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#7 - Lou Reed - Berlin

 RCA Victor, 1973 

Category: Art Rock


What a weird emotional journey this album is. There are parts that are delightful, and others that are grating. I actually had to turn it off halfway through the second side because it was making my partner depressed! That said, it's a Lou Reed album through and through, and one I will keep. I'll just listen to it when my partner's not around ;)

I have a fondness for Lou Reed thanks to discovering the Velvet Underground at just the right stage of high school. My friends and I were not very conventional, and related to the weirdness and the raw expression of feelings or ways of being that were taboo in rural Nova Scotia in the 90s. This album is one I picked up later, so it's not one I have a huge connection with, but it's staying all the same.

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