Very much a spiritual heir to Transformer, Lou Reed's Coney Island Baby is a warmly recorded gem featuring Bob Kulick on guitar. I'm never sure about Lou Reed. Most of the time I think he is tone deaf and marvel at how such an awful, out-of-tune warble could have sustained such a storied and successful career. Then sometimes I hear it and think he is brilliant, a true maverick. He's peculiarly fascinating. And he just recorded an album with Metallica! The wife asked if he was gay. I said I didn't really know, but I was pretty sure he was in a long-term relationship with a transvestite in the 70's. Does that make him gay? I'm not so sure.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby (1976)
Very much a spiritual heir to Transformer, Lou Reed's Coney Island Baby is a warmly recorded gem featuring Bob Kulick on guitar. I'm never sure about Lou Reed. Most of the time I think he is tone deaf and marvel at how such an awful, out-of-tune warble could have sustained such a storied and successful career. Then sometimes I hear it and think he is brilliant, a true maverick. He's peculiarly fascinating. And he just recorded an album with Metallica! The wife asked if he was gay. I said I didn't really know, but I was pretty sure he was in a long-term relationship with a transvestite in the 70's. Does that make him gay? I'm not so sure.
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