The Raven (album)

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.

The Alan Parsons Project released a similar concept album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, in 1976.

The tracklisting is as follows:

CD1:

1. The Conqueror Worm
2. Overture
3. Old Poe
4. Prologue (Ligiea)
5. Edgar Allan Poe
6. The Valley of Unrest
7. Call on Me
8. The City in the Sea/Shadow
9. A Thousand Departed Friends
10. Change
11. The Fall of the House of Usher
12. The Bed
13. Perfect Day
14. The Raven
15. Balloon

CD2:

1. Broadway Song
2. The Tell-Tale Heart Pt. 1
3. Blind Rage
4. The Tell-Tale Heart Pt. 2
5. Burning Embers
6. Imp of the Perverse
7. Vanishing Act
8. The Cask
9. Guilty - Spoken
10. Guilty - Song
11. A Wild Being From Birth
12. I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum)
13. Science of the Mind
14. Annabel Lee/The Bells
15. Hop Frog
16. Every Frog has His Day
17. Tripitena's Speech
18. Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song)
19. Courtly Orangutans
20. Fire Music
21. Guardian Angel