The Similarities Engine

Albums similar to Berlin

These are the albums most often named alongside Lou Reed - Berlin by people listing five favorite records. If you are looking for artists similar to Lou Reed, this is where their listeners went. Nobody wrote these recommendations and no algorithm guessed at them: every album below is one that a real person put on the same list.

1. The Kinks - Arthur (or The Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
2. Woody Guthrie - Grand Coolie Dam Recordings
3. Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
4. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 4
5. Patti Smith - Easter
6. Laurie Anderson - Bright Red
7. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
8. Sonic Youth - Sister
9. Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
10. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour - The Alternate Album Collection
11. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
12. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
13. Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
14. Billy Joel - The Stranger
15. Primus - Frizzle Fry
16. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
17. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
18. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
19. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
20. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
21. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
22. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
23. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
24. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
25. U2 - Achtung Baby
26. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
27. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
28. Pink Floyd - The Wall

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