This is a tough one. Lou Reed isn't the most accessible musician around. If you're looking for a single song, "New York Conversation" provides a good luck at R

This is a tough one. Lou Reed isn't the most accessible musician around. If you're looking for a single song, "New York Conversation" provides a good luck at Reed. It's a fun little song on Transformer, which is likely my favourite Lou Reed album. That said, Lou Reed is generally best served in entire albums. If you're willing to give an entire album a listen, Transformer is a good bet. But, I'll warn you, if you found Walk on the Wild Side a little too off key for your taste, Satellite of Love will flat out hurt. If you're willing to go a little earlier, the Velvet Underground is an amazing album, though it veers into art rock territory.