They made a concert film for Lou Reed's Berlin...

It was the follow up album to Transformer and explains, at least to many critics and fans, why he never was able to take full advantage of his Walk on the Wild Side fame.

Minimalistic at it's core, lush, orchestrated music sometimes overwhelms the stark life of Reed's drug addled couple struggling with children and the day to day scrounging for drugs in a still divided Berlin. Given the tragedy and the pathos of the project, it was a shot of reality that I fully embraced.

The Album came out when I was a Junior in High School and I was blown away by the controlled melancholy of it all. The increasingly commercial prog rock stations didn't know what to do with any of the cuts from the album and so it sank into oblivion.

If you get a chance to view the movie sometime in the future on one of the movie channels, I would advise a peak. You might not enjoy the music or the message but if the movie is half as good as the album, you will get an idea of just how good of a composer Lou Reed can be.

Your recommendations are always worth following...

BTW, I'm going to watch "Little Children" tonight...

:hi:

And you are right - nobody knows what to do with him.
Even some of his great anthemic rock songs get no airplay.


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