release date: Oct. 1973
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [2,78]
producer: Bob Ezrin
label: RCA Records - nationality: USA
3rd studio album by Lou Reed is a huge turn to... something else. The album wasn't met with positive reviews at the time of its release, but time has put it way up on most critics' best of lists of albums representing the all time best rock albums in history. As more of a rock opera, the album is a difficult first listen, and I didn't appreciate it until my fifth or seventh listen. The album is like one long story about two lovers hard times with drugs, crime and violence, and it doesn't contain ordinary pop songs or hit singles, and it's the story itself more than the music which makes the album interesting. The album is enlisted in "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
[ allmusic.com 3,5 / 5 stars ]
