Berlin (Lou Reed's Berlin)

A rating is tough on this one. I like Lou Reed but I've never done any type of deep dive on his music, so I hadn't heard this album before. Gotta say, I loved it. The very solid and pretty energetic performance helped that. The thing that didn't help either the music or…

Dave G

It's certainly no Transformer, but it'll do. At the very least, I think that Berlin is an album that, much like The Velvet Underground & Nico, leaves you in a spot to rethink music beyond the soundscapes that are already present. For Lou Reed, it's all about the catharsis,…

Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸

Four stars for the music, three for the visuals. Schnabel's camera feels suitably impressionistic with a washed-out color scheme, sort of like the color of memories you have of a night you weren't there for, appropriately, but there are some cutaways (for mood?) that didn't…

Jay D 's Watching

Julian Schnabel até tenta estragar tudo, inserindo vinhetas óbvias e horrorosas que ilustram alguns versos das canções ao longo da apresentação. No entanto, ele faz muito bem o que precisa ser feito nesse tipo de filme: captar as trocas de olhares entre os integrantes da…

Guilherme Gaspar

This rules. Love seeing an old rocker show that he's still got it. I've always liked Lou Reed, but this soulful performance is still revelatory for me. It feels like one of those artistic moments you're thrilled got captured in time.

Wade Garrett

It was very nice. Candlelight and Dubonnet on ice. My favorite Lou Reed album? Watched with my parents, who claimed they'd never heard this record before. Sorry, folks! There's physical abuse & drugs & the children are taken away. At some point, every song becomes sadder…

nikki 26

Background movie for an absolutely nothin' doin' Saturday. LOU REED BERLIN (2007)

Todd Davis ʕ´• ᴥ•̥`ʔ

I haven’t listened to Lou for a few years in a very difficult choice to distance myself from artists that could make me regress into old habits. Listening to him every so often for a taste of my subconscious. Hearing him on one of his most cathartic albums, with each voice…

tedydeltoro

One of my favorite albums by one of my favorite musicians in a fantastic concert performance. “Sad Song” is such an incredible song. “Berlin” might be Lou’s magnum opus from his solo work.

Brendan Michaels