“Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars” offers glimpses of a life in rock ’n’ roll from doo-wop to “Metal Machine Music” and tracks the evolution of one of music’s polarizing legends.
A return to Lou Reed s New York deserves 5 stars
Lou Reed s New York reissue speaks to the present as well as his late- 80s Manhattan.
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5 stars
By Bruce Sylvester
If a single song line captures my feelings about the past year, it s Lou Reed s “You need a bus load of faith to get by,” from 1989 s
New York, his first album on Sire. It richly deserved its Grammy nomination and gold record sales award. Marking its 30
th anniversary, Rhino has reissued it in an expanded extravaganza: the original remastered album on CD and on two 180-gram vinyl LPs, plus a CD of its songs in evolutionary stages (some simply instrumentals), a CD compiled from performances on the tour supporting the disc, and a long-unavailable DVD of the Montreal stop on the tour.