Playlist
Lou Reed Essentials
Apple Music Classic Rock
Tracks: 28127:03
After The Velvet Underground, a career of perpetual reinvention.
Updated Nov 11, 2022
Tracks 28
- 1Pub Songs4:12
- 2The Very Best of Lou Reed3:44
- 3Rock 'n' Roll Animal8:02
- 4Cosy3:39
- 5Peel Slowly and See 1965-19694:38
- 6New York3:28
- 7Perfect Day2:55
- 8Coney Island Baby6:34
- 9Pure... Alternative 80s3:16
- 10Berlin6:55
- 11Lou Reed5:34
- 12White Light/White Heat (45th Anniversary Edition)2:47
- 13Sally Can't Dance3:40
- 14The Blue Mask4:08
- 15Coney Island Baby2:39
- 16Perfect Day3:38
- 17The Velvet Underground (45th Anniversary) [Super Deluxe]5:41
- 18The Studio Album Collection: 1989-20004:26
- 19Transformer3:20
- 20The Studio Album Collection: 1989-20003:09
- 21The Sire Years: The Solo Collection5:03
- 22Songs For Drella2:03
- 23Lou Reed5:07
- 24Transformer3:35
- 25Perfect Day5:14
- 26Perfect Day4:12
- 27The Blue Mask4:11
- 28Street Hassle11:00
About this playlist
Lou Reed disproved the adage that there are no second acts in American lives. The New Yorker revolutionised rock 'n' roll with The Velvet Underground; his subsequent solo career was a process of perpetual reinvention. He dealt slashing, sneering glam rock on 1972's “Vicious” and created a sepia-toned portrait of his hometown's mean streets on “Walk on the Wild Side”. Proving his literary mettle, “Street Hassle" wraps bleak storytelling in minimalist cello and little more. Finally sober, he confronted the horrors of addiction on 1981's “Waves of Fear”, a harrowing hard rock maelstrom.