The Raven (album)
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The Raven is a 2-CD concept album by Lou Reed released in 2003. Its goal is to recount the short stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe through word and song. Both "The Bed" and "Perfect Day" are new and very different versions of well-known Reed songs from previous albums, and the song "Fire Music" is white noise. In addition to Reed it features a number of guest vocalists including Laurie Anderson and Antony.
The Alan Parsons Project released a similar concept album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, in 1976.
The tracklisting is as follows:
CD1:
- The Conqueror Worm
- Overture
- Old Poe
- Prologue (Ligiea)
- Edgar Allan Poe
- The Valley of Unrest
- Call on Me
- The City in the Sea/Shadow
- A Thousand Departed Friends
- Change
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Bed
- Perfect Day
- The Raven
- Balloon
CD2:
- Broadway Song
- The Tell-Tale Heart Pt. 1
- Blind Rage
- The Tell-Tale Heart Pt. 2
- Burning Embers
- Imp of the Perverse
- Vanishing Act
- The Cask
- Guilty - Spoken
- Guilty - Song
- A Wild Being From Birth
- I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum)
- Science of the Mind
- Annabel Lee/The Bells
- Hop Frog
- Every Frog has His Day
- Tripitena's Speech
- Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song)
- Courtly Orangutans
- Fire Music
- Guardian Angel