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Lou Reed - Best Of

Featuring a selection of tracks from the Velvet Underground and Lou Reed's solo career, The Best of Lou Reed & the Velvet Underground hardly lives up to its title. Instead of featuring the "best" or even the most well-known, the disc runs through a random selection of songs that doesn't do justice to the Velvet Underground's legacy, nor to the erratic brilliance of Reed's solo career. Stephen Thomas Erlewine.
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    Featuring a selection of tracks from the Velvet Underground & Lou Reed's solo career, The Best of Lou Reed & the Velvet Underground hardly lives up to its title. Instead of featuring the "best" or even the most well-known, the disc runs through a random selection of songs that doesn't do justice to the Velvet Underground's legacy, nor to the erratic brilliance of Reed's solo career. Stephen Thomas Erlewine.

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