Release date: 29-10-2009 (Originally released in 1973)

2009 dutch limited edition 10-track LP pressed on 180gram VINYL.  Reed followed up his breakthrough album, Transformer, with Berlin, which he called "my version of Hamlet." A bleak song cycle about an abusive, drug-fueled relationship, it's hugely ambitious but also one of the gloomiest records ever made — slow, druggy and heavily orchestrated by producer Bob Ezrin.
featuring contributions from Steve Winwood and Jack Bruce, with production by Bob Ezrin, sealed & stickered picture sleeve

Tracks:
01. Berlin
02. Lady Day
03. Men Of Good Fortune
04. Caroline Says I
05. How Do You Think It Feels
06. Oh Jim
07. Caroline Says II
08. The Kids
09. The Bed
10. Sad Song

Eternally perverse, Reed responded to having a pop hit with Transformer by making a massive bummer of an album, built around reworked versions of a couple of older songs. Berlin is psychologically grueling and unremittingly dark (scariest moment: "The Kids," which ends with a very long tape of children screaming in terror), but the savage contrasts of its sound have gotten more impressive with time. The big production flourishes hit like a hangover, Reed's voice sounds like he's trying to stave off emotional involvement with his lyrics because it would hurt too much, and the multi-layered textures of "Oh Jim" surge and recede like details of a nightmare. The album takes strength to hear, and rewards it. --Douglas Wolk amazon.com