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hessel-z
Even though he made more great albums after this one, I consider this to be Lou's absolute peak. This particular group he had was so fucking good too. From Saunders' beautiful bass playing, to the terrific dual guitars, and the drums are on point too. "My House" is my favorite on here, a beautiful tribute to his old mentor Delmore Schwartz (the outro kicks ass too). The title track is absolutely merciless and one of the hardest rocking songs in existence, "The Gun" is such an atmospheric gem and "Heavenly Arms" is just beautiful. Some of Lou's best singing on here too, and just really one of the finest rock albums of the 80s.
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carbonicaralho
gosto mais dele do que do transformer, tb tem o berlin que eu acho bom pa caraio
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MisterJunior
Great to hear Lou back doing some beautiful guitar work again on this one. I think several of his albums in the 70s were fantastic artistic statements, but it just wasn't right for him to all but eschew playing the guitar, given how he helped to expand the language of the electric guitar with the VU (case in point "I Heard Her Call My Name"). Here he's got a genius counterpart to play off of in Quine, and it's glorious to witness their interplay here and on the next couple of records, plus the live recordings of the period. Several of these tracks are among the best Lou ever did: "Waves of Fear" and the title song are ferocious twin guitar assaults, "The Gun" is a spooky and quiet, and "Heavenly Arms" is maybe my single favorite Lou song, an absolutely gorgeous, uplifting love song for his wife where he does some of the very best and most passionate singing of his long career. Definitely one of his best albums.
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MisterJunior
One of Lou's best albums. The give and take between his and Quine's guitars is terrific and as tehcaldwell said, the bass is terrific. After a few albums of kind of going through the motions, the newly sober Lou hits a home run here. The title song and "Waves of Fear" rock mercilessly, but it's "Heavenly Arms" that really gets me -- such a beautiful, moving song; I consider it one of the best love songs of the past 50 years or so.
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tehcaldwell
One of the finest albums of the decade. Fernando Saunders' bass playing is exemplary.
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rhayader18
This album is the sound of Lou's revitalization. He picked up his guitar again, formed an ace band, wrote a bunch of magnificent songs and recorded The Blue Mask. This is the starting point of the mature and drug-free Lou Reed. He released several great Rock albums from this point on. Lou Reed's the greatest.
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licoricepizza
i wonder why Sylvia Reed decided to repurpose Lou's "Transformer" album cover when she designed THIS album's own cover. The very first time I listened to it, I was expecting to hear "Transformer II", just because of that.
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Gaffes
The Blue Mask is a special album. I find this one really studied and sucessfull expecially on the base or on the background. There's an excellent bass, the guitars are ok etc... The Blue Mask is my second favourite Lou Reed album. Anyway excellent album. Nothing's better than New York.
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ellepharaoh
The lack of love here makes me sad. A perfect album; I especially adore Heavenly Arms.
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Countersonic
..im just about to start on it, dabbled much with other works, verging on the eightees period nervously...
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MisterJunior
Shocked at the lack of comments. One of my favorites. The interplay between Reed's and Quine's guitars is beautiful.
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