Lou Reed – NYC Man: The Collection (2003)


 

Artist: Lou Reed

Title: NYC Man: The Collection

Label: RCA

Format: 2CD

Cat: 82876 50564 2

Year of Release: 2003

Country and Year of Edition: US 2003

Sell Price: $4.08 VG+/VG+ hole punch in barcode 6/24/24

Discogs Last Sold: 6/23/24 VG+/VG+ $5.00

Low: $1.50

Median: $4.38

Average: $4.68

High: $7.99

Current low price: $0.99

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 15

Have/Want: 243/27

Where Sold: Burnaby, Asheville, NC

Time it took to sell: 8 years

Where and When Purchased: consignment collection

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

NYC Man was compiled in 2003 with the blessing and assistance of Lou himself.  This was usurped and retitled in 2011 into the more corporate The Essential Lou Reed with the same track listing.  Lou was still alive to see this, not having succumbed to liver disease until 2013.

One of the interesting things about NYC Man is that it compiles VU tracks not including Nico (replacing those with Lou solo live versions from Rock 'n Roll Animal) along with tracks from RCA, Arista and Sire eras.  Most of the hits are here and Lou tosses in some favorites as well as opening with a previously unreleased track entitled "Who Am I (Tripitina's Song)."  You are reminded how great some things are like The Blue Mask which not only is the title track here, but a great one I forgot about, "The Last Shot." Considering I got this in a friends stack of CD's he wanted me to resell on consignment, I didn't realize that this was this official and sprawling.  It sold to a canceling buyer about 5 years ago and has sat in a box in my room ever since and I still didn't realize it was a double disc until it sold for once and all the other day.   The cover looked generic enough to be the next compilation in a line of compilations.  However, the track listing was great and exhaustive enough for BMG to survive a merge with Sony to use in their "Essential..." series that obliterates any sense of an artists individual design that the Reeds not to mention the Dylans and Springsteens of the world would once never be caught dead allowing.  At some point corporate sales branding carried the day for once and for all and career retrospectives like this ditched.

I still prefer the original albums.

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