Perfect Night: Live in London

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Perfect Night: Live in London
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Live album by
Lou Reed
ReleasedApril 21, 1998
RecordedJuly 3, 1997
GenreRock
Length66:08
LabelSire
ProducerLou Reed, Mike Rathke
Lou Reed chronology
Retro
(1998) 		Perfect Night: Live in London
(1998) 		A Retrospective
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic2.5/5 stars[1]
Rolling Stone3/5 stars[2]

Perfect Night: Live in London is a 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 Divine" 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. ^ Wild, David (1998-04-16). "Lou Reed: Perfect Night: Live In London : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 2009-02-17. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  3. ^ https://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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