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Rating: THE REVIEW
Fucking metalheads, listen to Lou Reed. Can you be cynical, wild, filthy without losing style and composure? Can you express and define a visceral, dirty, sordid concept with the composure of a man who doesn't seem to be put off much? The universe of Lou Reed is a world where light is hard to find, yet it's present everywhere.
Take this New York. A masterpiece without mincing words. This is metropolitan poetry, it's the depiction of a rejected, dark world with cynicism and harshness. That's what is usually said about Lou Reed. And it's true. But that's not all that's conveyed in his music. There's also light. We walk in a world where sweetness isn't lacking, and the music often becomes sunny and serene. Like all geniuses and the greatest artists of this commercial and facile era, Lou defies any categorization or label. He is a free man and artist. And he can bring light even to the underworld. That's what happens in this extraordinary album: light descends into the underworld. And then with what a voice he sings... my God, this man could sing a shopping list making it an epochal event.
Fucking metalheads, listen to Lou Reed. The concept is not form but substance. And on Romeo and Juliet of the 54th up in Queens a glimmer of light has descended. A deity is illuminating them and is serenely singing the night they did heroin for the first time. And they fell in love. And this love can become epic. And this sordid, dark world can become epic, can be torn apart by the light. Fucking metalheads, listen to Lou Reed. There's much more anger here than on a Sepultura album. But here there's no stench. There's class, there's light, there's harmony.
This is Lou Reed, people. Will we have another in 30 years?
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Lou Reed's 'New York' is praised as a masterpiece of metropolitan poetry, blending dark, cynical themes with moments of light and harmony. The review highlights Reed's unique vocal delivery and ability to elevate sordid stories into epic music. It challenges metal fans to appreciate the album's raw emotion and substance. An extraordinary work that stands timeless in its composition and artistic freedom.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
Lou Reed
Lou Reed (born Lewis Allan Reed, March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician, singer-songwriter and founding member of the Velvet Underground. He had a long solo career noted for albums such as Transformer, Berlin and New York and for experimental works including Metal Machine Music.71 Reviews
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By RingoStarfish
The album seems almost eternal, without the possibility of dating or aging, so perfectly and purely rock that it never becomes obsolete.
Lou leverages the clarity acquired in previous years to passionately and poetically, ironically and angrily tell us about his life and that of all those like him who live in the Big Apple.
By Kant
Lou’s poetry and music get into your guts and I think that, even if America is not the earthly paradise one imagines, a place like that is REAL.
If you’ve never listened to it, I have no clue why you’re still here reading this crappy review and haven’t dashed to the record store to buy it for 58 minutes of pure aural orgasm.
