Animal Serenade
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Animal Serenade | ||||
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Released | March 23, 2004 | |||
Recorded | June 24, 2003 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Label | Sire/Reprise | |||
Producer | Lou Reed and Fernando Saunders | |||
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Source | Rating |
Pitchfork | 6.5/10[4] |
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Animal Serenade is a live album by American
Antony and the Johnsons fame, contributes background vocals throughout and sings the lead on "Set the Twilight Reeling" and "Candy Says
".
Fernando Saunders plays bass and other instruments. He did background vocals on most songs and sang lead vocals on "Tell It to Your Heart" and "Reviens Cherie", scat on "Sunday Morning".
Three songs were performed during the concert that did not appear on the album: "Sweet Jane", "The Last Shot" and "Perfect Day" (sung in duet with Antony). "Sweet Jane" is available by digital download.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Lou Reed; except where indicated
Disc one
- "Advice" 2:07
- "Smalltown" (Reed, John Cale) 6:04
- "Tell It to Your Heart" 6:03
- "Men of Good Fortune" 4:27
- "How Do You Think It Feels" 8:09
- "Vanishing Act" 5:31
- "Ecstasy" 7:09
- "The Day John Kennedy Died" 4:04
- "Street Hassle" 6:59
- "The Bed" 5:15
- "Reviens Cherie" (Fernando Saunders) 7:12
- "Venus in Furs" 10:02
Disc two
- "Dirty Blvd." 6:54
- "Sunday Morning" (Reed, John Cale) 5:04
- "All Tomorrow's Parties" 6:18
- "Call on Me" 2:45
- "The Raven" 9:33
- "Set the Twilight Reeling" 9:08
- "Candy Says" 6:04
- "Heroin" 9:11
Personnel
- Lou Reed - vocals, electric & acoustic guitar
- Mike Rathke - electric & acoustic guitar, Ztarsynthesizer, guitar synthesizer
- Fernando Saunders - electric & acoustic bass, Roland drums, guitar, backing vocals, vocals on "Tell It to Your Heart" & "Reviens Cherie", scat on "Sunday Morning"
- Jane Scarpantoni - cello
- Anohni - vocals on "Call on Me", "Set the Twilight Reeling" & "Candy Says", backing vocals
- John Bishop - f.o.h.
- Bill Bentley- executive producer
- Biff Dawes - recording engineer
References
- ^ "Animal Serenade by Lou Reed". Metacritic. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- AllMusic
- ^ Blender (magazine) review
- Pitchfork. Retrieved December 31, 2016.
- ^ Hoard, Christian (2004-04-07). "Lou Reed: Animal Serenade : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2009-02-17. Retrieved 4 September 2011.