Very Best of Lou Reed [Import]

Lou Reed | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 28, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Musicrama/Koch
• ASIN: B0000DEN7W
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,508,405 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Perfect Day

2. Walk on the Wild Side

3. Vicious

4. Rock & Roll Heart

5. The Gun

6. I Love You, Suzanne

7. Caroline Says II

8. Men of Good Fortune

9. My Friend George

10. Lisa Says

11. I Want to Boogie With You

12. Ocean

13. The Last Shot

14. I Wanna Be Black

15. Sally Can't Dance

16. Coney Island Baby

17. Berlin

18. Satellite of Love

Editorial Reviews

18 of Lou's best from 1972-1984, the period when he was cutting records for the BMG-distributed labels RCA & Arista. Compiled in conjunction with Reed, this collection features 'Perfect Day', 'Walk On The Wild Side', 'I Love You, Suzanne', 'Satellite Of Love' and 'Sally Can't Dance'. Comes packaged in a standard jewel case within a colorful slipcase cover. 1999 release. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Highlights from two decades, December 16, 2004

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD)

This compilation, though not comprehensive, is an interesting mix of the well-known and the obscure. It opens with what is probably Reed's most delicate love song, the poignant Perfect Day. His biggest hit, Walk On The Wild Side, follows and then there's the charming Vicious. All the aforementioned tracks are from his highly successful Transformer album.

I Love You Suzanne is a buoyant ditty from one of his lesser-known 1980s albums, but a memorable love song all the same, whilst Caroline Says II and Berlin come from the bleak Berlin album of the early 1970s. I Want To Boogie With You, Last Shot an the humorous I Wanna Be Black are also drawn from more or less obscure albums, although they're all great songs.

Sally Can't Dance and Coney Island Baby are more classics from the 1970s, the first a jerkily rhythmic track and the second a brooding slow song. The album concludes with the melodious Satellite Of Love, a most poetic and moving number.

Although this is a solid collection of great songs, I wouldn't call it his Very best! A Very Best would at least have to include Street Hassle, Dirt, Endless Cycle and Strawman, the last two from the magnificent New York album. But as a showcase of some of his most memorable songs from the 1970s and part of the 1980s, this album serves its purpose well.