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Lou Reed has, with Berlin, has finally done a concept album. It's long overdue, considering that while in the Velvet Underground, he penned songs that were concepts by themselves, such as The Gift and Sister Ray. Full circle for Lou!
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Depressing, yes. I wouldn't recommend it to someone contemplating suicide. Nonetheless, a very good album. What makes it less than excellent is a lack of consistency. I hardly ever listen to the last songs. Still Jack Bruce's bass is fantastic in Men of Good Fortune and Caroline Says I. Aynsley Dunbar’s Drums in Oh! Jim carry that tune. Unless you've got the gun to your head, I'd highly recommend it.
Great & underrated album from the Late Great Lou Reed, but depressing as hell. Listen at your own risk. Too bad the small print on the CD insert is so hard to read.
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Lou Reed will still fresh off his success with the album "Transformer" plus his past successes with the Velvet Underground. With producer Bob Ezrin, his next project in 1973 was the remarkably downbeat, disturbing "Berlin", a sort of semi concept album revolving around drugs, sex and existential angst. Whereas the whole album is relentlessly depressing, there is an Art Deco feel to the themes that makes it quite fascinating and beautiful in it's own awful, decadent way. The end of the song "The Kids"--in which you can hear recordings of children calling for their mommy--is chilling; the baroque string arrangement in the song "Sad Song" is downright gorgeous. Released during the height of the Glitter Rock phenomenon, of which Lou Reed was very much a part, "Berlin" is anything but.
I was not aware of this album before reading about Lou Reed's live performances of it at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. I was intrigued by reading that it was considered by some to be the most depressing album of all time. It is certainly an unhappy story, but told in beautiful songs, with Reed's voice in top form. Highly recommended, to Lou Reed fans and others.
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