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Between Thought and Expression: The Lou Reed Anthology [Box set]

~ Lou Reed
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Product details

  • Audio CD (4 April 1992)
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: RCA
  • ASIN: B000026FBU
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 189,251 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. I Can't Stand It
2. Lisa Says
3. Ocean
4. Walk On The Wild Side
5. Satellite Of Love
6. Vicious
See all 45 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Nowhere At All
2. Kicks
3. Downtown Dirt
4. Rock 'n' Roll Heart
5. Vicious Circle
6. Temporary Thing
See all 13 tracks on this disc
Disc: 3
1. America (Star Spangled Banner)
2. Think It Over
3. Teach The Gifted Children
4. Gun
5. Blue Mask
6. My House
See all 17 tracks on this disc

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It's hard to fault this three-CD collection, since Reed himself was so heavily involved with the project. Yet it presents the same problem posed by "authorized" biographies. Coming after the success of New York, this anthology offers the more literary, politically correct side of Uncle Lou, from Street Hassle's "Gimme Good Times"--not included here) image he cultivated so effectively early in his immediate post-Velvet Underground years. Yes, he's an amazing rock poet, but he was also a rock & roll animal. There are just too many exclusions here for this to be "definitive." It's not for novices, but completists will have to own this 45-track collection simply for the terrific rarities, including the unreleased "Downtown Dirt," "Nowhere At All" (originally a B-side), a 1978 live "Heroin" featuring jazz great Don Cherry, "Little Sister" (from the Get Crazy soundtrack), and the great, unreleased "America (Star Spangled Banner)." --Bill Holdship


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Lou Reed's post-Velvets work is a tangle of genre-hopping, role-playing, decadence and inspiration, full of glorious peaks and curious valleys. A comprehensive trail through Reed's work is blazed by this worthwhile three-disc set. Reed took the urban poet-junkie ethic he perfected with the Velvet Underground and put it through as many artistic filters as hecould think of throughout the '70s: glam rock, art-rock (Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman played on his first album!), avant-garde noise and of course, Velvets-style proto-punk. All these phases of his career are covered on BETWEEN THOUGHT AND EXPRESSION, in chronological fashion. Smartypants types who already own all the albums will be pulled in by the treasuretrove of previously unreleased material.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A clumsy round-up of a dodgy back catalogue, 15 Jan 2009
By Jim O'Donoghue (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Between Thought and Expression: The Lou Reed Anthology (Audio CD)
Box sets can be cumbersome or they can act like a jukebox devoted to a single artist. In the case of this, the only largescale Lou Reed anthology, the jukebox effect is undermined by problems with song selection and ordering. It would be difficult to arrange Lou's 70s and early 80s highlights out of chronological order, due to the differences in production and ambience between the albums. Bowie's work on Transformer, for example, is neat and tight and sounds nothing like Bob Ezrin's rockist treatments on Berlin. Then there is the unfortunate fact that, as the 70s wore on, Lou Reed showed less and less concern with the way the band sounded behind him, arriving at the tired, possibly whacked-out session musician sound of Growing Up In Public.

Then there is the up and down nature of Lou's back catalogue. This compilation comes to a halt before the significant revival that New York and Magic and Loss represent and so grinds to a halt in the midst of some seriously mediocre early 80s songwriting. The tracklisting here was made by Lou himself - or that is certainly how it looks. Certain songs included here, such as My House, are simply inept, and see him striving for something that seems to recede the more he reaches for it - in both musical and lyrical terms. The box set title (not to be confused, incidentally, with the book of lyrics of the same name) taken from a line from a Velvets song, points to Lou's pretensions to something more than just a writer of pop music. It's when he gets these ideas in his head - that he has to do more than just write a pop song, that he must do something meaningful - that his songwriting tends to fall apart.

Lou's distrust of his pop prowess see him deliberately exclude Perfect Day and Sally Can't Dance, as well as a lowkey chestnut such as Bottoming Out. While he includes half of his beloved Berlin, he skips through other projects. Inevitably, nuggets turn up now and again, such as the oddly touching outtake from Take No Prisoners, Here Comes the Bride, one of the few rarities on the three discs. It is good to have in one place Street Hassle and Coney Island Baby, both wonderful in their own way. Some of the tracks picked from the lesser lps, such as Teach the Gifted Children, The Gun and My Friend George, are well worth having. Three songs come from the awful Rock and Roll Heart album - and, strangely, outside the context of the original lp, they sound great. It is a shame that the opportunity wasn't used to detach more gems from the dross.

Anyone wanting a Lou Reed compilation will presumably head for NYC Man, as they should. You have to hope that one day someone a little more objective will put together a more satisfying Lou Reed box set.
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