One of the greatest albums in the history of rock and roll, enough said.

Rock and Roll Animal was the first Lou Reed album that I ever heard

enough to make a grown man cry 🥲

Incredible. Never get tired of the journey in every song.

After 30 years sobriety I still get a contact high from this song.

Surpasses the original track off the Velvet's 1967 debut, which wasn't too dusty, either. Lou Reed was one of the greatest rhythm guitarists rock and roll has blessed us with. His lyrical preoccupations took us into the dark corners of the psyche where few were brave enough to venture.

Started at age 29 and gave up at 53 in 2018...it feels like a very long time...the tune is magnificent though it always makes me emotional...

Lou, Hunter & Wagner Pantii Glan, Ray Colcord, Prakish John, Excellent Live Performance!

The best guitar solos I've ever heard in my life. No meandering, just taking it to the next moment. Pure bliss.

I agree best Lou album ,end off . loved it when using , love it 30 years on clean. I just wish the youth of today could exitance this type of music . Got Transformer for my daughters boyfriend birthday and he is blown away , he is 26 ........... there is hope !

I am not an addict but I have suffered from Bipolar depression for the last couple of years so I definitely relate to that feeling of, "just let it all fucking end and stop trying to help me."

RIP Lou Reed...yes one of the hottest album's ever . 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🖤

THE BEST GUITAR WORK HERE....WOW...ON FIRE....

Awesome and it get's better the more times you listen. Love Lou Reed, RIP mate and thank you for the music ♥ ♥ ♥

Dick Wagner & Steve Hunter are god level guitarists. Pity their collection on KZfaq is so limited. Amazing work by them in this album. ♥️

Shows are people really listening , this is one of if not best versions , it is very dramatic, like that , I never heard original , this one builds excitement, hand on people , Janis said ‘ Listen to the Words ,man was she ever on , a real gem indeed, so glad I found it , Just the name but I struck Gold , finding this , New York Radio , etc. Super thank you Lou Reed forever thankful ,

I knew Lou Reed since" 66."Andy Warhol used to be Warhola in Pgh.and his brother. Shot dope with Lou when I lived in Brooklyn. and where I was born in France 🇫🇷to Lou

RIP Pente "Whitey" Glan. November 2017. He had such a great groove going with Prakash John. What an amazing rhythm section.

"now its hailed as the true masterpiece it is"

So powerful how the music swells and moves throughout the song. It would've been out of this world to have seen this performed live.

This is my favorite Lou Reed album. You have his poetic lyrics and minimalist chord progession married with 70s hard rock instrumentation. I see that as a win on all levels.

I sit back and let Lou Reed take me back to the glory days of real rock and roll

Love to all my junkies past and present. God loves us the most.

Builds to a thunderous climax at the end.

Ray Colcord (R.I.P) keyboards …. Wow, when he brings in that ‘swell’ - with the Hammond through a Leslie ‘rotating speaker horn’ cabinet !! Shivers !! …. Nice ‘volume swells’ from Steve Hunter or Dick Wagner’s guitar - probably using the guitar’s volume control knob (pot) to create those ‘cat like’ cries … or a ‘volume pedal ?’ …. I can’t get over the fact this was recorded in December 1973 ! Nothing else like it ‘live’ ….

Funny, I remember when this album came out all the Velvet fans called him a total sell out for remaking all their classics with an electric guitar, now its hailed as the true masterpiece it is.

Lou was a class apart. PERIOD ! In my eyes, he was writing history for the music world !

RIP LOU. We miss you

Brilliant guitar work of Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner on this song and album

I’m so used to Sweet Jane going into Heroin with the guitar dropping tuning down in between. This is nice to hear it differently, but those two will always play together in my head forever in musical perfection bliss.❤ Ahhhhhh ❤

This song gives me such peace, I just don't know.

When a song is this great every version of it is sublime

Indeed. Brings back risky and scary memories, and still makes the hair on my neck stand up

che tempi....non torneranno MAI più!

Great comments and equally great album

One of the greatest songs of all time.

I grew up on this album in my teens, thanks to that one cool friend who had all the good music (there's always one). I had this album way before I ever heard any of the originals by the VU. I loved the whole thing, this song probably most of all. Even though most of the songs are like night and day compared to the originals. Not better and not worse. Just different.

The sublimity of this song and this version, its perfected picturing of despair, euphoria,longing, anomie, mania, the alienation of true individuality even apart from any drug at all, yet also the changed vision, changed sensibility and stark romanticism which exclusively Heroin brings, all converge to make this piece of music stand with the greatest of any category, from Beethoven and Wagner to Miles Davis and John Coltrane. It is one of the most powerful musical statements ever made. It will defy official fashions, morals, and aesthetics for centuries, and strike like lightning into the heads of all new generations who hear it, just as it did mine at age 12 , one truant afternoon in a sadistic and shallow, beautiful little beach town in Orange County, CA, thereby changing my life forever.

Grande, favoloso, immenso bassista!

Iconic

I love this song. So happy I'm not there anymore. Thank you Lou Reed

This is a very powerful song.Been there done that!!

This album is legendary and unique in its sound. The thing that made Lou so great is that he hired prog guys to fill out his band. Steve Howe on the first album, Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner on this one, Danny Weis with that solo on Kill Your Sons. It sounds like the stuff you'd hear on a Judas Priest or a Camel record.

Such great music. Brings me way back. Steve and Lou are awesome!!

Dabbled but never succumbed. Miss it to this day but too dangerous on so many levels.

Waaaaooouuuuhhhh 😊😊😊😊😊😊 Amazinnnnggg . Génial !!!

About 13 years of age , now iam 61 still gives me shivers after overcome my heroïne addiction Of 14 years ; iam of iT over 30 years and still ; hoe crazy iT may sounds still have good memories Of this careless time ; this song takes me back to this period besides that its a great song Thanks for all your uplifting comments on the song

I love every version of this song that exists. Its the reason i became a junky, its also the reason i finally decided to stop

Stuff of legends man. This whole album rocks!

I wish that, I'd sailed the darken seas, on a great big clipper ship, going from this mans land to that ...

This one sure stands the test of time, not heard it for years and it truly is a magnificent arrangement, and the musos are top flight. I...have made very big decision, it can seem that way at the time, but melancholia is a part of every thinking man's life, we have to live and carry on.

Highly addictive ... no risk overdose ... still alive after all these years .

TEMAZO

breaks my heart every time damn

Lou Reed never been forget about the music

First time I heard this, I was 14. And now I'm 47. And... It's the best song ever

wow..just wow..loved this version soo much!

Lou's live version of this song with such dynamic electric guitar blew away the original version by Lou's Velvet Underground. I never was a fan till I bought 'Rock n Roll Animal' on a whim. A masterpiece of music history!

Saw him Woodrose Ballroom, probably 70ish Andy was doing light show, good acid , unreal concert, rock on

God bless you Lou

One of the reasons I never tried heroin was this song. I knew if I tried it I would be lost and I was either too smart or too dumb to go there!

Lou you ROCK

Looking back on it, and I have the vinyl, I think it’s over the top with the guitars.

A worthy ballad to shiva

I'm not using now. I'm 30 yrs old. My dad taught me about my own music. I need no needles, I need no religion. I'm responsible for myself. He loved Lou Reed and his music. I carry it on..

Seems as good as it was.. just gets better somehow 🎉 🎸

" When the smack begins to flow, then I really don't care anymore, about all you Jim-Jims in this town, and everybody puttin everyone else down, and all the politicians making crazy sounds, and all the dead bodies piled up in mounds". About says it all. Truly 1 of the most bad-ass tunes in R & R history.

I still have this album 😄

It's hard to imagine any other artist writing or recording this song, let alone numerous times. This version is my favourite although according to biographer Anthony DeCurtis it wasn't Lou's favourite version, I used heroin for a while and it does get to me in a way that's both nostalgic and disturbing... this does romanticise it a bit but then, you do...

"Away from the big city, where a man cannot be free, of all the evils in this town, and of himself and those around, oh, and I guess I just don't know, and I guess I just don't know."

Speechless....

i LOVE HEROIN.

Happy birthday Lou! ✌🏻

I have made a very big decision in my life tonight.....so I had to crank this up and hear the true master sing those words. I am cutting off part of my family from my life....no more will I be subject to their hatred and emotional abuse. I am going to sail that big clipper ship and put on my sailor cap and leave them ashore forever.

My favory sound of this peal musical ❤😊

Es uno de los mejores álbumes de rock y este tema es exactamente como un colocón de heroina❤

Masterpiece...Music & lyrics

The song more real of all the history. RIP Lou Reed, Dick Wagner & Pennti Glan.

I may be late, but I'm in love!

How good is that.

THANKS FOR POSTING!!!

great music Lou

Best ever, grew up with this!

It was our anthem.😊😊

You'll NEVER see Swift or Bieber or West do anything remotely close to this.

I'm sending this to friend who's in it's grips as the song is as real as it gets, yet it's still able the share a light

24 years later w/ my Soberity & Recovery I get a clear ♏essage of where i came from & now the gift of living ( Day in Day out 🔶🔺) One Day @ A Time. I never thought 🗿🎼✋✌🎼 R.I.P. 🌠🌎 so bless to see you perform back in early seventy's Play🎤🎶🇺🇸🌉🌉🗽🍏 N.Y. City walks on ￦ild sides🎼🎸🎤🎧🔌🌉🏢🌉♏

BEST FUCKING SONG IN HISTORY. FACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone agrees this is great except for Lou Reed. I read that Lou Reed resented being upstaged--maybe resented it as early as during the live shows or maybe when the LP became a hit (commercial success reached Lou Reed, so he must have asked himself, "Have I had sold out?"). He viewed this hot band as a mistake for his career. It was like he was pushed to the side, a mere vocalist between guitar solos, not the star performer. He performed with these skilled musicians but did not know ahead of time that these guys would get so much applause. I'm not sure he personally hired them--maybe Bob Ezrin did the hiring. In 1972, before performing with these amazing musicians, Lou Reed did live shows with weak musicians. Those shows were a snooze, and Lou Reed's career was stalling. Then magic hit with the late 1973 Rock and Roll Animal concerts.. Audiences listening to FM radio felt Lou Reed struck gold due to Wagner, Hunter, Prakash John (amazing bass player), and Penti Glan (great drums). But Lou didn't feel that way. From 1975 onwards Lou Reed would never again let others upstage him. He would NOT allow great musicians like Wagner and Hunter to steal shows. The result in Lou Reed's later years was mediocre records, disappointing live shows. Lots of people went to Lou Reed live shows in the late 1970s expecting THIS kind of hot show (the Rock and Roll Animal lp was a big hit, as I said), but audiences at shows from 1975 onwards felt disappointment. By the way, I had a friend who went to a Lou Reed live show around 1974 or 1975 with the expectation that it would be like Rock and Roll Animal. My friend was amazed that Lou Reed was shooting up heroin on the stage. Ah, but maybe it was medicine for diabetes--or nothing. Was real heroin being used, or was this mere theater (like in an Alice Cooper show)? Nobody can know for sure except for Lou Reed.

Best intro ever!!! 🤘

Love it 🥰

Grazie mile per tutto..desde Romás

Great Song 👍👍👍

Genial Big decision

Himmm Halk Mesci& Lou Reed❤🎉

Uno de los mejores ciscos del rock. De todos los tiempos.

This song is so much my father.😢

lady day vocals just out of this world

Heroin. I don't know just where I'm going But I'm goin' to try for the kingdom if I can 'cause it makes me feel like I'm a man When I put a spike into my vein Then I tell you things aren't quite the same When I'm rushing on my run And I feel just like jesus' son And I guess I just don't know And I guess that I just don't know I have made very big decision I'm goin' to try to nullify my life 'cause when the blood begins to flow When it shoots up the dropper's neck When I'm closing in on death You can't help me not you guys All you sweet girls with all your sweet talk You can all go take a walk And I guess I just don't know And I guess I just don't know I wish that I was born a thousand years ago I wish that I'd sailed the darkened seas On a great big clipper ship Going from this land here to that I put on a sailor's suit and cap Away from the big city Where a man cannot be free Of all the evils in this town And of himself and those around Oh, and I guess I just don't know Oh, and I guess I just don't know Heroin, be the death of me Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life Because a mainer to my vein Leads to a center in my head And then I'm better off than dead When the smack begins to flow Then I really don't care anymore About all the jim-jims in this town And everybody putting everybody else down And all of the politicians makin' crazy sounds All the dead bodies piled up in mounds, yeah Wow, that heroin is in my blood And the blood is in my head Yeah, the god's good as dead Ooohhh, God that I'm not aware I just don't care And I guess I just don't know And I guess I just don't know Songwriters: REED, LOU

saw the Academy show on 14th,the other one taped was in Brooklyn the next night, about 10th row center, one of my top 10s😊