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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is the lost classic that fell on deaf ears!,
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This review is from: Lou Reed (Audio CD)
The version of ocean here is stunning, the VU never did manage to get the rolling wave effect so well, tho I like the VU version too! I think this is superior to "transformer" but it failed on the marketing. Yeah many velvet songs here but same can be said of "transformer" and this is reall a very gentle and dignified record that deserves to be heard more often!
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A jewel in Reed's crown,
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This review is from: Lou Reed (Audio CD)
Finally, I made the transition from my old album/tape to the CD - digitally remastered it says on the cover - not that that really means anything. A slightly "cleaner" sound perhaps, but not a lot more - half of the appeal of Lou is the slightly rough edge and the occasional distortion and feedback creeping in. However, what prompted me to write, was simply that the liner notes are just so depressing. This IS a GREAT Lou Reed album. I was 15 I think when this album came out. I'd missed slightly the golden Velvet Underground years being too young too fully appreciate what it all meant at the time. But as such, and coming to it slightly later, I didn't find my musical taste boxed in by fashion or hype. I bought what I liked - and I liked the Velvet Underground, bought all the albums, and at school at the time, few others did; that made it all more meaningful. As it turns out, with the illumination that hindsight provides, we now know that most of these tracks, if not all of them, were reworks of Velvets numbers. Lisa says surfaced on the 1969 double live album, and most of the remainder has surfaced since. But unless you had been to Velvets concerts at the time, you didn't really know that. What this album provides is a bridge, and a beautiful one at that between the passing of the Velvet Underground and Lou out on his own. Whilst it could be argued that Lou Reed has never quite achieved the brilliance of the VU years i.e. the sum was far greater than the individual parts, I often feel that the more sensitive side of the VU is often overlooked. Heroin and the heavier material tends to dominate because at the time it was so outrageous, so real and so true. But Reed also turned out Sunday Morning, I'll Be Your Mirror and Pale Blue Eyes to name but a few. It wasn't all drone, feedback and noise and for me "Lou Reed" reflects that. Had Dylan written this album (or Reed had recorded it in 78 or 2003), it would have been heralded as one of his best: from Wild Child - "I was talking to Chuck, in his Ghengis Khan suit and his wizards hat" is pure Dylan. Sparkling. Sing it with a hairbrush for a mike and some air guitar, curl your lip and be Lou Dylan for 5 minutes. I Can't Stand It and Walk It Talk It really do rock - but it could have done with a much harder, LOUDER mix. Lisa Says we now know about, and Berlin was a taster of what was to come, but perhaps more poignant and sensitive than the version on Berlin itself. The real highlights though, in an album full of them for reasons that weren't so obvious at the time, are Going Down, I Love You and Ride into the Sun. Interwoven into these songs is Lou's own narrative of what he was feeling at the time - perhaps all songs are like that. Looking back, looking forwards, reflection, the pain of loss, wanting to set the record straight and perhaps even homesickness for New York - to me, it's all there in this record. As Lou said himself later on, "the records were letters" and a lot of the songs "difficult for us to do badly"; as this record proves though, equally difficult to do well! Every rock fan should have this album. It's every bit as good as what the Stones or anyone else was doing at the time and it doesn't really have a bad track on it - but that's also it's problem - it doesn't have a REALLY great track on it either. That in itself is staggering, but after what had gone before (so many favourites to choose from) there was nothing Reed could have done to make his first solo effort a real success. It's all summed up in a line from Ride Into the Sun - "Looking for another chance, someone else to be...." - yeah Lou, a lot of us are still looking. BUY IT!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Songs To Be Proud Of,
This review is from: Lou Reed (Audio CD)
Well, what can i say? The Velvet Underground are no more and what can a poor Lou do? Record some of the most well written and beautifully crafted songs ever, that's what!This CD features new songs and tunes that Lou was obviously toying with in the Velvets. Although I can appreciate that the playing on this album could be considered a bit "session-y",there is some suberb interplay between the musicians.Check out "Berlin",and wallow in the sad,loose play-off between guitar and piano, not to mention the fantastic holding of the rhythm section. The lyrics on this album are absolutely suberb,every song has meaning and emotion,a great songwriter at the height of his ability. I can get into this album so easily, and can wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who needs "a soundtrack of their lives", because, believe me, when you listen to these songs,you will remember the scene you're going through.I hope it's happy, but if not, you'll remember the time with fondness.Godbless.
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