Lou Reed [Album Covers]

1972 Transformer SR	1972 Lou Reed SR	1973 Berlin SR	1974 Sally Can’t Dance SR
1975 Metal Machine Music SR	1975 Coney Island Baby SR	1976 Rock and Roll Heart SR	$[ 8 / 46 ] 1977 Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed was the standard record company "hits" compilation surveying Reeds five-year, eight-album sojourn at RCA from 1972 to 1976. Its 11 songs included two from Lou Reed, three from Transformer (among them, of course, this albums title track, Reeds sole chart hit), one from Berlin, two from Rock N Roll Animal (one of which is "Sweet Jane" minus the introductory fanfare), and the title tracks from Sally Cant Dance and Coney Island Baby, plus the previously non-LP B-side "Nowhere at All." It was a bulletproof selection, as unimaginative as it was dependable, which oddly was why it worked so well. Reeds solo career had seen some extreme tangents, and this album caught them, from the Dylan-ish "Wild Child" to the glam pop of the Transformer material, and from the heavy metal rearrangements of old Velvet Underground songs on Rock N Roll Animal to the attempts at straightforward adult singer/songwriter rock on songs like "Coney Island Baby." The regular albums had been uneven, but here Reed comes off as an accomplished dabbler in a variety of styles who really had something to say and said it, sometimes humorously, sometimes frantically, but always with conviction. Reed has been a prolific artist, and this album captures only a fraction of his catalog, but he is actually less eclectic as a rule than this collection makes him seem, so the result is an excellent introduction.$ 1977 Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed R
1978 Street Hassle SR	1979 The Bells SR	1980 Growing Up in Public SR	1980 Rock and Roll Diary 1967–1980 R
1982 Historia de la música rock - 27	1982 The Blue Mask SR	1983 Legendary Hearts SR	1984 New Sensations SR
1986 City Lights (Classic Performances by Lou Reed)	1986 Mistrial SR	1987 Wild Child	1989 Pop Classics
1989 New York SR	1989 Retro: Best of Lou Reed	1990 Walk on the Wild Side & Other Hits R	1990 Songs for Drella SR
1992 Magic and Loss SR	1992 Between Thought and Expression: The Lou Reed Anthology R	1993 A Retrospective	1995 The Best of Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground R
1996 Set the Twilight Reeling SR	1996 Different Times: Lou Reed in the 70s R	1997 The Masters	1997 Perfect Day R
1999 The Definitive Collection R	1999 The Very Best Of	2000 Ecstasy SR	2003 The Raven SR
2003 NYC Man: The Collection R	2004 Platinum & Gold Collection	2004 Greatest Hits: NYC Man	2007 Hudson River Wind Meditations R
2008 Original Album Classics	2008 Playlist: The Very Best of Lou Reed R	2008 Greatest Hits: Steel Box Collection R	2009 The Best of Lou Reed
2009 Perfect Day the Best of Lou Reed	2011 Lulu SR