Street Hassle Lou Reed
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Album-Release:
1978
HRA-Release:
12.04.2015
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- 1 Gimmie Some Good Times 03:15
- 2 Dirt 04:44
- 3 Street Hassle 10:57
- 4 I Wanna Be Black 02:56
- 5 Real Good Time Together 03:19
- 6 Shooting Star 03:10
- 7 Leave Me Alone 04:44
- 8 Wait 03:12
Info for Street Hassle
Crossing the wrong side of the tracks, as most of Lou Reed's albums do, 1978's „Street Hassle“ is the angrier, younger sibling to Reed's eloquent, mature „New York“, released over a decade later. The centerpiece of „Street Hassle“, the handsome, hypnotic and brutal title track evolves in three 'symphonic' movements, and is a powerful, theatrical precursor to Reed's work with John Cale on „Songs For Drella“ and director Robert Wilson on the operatic „Time Rocker“. Bruce Springsteen makes an uncredited spoken-word appearance in the last movement of the piece, 'Slipaway,' and there's even a touch of E-Street-type brassy groove on 'Wait.'
An album teeming with the lyrical hell of drug addicts and desperate misfits, „Street Hassle“ does possess elements of Reed's pitch-black humor. 'Gimme Some Good Times' playfully samples 'Sweet Jane,' and Reed sings the strangely sunny words of 'Real Good Time Together' against a morbid wash of distorted guitar effects and vocals. A mix of New York studio recordings and fine live performances recorded in West Germany, „Street Hassle“ is a curious and compelling coda to Reed's tumultuous and ever-changing '70s work.
'...His sometimes desperate sifting of New york's musical options for elements that might reanimate his songs has produced some fascinating hybrids....the 11 minute title track is a chamber pop masterpiece concieved in 3 distinct movements...' (The Wire)
Lou Reed, guitar, bass, piano, vocals
Stuart Heinrich, guitar on 'Street Hassle', background vocal on 'Leave Me Alone'
Michael Fonfara, piano on 'I Wanna Be Black' and 'Shooting Star'
Marty Fogel, saxophone
Steve Friedman, bass and background vocals on 'Leave Me Alone'
Jeffrey Ross, lead guitar, vocals on live recorded tracks
Michael Suchorsky, drums
Aram Schefrin, string arrangement
Jo'Anna Kameron, background vocals
Angela Howard, background vocals
Christine Wiltshire, background vocals
Genya Ravan, background vocals
Recorded at The Record Plant, New York City and live in Munich, Wiesbaden, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Engineered by Manfred Schunke, Heiner Friesz, Rod O'Brien
Produced by Lou Reed, Richard Robinson
Digitally remastered
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