Lou Reed - "Transformer" (1972) - RCA
Hello Friends,
Holy shit kids, Lou Reed turned 71 this weekend! How the fuck did he get to live this long? I think my grandparents are younger than him! Seriously though, good for him. A steady diet of uppers, downers, junk, promiscuity, peroxide, rock & roll and shock treatment can do wonders, I guess!
To celebrate his birthday we're listening to his second (and arguably best) solo album, Transformer.
Classic fucking record.
With songs like "Vicious", "Satellite of Love", "I'm So Free" and "Walk on the Wild Side", it plays like a classic FM rock record, but with not-so-subtle lyrics about drug use, drag queens, blow jobs, sexual ambiguity and violence, its quite a bit darker than anything by Bad Company, for instance.
And the colored girls go...
Recorded in England and produced and arranged by glam rock gods David Bowie & Mick Ronson (who were at the height of their 'Spiders From Mars' incarnation), the album is fuller sounding than anything Reed did with the Velvet Underground or that would appear on his subsequent solo albums like the utterly depressing Berlin or the slicker, Sally Can't Dance, or the feedback and noise opus, Metal Machine Music.
And who could forget the song, "Perfect Day"? A minimalist, nostalgic ode to a good day in the life of Lou Reed, who is always aware of the other shoe getting ready to drop: "You're going to reap just what you sow..."
Its also the best scene in the movie, Trainspotting.
RATING: 5 Shine A Light On Loves out of 5
To celebrate his birthday we're listening to his second (and arguably best) solo album, Transformer.
Classic fucking record.
With songs like "Vicious", "Satellite of Love", "I'm So Free" and "Walk on the Wild Side", it plays like a classic FM rock record, but with not-so-subtle lyrics about drug use, drag queens, blow jobs, sexual ambiguity and violence, its quite a bit darker than anything by Bad Company, for instance.
And the colored girls go...
Recorded in England and produced and arranged by glam rock gods David Bowie & Mick Ronson (who were at the height of their 'Spiders From Mars' incarnation), the album is fuller sounding than anything Reed did with the Velvet Underground or that would appear on his subsequent solo albums like the utterly depressing Berlin or the slicker, Sally Can't Dance, or the feedback and noise opus, Metal Machine Music.
And who could forget the song, "Perfect Day"? A minimalist, nostalgic ode to a good day in the life of Lou Reed, who is always aware of the other shoe getting ready to drop: "You're going to reap just what you sow..."
Its also the best scene in the movie, Trainspotting.
RATING: 5 Shine A Light On Loves out of 5
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