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Lou Reed – The Raven / Limited Edition 2-CD Set featuring ''Who Am I?'' with special guests Laurie Anderson, Antony, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Ornette Coleman, Steve Buscemi / Sire 2x Audio CD 2003 / 9362-48373-2
UPC 093624837329
The Raven is the nineteenth solo studio album by American musician Lou Reed, released in 2003 by Sire Records. It is a concept album, recounting the short stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe through word and song, and was based on his 2000 opera co-written with Robert Wilson, POEtry.
The Raven features new and very different versions of two songs that Reed had released on earlier albums: "Perfect Day" (originally found on 1972's Transformer) and "The Bed" (from 1973's Berlin). In addition to Reed, the album features a number of guest vocalists including Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, Antony Hegarty, Steve Buscemi and Willem Dafoe. The co-producer of the album, Hal Willner, had previously overseen the Poe tribute album Closed on Account of Rabies.
The recording was simultaneously released as a two-disc set of recordings and in an edited single-disc version. Painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel created the cover. The Raven would prove to be the final solo rock album by Reed, as 2007's Hudson River Wind Meditations consisted entirely of meditational new-age music, and 2011's Lulu was a collaborative rock album with heavy metal band Metallica.
| Label: | Sire – 9362-48373-2 |
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| Format: |
2 x CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
Feb 3, 2003 |
| Genre: | Electronic, Rock |
| Style: | Alternative Rock, Punk, Avantgarde, Experimental |
Tracklist:
| Act 1 - The Play | |||
| 1-1 | The Conqueror Worm | 2:16 | |
| 1-2 | Overture |
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1:05 |
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| 1-3 | Old Poe |
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0:40 |
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| 1-4 | Prologue (Ligiea) | 4:49 | |
| 1-5 | Edgar Allan Poe | 3:20 | |
| 1-6 | The Valley Of Unrest | 2:26 | |
| 1-7 | Call On Me |
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2:07 |
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| 1-8 | The City In The Sea/Shadow |
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4:14 |
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| 1-9 | A Thousand Departed Friends |
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4:55 |
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| 1-10 | Change | 2:18 | |
| 1-11 | The Fall Of The House Of Usher |
|
8:43 |
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| 1-12 | The Bed | 3:32 | |
| 1-13 | Perfect Day |
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3:27 |
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| 1-14 | The Raven |
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6:30 |
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| 1-15 | Balloon |
|
1:01 |
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| Act 2 | |||
| 2-1 | Broadway Song |
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3:12 |
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| 2-2 | The Tell-Tale Heart Pt. 1 | 2:24 | |
| 2-3 | Blind Rage | 3:27 | |
| 2-4 | The Tell-Tale Heart Pt. 2 | 1:43 | |
| 2-5 | Burning Embers |
|
3:21 |
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| 2-6 | Imp Of The Perverse | 3:12 | |
| 2-7 | Vanishing Act | 5:23 | |
| 2-8 | The Cask |
|
6:41 |
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| 2-9 | Guilty (Spoken) | 2:45 | |
| 2-10 | Guilty (Song) |
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4:54 |
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| 2-11 | A Wild Being From Birth | 5:34 | |
| 2-12 | I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendulum) |
|
6:58 |
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| 2-13 | Science Of The Mind | 1:36 | |
| 2-14 | Annabel Lee/The Bells | 1:41 | |
| 2-15 | Hop Frog |
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1:46 |
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| 2-16 | Every Frog Has His Day | 1:06 | |
| 2-17 | Tripitena's Speech | 2:19 | |
| 2-18 | Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song) |
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4:30 |
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| 2-19 | Courtly Orangutans | 1:41 | |
| 2-20 | Fire Music | 2:44 | |
| 2-21 | Guardian Angel |
| 6:51 |
- Arranged By [Horns] – Steve Bernstein (tracks: 1-2, 1-5, 1-10, 2-1, 2-10, 2-12)
- Arranged By [Strings] – Jane Scarpantoni (tracks: 1-7, 2-1, 2-7)
- Artwork – Julian Schnabel
- Backing Vocals – Antony (3) (tracks: 1-10, 1-12, 2-3, 2-5, 2-13, 2-21), Kate & Anna McGarrigle (tracks: 1-7, 1-8, 2-21)
- Baritone Saxophone – Doug Wieselman (tracks: 1-9, 1-10, 2-1)
- Bass – Fernando Saunders (tracks: 1-2, 1-5, 1-7, 1-9, 1-10, 1-12, 2-1, 2-3, 2-5, 2-8, 2-12, 2-15, 2-21)
- Cello – Friedrich Paravicini (tracks: 1-4, 1-7, 1-14), Jane Scarpantoni (tracks: 1-7, 1-10, 2-5)
- Drums – Tony Smith (2) (tracks: 1-2, 1-5, 1-7, 1-9, 1-10, 1-12, 2-1, 2-3, 2-5, 2-8, 2-10, 2-12, 2-15, 2-21)
- Guitar – Mike Rathke (tracks: 1-2, 1-5, 1-7, 1-9 to 1-12, 2-1, 2-3, 2-5, 2-8, 2-10, 2-12, 2-15, 2-21)
- Keyboards – Friedrich Paravicini (tracks: 1-2, 1-5, 1-13, 1-14, 2-2, 2-4, 2-15)
- Photography By – Julian Schnabel
- Piano – Friedrich Paravicini (tracks: 2-1, 2-7, 2-13)
- Producer – Hal Willner, Lou Reed
- Synthesizer – Friedrich Paravicini (tracks: 1-8, 2-4, 2-8, 2-14, 2-16)
- Tenor Saxophone – Doug Wieselman (tracks: 1-2, 1-5, 2-10), Paul Shapiro (tracks: 1-2, 1-5, 1-10, 2-1)
- Trumpet – Steve Bernstein (tracks: 1-5, 1-10, 2-1, 2-5, 2-10)
- Voice – Amanda Plummer (tracks: 1-8, 2-14, 2-16, 2-17, 2-19), Elizabeth Ashley (tracks: 1-6, 1-8, 1-11, 2-9, 2-11), Fisher Stevens (tracks: 1-11, 2-2, 2-4), Kate Valk (tracks: 2-2, 2-4, 2-6, 2-9, 2-11), Steve Buscemi (tracks: 1-3, 1-8, 2-2, 2-4, 2-6, 2-8), Willem Dafoe (tracks: 1-1, 1-4, 1-8, 1-11, 1-14, 2-2, 2-4, 2-8, 2-16, 2-19)
