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Best Bass Album of all timeReview created: 07/08/07
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Depressing, yes. I wouldn't recommend it to someone contemplating suicide. Nonetheless, a very good album. What makes it less than excellent is a lack of consistency. I hardly ever listen to the last songs.
Still Jack Bruce's bass is fantastic in Men of Good Fortune and Caroline Says I. Aynsley Dunbar’s Drums in Oh! Jim carry that tune.
Unless you've got the gun to your head, I'd highly recommend it.
Still Jack Bruce's bass is fantastic in Men of Good Fortune and Caroline Says I. Aynsley Dunbar’s Drums in Oh! Jim carry that tune.
Unless you've got the gun to your head, I'd highly recommend it.
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Lou Reed's Berlin - Depressing, yes, but ExcellentI was not aware of this album before reading about Lou Reed's live performances of it at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. I was intrigued by reading that it was considered by some to be the most depressing album of all time. It is certainly an unhappy story, but told in beautiful songs, with Reed's voice in top form. Highly recommended, to Lou Reed fans and others.
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Maybe the Most Depressing album of all time.Review created: 07/09/06
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Lou Reed will still fresh off his success with the album "Transformer" plus his past successes with the Velvet Underground. With producer Bob Ezrin, his next project in 1973 was the remarkably downbeat, disturbing "Berlin", a sort of semi concept album revolving around drugs, sex and existential angst. Whereas the whole album is relentlessly depressing, there is an Art Deco feel to the themes that makes it quite fascinating and beautiful in it's own awful, decadent way. The end of the song "The Kids"--in which you can hear recordings of children calling for their mommy--is chilling; the baroque string arrangement in the song "Sad Song" is downright gorgeous. Released during the height of the Glitter Rock phenomenon, of which Lou Reed was very much a part, "Berlin" is anything but.
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"And This is the Room Where She Took Her Razor & Cut Her Wrists..."Review created: 11/21/03
by: thevoid99 -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
A Brilliant, Harrowing Masterpiece from Lou Reed.
A Brilliant, Harrowing Masterpiece from Lou Reed.
Cons:
None though Everyone Will Find This Album, Completely Depressing.
None though Everyone Will Find This Album, Completely Depressing.
Lester Bangs: You like Lou Reed? William: The early stuff, in his new stuff he s trying to be Bowie. He should be himself -An excerpt from Almost Famous Since making his solo breakthrough with 1972 s Transformer that yielded the hit Walk On The Wild Side , Lou Reed has been regarded as one of the most influential figures of underground music starting with his work with the proto-punk band the Velvet Underground from 1967 to 1970. By the time he released his second solo record Transformer , Reed became an icon in the burgeoning glam rock scene with help from friends David Bowie and Spiders of..
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No One Does Misery Quite Like Lou ReedReview created: 02/10/05
by: brian_lettsin-- a member of Epinions and Top Reviewer in Music
Pros:
Incredibly powerful songs, mature, classic songwriting from one of music's legendary figures
Incredibly powerful songs, mature, classic songwriting from one of music's legendary figures
Cons:
A tad overproduced, extremely dark in places
A tad overproduced, extremely dark in places
Before we had Radiohead to reduce us to tears with their heart-wrenching, too-emotional-to-bear brand of suicide-rock, who on earth was making everybody miserable? In the 80 s everyone was miserable anyway, what with George Michael s DSS rapping, Phil Collins solo career, the fact that Maggie Thatcher was giving avarice and greed the thumbs-up and that most of the best bands of the 70s were disappearing into obscurity. Yes, bleak times indeed. When I think of the most miserable albums ever, they all seem to be from the 90s. No one was recording incredibly sad records there simply was no call..
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And I say Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh what a feelingReview created: 09/11/02
by: lapelazzuli -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
The entire Album
The entire Album
Cons:
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It happened in 1973... It happened when none expected... It happened suddenly... I must tell... It was in 1972, one year before, when TRANSFORMER (the second Lou solo album) had given to the whole World a complete and clear 'glam' and liberated imagine of Lou. Liberated from the dirty sounds of the first Velvet albums, liberated from a viola gone crazy, liberated from the hammering bongos... So free, so far from a tragedy, so clear in our ears with simple tunes and sweet melodies, so direct and childish with lyrics and chords...and at the same time...so wild. And the World (and I) screamed in.
Review ID: 10000000000231376
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