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Lou Reed - Perfect Day
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Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side
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Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby
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Lou Reed - Satellite Of Love
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Lou Reed - Sweet Jane
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Lou Reed - This Magic Moment
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Lou Reed - Andy's Chest
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Lou Reed - Berlin
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Lou Reed - Nobody But You
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Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd
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Lou Reed - Vicious
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Lou Reed - Soul Man
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Lou Reed - Vanishing Act
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Lou Reed - Kill Your Sons
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Lou Reed - Make Up
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Lou Reed - Beginnig Of A Great Aventure
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Lou Reed - I'm So Free
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Lou Reed - Waves Of Fear
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Lou Reed - Don't Talk To Me About Work
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Lou Reed - Heroin
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Lou Reed - NYC Man
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Lou Reed - The Gun
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Lou Reed - The Kids
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Lou Reed - A Gift
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Lou Reed - Average Guy
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Lou Reed - Caroline Says I
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Lou Reed - Charley's Girl
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Lou Reed - Doin' The Thing That We Want To
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Lou Reed - Hangin' Round
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Lou Reed - Hello It's Me
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Lou Reed - I'll Be Your Mirror
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Lou Reed - I'm Waiting For The Man
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Lou Reed - Men Of Good Fortune
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Lou Reed - Modern Dance
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Lou Reed - Open House
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Lou Reed - Romeo Had Juliete
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Lou Reed - Smalltown
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Lou Reed - Style It Takes
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Lou Reed - The Bed
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Lou Reed - Turn To Me
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Lou Reed - Wagon Wheel
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Lou Reed - A Dream
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Lou Reed - Animal Language
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Lou Reed - Balloon
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Lou Reed - Banging On My Drum
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Lou Reed - Bottoming Out
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Lou Reed - Burning Embers
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Lou Reed - Busload Of Faith
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Lou Reed - Caroline Says 2
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Lou Reed - Claim To Fame
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Lou Reed - Courtly Orangutans
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Lou Reed - Crazy Feeling
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Lou Reed - Dirty Boulevard
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Lou Reed - Ecstasy
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Lou Reed - Forever Changed
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Lou Reed - Goodnight Ladies
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Lou Reed - How do You Think It Feels
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Lou Reed - I Can't Stand It
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Lou Reed - I Love You
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Lou Reed - I Love You, Suzanne
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Lou Reed - I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendulum)
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Lou Reed - I Want To Boogie With You
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Lou Reed - Lady Day
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Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts
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Lou Reed - Love Makes You Feel
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Lou Reed - My Friend George
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Lou Reed - My Red Joystick
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Lou Reed - New Sensations
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Lou Reed - New York Telephone Conversation
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Lou Reed - No Chance
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Lou Reed - Ooohhh Baby
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Lou Reed - Outside
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Lou Reed - Ride, Sally, Ride
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Lou Reed - Rock 'n' Roll Heart
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Lou Reed - Sad Song
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Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance
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Lou Reed - September Song
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Lou Reed - Set The Twilight Reeling
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Lou Reed - Some Kinda Love
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Lou Reed - Something Happened
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Lou Reed - Tell It To Your Heart
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Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
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Lou Reed - There Is No Time
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Lou Reed - Think It Over
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Lou Reed - Thousand Departed Friends
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Lou Reed - What Becomes a Legend Most
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Lou Reed - What's Good - The Thesis
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Lou Reed - Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song)
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Lou Reed - Why Can't I Be Good
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Lou Reed - Women
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Lou Reed - A Sheltered Life
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Lou Reed - A Wild Being From Birth
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Lou Reed - Adventurer
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Lou Reed - All Through The Night
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Lou Reed - America - Star Spangled Banner
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Lou Reed - Baby Face
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Lou Reed - Baton Rouge
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Lou Reed - Beginning To See The Light
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Lou Reed - Betrayed
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Lou Reed - Big Sky
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Lou Reed - Billy
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Lou Reed - Blind Rage
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Lou Reed - Brandenburg Gate
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Lou Reed - Broadway Song
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Lou Reed - Call On Me
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Lou Reed - Call On Me (feat. Laurie Anderson)
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Lou Reed - Candy Says
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Lou Reed - Change
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Lou Reed - Cheat on Me
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Lou Reed - City Lights
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Lou Reed - Cremation
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Lou Reed - Dime Store Mystery
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Lou Reed - Dirt
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Lou Reed - Don't Hurt a Woman
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Lou Reed - Down At The Arcade
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Lou Reed - Downtown Dirt
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Lou Reed - Dragon
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Lou Reed - Dreamin' - Escape
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Lou Reed - Edgar Allan Poe
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Lou Reed - Egg Cream
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Lou Reed - Endless Cycle
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Lou Reed - Endlessly Jealous
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Lou Reed - Ennui
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Lou Reed - Every Frog Has His Day
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Lou Reed - Faces And Names
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Lou Reed - Families
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Lou Reed - Finish Line
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Lou Reed - Fly Into The Sun
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Lou Reed - Foggy Notion
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Lou Reed - Follow The Leader
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Lou Reed - Foot Of Pride
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Lou Reed - Frustration (feat. Metallica)
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Lou Reed - Future Farmers Of America
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Lou Reed - Gassed And Stoked
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Lou Reed - Gimme Some Good Times
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Lou Reed - Going Down
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Lou Reed - Good Evening Mr. Waldheim
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Lou Reed - Good Taste
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Lou Reed - Goodby Mass
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Lou Reed - Growing Up In Public
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Lou Reed - Guardian Angel
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Lou Reed - Guilty
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Lou Reed - Halloween Parade
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Lou Reed - Hang On To Your Emotions
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Lou Reed - Harry's circumcision - Reverie gone astray
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Lou Reed - Heavenly Arms
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Lou Reed - Here Comes The Bride
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Lou Reed - High In The City
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Lou Reed - Hold On
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Lou Reed - Home Of The Brave
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Lou Reed - Hookywooky
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Lou Reed - Hop Frog
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Lou Reed - How do You Speak To An Angel
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Lou Reed - I Believe
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Lou Reed - I Believe in Love
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Lou Reed - I Remember You
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Lou Reed - I Wanna Be Black
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Lou Reed - Iced Honey (feat. Metallica)
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Lou Reed - Images
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Lou Reed - Imp Of The Perverse
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Lou Reed - In Our Sleep
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Lou Reed - It Wasn't Me
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Lou Reed - Junior Dad
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Lou Reed - Keep Away
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Lou Reed - Kicks
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Lou Reed - Ladies Pay
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Lou Reed - Last Great American Whale
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Lou Reed - Leave Me Alone
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Lou Reed - Like a Possum
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Lou Reed - Lisa Says
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Lou Reed - Little Dog
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Lou Reed - Little Sister
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Lou Reed - Looking For Love
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Lou Reed - Love Is Here To Stay
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Lou Reed - Mad
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Lou Reed - Magic And Loss - The Summation
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Lou Reed - Magician
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Lou Reed - Make up my Mind
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Lou Reed - Mama's Got a Lover
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Lou Reed - Martial Law
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Lou Reed - Mistress Dread
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Lou Reed - Mistrial
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Lou Reed - My House
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Lou Reed - My Old Man
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Lou Reed - Mystic Child
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Lou Reed - N. Y. Stars
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Lou Reed - No Money Down
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Lou Reed - Nobody's Business
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Lou Reed - Nowhere At All
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Lou Reed - Ocean
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Lou Reed - Oh Jim
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Lou Reed - Old Poe
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Lou Reed - One For My Baby
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Lou Reed - Pale Blue Eyes
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Lou Reed - Paranoia Key Of E
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Lou Reed - Peggy Sue
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Lou Reed - Pow Wow
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Lou Reed - Power And Glory (The Situation)
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Lou Reed - Power And Glory Part 2 - Magic Transformation
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Lou Reed - Prologue (Ligiea)
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Lou Reed - Pumping Blood
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Lou Reed - Real Goodtime Together
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Lou Reed - Ride Into The Sun
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Lou Reed - Riptide
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Lou Reed - Rock And Roll
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Lou Reed - Rock Minuet
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Lou Reed - Rock'N'Roll
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Lou Reed - Rooftop Garden
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Lou Reed - Science Of The Mind
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Lou Reed - Senselessly Cruel
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Lou Reed - Sex With Your Parents
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Lou Reed - She's My Best Friend
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Lou Reed - Shooting Star
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Lou Reed - Sick Of You
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Lou Reed - Sister Ray
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Lou Reed - Slip Away (a Warning)
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Lou Reed - Smiles
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Lou Reed - So Alone
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Lou Reed - Spit It Out
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Lou Reed - Standing On Ceremony
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Lou Reed - Starlight
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Lou Reed - Strawman
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Lou Reed - Street Hassle
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Lou Reed - Stupid Man
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Lou Reed - Sword of Damocles
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Lou Reed - Talking Book
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Lou Reed - Tatters
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Lou Reed - Teach The Gifted Children
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Lou Reed - Temporary Thing
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Lou Reed - The Bells
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Lou Reed - The Cask
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Lou Reed - The Conqueror Worm
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Lou Reed - The Day John Kennedy Died
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Lou Reed - The Fall Of The House Of Usher
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Lou Reed - The Heroine
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Lou Reed - The Last Shot
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Lou Reed - The Original Wrapper
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Lou Reed - The Power Of Positive Drinking
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Lou Reed - The Proposition
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Lou Reed - The Raven
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Lou Reed - The Tell-Tale Heart Pt. 2
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Lou Reed - The Valley Of Unrest
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Lou Reed - The View (feat. Metallica)
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Lou Reed - Trade In
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Lou Reed - Tranquilize
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Lou Reed - Tripitena's Speech
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Lou Reed - Trouble With Classicists
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Lou Reed - Turn Out The Light
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Lou Reed - Turning Time Around
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Lou Reed - Underneath The Bottle
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Lou Reed - Vicious Circle
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Lou Reed - Video Violence
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Lou Reed - Wait
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Lou Reed - Walk And Talk It
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Lou Reed - Warrior King
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Lou Reed - White Light / White Heat
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Lou Reed - White Light / White Heat
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Lou Reed - White Prism
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Lou Reed - Wild Child
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Lou Reed - With You
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Lou Reed - Work
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Lou Reed - Xmas In February
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Lou Reed - You Wear It So Well
The Fall Of The House Of Usher
Lou Reed
And then I had a vision
Roderick Usher:
Ah Edgar
Ah Edgar, my dear friend Edgar
Edgar:
It's been a long time, Roderick
I've ridden many miles
It's been a dull and soundless day for autumn
The leaves have lost their autumn glow
and the clouds seem oppressive with their drifting finery
Roderick Usher:
I know, my friend
Though I own so much of this land I find
the country insufferable
I deal only in half pleasures
Edgar:
Speaking of half pleasures
would you care for a tincture of opium?
Roderick Usher:
Nothing would please me more than to smoke
with an old friend
I've experienced the hideous dropping of the veil
the bitter lapse into common life
unredeemed dreariness of thought
I have an iciness, a sickening of the heart
Edgar:
It's true you don't look well, Roderick
but I am your friend
no matter the occasion or position of the stars
I'm glad you wrote me
but I must admit to concern
Roderick Usher:
I cannot contain my heart
Edgar, I look to you for solace
for relief from myself
What I have is constitutional
a family evil, a nervous affection that must surely pass
But I do have this morbid acuteness of senses
I can eat only the most insipid food
clothes only of the lightest texture
The odor of flowers I find oppressive
My eyes cannot bear even the faintest light
Madeline Usher:
[moaning]
Roderick Usher:
Did you hear that?
Edgar:
I hear
I am listening, go on
Roderick Usher:
I shall perish
I will perish in this deplorable folly
I dread the future
Not the events, the results
The most trivial event
causes the greatest agitation of the soul
I do not fear danger except in its absolute effect terror
I find I must inevitably abandon life and reason together
in my struggles with the demon fear
Perhaps you'll think me superstitious
but the physique of this place
it hovers about me like a great body
some diseased outer shell
some decaying finite skin encasing my morale
Edgar:
You mentioned your sister was ill
Roderick Usher:
My beloved sister, my sole companion
has had a long continuing illness
whose inevitable conclusion seems forsworn
This will leave me the last of the ancient race of Ushers
Madeline Usher:
[moaning]
Edgar:
She looks so much like you
Roderick Usher:
I love her in a nameless way
more than I love myself
Her demise will leave me hopelessly
confined to memories and realities of a future
so barren as to be stultifying
Madeline Usher:
[moaning]
Edgar:
Oh, what of physicians?
Roderick Usher:
Ah, they are baffled
Until today she refused bed rest
wanting to be present in your honor
but finally she succumbed to the prostrating power of the destroyer
You will probably see her no more
Edgar:
Sound and music take us to the twin curves of experience
Like brother and sister intertwined
they relieve themselves of bodily contact
and dance in a pagan revelry
Roderick Usher:
I have soiled myself with my designs
I am ashamed of my brain
The enemy is me
and the executioner terror
Music is a reflection of our inner self
unfiltered agony touches the wayward string
The wayward brain confuses itself
with the self-perceived future
and turns inward with loathing and terror
Either by design or thought
we are doomed to know our own end
I've written a lyric
Edgar:
May I hear it?
Roderick Usher:
It is called "The Haunted Palace"
In the greenest of our valleys,
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace --
Snow-white palace -- reared its head.
Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
On its roof did float and flow;
(This -- all this -- was in the olden time long ago)
And every gentle air that dallied,
Along the rampart plumed and pallid,
A winged odor went away.
All wanderers in that happy valley
Through two luminous windows saw
Spirits moving musically
The sovereign of the realm serene,
A troop of echoes whose sweet duty
Was but to sing
In voices of surpassing beauty,
The wit and wisdom of their king.
But evil things in robes of sorrow,
Assailed the monarch's high estate!
And round about his home the glory,
Is but a dim-remembered story.
Vast forms that move fantastically
To a discordant melody;
While, like a ghastly river,
A hideous throng rush out forever,
And laugh -- but smile no more.
Nevermore.
Edgar:
It's cold in here
Roderick Usher:
I tell you minerals are sentient things
The gradual yet certain condensation of an atmosphere
of their own about the waters and the walls proves this
Thus the silent yet importunate and terrible influence
which for centuries has molded my family
And now me
Madeline Usher:
[screaming]
Roderick Usher:
Excuse me
Madeline Usher:
[vomiting]
Roderick Usher:
She is gone
Out, sad light
Roderick has no life
I shall preserve her corpse for a fortnight
Edgar:
But Roderick..
Roderick Usher:
I shall place it in a vault facing the lake
I do not wish to answer to the medical men
nor place her in the exposed burial plot of my family
We shall inter her at the proper date
when I am more fully of a right mind
Her malady was unusual
Please do not question me on this
Edgar:
I cannot question you
Roderick Usher:
Then help me now
Madeline Usher:
[moaning]
Edgar:
One would think you twins
Roderick Usher:
We are
We have always been sympathetic to each other
Have you seen this?
It is her
Edgar:
It is a whirlwind
You should not
You must not behold this
Roderick, these appearances which bewilder you are mere electrical phenomena not uncommon
Or perhaps they have their rank origins in the marshy gases of the lake
Please, let's close this casement and I will read and you will listen
Aand together we will pass this terrible night together
What's that?
What is that?
Don't you hear that?
Roderick Usher:
Not hear it?
Yes, I hear it and have heard it many minutes have I heard it?
Oh, pity me miserable wretch
I dared not
Oh no
I dared not speak
We have put her living in the tomb
I have heard feeble movements in the coffin
I thought I heard
I dared not speak
Oh God
I have heard footsteps
Do you not hear them?
Attention
Do I not distinguish that heavy and horrible beating of her heart?
Madman
Madman
I tell you she now stands without the door
Madeline Usher :
[moaning and screaming]