Tracks 3/13
Lou Reed "The Kids" 1973
Many VU fans have yet to pick up Lou Reed's Berlin, because of song over lap or poorness. Well, pick it up. It is his best album. Whats that you say? Transformer? Oh, I think this track begs to differ. From AMG: "...To ensure that the horror of the song truly hit home, producer Bob Ezrin set up a tape recorder in his own home then, when his children returned from school, told them that their mother was dead. At least, that's the legend, and the uncontrolled howling with which the song ends, fading in over the skeletal guitar and boiling percussion, certainly does not contradict it."
Banbarra "Shack Up" 1975
Sorry to bum you out with that last track. Don't cry children, the funk starship just landed!
i love the Lou Reed song. You have convinced me to obtain this album. Have you read Please Kill Me: The Oral History of Punk? It taught me that Lou Reed is a dick, which I guess is obvious, but it taught me oh so much more. I'm sure it's all stuff you already know, but it's straight from the mouths of Iggy, Lou, David Johansen, Dee Dee, Nico, Patti, and blah blah blah. It's such a good reed. (mwah, a play on words. How droll of me.)