Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross and Tina Turner, the singer is finally coming into her own. LaBelle was a major contributor to the 1984 Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack, and her performance at the Live Aid benefit was one of the show's high points. In addition, she has a new album, Patti, out, just finished another, taped an HBO special for next year and did an hour-long variety-show pilot for NBC that will air next month. The survivor's secret? "I never tired," she says. "I got stronger. It's time for real women to get up front." Lead...
...marriage, in Reed's mind, is not a temporary thing, and he conveys this eloquently on the album's closing piece, "Think It Over." Taken from Growing Up In Public, an album noted for being "mature," the song is a marriage proposal complete with an ambiguous response about taking the time to think such a big move over...
...first side of the album is a 1978 live performance from New York's Bottom Line of three songs from Reed's early post-Velvets career. The soulful "Coney Island Baby" is even more soulful live, "Berlin" is more bittersweetly melancholy and "Satellite of Love" gains a full-bodied, joyous harmony and electricity that it lacks on the more sedate studio recording. City Lights is worth the purchase price for these three selections alone, since they're unavailable elsewhere...
...album hits its peak when Reed assays the extremes of his emotional range. "Temporary Thing," with its high-pitch backbeat and religious-chant vocals, delves into Reed's usual sphere of bad relationships, bad karma, and bad moods. It isn't pleasant, but it is pure and passionate, and it leaves us with Reed's optimistic message that even the worst of things is just a temporary thing...
...answer, which of course comes later, in Reed's post-nuptial recording career. Which is only the latest in the trail of meteoric Lou Reed incarnations. And for those who like the new Lou and the old Lou, but never took the time to investigate the middle, this album provides an interesting look at the missing link...