NYC Man (2003)

Compilatie-dubbelalbum van Lou Reed met digitaal geremasterde songs. "NYC Man, thirty-one tracks selected by the man himself, shows the many strange faces of Lou Reed: the decadent Chelsea-boy punk poet of the Velvet Underground ("I'm Waiting for the Man," "Heroin"), the Seventies glam-rock ho ("Walk on the Wild Side"), the reluctantly wise gutter sage ("Street Hassle," "The Blue Mask") and the guy who took a ton of drugs ("Berlin"). "Ecstasy," from 2000, proves that Reed's creative powers remain fierce even if his recent rock opera about Edgar Allan Poe is a lot to forgive" (Rolling Stone).