Lou Reed-The Blue Mask (1982)
Artist: Lou Reed
Title: The Blue Mask
Label: RCA
Format: CD
Cat #: 07863 54221-2
Year of Release: 1982
Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2009
Listed Condition: VG+/VG+
Sell Date: 10/18/25
Sell Price: $6.58
Discogs Last Sold: 9/24/25 VG+/NM $6.00
Low: $2.00
Median: $5.00
Average: $5.52
High: $9.99
Current low price: $9.52
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3
Have/Want: 312/103
Where Sold: Brockton, MA
Time it took to sell: 1 1/2 years
Where and When Bought: facebook $3 lot a couple years ago
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A
Sad To See It Go: No
I forgot I had sold and rebought the reissue CD of Lou Reed's The Blue Mask. I went all the way to my storage space with no other orders looking through an R shelf that at this point only had Berlin and Magic and Loss. Sure enough, I bought it in a lot a year or two ago and it was sitting it the "to play" box in my record room.
This is really the only time I've ever listened to the album a few times in a day. In fact, although I always had the idea that the album was great, it was mostly for Side One's closing 1-2 punch "The Gun" and the title track. Those two songs are so off the charts great that the excellent and merely very good tracks that surround it fell by the wayside except for maybe "The Day That John Kennedy Died." The standouts today were the drinker's lament "Underneath The Bottle," the paranoid "Waves of Fear" and the self-effacing "Average Guy."
The lone video I never saw until today was the seemingly slight ode to "Women." It is a great looking video of it's time with the cover superimposed to reveal leather clad Lou post-glitter rock to make his assertion. The gender bending Bowie days and the VU dope are in the past and now he looks at it all with disgust. Robert Quine just baldly plays guitar off to the side. Session drummer Doanne Perry went on to late 80's Jethro Tull. Fusion bass player Fernando Saunders came out of Jeff Beck Group with Jan Hammer. These guys are pros layin it down the way Lou likes.
What a great record.
FOR FURTHER REVIEW:
NYC Man: The Collection (2003)
The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
Velvet Underground-White Light/White Heat (1968)
Velvet Underground-1969 Velvet Underground Live with Lou Reed (1975)
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