Set the Twilight Reeling is the seventeenth solo album by rock and roll

Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...

 singer Lou Reed

Lou Reed

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...

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The cover art is by Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister is a New York-based graphic designer and typographer. He has his own design firm—Sagmeister Inc.—in New York City. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny.-Biography:Sagmeister studied graphic design at the...

. The CD case sold with the album was a dark purple/blue hue, making the cover look like a dark blue picture of Reed's face; the bright yellow aspect and the "rays" of the cover image were only made apparent when the liner notes were removed from the case.

"Finish Line" was written as a tribute to Velvet Underground guitarist Sterling Morrison

Sterling Morrison

Holmes Sterling Morrison, Jr. was one of the founding members of the rock group The Velvet Underground, usually playing electric guitar, occasionally bass guitar, and singing backing vocals.-Biography:...

, who had died the previous year.

Track listing

All tracks written by Lou Reed

1. "Egg Cream"
2. "NYC Man"
3. "Finish Line"
4. "Trade In"
5. "Hang On To Your Emotions"
6. "Sex With Your Parents (Motherfucker)", Pt. 2
7. "Hookywooky"
8. "The Proposition"
9. "Adventurer"
10. "Riptide"
11. "Set The Twilight Reeling"

"Sex With Your Parents (Motherfucker)" recorded live on July 14, 1995 at The Roof, New York

New York

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Personnel

• Lou Reed - vocals, guitars
• Fernando Saunders
  Fernando Saunders
  Fernando Saunders is a musician, performer, vocalist and bass player from Detroit, Michigan.-Biography:Fernando Saunders has performed all around the world with music legends such as Marianne Faithfull, Joan Baez, Slash, Tori Amos, Jimmy Page, Luciano Pavarotti and Jeff Beck...
  
   - fretless & fret electric bass, acoustic guitar on "NYC Man", background vocals
• Oliver Lake
  Oliver Lake
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  , J.D. Parran, Russell Gunn
  Russell Gunn
  Russell Gunn is an American contemporary Neo-bop jazz musician, known primarily for his trumpet playing and Grammy nominated recording, Ethnomusicology vol. 1....
  
  , Jr. - horns on "NYC Man"
• Roy Bittan
  Roy Bittan
  Roy Bittan is an American keyboardist, best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, which he joined on August 23, 1974...
  
   - piano on "Finish Line"
• Tony "Thunder" Smith - drums, background vocals
• Mino Cinelu
  Mino Cinelu
  Mino Cinelu is a French musician. He plays multiple instruments. He is a composer, programmer and producer; and is most often associated primarily for his work as a jazz percussionist.-Biography:Cinelu was born in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine...
  
   - percussion on "Finish Line"
• Struan Oglanby - programming & production co-ordination
• Laurie Anderson
  Laurie Anderson
  Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s...
  
  - background vocals on "Hang On To Your Emotions"