Top 10 Lou Reed Songs (Solo)

Walk On The Wild Side
Perfect Day
Vicious
How Do You Think It Feels
The Kids
Kill Your Sons
Kicks
Waves Of Fear
The Gun
Romeo Had Juliette (could probably start a whole separate thread with great lines from Lou songs, like the one from this song "I'll take Manhattan in a garbage bag / with Latin written on it that says / it's hard to give a s**t these days")

 

Yeah, Drella is a fantastic work--very sparse, but it rewards repeat listens. Perfect tribute to Warhol.

I didn't include any songs from it in my top 10, as I view it as a joint work between Reed and Cale. But I'm so glad they made that album together.

 

Love Makes You Feel
Perfect Day
Baby Face
Charley's Girl
Vicious Circle
Temporary Thing
New Sensations
Romeo Had Juliette
NYC Man
Set The Twilight Reeling

 

But are these his "signature songs"?

 

He asked for favorites.

 

forgot egg creme that is one of my faves without a doubt

 

this has turned into a great exercise on just how great of a songwriter lou was!

 

Yeah, I've got my ten. And I agree with everyone else's ten.

 

1.) Satellite Of Love
2.) Vicious
3.) Walk on the Wild Side
4.) Caroline Says (II)
5.) Andy's Chest
6.) Conley Island Baby
7.) Berlin
8.) Dirty Blvd
9.) Perfect Day
10.) Street Hassle

 

Wild Child
Walk on the Wild Side
Perfect Day
The Kids
Kill Your Sons
Street Hassle
The Blue Mask
Waves of Fear
White Prism
Baton Rouge

Nah, I can't do just 10. Leaves out too many greats.

 

Berlin (Original)
Wagon Wheel
Oh, Jim
She's My Best Friend
Kicks
Baby Face
Kill Your Sons
Ladies Pay
Dirt
Street Hassle

Of course, I love every song on everyone else's list too.

 

Also :

Satellite of Love
Romeo Had Juliette
Coney Island Baby
Wild Child
Dirty Boulevard

 

She's my best Friend
Walk And Talk It
Vicious
My Friend George
Kicks
Billy
Caroline Says
I can't stand It
Original Wrapper
I love You Suzanne

 

All Through the Night
Heavenly Arms
Think it Over
Pow Wow
Outside
Good Evening Mr Waldheim
Temporary Thing
Wait
I Love You
No Money Down

 

Ok top 10 albums.. wait.. what.. top 10 songs?! Here's 10 songs from 10 albums I love... Too hard to narrow down a top 10

New York - Romeo Had Juliette
Lou Reed - Wild Child
Transformer - Andy's Chest
Rock N' Roll Animal - Sweet Jane
Coney Island Baby - Crazy Feeling
The Blue Mask - The Day John Kennedy Died
New Sensations - High In The City
Mistrial - Tell It To Your Heart
Street Hassle - Gimmie Some Good Times
Growing Up In Public - The Power Of Positive Drinking

 

I'm fascinated by how many of us like Coney Island Baby. It's my fave.

Busload of Faith To Get By...whoa-ah !

 

Strawman
Satellite of Love
Harry's Circumcision
Women
Coney Island Baby
Voices of Freedom
Kill Your Sons
Magic and Loss
Vicious
Dirty Blvd

 

Just 10 is tough....
In to particular order...

Romeo Had Juliette
Venus in Furs
Vicious
Waves of Fear
Perfect Day
Betrayed
Rooftop Garden
High in the City
Women
Andy’s Chest

 

Coney Island Baby
Coney Island Baby
Coney Island Baby
Coney Island Baby
Going Down
Make-Up
Street Hassle
Magic and Loss
The Bed
Caroline Says part I

 

Caroline Says I
Vicious
Lady Day
The Bed
Andy's Chest
Coney Island Baby
Satellite of Love
Kill Your Sons
I Love You
Like A Possum

 

Mine too. I don't know about a Top 10, but "Coney Island Baby" is definitely my No. 1 and "Satellite Of Love" No. 2.

 

Oh, this is easy.

Vicious
Andy's Chest (i know what you're going to say about it being a Lou solo effort and don't really care )
Ride Sally Ride
Hangin' 'Round
Ride Into The Sun (ditto)
Coney Island Baby
Satellite of Love (more ditto)
Martial Law
N.Y Stars
Lisa Says (etc)

Ok, actually it was hard.

 

And in my list yesterday I forgot "Goodby Mass - In a Chapel Bodily Termination".

I replayed Magic and Loss yesterday and forgot how much I loved that song. I played that album so much when it came out, I had to rest it for years.

"You, you would have made a joke,

Tomorrow I'm smoke..."

 

Glad to see that both Sally Can't Dance songs AND Lou 1st songs are getting a look in. Perhaps these 2 albums have been coming in out of the cold in recent years. To be honest I could have chosen a few more from both.

 

So, which one are you going to lose from your first list? Because, to be frank – it looks like you're trying to sneak another one in.