Lou Reed - 1980-06-12 - Milan, Italy (SBD) - So Many Roads

 It's Sunday so it must be time for some Uncle Lou of course

this is hot and loud and pure chaos but really listenable and it says its a soundboard but the audience is very present! as it were and my advice would be just turn it up!

Lou Reed Milan Italy 1980 - So Many Roads here

Speedy says:

Lou Reed - 1980-06-12 - Milan, Italy (SBD)

Lou Reed 

1980-06-12

Arena Milan

Milan, Italy 

Soundboard Recording

01. Sweet Jane 

02. Real Good Time Together 

03. I'm Waiting For The Man 

04. Coney Island Baby 

05. So Alone 

06. Vicious 

07. Walk On The Wild Side    

08. Standing On The Ceremony 

09. Heroin 

10. Keep Away 

11. The Kids 

12. Caroline Says II 

13. The Bed 

14. Sad Song 

15. The Power Of Positive Drinking 

16. How Do You Speak To An Angel 

17. My Old Man 

18. Growing Up In Public 

19. Street Hassle 

20. Rock And Roll > You Keep Me Hanging On

"In 1967, Lou Reed was a member of The Velvet Underground, an early avante garde/proto punk band managed by Andy Warhol and also featuring John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker. The band began recording their debut albm in 1966, and at Warhol's suggestion added German singer Nico to the line up.  The album, appropriately titled 'The Velvet Underground and Nico' was released in March 1967. No one seemed to notice or care as the disc only reached #129 on the Billbaord charts and most critics ignored it. In the ensuing years, however, the critics took a second look at the album and dramatically reassessed its place in rock history.  

In 1977, famed critic Robert Christgau wrote that the record had been difficult to understand in 1967, "which is probably why people are still learning from it. It sounds intermittently crude, thin, and pretentious at first, but it never stops getting better."  In 2003, Spin Magazine selected it as the most influential rock album of all time. That same year, Rolling Stone ranked it at #12 on its list of the Greatest Albums Of All Time. The disc came in again at #12 in the magazine's 2012 update of that list, and then at #23 in the 2020 version of the rankings. In 2006, Time Magazine listed it among its 100 Greatest Albums Of All Time. Not bad for an album that was released to little or no fanfare. 

This soundboard recording captures Reed 13 years after the release of that historic album, in Italy on June 12 1980, 42 years ago today."