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** "Sunday Morning" is one of the most popular songs he recorded with the Velvets, yet it's definitely poppy and not representative of his raw rock style.



* CreatorBacklash: Lou was reportedly very disappointed with the final product of ''Sally Can't Dance'', saying that he was forming it to be a concept-like album that was dismantled by the record label.

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* CreatorBacklash: Lou was reportedly very disappointed with the final product of ''Sally Can't Dance'', saying that he was forming it to be a concept-like album that was dismantled by the record label. Though, he seemed to like the edit version of the TitleTrack and the live version of "Kill Your Sons", which he put on his personal selected collection ''NYC Man''.
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Lou Reed made his personal selections of his career for the compilation ''NYC Man'' (later re-named ''The Essential'').
** He seemed to be particularly fond of "Sweet Jane", since he played it live from the start with the Velvets and it survived in his solo career until the end. The same goes for his SignatureSong "Walk on the Wild Side", and then, his last hit "Dirty Blvd." was also a particularly popular live track, despite being one of his later tracks (1989).
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Removing a chained sinkole; Ezrin is also known for more than just Pink Floyd and KISS. Furthermore, trivia tropes can't be played with.


* 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, 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.

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* EnforcedMethodActing: According to one (probably exaggerated) rumour, Lou and producer [[Music/PinkFloyd Bob]] [[Music/{{Kiss}} Ezrin]] Bob 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, 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.



* OlderThanTheyThink: Most of the songs that appeared on his first three solo albums had been demoed with the Music/VelvetUnderground.

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* OlderThanTheyThink: Most of the songs that appeared on his first three solo albums had been demoed with the Music/VelvetUnderground.Music/VelvetUnderground, to the point where Creator/VerveRecords included said demos on the band's compilation albums ''VU'' and ''Another View'' in the mid-80s.



** Averted in a way by "Walk on the Wild Side," since he originally wrote it for an announced stage musical version of the Nelson Algren novel. When the project was abandoned, he replaced the characters from the novel with people from Creator/AndyWarhol's Factory. In his 1992 book of lyrics ''Between Thought And Expression: Selected Lyrics of Lou Reed'', tying in with the release of the ''Between Thought and Expression: The Lou Reed Anthology'' box set, Reed explained this decision by writing, "I don't like to waste things."

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** Averted in a way by "Walk on the Wild Side," since he Side" was originally wrote it written for an announced stage musical version of the Nelson Algren novel. When the project was abandoned, he replaced the characters from the novel with people from Creator/AndyWarhol's Factory. In his 1992 book of lyrics ''Between Thought And Expression: Selected Lyrics of Lou Reed'', tying in with the release of the ''Between Thought and Expression: The Lou Reed Anthology'' box set, Reed explained this decision by writing, "I don't like to waste things."

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