Lou Reed – Berlin (1973)

I suspect this was bought well over 20 years ago in a closing Our Price store (the last of which closed in 2003).

In a closing down sale, I picked up about 20 CDs without boxes/covers for £1 each, and this one has a very low resolution home made cover, which I'm tempted to upgrade!

Berlin is Reed's third solo album, and it's a tale of unrelenting gloom, a series of songs following the cycle of drug abuse and violence in Jim and Caroline's doomed relationship. Rolling Stone, at the time, dismissed the album as a 'disaster'. I'm not sure I've listened to it before now pulling it off the shelves, but my first listen suggests that was harsh.