Coney Island Babyformat: digital (2006 reissue)
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,08]
producer: Lou Reed, Godfrey Diamond
label: RCA / Records / BMG Entertainment - nationality: USA
Track highlights: 8. "Coney Island Baby" (5 / 5)
6th solo studio album by Lou Reed, originally released on RCA Records, reissued on BMG Japan 2006 with 6 bonus tracks. After having hit rock bottom with his previous album Metal Machine Music (Jul. '75), Reed, the songwriter is back on some sort of track. The album contains the previously unreleased "She's My Best Friend" (track #3), originally written for The Velvet Underground and in '85 issued on VU., but other than that Coneys Island, Baby is Reed in his nearly most charming corner.
Lou still seems somewhat affected by whatever drugs he did at this time of his career, and it didn't do his music much of a favor after his heydays with Transformer (1972). The song "Coney Island Baby" IS, however, a true classic.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, Blender 2,5 / 5 stars ]
