Leírás
Rock, egy korábban még kiadatlan 1978-as FM Rádiós koncert, melynek anyaga főleg a „Street Hassle” szóló album anyagára épül.
Speciális CD kiadvány, 2014.
The broadcast recordings included on this release showcases Lou Reed’s eighth solo album, Street Hassle, which was issued in February 1978, during the most prolific period of the man’s recording career.
After leaving the Velvets during the recording of „Loaded” in August 1970, Lou moved to RCA Records and issued his first eponymously entitled solo album the following year. Well-crafted and featuring several songs originally written for the Velvet Underground, the album was well-received though not commercially successful. The follow-up, „Transformer” (released in December 1972) and co-produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson was a different matter entirely.
It boasted an insistently memorable hit single in the shape of the marvelously affectionate tribute to the Warhol/Factory era, Walk On The Wild Side, a song that Lou reprises here, together with the glorious ballad Satellite Of Love – surely two of the most widely known and best-loved songs in the entire Reed solo canon. The album was a triumph and really served to establish Lou Reed as a solo artist of considerable stature internationally.
Never one to rest on his laurels, Lou quickly followed up with the much darker-hued and heavily orchestrated rock opera „Berlin” and what became his highest-charting album, „Sally Can’t Dance”, which reached the Top 10 in the USA (both albums were released in 1974). Also out the same year was Reed’s classic live album, „Rock n Roll Animal” which memorably featured an absolute orgy of hard-rock guitar from Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter.
Subsequent records „Metal Machine Music” (a collage of electronic feedback and effects) and the more accessible „Coney Island Baby” (a lengthy reworking of the title tracks is included herein) and ‘Rock And Roll Heart’ were not as well-received, before 1978’s „Street Hassle” marked a strong return to form.
There are live versions of five of the album’s eight tracks here: Gimme Some Good Times, Dirt, Street Hassle, I Wanna Be Black and Leave Me Alone. The studio version of Street Hassle notably included a spoken piece by an uncredited Bruce Springsteen. AllMusic’s Mark Deming described the record as „among the most powerful and compelling albums he released during the 1970s, and too personal and affecting to ignore.”
Felvételek :
1. Gimme Some Good Times 2:59
2. Satellite of Love 6:11
3. Leave Me Alone 9:55
4. Walk on the Wild Side 6:41
5. Coney Island Baby 11:19
6. Dirt 8:49
7. Sweet Jane 5:17
8. Rock & Roll 6:34
(WXRT FM radio broadcast live from
Park West, Chicago, IL, USA, 14th April 1978.)
9. I Wanna Be Black 5:01
10. Street Hassle 11:23
(WMMS FM radio broadcast live from
Cleveland Music Hall, Cleveland, OH, USA, 26th April 1978.)
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