Song · Lou Reed
“No Money Down” by Lou Reed
From the album Mistrial (1986)
“No Money Down” by Lou Reed appears on 14 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1999 and 2014. It was first released in 1986 on the album Mistrial. Its best result is #1652 on the CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,338 alternative song of all time.
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"No Money Down" was the only single from Lou Reed's 1986 album Mistrial, his fourteenth solo studio record, to make the charts, going out on 7-inch and 12-inch and reaching number 19 on the Album Rock Tracks chart and number 75 in Australia. It's Reed in slick mid-'80s street-rocker mode, and he stacked the session with hired firepower.
Eddie Martinez, who had played on Run-DMC's "Rock Box" and "King of Rock" a couple of years earlier, handles rhythm guitar alongside Reed, while Rick Bell, a Michael Stanley Band veteran who had also worked with Peter Gabriel, blows tenor saxophone. Fernando Saunders plays bass and sings backup, J.T. Lewis and Sammy Merendino add percussion, and Bruce Lampcov mixed it. Reed wrote it and sings it himself.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1785 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1786 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1787 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1775 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1757 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1757 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1758 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2007 | 1674 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 1652 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 1673 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2010 | 1714 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
| 2011 | 1786 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1843 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2014 | 1911 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
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