Lou Reed - Transformer
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Artist: Lou ReedEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-10-22
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Vicious
- Andy's Chest
- Perfect Day
- Hangin' 'Round
- Walk On The Wild Side
- Make Up
- Satellite Of Love
- Wagon Wheel
- New York Telephone Conversation
- I'm So Free
- Goodnight Ladies
- Hangin' 'Round (Acoustic Demo)
- Perfect Day (Acoustic Demo)
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Free Music Review: Happy dead anniversary, dear
Hit: 5 Stars
Cameron Crowe meets Lester Bangs and, natch, they discuss, what else, Lou Reed.
"Goodnight Ladies" (only 2nd, maybe, to Yoko's "We're All Water" as a 'song of the decade' {70's}) invented Tom Waits in a NY minute, so there. Transdressers, alcoholics, cokewhores, jus' good folks. Sandy my bestest friend, ever. But, also, it's May 12th, so I remember my 1st marriage, 29 years ago, too bad my husband died in a highway fireball 5 years ago. What else? Well. Lou Reed was my Carpenters' B-side back in the day, as they say. No old ladies, ladies never age, just ask Blanche DuBois. Ah anyway, my TV dinner's almost done.
Meanwhile, I'm almost 10 at the time (1970) and I'm at the St. Louis Crestwood Mall with my parents. There's a shop, called "Size 6." What's 'size 6,' I ask. My father says "it's the cute, young girl size for dresses." And I think, "Wow, that's great. That's what I want." Oops, but neverless. So, you see, size 6 (my size, babe) has always been in my heart, a very magical number. That's why I diet so fearlessly. Ah anyway, my TV dinner's almost done. I remembered that number for decades, it took decades to get it. I earned it.
May 12th. So sorry, Carrie, you demised. That haunted honeymoon house, some abandoned farmhouse out in the woods where we all got high, made for a brilliant metaphor, cobwebs and rusted tins, pure funk, a classic Stones cut between hits, hitchhiking foolishly, fearlessly, we did "it" outside the HoJo's NY before the cops came and shooed us away, bad coffee and skanky pancakes. And turning tricks. Of course, every time I begged for it, I really wanted to be the girl doing it. Transformer, that. I bet you knew all along.
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This sophomore release by the Velvet Underground cofounder has long been hailed as one of the key touchstones of the punk and alternative eras that followed it. Reinforcing the literary adage to "write what you know," Reed paints an alternately detached/debauched portrait of the drag-and-drugs-infused underground of Warhol's New York, a place, time, and mindset so compelling it has largely overshadowed the rest of the singer-songwriter's mercurial career. That the album would also give Reed an unlikely Top 20 pop hit via the teasing, twisted sexuality of "Walk on the Wild Side" is but one of its deep, rewarding ironies. Indeed, as produced by David Bowie and guitarist and cohort Mick Ronson at the height of their own Ziggy Stardust fame, Reed's songs are cast in a seductive cabaret setting that's more Jacques Brel than Lower East Side. This 30th-anniversary edition features two unreleased acoustic demos ("Hangin' 'Round," "Perfect Day"), a vintage radio spot by announcer and word-jazz cult fave Ken Nordine, and a new illustrated booklet and perceptive essay by Michael Hill. --Jerry McCulleyAlternative Rock Music CDs
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