Lou Reed

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Lou Reed在1975年发行了Metal Machine Music，一张像是收集纽约巴士总站裡的噪音的唱片。结果慇切期盼的歌迷听后无不掩耳，而那些过去死忠吹捧Lou Reed的乐评听后则摇头怒骂。发行才3週就被所有的唱片行下架，退货塞爆RCA的仓库。Lou Reed被人告上法院，欠了经理人、律师、乐手一屁股债。在没钱发饷的窘况下，他的Roadie把他的吉他拿去抵薪。面临事业低潮之际，RCA唱片总裁Ken Glancy伸出援手。他说：你保证不会再做出另一张Metal Machine Music的唱片了吧？Lou回答：不会了。Ken Glancy让Lou Reed住进Gramercy Park Hotel，碰巧Bob Dylan的The Rolling Thunder Revue巡迴乐团也住在那裡，准备盛大的全美巡迴演唱，而他只能窝在旅馆，哪裡都去不了。一天，Ken Glancy来电，叫他选一间录音室，就这样，Lou Reed录下Coney Island Baby。

Coney Island Baby是Lou Reed第6张个人录音专辑，经历上一张专辑Metal Machine Music的惨败后，回归摇滚乐本质的一张经典作品。整张专辑不脱其一贯自我剖析笔触，狂野的电吉他依旧是Lou Reed的签名式风格。第一首Crazy Feeling轻鬆写意的吉他滑弦音与那些装饰音的钟声，让人几乎忘记了那个不久前大玩吉他反馈的音乐狂人。所谓Crazy Feeling，或许是对Metal Machine Music的挫败后的自我解嘲。整张专辑8首歌曲时而欢欣不羁，时而低吟奋唱。像是Kicks的随性风格、She’s My Best Friend高潮迭起的电吉他演奏，经典时刻的Coney Island Baby，Lou Reed漫不经心的唱歌方式，让每首歌听来像是密友私语般直捣人心。总之，Metal Machine Music的前卫，Coney Island Baby的悦耳，这不就是Lou Reed的风格所献上世上最美好的摇滚乐。
Dutch edition of the classic 1976 album, currently out-of-print in the U.S.. Described as, 'his most approachable album since 'Loaded'', it features eight tracks including 'Crazy Feeling', 'She's My Best Friend' and the title track. 1989 release. Standard jewel case.

Coney Island Baby

Crazy Feeling

Charley's Girl

She's My Best Friend

Kicks

A Gift

Ooohhh Baby

Nobody's Business

Look Out The Window (Live Denver '89) (Explicit)

Shootin' You Up (Live Stockholm '74) (Explicit)

Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed at Pickwick Records 1964-65

A Night Like This (Live San Francisco '78)

by  Thom JurekAt the time of the spring 2007 release of Hudson River Wind Meditations, four years had transpired since the release of The Raven, Lou Reed's extremely ambitious collaborative take on the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, and three since his last live album, the excellent Animal Serenade. What transpired during those years is anybody's guess, but if one had to judge by this, his debut album for Sounds True Audio, one would have to guess that it was somewhat drastic, at least by evidence presented. Reed states in his brief note to the album he co-produced with Hal Willner that "I composed this music for myself as an adjunct to meditation, Tai Chi, bodywork, and as music to play in the background of life -- to replace the everyday cacophony with new and ordered sounds of an unpredictable nature." Fair enough. The bottom line is that the music found here is electronic and not in any manner associated with Metal Machine Music. It follows -- loosely -- the dictums of Brian Eno's notion of ambient music in that it can be listened to in the background and perhaps ignored, but not without very low volume, and not without trying. These four pieces -- the first two, "Move Your Heart" and "Find Your Note," last over an hour -- are movement-oriented, albeit very slow movement. They match the breath, they match the pulse, and if listened to in meditation or with movement, offer a base, a starting point, a way of moving through the time and space of sitting or slow action that can actually focus your attention on your practice. They are not cold or emotionless, and if anything, resemble the work in Reed's photographs of the Hudson River. They are nearly still but move -- the listener -- into places in the heart itself. Sure, this isn't the crazy dog of rock from the past 40 years, but he doesn't need to be. With Willner as a sympathetic editor and co-producer, Reed can let these pieces unfold by themselves with no set end point other than the silence between each track. Certainly this won't be for everyone, but for those seeking out a recording to help induce quiet in the midst of a crazy busy life, it will be indispensable. For those seeking an accompaniment to nearly any kind of spiritual practice or bodywork, this will deepen the atmosphere. For those seeking rock & roll, it's best to look elsewhere. This one may score Reed some new fans, while causing some of his other ones to guffaw in cynical delight, but that's OK -- it's a sure bet he could still take 'em in an alley fight.


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