Volume 460 pages
About the book
A 2019 Music Book of the Year, THE TIMES
Out of print for several years, a comprehensive volume of
Lou Reed's lyrics with
brand new introductions, now updated in a new text design to include the lyrics from his final album with
Metallica,
Lulu.
Through his many incarnations-from proto
punk to
glam rocker to elder statesman of the
avant garde Lou Reed's work has maintained an undeniable vividness and raw beauty, fueled by precise character studies and rendered with an admirable shot of moral ambiguity. Beginning with his formative days in the
Velvet Underground and continuing through his remarkable solo albums like
Transformer,
Berlin, and
New York,
Doin' The Things We Want To is crucial to an appreciation of Lou Reed, not only as a consummate
underground musician, but as one of the truly significant visionary lyricists of the
rock n' roll era.
Containing a body of work that spans more than six decades, this is a monument to the literary qualities of an
American original.
