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{{Infobox album
| name = The Blue Mask
| type = [[Studio album]]studio
| artist = [[Lou Reed]]
| cover = Bluemask.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1982|2|23}}<ref name="RS30">{{cite web|last=Sheffield |first=Rob |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/blogs/pop-life/happy-30th-birthday-to-the-blue-mask-lou-reeds-solo-masterpiece-20120224 |title=Happy 30th Birthday to 'The Blue Mask,' Lou Reed's Solo Masterpiece &#124; Rob Sheffield |publisher=Rolling Stone |date=1982-02-24 |accessdate=2013-08-16}}</ref>
| recorded = October 1981
| studio = RCA Studios (New York City)
| venue =
| studio = RCA Studios, [[New York City]]
| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| length = {{duration|m=41|s=00}}
| label = [[RCA Records|RCAVictor]]
| producer =
* {{hlist|Lou Reed|
* Sean Fullan}}
| prev_title = [[Rock and Roll Diary: 1967-19801967–1980]]
| prev_year = 1980
| next_title = [[Legendary Hearts]]
| next_year = 1983
| misc =
}}
'''''The Blue Mask''''' is the eleventh solo [[Album#Studio|studio album]] by American [[Rock music|rock]] musician [[Lou Reed]], released in February 1982, by [[RCA Records]]. Reed had returned to the label after having left [[Arista Records]]. The album was released around Reed's 40th birthday, and covers topics of marriage and settling down,<ref name="RS30"/> alongside themes of violence, paranoia, and alcoholism.
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|last=Deming|first=Mark|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-blue-mask-mw0000204764|title=The Blue Mask – Lou Reed|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=July 29, 2013}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref name="Kot">{{cite news|last=Kot|first=Greg|author-link=Greg Kot|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-01-12/entertainment/9201040209_1_star-rca-robert-quine|title=Lou Reed's Recordings: 25 Years Of Path-breaking Music|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=January 12, 1992|accessdate=July 29, 2013}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
| rev3Score = A<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=2150|chapter=Lou Reed: The Blue Mask|accessdate=July 29, 2013|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s]]|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|publisher=[[Pantheon Books]]|year=1990|isbn=0-679-73015-X}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev4Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|edition=5th concise|year=2011|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|isbn=978-0-85712-595-8}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev5Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Carson|first=Tom|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/reviews/album/7480/37165|title=Lou Reed: The Blue Mask|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|location=New York|date=April 15, 1982|accessdate=August 23, 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218202637/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/loureed/albums/album/98632/review/5941738/the_blue_mask|archivedate=February 18, 2009}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev6Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Hull|first=Tom|chapter=Lou Reed|title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]|edition=4th|year=2004|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/684 684–85]}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev7Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite journal|last=Marchese|first=David|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0yvyxlaTDXMC&pg=PA67|title=Discography: Lou Reed|journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|location=New York|volume=24|issue=11|date=November 2009|accessdate=January 13, 2017|page=67}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]''
| rev8Score = 9/10<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]|editor1-last=Weisbard|editor1-first=Eric|editor2-last=Marks|editor2-first=Craig|publisher=[[Vintage Books]]|year=1995|isbn=0-679-75574-8}}</ref>
}}
'''''The Blue Mask''''' is the eleventh solo [[Album#Studio|studio album]] by American musician [[Lou Reed]]. It was the first album released after Reed had left [[Arista Records]] and returned to [[RCA Records]]. The album was released around Reed's 40th birthday, and covers topics of marriage and settling down,<ref name="RS30"/> alongside themes of violence, paranoia, and alcoholism.
 
==Production and recording==
Reed and [[Robert Quine]]'s guitars were mixed separately in the right and left stereo channels respectively. To differentiate his guitar's sound from Reed's, Quine used [[D tuning]], playing each song as if it was one [[major second]] higher. For example, "Heavenly Arms" is in [[G major]], so Quine used fingerings for [[A major]] to play the song.
 
Quine, who years earlier followed the Velvet Underground across the country and taped several of their early shows (they were later released as ''[[Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes]]''), made for a suitable complement to Reed. Quine also toured in support of the album and can be seen on the recorded [[The Bottom Line (venue)|The Bottom Line]] show titled ''A Night with Lou Reed'' (1983). Quine later described the album as, "a record that I'm particularly proud of. We had never played together before going into the studio. There were no rehearsals and most of it was done in one or two takes. I like all the things that I've done with Lou but that will always be special for me."<ref>{{cite web| work= [[Rock's Backpages]] | title=Robert Quine: Red Red Quine|author=Richard Kirk | url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/robert-quine-red-red-quine}}{{subscription required|s}}</ref> Quine and Reed share the distinction of being named to ''[[Rolling Stone]]'''s Top 100 Guitarists of All-Time List.
 
[[Fernando Saunders]], who subsequently became a longtime Reed collaborator, plays thebass bassguitar and adds backing vocals (most noticeably, a falsetto refrain in the outro to "Heavenly Arms") to this album and can also be seen in ''A Night with Lou Reed''. Saunders later said, "it was like a dream come true. Lou wanted me to play the things no one would ever let me play, the things I would sit in my bedroom and play. Suddenly I was glad I hadn't quit music for my uncle's insurance company."<ref>{{cite web| work= [[Rock's Backpages]] | title=Fernando Saunders' Lead Bass|author=Rob Tannenbaum | url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/fernando-saunders-lead-bass}}{{subscription required|s}}</ref>
 
The album contains no instrumental overdubs with the exception of Reed's guitar on "My House", but all vocals were overdubbed with the exception of "The Heroine". The drummer for the album was studio musician [[Doane Perry]], who later joined [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]].
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==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
[[Robert Palmer (writer)|Robert Palmer]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' hailed it as the year's "most outstanding rock album," writing that Reed had finally matched the "hard, thoughtful, unflinching songs" of the [[The Velvet Underground|Velvet Underground]]'s groundbreaking [[The Velvet Underground & Nico|debut from 1967]]. He also praised the musicianship, particularly Reed and Quine's guitar work, writing that they "interact with a sort of empathy and lucidity one expects from a seasoned jazz combo and the music always reaches out to invite the listener in, even at its most intensely personal level."<ref name="Palmer">{{cite news|last=Palmer|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Palmer (writer)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/22/arts/the-pop-life-115191.html|title=The Pop Life|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|location=New York|date=December 22, 1982|accessdate=February 14, 2021}}</ref>
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|last=Deming|first=Mark|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-blue-mask-mw0000204764|title=The Blue Mask – Lou Reed|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=July 29, 2013}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref name="Kot">{{cite news|last=Kot|first=Greg|author-link=Greg Kot|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/01/12/lou-reeds-recordings-25-years-of-path-breaking-music/|title=Lou Reed's Recordings: 25 Years Of Path-breaking Music|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=January 12, 1992|access-date=July 29, 2013}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
| rev3score = A<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=2150|chapter=Lou Reed: The Blue Mask|accessdate=July 29, 2013|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s]]|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|publisher=[[Pantheon Books]]|year=1990|isbn=0-679-73015-X}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book|title=[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|edition=5th concise|year=2011|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|isbn=978-0-85712-595-8}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev5score = 9.2/10<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lou-reed-the-blue-mask/|title=Lou Reed: ''The Blue Mask'' Album Review|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|last=Brooks|first=Dan|date=April 28, 2024|access-date=April 28, 2024}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Carson|first=Tom|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/reviews/album/7480/37165|title=Lou Reed: The Blue Mask|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|location=New York|date=April 15, 1982|accessdate=August 23, 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218202637/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/loureed/albums/album/98632/review/5941738/the_blue_mask|archivedate=February 18, 2009}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Hull|first=Tom|chapter=Lou Reed|title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide]]|edition=4th|year=2004|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/684 684–85]}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev8score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite journal|last=Marchese|first=David|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0yvyxlaTDXMC&pg=PA67|title=Discography: Lou Reed|journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|location=New York|volume=24|issue=11|date=November 2009|accessdate=January 13, 2017|page=67}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]''
| rev9score = 9/10<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]|editor1-last=Weisbard|editor1-first=Eric|editor2-last=Marks|editor2-first=Craig|publisher=[[Vintage Books]]|year=1995|isbn=0-679-75574-8}}</ref>
}}
[[Robert Palmer (American writer)|Robert Palmer]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' hailed it as the year's "most outstanding rock album," writing that Reed had finally matched the "hard, thoughtful, unflinching songs" of the [[The Velvet Underground|Velvet Underground]]'s groundbreaking [[The Velvet Underground & Nico|debut from 1967]]. He also praised the musicianship, particularly Reed and Quine's guitar work, writing that they "interact with a sort of empathy and lucidity one expects from a seasoned [[jazz]] combo and the music always reaches out to invite the listener in, even at its most intensely personal level."<ref name="Palmer">{{cite news|last=Palmer|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Palmer (American writer)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/22/arts/the-pop-life-115191.html|title=The Pop Life|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|location=New York|date=December 22, 1982|accessdate=February 14, 2021}}</ref>
 
[[Robert Christgau]] of ''The Village Voice'' initially gave ''The Blue Mask'' an A+ rating: "Never has Lou sounded more [[Allen Ginsberg|Ginsbergian]], more let-it-all-hang-out than on this, his most controlled, plainspoken, deeply felt, and uninhibited album...he sounds glad to be alive, so that horror and pain become occasions for courage and eloquence as well as bitterness and sarcasm." Christgau also praised the musicianship, writing that "Reed's voice - precise, conversational, stirring whether offhand or inspirational - sings his love of language itself, with Fernando Saunders's bass articulating his tenderness and the guitars of Robert Quine and Reed himself fleshing out the terrible beauty he's borne."<ref>{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv3-82.php|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|location=New York|date=March 9, 1982|accessdate=February 14, 2021}}</ref>
 
In ''[[The Phoenix (newspaper) | The Boston Phoenix]]'', Ariel Swartley wrote that "What Reed has done (it sounds simple to lay things out this way, the album's anything but) is to expose rock ‘n’ roll’s intellectual affinities without spoiling its immediacy. He’s solved, or at least brought evidence to bear on, a variety of post-punk problems: how to say complicated things in inarticulate-sounding voices; how to achieve the sustained revelation of confessional writing while escaping the claustrophobic confines of personality; how to reconcile inspiration with craft. All this, too, in a lean, guitar-dominated song cycle that has the luminous intensity of a ''[[Hejira (album) | Hejira]]'' or an ''[[Astral Weeks]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Swartley |first1=Ariel |title=Lou Reed: Rapture in the night. |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_boston-phoenix_1982-04-06_11_14/page/n61/mode/1up |access-date=August 14, 2024 |work=The Boston Phoenix |date=April 6, 1982}}</ref>
[[Ira Robbins]] of ''[[Trouser Press]]'' praised the album as "a triumphant success" with "some of Reed’s strongest writing in years. The portraits he paints are miserable characters living outside society; it’s not clear whether or not they’re fictional."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Robbins|first1=Ira|last2=Fleischmann|first2=Mark|url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/lou-reed/|title=Lou Reed|website=[[Trouser Press]]|accessdate=February 14, 2021}}</ref>
 
Ira Robbins of ''[[Trouser Press]]'' praised the album as "a triumphant success" with "some of Reed's strongest writing in years. The portraits he paints are miserable characters living outside society; it's not clear whether or not they're fictional."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Robbins|first1=Ira|last2=Fleischmann|first2=Mark|url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/lou-reed/|title=Lou Reed|website=[[Trouser Press]]|accessdate=February 14, 2021}}</ref>
 
[[NME]] said, "What made ''The Blue Mask'' Lou Reed’s watershed album was his choice of musicians, a new wave super-set of them – Fernando Saunders on bass, Doane Perry on drums, and the legendary Robert Quine on guitar.<ref>{{cite web| work= [[Rock's Backpages]] | title=Lou Reed: Legendary Hearts (RCA)|author=Cynthia Rose | url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/lou-reed-legendary-hearts-rca}}{{subscription required|s}}</ref>
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==Track listing==
All songs written by [[Lou Reed]].
 
;Side one
'''Side one'''
#"My House" - 5:25
# "My House"{{snd}}5:25
#"Women" - 4:57
# "Women"{{snd}}4:57
#"Underneath the Bottle" - 2:33
# "Underneath the Bottle"{{snd}}2:33
#"The Gun" - 3:41
# "The Blue MaskGun" - 5{{snd}}3:0641
# "The Blue Mask"{{snd}}5:06
;Side two
 
#"Average Guy" - 3:12
'''Side two'''
#"The Heroine" - 3:06
# "Average Guy"{{snd}}3:12
#"Waves of Fear" - 4:11
# "The Heroine"{{snd}}3:06
#"The Day John Kennedy Died" - 4:08
# "Waves of Fear"{{snd}}4:11
#"Heavenly Arms" - 4:47
# "The Day John Kennedy Died"{{snd}}4:08
# "Heavenly Arms"{{snd}}4:47
 
==Personnel==
'''Musicians'''
* Lou Reed – [[guitar]], vocals
* [[Lou Reed]] – guitar, vocals
* [[Robert Quine]] – guitar
* [[Fernando Saunders]] – [[bass guitar]], backing vocals
* [[Doane Perry]] – [[Drum kit|drums]]
;Technical
*Sean Fullan – recording engineer, co-producer
 
'''Technical'''
== Charts ==
* Sean Fullan – recording engineer, co-producer
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
!Chart (1982)
==Charts==
!Peak
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align:center;"
position
|+Chart performance for ''The Blue Mask''
! scope="col"| Chart (1982)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|-
{{album chart|Netherlands|28|artist=Lou Reed|album=The Blue Mask|rowheader=true|access-date=June 2, 2022}}
| align="left" |Dutch Albums ([[Dutch Album Top 100|Album Top 100]])<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl |url=https://dutchcharts.nl/search.asp?cat=a&cat2=s&search=lou+reed |access-date=2020-12-16 |website=dutchcharts.nl}}</ref>
|28
|-
|! alignscope="leftrow"| |German Albums ([[GfK Entertainment charts|Offizielle Top 100]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Offizielle Deutsche Charts - Offizielle Deutsche Charts |url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/album-details-33838 |access-date=2022-02-27 |website=www.offiziellecharts.de}}</ref>
| 52
|-
|! alignscope="leftrow"| |French Albums ([[Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique|SNEP]])<ref name="infodiscfr">{{cite web |title=Tous les Albums classés par Artiste |url=http://www.infodisc.fr/Album_R.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126084927/http://infodisc.fr/Album_R.php |archive-date=2016-01-26 |access-date=2011-01-07 |work=www.infodisc.fr}}</ref>
| 15
|-
! scope="row"| Italian Albums (''[[Musica e Dischi]]'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicaedischi.it/classifiche_archivio.php|title=Classifiche|work=[[Musica e dischi]]|language=it|access-date=June 2, 2022}} Set "Tipo" on "Album". Then, with "Lou Reed" in "Artista", click "cerca"</ref>
| align="left" |New Zealand Albums ([[Official New Zealand Music Chart|RMNZ]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=charts.org.nz - Lou Reed - The Blue Mask |url=https://charts.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Lou+Reed&titel=The+Blue+Mask&cat=a |access-date=2022-02-27 |website=charts.nz}}</ref>
|35 24
|-
|! alignscope="leftrow" |Swedish New Zealand Albums ([[SverigetopplistanOfficial New Zealand Music Chart|RMNZ]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=swedishchartscharts.org.comnz - Lou Reed - The Blue Mask |url=https://swedishchartscharts.comnz/showitem.asp?interpret=Lou+Reed&titel=The+Blue+Mask&cat=a |access-date=2022-02-27 |website=swedishchartscharts.comnz}}</ref>
|17 35
|-
! scope="row"| Swedish Albums ([[Sverigetopplistan]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=swedishcharts.com - Lou Reed - The Blue Mask |url=https://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Lou+Reed&titel=The+Blue+Mask&cat=a |access-date=2022-02-27 |website=swedishcharts.com}}</ref>
| align="left" |[[Billboard 200|US ''Billboard'' 200]]<ref name="allmusicalbums">{{cite web |title=Lou Reed > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p5247/charts-awards/billboard-albums|pure_url=yes}} |work=[[AllMusic]] |publisher=[[All Media Network]] |accessdate=2010-09-02}}</ref>
|159 17
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|169|artist=Lou Reed|rowheader=true|access-date=April 28, 2024}}
|}
 
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
 
==External links==
* {{discogs master|44398}}
 
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