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Rock N Roll Animal | 
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| Artist: Lou Reed
Label: RCA
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 7048
Format: Extra Tracks, Live, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 67948
UPC: 078636794822
EAN: 0078636794822
ASIN: B00004RD54
Release Date: March 21, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Intro/Sweet Jane - Lou Reed, Hunter, Steve | | • | Heroin | | • | How Do You Think It Feels - (previously unreleased) | | • | Caroline Says I - (previously unreleased) | | • | White Light/White Heat | | • | Lady Day | | • | Rock & Roll |
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Album Description
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this 1974 live album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Seven tracks including 'Heroin' and 'White Light/White Heat'. RCA. 2006.
Album Details
2006 Issued Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.
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Recorded live in 1973, Rock N Roll Animal is Reed's glam-rock sneer back at his Velvet Underground legacy. Four tracks are VU classics (two about the redemptive power of rock, two about the transformative power of dope) dressed up into slick, flashy twin-guitar noodle-fests, with big riffs and showboating solos and Reed practically phoning in his vocals. It was something of a hit at the time, and it's easy to hear how the simple forcefulness of these songs sounded good on early-1970s radio. But Reed doesn't bother to conceal his contempt for the commercial trappings he's put on his songs--"Heroin," in particular, turns from savage ambivalence into an easy cartoon--and the album's hard to like now. Two previously unissued tracks from 1973's Berlin-"How Do You Think It Feels" and "Caroline Says I"-flesh out this reissue version of the original LP. --Douglas Wolk
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| Customer Reviews:
 There's a Party Saturday night, ... October 21, 2008
Michael Kennedy (OH)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
and chances are you'll hear this album. Unless of course your host is a complete idiot and their idea of rock n roll is Hootie and the Blowfish. I laughed when I read the Lou Reed "fans" who said they didn't like this album. They whined that it was unlike his other stuff. Well, put it in perspective. This is a GREAT album - and it doesn't need the extra tracks. It's one of those one-off classics that just came from nowhere. Loved it then, love it now. You can't say that about any VU album.
Excellent sound quality September 22, 2008
Jack W. Van Hooser (BROKEN ARROW, OK United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I never had the album "back in the day", but I've heard most of the songs at one time or another. I thought the sound was very good. This is an excellent album and gives a good snapshot of Lou Reed back in his prime.
lou reed rock and animal July 3, 2008
Phillip Irvin Leonard
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
the band is tight and ready to rock.lou is up to task and gives a first rate show.real fans will love it.
REED'S PEAK/Plain Jane May 16, 2008
Brad Moseley (OSAGE BEACH, MO United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Easily in the top 5 list of GREAT LIVE albums, not debatable.
Same class as Live at LEEDS(BEST EVER),HANK-Live, Live RUST!
This takes you back to the filthy days when men made rock and roll and did'nt wory about how to sell it. LOU has always been on the cutting edge. Needs to be played loud and often.
Lady Day/Heroin/Sweet Jane. You could try a hundred more times and never get an LP close to the original, just a classic thats all.
Maybe the Best Live Rock Album Ever May 12, 2008
J. Blilie (Twin Cities, MN)
This is one of my two favorite live rock albums (the other is Stand In the Fire by Warren Zevon). This is probably the best live rock album ever. The guitar work is amazing. The energy is explosive. This is what rock and roll should be. Two guitars, bass and drums and four guys playing their guts out (OK, there are keyboards too.)
This live version of Heroin, all by itself, should get Lou (as a solo artist) inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame. My favorite live rock track of all time. It's a lesson in how to build up a rock song to a screaming crescendo.
Like everyone, my only beef with the record was: not enough, give us more! This release includes two additional tracks from the same concert: How Do You Think It Feels and Caroline Says I, which are also great and fit right in. The remastered sound is excellent. This release, unlike to old release on CD, has some nice liner notes. Enjoy.
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