release date: Apr. 24, 1990
format: vinyl (7599-26140-1) / digital
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,48]
producer: Lou Reed and John Cale
label: Sire Records - nationality: USA
Track highlights: 3. "Style It Takes" (live) - 4. "Work" - 6. "Starlight" - 7. "Faces and Names" (live) - 10. "It Wasn't Me" (live) - 11. "I Believe" (live) - 15. "Hello It's Me" (live)
Collaboration album by Lou Reed and John Cale released in memory of Andy Warhol (who passed away Feb. 1987), and who also went by the moniker 'Drella'. The collaboration work of the two is their first since 1968.
The album is a fine collection of narratives - some strange and experimental, others more straight-forward pop / rock-styled but all with focus on lyrical content. Warhol's funeral had brought the two back together and for a period of time, 4-5 years, in which they (actually) managed to work together. The Velvet Underground were even brought back to life with Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker, but eventually, around 1993, they once again decided - never ever - to work with one another again. Anyway, this is a fine and very interesting album.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, Rolling Stone 4 / 5 stars ]
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