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“I Love You Suzanne” by Lou Reed

From the album New Sensations (1984)

“I Love You Suzanne” by Lou Reed appears on 21 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1984 and 2014. It was first released in 1984 on the album New Sensations. Its best result is #7 on the WOXY Top 10 Songs of 1984. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #50 alternative song of 1984 and #1,551 alternative song of all time.

21countdowns
5stations
#7best position
0#1 finishes
1top 10 finishes
1984–2014years charted

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Lou Reed - I Love You, Suzanne (Official Video)

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Lou Reed put "I Love You Suzanne" on New Sensations, his 13th solo studio album, in 1984, and it's about as sunny as he ever sounded: a bouncing, chopping rock-and-roll valentine he produced with John Jansen, who also engineered.

Where that riff came from is still argued over. Bassist Fernando Saunders later claimed Robert Quine came up with it while the band rehearsed in the studio and never got a writing credit for it, which strained things between Quine and Reed. Reed told it differently: he'd carried the riff around in his head for months, a cheap D chord and nothing fancier. It became the only single from the album to chart, reaching 28 on the Top Tracks chart, and its video got light rotation on MTV.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1984 60 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1984 106
1984 7 WOXY 97X Cincinnati, OH WOXY Top 10 Songs of 1984 10

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
– 195 WLIR / WDRE WLIR Top 200 Songs of the 1980s 200
1989 397 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989) 500
1991 389 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1991) 500
1999 758 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 809 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 811 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 811 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 1960 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 811 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2003 1989 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2004 811 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 811 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 1583 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1519 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1535 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1566 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1633 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1699 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1772 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013

Also listed as: I Love You, Suzanne; I Love You Susanne.

Charting alongside it in 1984

Best songs of 1984 →
  1. 1Two TribesFrankie Goes to Hollywood
  2. 2Pride (In the Name of Love)U2
  3. 3RelaxFrankie Goes to Hollywood
  4. 4The Wild BoysDuran Duran
  5. 5The Killing MoonEcho and the Bunnymen
  6. 6TendernessGeneral Public

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