Lou Reed - Berlin FLAC

Lou Reed Rca Victor Classic Rock 1976

Genre:	Rock
Performer:	Lou Reed
Title:	Berlin
Style:	Classic Rock
Date of release:	1976
Label:	RCA Victor
Catalog Number:	APL1-0207
Country:	US
FLAC album size:	1613 mb
MP3 album size:	2892 mb

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Tracklist

1	The Bed Guitar, Synthesizer, Arranged By [Vocals] – Gene Martynec	5:51
2	The Kids Bass – Tony Levin	7:55
3	Sad Song	6:55
4	Caroline Says II Drums – B.J. Wilson	4:10
5	Lady Day Bass – Gene MartynecDrums – B.J. Wilson	3:40
6	How Do You Think It Feels	3:42
7	Caroline Says I	3:57
8	Oh, Jim	5:13
9	Berlin Piano – Allan Macmillan	3:23
10	Men Of Good Fortune Piano – Blue Weaver	4:37

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
APL1-0207	Lou Reed	Berlin ‎(LP, Album, Dyn)	RCA Victor	APL1-0207	US	1973
NL 84388	Lou Reed	Berlin ‎(LP, Album, RE)	RCA International	NL 84388	Europe	1985
AYK1-4388	Lou Reed	Berlin ‎(Cass, Album, RE)	RCA Victor	AYK1-4388	US	1983
NL 84388	Lou Reed	Berlin ‎(LP, Album, Bla)	RCA Victor	NL 84388	Europe	Unknown
SVLP 066	Lou Reed	Berlin ‎(LP, Album, RE, TP)	Simply Vinyl	SVLP 066	Europe	1998

Credits

Acoustic Guitar, Vocals – Lou Reed
Arranged By – Allan Macmillan, Bob Ezrin
Bass – Jack Bruce (tracks: A1, A3 to B2, B4, B5)
Bass Trombone – Jon Pierson
Choir – Dennis Ferrante, Dick Wagner, Elizabeth March, Lou Reed, Steve Hyden
Design Concept [Album Concept], Design – Pacific Eye & Ear
Drums – Aynsley Dunbar (tracks: A1, A3 to B1, B3, B4)
Electric Guitar – Dick Wagner, Steve Hunter
Engineer – Dennis Ferrante, Peter Flanagan, Robin Black
Organ, Harmonium – Steve Winwood
Piano, Mellotron, Choir – Bob Ezrin
Producer – Bob Ezrin
Songwriter – Lou Reed
Tenor Saxophone – Michael Brecker
Tracking By [Overdubbing] – Richard Lewzey
Trumpet – Randy Brecker

Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Electric Guitar – Lou Reed
Artwork [Album Concept, Design] – Pacific Eye & Ear
Backing Vocals, Electric Guitar – Dick Wagner
Bass – Jack Bruce (tracks: A1, A3 to B2, B4)
Bass Trombone – Jon Pierson
Choir – Dennis Ferrante, Elizabeth March, Lou Reed, Steve Hyden
Drums – Aynsley Dunbar (tracks: A1, A3 to B4)
Electric Guitar – Steve Hunter
Engineer – Dennis Ferrante, Peter Flanagan, Robin Black
Organ, Harmonium – Steve Winwood
Piano, Mellotron, Choir – Bob Ezrin
Producer – Bob Ezrin
Songwriter – Lou Reed
Tenor Saxophone – Michael Brecker
Tracking By [Overdubbing] – Richard Kewzey
Trumpet – Randy Brecker

Notes

Includes 8 page (29.5 x 29.5cm) booklet
containing lyrics and photos.The order of the tracks is altered and the song "The Kids" is missing. Apparently it was censored due to his sexual content when the album was first released in Spain. This release is a reissue of that first spanish press.

℗ & © 1989 RCA Records
Editado y distribuido por BMG Ariola S.A.
Impreso por Indugraf Madrid S.A.

Barcodes

Matrix / Runout (Side A - stamped): APL1 0207A 9S A6
Matrix / Runout (Side B - stamped - except for etched and difficult do read): APL1-0207B 10S .-1 A3
Matrix / Runout (Hand Etched Side A Variant): APL1 0207A 65(superscript) ?(indecipherable)
Matrix / Runout (Hand Etched Side B Variant): APL1-0207B 65(superscript) ?(indecipherable)

Rights Society: SGAE / BIEM
Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped): 850 NL 84388 = xAx1
Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped): 850 NL 84388 = xBx1
Depósito Legal: M.2591-1974

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SkroN

The album "Berlin"was the precursor to Rock and Roll Animal, and every top rated musician was recruited to insure this would become a true masterpiece for it,s place in time! We lost a true musical visionary when Mr. Reed left us for His final resting place!

Ueledavi

Does this release have a gold label? Mine looks identical but the label is clearly orange. The label shot here looks gold, but that could just be the photo... could anyone clear this up for me?

Debeme

Mines is clearly orange too. Everything else matches though, just the label colors don't.

Cala

Transformer and "Walk on the Wild Side" were both major hits in 1972, to the surprise of both Lou Reed and the music industry, and with Reed suddenly a hot commodity, he used his newly won clout to make the most ambitious album of his career, Berlin. Berlin was the musical equivalent of a drug-addled kid set loose in a candy store; the album's songs, which form a loose storyline about a doomed romance between two chemically fueled bohemians, were fleshed out with a huge, boomy production (Bob Ezrin at his most grandiose) and arrangements overloaded with guitars, keyboards, horns, strings, and any other kitchen sink that was handy (the session band included Jack Bruce, Steve Winwood, Aynsley Dunbar, and Tony Levin). And while Reed had often been accused of focusing on the dark side of life, he and Ezrin approached Berlin as their opportunity to make The Most Depressing Album of All Time, and they hardly missed a trick. This all seemed a bit much for an artist who made such superb use of the two-guitars/bass/drums line-up with the Velvet Underground, especially since Reed doesn't even play electric guitar on the album; the sheer size of Berlin ultimately overpowers both Reed and his material. But if Berlin is largely a failure of ambition, that sets it apart from the vast majority of Reed's lesser works; Lou's vocals are both precise and impassioned, and though a few of the songs are little more than sketches, the best - "How Do You Think It Feels," "Oh Jim," "The Kids," and "Sad Song" - are powerful, bitter stuff. It's hard not to be impressed by Berlin...