Word: albums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cost/benefit capitalism has tightened its control of the record industry over the past five years and glutted the market with hordes of boring, formulaic music, there are still some creative things going on in rock'n'roll today--and one of those things is Lou Reed's new album, Street Hassle. It is a hope--not revolutionary or even pivotal in its influence on music--but solid and refreshing and still; it's rock'n'roll...
...second side of the album is not nearly as powerful or masterful as the first. "Shooting Star" is Reed's semi-sardonic mimic of David Bowie; "I Wanna Be Black" is at times painful--"I Wanna Be Black and get shot in the face like Martin Luther King"--but illuminating in its surprise, raw and blunt, like the life it sings...
...Real Good Time Together" Reed plays with his voice through a phase shifter, and the rest of the side experiments with different devices and techniques. "Wait" is a kind of happy-go-lucky tune that ends the album, tying saxophone and the other mad, rambling instruments together into a carnival of sound...
...flash. "This is a paparazzo attack," said Galella. "I'm not going to make it easy," retorted Beatty, and ordered Keaton to lower her head. Keaton, who had stayed in Los Angeles after winning her Oscar, then retreated to a recording studio to make her first album. The sound? Well, gee, ah, um, golly, gosh. Keaton isn't ready to talk about that...
...intelligent at all, I'm a lot of fun." Finding the fun, however, can present a problem. Despite rave reviews for Street Hassle and a seismic stage show with which Reed is currently touring the country, playing his transparent Lucite guitar, radio play-crucial to an album's success-has been very limited. Says Arista President Clive Davis: "Every artist of original talent is a commercial challenge. Quality eventually wins out." He has no intention of urging Reed to cool down or slick...