Lou Reed; John Cale - Songs for Drella
Sire  (1990)
Rock

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LP  54:51
15 tracks
Side A             23:13
01 Small Town             02:04
02 Open House             04:17
03 Style It Takes             02:54
04 Work             02:37
05 Trouble With Classicists             03:41
06 Starlight             03:28
07 Faces and Names             04:12
Side B             31:38
08 Images             03:30
09 Slip Away (A Warning)             03:05
10 It Wasn't Me             03:30
11 I Believe             03:18
12 Nobody but You             03:46
13 A Dream             06:33
14 Forever Changed             04:52
15 Hello It's Me             03:04
Personal Details
Price kr. 60,00
Condition Good
Current Value kr. 25,00
Owner Dan Dethlefsen
Location Musikrum
Links Amazon US
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Details
Cat. Number 7599-26140-1 / WX 345
UPC (Barcode) 075992614016
Packaging Long box
Spars N/A
Sound Stereo
Notes
Songs for Drella is a concept album by Lou Reed and John Cale, alumni of The Velvet Underground

It was released in 1990 by Sire Records. A live performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, directed by Ed Lachman, was filmed and released on VHS and laserdisc formats.

The album is the pair's first collaboration since 1972, and is dedicated to the memory of Andy Warhol, their mentor, who had died unexpectedly in 1987. Drella was a nickname coined by Warhol superstar Ondine for Warhol, a contraction of Dracula and Cinderella, used by Warhol's crowd.

Songs for Drella offers a kind of vie romancée of Warhol, focusing on his interpersonal relations. The songs fall roughly into three categories: Warhol's (semi-fictitious) first-person perspective, third-person narratives chronicling events and affairs, and first-person feelings towards and commentaries on Warhol by Reed and Cale themselves.

Reed and Cale had been playing the songs live in 1989 as a song cycle before committing them to tape. By the end of recording Cale vowed never to work with Reed again due to personal differences; nevertheless, Songs for Drella would prove to be the overture to a full-blown Velvet Underground reunion.

Although the album was conceived as an indivisible whole, a single was released off it, "Nobody But You".