The Blue Mask

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The Blue Mask
The Blue Mask cover
Studio album by Lou Reed
Released Feb 1982
Recorded Oct 1981, RCA Studios, New York
Genre Rock
Length 40:30
Label RCA Records
Producer Lou Reed, Sean Fullan
Professional reviews
Lou Reed chronology
Rock and Roll Diary: 1967-1980
(1980)		 The Blue Mask
(1982)		 Legendary Hearts
(1983)

The Blue Mask is the eleventh album by singer-songwriter Lou Reed. It was the first album released after Reed left Arista and returned to RCA. It returns to the stripped-down sound of his previous group, The Velvet Underground, with only guitars, bass and drums. It also follows The Velvet Underground stylistically by counterposing jarring feedback-driven rock with tender ballads. Unusually, Reed's and Robert Quine's guitars are mixed separately in the left and right stereo channels. In 2000, a remastered version of the album was released.

"My House" is dedicated to Delmore Schwartz.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks by Lou Reed

  1. "My House" - 5:25
  2. "Women" - 4:57
  3. "Underneath the Bottle" - 2:33
  4. "The Gun" - 3:41
  5. "The Blue Mask" - 5:06
  6. "Average Guy" - 3:12
  7. "The Heroine" - 3:06
  8. "Waves of Fear" - 4:11
  9. "The Day John Kennedy Died" - 4:08
  10. "Heavenly Arms" - 4:47

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