Perfect Night: Live in London

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Perfect Night: Live in London
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Live album by Lou Reed
Released April 21, 1998
Recorded July 3, 1997
Genre Rock
Length 66:08
Label Sire
Producer Lou Reed, Mike Rathke
Lou Reed chronology
Retro
(1998)Retro1998		 Perfect Night: Live in London
(1998)		 A Retrospective
(1998)A Retrospective1998
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 2.5/5 stars[1]
Rolling Stone 3/5 stars[2]

Perfect Night: Live in London is an acoustic live album by Lou Reed recorded during the Meltdown '97 festival. It includes a version of the Velvet Underground's "I'll Be Your Mirror", originally sung by Nico. The album includes two songs, "Talking Book" and "Into The Devine" from the 1996 play "Time Rocker" Lou's collaboration with Robert Wilson (direction and design), and Darryl Pinckney (text).[3] The cover photograph was taken by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. In Australia, the 2-CD tour edition of Reed's album Ecstasy included Perfect Night as the second disc.

Track listing

All tracks written by Lou Reed

  1. "I'll Be Your Mirror"
  2. "Perfect Day"
  3. "The Kids"
  4. "Vicious"
  5. "Busload of Faith"
  6. "Kicks"
  7. "Talking Book"
  8. "Into the Divine"
  9. "Coney Island Baby"
  10. "New Sensations"
  11. "Why Do You Talk"
  12. "Riptide"
  13. "Original Wrapper"
  14. "Sex with Your Parents"
  15. "Dirty Blvd."

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Deming, Mark. Perfect Night: Live in London at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/14/movies/next-wave-festival-review-music-echoes-of-h-g-wells-rhythms-of-lou-reed.html
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