History Music / Berlin

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Berlin'' features heavy orchestral arrangements, compared with the GlamRock sound of ''Music/{{Transformer}}''.

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* AlbumTitleDrop: "Berlin"
--> ''In Berlin, by the wall''
--> ''You were five foot ten inches tall''

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "Sad Song," which is a sad song. [[LyricalDissonance If you ignore the lyrics]] it might not seem like it at first though.

* BaroquePop: Like most of Reeds' music from this time period.

'''''Berlin''''' is the third studio album by Music/LouReed, released in 1973. As the title suggests, it takes place in UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}. In the year of its release it was almost universally lambasted as being a forgettable disaster. As time went by it is now seen [[VindicatedByHistory as one of the most essential albums to come out of the decade]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Caroline Says: "This is a masterpiece."]]

'''Berlin''' is a 1973 concept album by Music/LouReed, taking place in UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}. In the year of its release it was almost universally lambasted as being a forgettable disaster. As time went by it is now seen [[VindicatedByHistory as one of the most essential albums to come out of the decade]].

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# "Men of Good Fortune" (4:37)
# "Caroline Says II" (3:57)

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!!Caroline Tropes...

* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: "Caroline Says, Part II"

* DomesticAbuse: "Caroline Says, Part II"

--> ''But I don't love you anymore''

--> ''Whe she takes speed, they'll laugh and ask her''

* {{Jerkass}}: Both main characters of ''Berlin'' qualify. Caroline is serially unfaithful, a neglectful parent, and so on, while Jim is a domestic abuser who gets custody of their children taken away from her purely out of spite and doesn't feel any remorse after his mistreatment of Caroline [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide drives her to suicide]]]], and in fact rationalises it by saying "somebody else would have broken both of her arms". Of course, it's also possible that some or all of Caroline's characterisation is a case of UnreliableNarrator, since we mostly have to take Jim's word for her actions and various things he says throughout the course of the album suggest that he may not exactly be the stablest individual out there.

* RearrangeTheSong: The title track originally appeared as a bluesy ballad on ''Lou Reed''; "Sad Song", "Oh Jim" and "Caroline Says Part II" are rewrites of (then) unreleased Music/VelvetUnderground songs.

!!Caroline says: "These are tropes found on this album."

* RockOpera: ''Berlin'' about two doomed lovers in the titular city

To always make love by proxy''

* WhamLine: "This is the place where she cut her wrist" in "The Bed".
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Comes up in "Oh Jim":

''Berlin'' is a 1973 concept album by LouReed, taking place in UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}. In the year of its release it was almost universally lambasted as being a forgettable disaster. As time went by it is now seen [[VindicatedByHistory as one of the most essential albums to come out of the decade]].

* BaroquePop

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Berlin'' features heavy orchestral arrangements, compared with the GlamRock sound of ''Transformer''.

-->"How do you think it feels\\
To always make love by proxy"

-->All your two-bit friends\\
They shot you up with pills

"Berlin" is a 1973 concept album by LouReed, taking place in UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}. In the year of its release it was almost universally lambasted as being a forgettable disaster. As time went by it is now seen [[VindicatedByHistory as one of the most essential albums to come out of the decade]].

"Berlin" is a 1973 concept album by LouReed, taking place in {{Berlin}}. In the year of its release it was almost universally lambasted as being a forgettable disaster. As time went by it is now seen [[VindicatedByHistory as one of the most essential albums to come out of the decade]].

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Caroline]]
* EnforcedMethodActing: According to one (probably exaggerated) rumour, Lou and producer [[Music/PinkFloyd Bob]] [[Music/{{Kiss}} Ezrin]] recorded the coda to "The Kids", which consists of two children [[IWantMyMommy crying and screaming for their mother]], by putting Ezrin's own kids in front of a microphone and [[MoralEventHorizon telling them their mother died]]. While Ezrin acknowledges that those were his kids, [[{{Jossed}} he denies that he told them their mother died]], saying he just told them to cry into his tape recorder and they got carried away.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Averted - Reed had never even set foot in Berlin when he wrote the album.

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[[caption-width-right:219:Caroline Says: "This is a masterpiece."]]

!!! Caroline says: "These are tropes found on this album."

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Comes up in "Oh Jim"

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "Sad Song," which is a sad song. If you ignore the lyrics it might not seem like it at first though.

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* TrueNeutral: Jim sees himself as this right up until the end.
* VindicatedByHistory

* RereleaseTheSong / RearrangeTheSong: The title track originally appeared as a bluesy ballad on ''Lou Reed''; "Sad Song", "Oh Jim" and "Caroline Says Part II" are rewrites of (then) unreleased Music/VelvetUnderground songs.

* RereleaseTheSong / RearrangeTheSong: The title track originally appeared as a bluesy ballad on ''Lou Reed''; "Sad Song" and "Caroline Says Part II" are rewrites of (then) unreleased Music/VelvetUnderground songs.

* BaroquePop:

* TheSomethingSong: "Sad Song", "Who am I? (Triptena's Song)"

"Berlin" is a 1973 album by LouReed. In the year of its release it was almost entirely lambasted as being a forgettable disaster. As time went by it is now seen [[VindicatedByHistory as one of the most essential albums to come out of the decade]].