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Lou Reed - 1970 Acoustic Demos (1970)

Track listing:
  1. I'm So Free 2:05
  2. I Can't Stand It 2:38
  3. Walk And Talk It 2:54
  4. Going Down 2:45
  5. Ride Into The Sun 2:24
  6. I'm Sticking With You 2:15
  7. Lisa Says 4:26
  8. Kill Our Sons (aka Kill Your Sons) 3:12
  9. Lonely Saturday Night (aka Goodnight Ladies) 1:23
  10. So In Love 2:07
  11. She's My Best Friend 2:49
  12. Looking Through The Eyes Of Love (aka Oh Jim) 1:46

Notes


cassette (azimuth adjusted)>CD-R

tracks 01-03: Fall 1970
tracks 04-12: Winter 1970


The sound is really poor, maybe C or C+. It's just lou reed playing the guitar and singing. Very early version of kill your sons.

Here's all 12 songs, with a complete version of "Looking Through The Eyes Of Love." The sound quality here is also an improvement, although don't expect too much. This is still a really rough sounding tape.

Other preceding versions dated this as 1971 (with a question mark.) The understanding is that these songs were recorded in 1970, immediately after Lou left the Velvets, and before he started work on his first solo LP.