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...stifling influence of 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...
This is not to say that anything Lou Reed does will ever gain as much lasting notoreity or inportance as Sgt. Pepper or even Surrealistic Pillow. But Lou Reed, along with Patti Smith and some other fringe and hard-core members of the new wave constitute a sighing reassurance that there is a future to rock in America; prophecies come true that rock'n'roll is here to stay...
...after hearing the stylus grind through the heart-beat strains of Street Hassle yet another time, it is clear that the future of rock is here. Lou Reed, Patti Smith, and even Willie Loco and Blondie have proven to be ear-catchers out of the stacks, the kind of stuff that turns your heart nicely the first time you hear it, so you stop and think about what you just heard and place the stylus back a bit so you can hear it again. Street Hassle is more than just a collection of songs. The first side is a fluent...
...bass line that reverberates with classical elegance and never stops through this rambling, lyrical, apocalyptic 11-minute street poem. "Street Hassle" is divided into three movements, each with the same bass line, intermittently using piano, sax, electric bass and quixotic female background vocals to supplement the poetics of Lou Reed. "Street Hassle" is an honest expression of life in the city street--a confusing apocalypse of frightening anonymity and frustration...
Seconds from Ed Sheehan in the 10,000-meter run, and John Chafee in the 800-meter run, and a triplet of thirds from freshman John Murphy in the 1500-meters, Peter Fitzsimmons in the steeplechase, and Reed Eichner in the 5000-meters, comprised the bulk of the high Harvard scoring...