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Lou Reed, The Bells
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1340917
Disk length: 40m 28s (9 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1979
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Stupid Man | 2:32 |
| 2. Disco Mystic | 4:29 |
| 3. I Want To Boogie With You | 3:54 |
| 4. With You | 2:24 |
| 5. Looking For Love | 3:27 |
| 6. City Lights | 3:22 |
| 7. All Through The Night | 4:59 |
| 8. Families | 5:57 |
| 9. The Bells | 9:17 |
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Review
The Bells is one of the forgotten titles in Lou Reed's extensive oeuvre, though it's a mystery why. Perhaps because it was sandwiched (along with the less intriguing Growing Up in Public) between two triumphs--1978's fired-by-punk Street Hassle and 1982's revelatory The Blue Mask. But The Bells, despite its obscurity, ranks with Reed's best works. Arguably his jazziest outing, the nine-song collection is marked by woozy brass (some supplied by free-jazz icon Don Cherry), a unique ambience (Reed was experimenting with binaural production in the late '70s), and characteristically incisive wordplay. "With You" targets those who live on the edge ("Don't you think you could be less capricious / Unlike you I don't have no death wish"), while "All Through the Night" is empathetic toward the same precarious souls ("With a daytime of sin and a nighttime of hell / Everybody's gonna look for a bell to ring / All through the night"). An uncommonly cohesive set, The Bells wraps up with the lengthy title track--a stunning amalgamation of brooding synthesizer, barbed brass, and extemporaneous poetics. --Steven Stolder
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Tracks: 9, Disk length: 40m 43s (+0m 15s)
Tracks: 9, Disk length: 40m 44s (+0m 16s)
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