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About this book
A 2019 Music Book of the Year, THE TIMES
Out of print for several years, a comprehensive volume of
Lou Reed's lyrics with
brand new introductions, now updated in a new text design to include the lyrics from his final album with
Metallica,
Lulu.
Through his many incarnations-from proto
punk to
glam rocker to elder statesman of the
avant garde Lou Reed's work has maintained an undeniable vividness and raw beauty, fueled by precise character studies and rendered with an admirable shot of moral ambiguity. Beginning with his formative days in the
Velvet Underground and continuing through his remarkable solo albums like
Transformer,
Berlin, and
New York,
Doin' The Things We Want To is crucial to an appreciation of Lou Reed, not only as a consummate
underground musician, but as one of the truly significant visionary lyricists of the
rock n' roll era.
Containing a body of work that spans more than six decades, this is a monument to the literary qualities of an
American original.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface by Lou Reed
- Pass thru Fire by Lou Reed
- Introduction by Martin Scorsese
- Introduction by James Atlas
- The Power of the Heart by Laurie Anderson
- THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO
- WHITE LIGHT / WHITE HEAT
- THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
- 1969 VELVET UNDERGROUND LIVE
- LOADED
- VU
- ANOTHER VIEW
- THE VELVET UNDERGROUND LIVE MCMXCIII
- NICO: CHELSEA GIRL
- LOU REED
- TRANSFORMER
- BERLIN
- SALLY CAN’T DANCE
- METAL MACHINE MUSIC
- CONEY ISLAND BABY
- ROCK AND ROLL HEART
- STREET HASSLE
- THE BELLS
- GROWING UP IN PUBLIC
- THE BLUE MASK
- LEGENDARY HEARTS
- NEW SENSATIONS
- MISTRIAL
- NEW YORK
- SONGS FOR DRELLA
- MAGIC AND LOSS
- SET THE TWILIGHT REELING
- TIME ROCKER
- ECSTASY
- THE RAVEN
- ACT I
- ACT II
- LULU
- MISCELLANEOUS SONGS
- DISCOGRAPHY
- About the Author
- Copyright