Songs for Drella

by Lou Reed & John Cale

Songs for Drella cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 April 1990
  • Label: Sire
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 54:52
  • Community rating: 3.88/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: John Cale

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Reuniting the estranged founders of The Velvet Underground, 'Songs for Drella' is a beautiful, highly minimalistic concept album serving as a eulogy for Andy Warhol. The duo utilizes only piano, viola, and guitar to deliver deeply melancholic, bittersweet, and occasionally humorous reflections on Warhol's life and death.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, death, lgbtq, minimalistic, tribute

Tracklist

  1. Smalltown (2:03)
  2. Open House (4:17)
  3. Style It Takes (2:54)
  4. Work (2:37)
  5. Trouble with Classicists (3:41)
  6. Starlight (3:28)
  7. Faces and Names (4:12)
  8. Images (3:30)
  9. Slip Away (A Warning) (3:05)
  10. It Wasn't Me (3:30)
  11. I Believe (3:17)
  12. Nobody but You (3:45)
  13. A Dream (6:33)
  14. Forever Changed (4:51)
  15. Hello It's Me (3:04)

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