reputation he established more than forty years ago with The Velvet Underground has both haunted and elevated him to near-mythic stature.
Reed began a long and varied solo career in 1972. He scored a hit that year with Walk On The Wild Side off the Bowie-produced Transformer. For more than a decade he then seemed purposely to evade mainstream commercial success. Transformer was followed by the dark and challenging Berlin, an album that shed his fan base just as he’d cultivated it.
Albums such as the one-take low-ball wonder Sally Can’t Dance and Metal Machine Music continued his nose-thumbing at mainstream success and his label. Metal Machine Music, upon which Reed later commented, “no one is supposed to be able to do a thing like that and survive.”, although considered a contract-fulfilling joke upon its release, has been widely recognized as the invention of “noise music,” and many artists, such as Japan’s Merzbow have regarded it as a pioneering classic.
Despite his best efforts, the 70’s were not without artistically and commercially successful albums. He had a major success with the live Rock ‘n Roll AnimalLP, recorded following the release of Transformer, which received vast FM airplay in the mid-to late ’70s due in no small part to the superb guitar solos of Steve Hunter. Coney Island Bady contained some of the best written and performed songs in Reed’s oeuvre and Street Hassle saw Reed brave new-wave stylings.
Rock and Rule, an animated film centered around rock music in a post - apocalyptic future, featured music by Reed and other similar artists. His contribution vividly helped define the evil character Mok, and reflected his ongoing exploration of dark subjects. Although released within a couple of years of another animation cult classic, Heavy Metal, the 1983 release of R&R was a commercial failure. Despite the advanced animation, lack of marketing support by the parent company doomed it. The movie was relegated to late - night cable TV, where it built a small but persistent fan base.
Despite erratic turns, Reed’s work won him wide recognition by the late 1980s as an essential elder statesman of rock. For decades he has written about intense subjects including heroin, transexuals, and S&M - not to mention the horror stories on Berlin - which had never been presented in rock and roll before. The industry had matured, to the extent that his commercial position as an “art rocker” was secure.
Lou Reed teamed up with The Killers on the track Tranquilize for their new compilation album Sawdust, which was released on November 13, 2007.
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