I was 18 when I first heard this album in 1973. Raised in boarding schools since I was 5 years old. This is the most beautiful pop album I have ever heard.

This is music made out of pain. This is more than music: it’s hurt and anger as pop music.

I want it to be over but I want to play it again

The most brutally honest rock and roll album I've ever heard. Scared the $hit out of me at 16 years old. That was 40 years ago. Feels like an old friend now.

Lou throwing himself out for the rest of us. Rest in peace. Love you for all you gave us

The most authentic, raw artist in rock music history. Brilliant composer of urban symphonies.

like a punch to the gut. hideously beautiful

It happens every day , even after 40 years . We miss Lou every day !

Great poet, deep emotions: Lou Reed.

How can you listen without crying, screaming of horror ? I feel the same as the first time I listened to it 40 years ago...

This is my favorite work by Lou! Without a doubt! It chills me to the bone!

Fun Fact: The kids you hear are the same children you hear in the beginning of “God of Thunder” by KISS. Bob Ezrin, the producer for both tracks used his 2 sons in the studio to try and make the songs more dark I suppose. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Rest in Peace Mr Lou Reed 🖤 Thank you for everything 🖤🖤🖤

First listened to this a young teenager, early 90s. I was a big VU fan and of Lou's easier accessible music. I didn't like this record back in 1990. Now as a mid 40s man, I absolutely love this record and keep returning to this moreso than any of Lou's other records. But I do remember thinking as a 13yr old kid that the child crying on this song was something I'd never heard before in music. Thus began my Lou Reed love affair.

lou reeds best album. this is so deep in my DNA that it is actual life. i will love lou reed beyond death. ged from inspired, wearing black as fitting.

The kids' crying at the end always kill me.

masterpiece

Eu não me canso de ler e ouvir Lou. Ele é parte da minha alma. Nunca houve poeta musical igual a ele no rock'and'roll. Todos os dias eu sinto a sua falta. Descanse em paz, mestre!

They're taking her children away Because they said she was not a good mother They're taking her children away Because she was making it with sisters and brothers And everyone else, all of the others Like cheap officers who would stand there and flirt in front of me They're taking her children away Because they said she was not a good mother They're taking her children away Because of the things that they heard she had done The black Air Force sergeant was not the first one And all of the drugs she took, every one, every one And I am the Water Boy, the real game's not over here But my heart is overflowin' anyway I'm just a tired man, no words to say But since she lost her daughter It's her eyes that fill with water And I am much happier this way They're taking her children away Because they said she was not a good mother They're taking her children away Because number on was the girl friend from Paris The things that they did - ah - they didn't have to ask us And then the Welshman from India, who came here to stay They're taking her children away Because they said she was not a good mother They're taking her children away Because of the things she did in the streets In the alleys and bars, no she couldn't be beat That miserable rotten slut couldn't turn anyone away I am the Water Boy, the real game's not over here But my heart is overflowin' anyway I'm just a tired man, no words to say But since she lost her daughter It's her eyes that fill with water And I am much happier this way

Fantastic bass-lines by Tony Levin.

Lou!!!!!!

Sad & beautiful

What a masterpiece. A journey through a poor scorned woman's life - we can only feel sadness for her. And the retching of the kids in the end - with British accents, strangely." MummY!" Even for the childless and heartless (me): emotional.

one of the best lyrics of Lou Reed, is al lirical description of images and stories perfect song

I had a cat that didn’t like children. She’d usually ignore anything on the tv or stereo, except for this song. The crying kids at the end were so well recorded and sounded so real she’d leave the room whenever it got to that point!

Legend 👍

My heart is overflowin' anyway.

The saddest, yet greatest Lou Reed album, ever! I know, I know, Magic And Loss. I say, Berlin!

the greatest disturbing song. lots of stories..........

The recording engineers or whoever recorded their kid crying etc an compressed an whateveted the voices in this sad but true song The Kids. Lou could dethrone an silence a crowd heckler like no one heard LOU!!!! rock on!!!

this song makes me think of the generations of indigenous kids taken from their families to be sent to "residential boarding schools"

~ It Is Like A Prayer ~ 🍀🙏💚

Always liked this song. I figured out a way to do “ the swim” and “ the gator” along with it.

O ya i remember i bougt this album 48 years ago, and my brother when he heared the music ,he did not like the part when the children starten to cry!; whitch i also did not like i am now 62 years and i also cried when i heared the children creëren and crying for their mammie, aftershave so man years it still hits you; lets us hope we are all going to heaven where there is nothing that takes us away from the love of god and where is happiness,health,Joy!and no broken relations by the way there is no married there.

Also loved lou's choice of cords an notes that have natural overtones. Love it an play my version etc.

The kids heard near the end of the song were producer Bob Ezrin's kids. They can also be heard on KISS' "God Of Thunder".

This song is a cock block for any good feeling that may be pestering you

Beautiful Crazy "Make Me Cry"

Maybe the most sad song ever. Lou was the master

BJ Wilson from Procol Harum playing brilliant drums as usual

Apparently inspired by Lou's wife Bettye who was taken from her mother at a young age after her father left when she was very young. Lou embellished the rest which helped to break up their marriage. Lol

Love Berlin!

Lived it. Thanks Lou.

A MASTER PIECE,SOME KIND OF PERFECTION, A PARANGON OF POETRY, LOU FOR EVER

Lovely song 💙

Cristo che capolavoro!!!! 🖤💚❤️❣️

Louuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu 🖤

la adoro

Grande lou ree

Suddenly, I'd like to listen to this song. Autumn feeling~

Hermoso

goosebumps when the kids cry...

Deep and human..

Cris déchirants.J'ai (je ) cries aussi fort que lui.

This is Lou at his most Leonard

J'adore jouer the Kid à la guitare mélodie magnifique la fin est déchirante bob Ezrin avait enfermé les enfants dans le studio en leurs disant qu'ils reverraient pas leurs mère alors ils ont vraiment eu peur on le ressens dans le titre mais c'est quand même une idée de génie d'avoir fait pleurer les enfants comme sa parle d'une maman qui s'occuper mal de ses enfants

LOUUUUUUU

Saddest song ever

Bob Ezrin's children crying for real. Ezrin and Reed told them their their mother had abandoned them

Slide guitar is wicked

I am just a water boy...

One of the most harrowing things ever caught on tape.

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Well this became relevant again.

If you are interested check Anthony De Curtis 'Lou Reed A Life'. Lots of background as to how this album came about.

💞🌍🌎🌏💞

Fact: At the end, Bob Ezrin locked his own kids in the studio, told them their mother was dead, and taped the results. Ezrin says he told them that it was time for bed.

Berlín es un disco de música y letra y sonido extraordinario. Lou Reed amante de la literatura, quisiera hacer una historia de un matrimonio, enamorado, luego llegaron las drogas, los celos , la violencia, la prostitución, el quitar a los hijos a una madre incapaz de gobernarsexa si misma

The Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band of depression.

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This song looks like that part of the movie where the Divorced dad is facing the emptiness and depression

Me costó mucho poder dejar de escuchar todos los días a todas horas ese disco desde que lo descubrí en esa lista de 1000 y un discos que debes de escuchar antes de morir, porque de él solo conocía el Transformer pero este disco me cambió la vida. Se puede sufrir y seguir viviendo sin desear dejar de sufrir. Tras la muerte creo que lo único que extrañaré de esta vida son algunos discos: este es uno de ellos.

Struggente Capolavoro

I don't know if it's true that the kids near the end were told (falsely) that their mother had just died but it's possible. Something certainly got that kind of a reaction out of them.

this song is so hard to listen, with those lyrics, with the children crying, is so sad :-(

Tony Levin on bass

It's a good'un

masterpiece but keep it on the hush-hush

Definitely on Edgar Allan Poe's level.

Kippenvel

#IDontMindThePain

I suppose Ezrin felt that his screaming children would add to the song...I can't say if its the right thing to do however its a depressing song so why not add in the theatricality of it all? As an aside I had been in the grips of addiction when was not the best parent. I eventually got sober now just as long as the time I used. Now they are adults and this song reminds of the pain I caused. No time erases what pain i caused. I didnt legally lose custody but in my heart I lost it already.

Why is he much happier? 0:

this is literature

My introduction to Lou Reed was uneventful. I thought anything after the Velvets was inferior, not worth listening to. I stumbled upon this record in high school by accident. This was the song that changed my mind…

40ans avant quand bande de terreurs sympathiques ?

Ao fdim de tantos anos ... puta que pariu!! Mais nada

Remastered version ... Not as good as the vinyl. Where is the movie . The Kids , The Bed , Sad Song. Decadent Masterpiece. Love is album.

Bob Ezrin's kids. He in fact told them,to get the desired result,that their mother wasn't coming back.

Forever hard to hear these song . The problem was the father ... The sounds of children remenber me too many things ... there was also a flute ... One of my songs .

Love the Lou Reed chord choice of harmonics. Lou never really got credit for his choice of music an knowing those chord overtone harmonics. Like on heroin. Etc

Arrivé à Lyon et éduqué à Reed, Dylan et Bowie en1972...et puis quoi ???

This is possibly the darkest album of all time. And this song is second only to The Bed in it's coldness. And yet the album always makes me laugh. Part of it is it's just so cold. And Lou expressed coldness better than any songwriter I have ever heard. (Genuine coldness. The everyday coldness of a loveless marriage or a street hustler, etc. Not the fake coldness put up by rappers - which is actually a defense mechanism for a fragile ego.) Catharsis - thy name is Berlin.

a song for Trump today..

I'm reporting this song to the political Correctness Police.

the ending would’ve been better without the kids crying imo, it’s good the first time but it feels a little excessive afterwards

His masterpiece! The press labeled this album as the most depressing album ever recorded. ( until they heard death metal😂)

They're taking her children away Because they said she was not a good mother They're taking her children away Because she was making it with sisters and brothers And everyone else, all of the others Like cheap officers who would stand there and flirt in front of me They're taking her children away Because they said she was not a good mother They're taking her children away Because of the things that they heard she had done The black Air Force sergeant was not the first one And all of the drugs she took, every one, every one And I am the Water Boy, the real game's not over here But my heart is overflowin' anyway I'm just a tired man, no words to say But since she lost her daughter It's her eyes that fill with water And I am much happier this way They're taking her children away Because they said she was not a good mother They're taking her children away Because number one was the girlfriend from Paris The things that they did - ah - they didn't have to ask us And then the Welshman from India, who came here to stay They're taking her children away Because they said she was not a good mother They're taking her children away Because of the things she did in the streets In the alleys and bars, no she couldn't be beat That miserable rotten slut couldn't turn anyone away I am the Water Boy, the real game's not over here But my heart is overflowin' anyway I'm just a tired man, no words to say But since she lost her daughter It's her eyes that fill with water And I am much happier this way