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Lou Reed – Transformer – Speakers Corner 180g Vinyl

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'Transformer' is the second solo studio album by American artist Lou Reed, released in 1972. David Bowie offered Lou Reed some much needed help with his career, which was stuck in neutral after his first solo album came and went. The sound and style of 'Transformer' would in many ways define Reed's career in the 1970s, and while it led him into a style that proved to be a dead end, you can't deny that Bowie and Ronson gave their hero a new lease on life — and a solid album in the bargain.

Lou Reed – Transformer – Speakers Corner 180g Vinyl

It is well known that comparisons seldom get to the root of the matter, but in the case of Lou Reed, for example, they certainly reveal the unassuredness of those people who made them.

Is he or isn't he the Chuck Berry or Sergeant Pepper of the Seventies, or is he deliberately building up an image of himself as an ultra-sensitive Frankenstein, who lived out his neuroses and drug trips in horrific sound?

"Some records are so unbelievably repulsive", raged the magazine Rolling Stone, "that one would best like to take physical revenge on the artists who commit such offences."

The album "Transformer", however, can by no means be classified as a case of 'acoustic bodily harm'. It appeared just a few months after the somewhat unsuccessful appearance of Lou Reed's fairly underground first release and rocketed straight into the charts. This production had two British guardian angels to help it on its way, namely David Bowie and Mick Ronson, both of whom obviously knew how to steer Reed's songwriting qualities into safe waters, without watering down his biting sarcasm and humorous provocation.

And that's why grating guitar rock ("Vicious") is found alongside a bittersweet, tender ballad ("Perfect Day") and even an old-time jazz parody ("Goodnight Ladies") which is sung with a tongue a heavy as lead. Why then compare this highly original music mix with others, when it's so much easier to hear this record for what it is – a truly cult album?

This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head.

Recording: 1972 by Arun Chakranerty
  Production: David Bowie and Mick Ronson

Track Listing

1. Vicious – Lou Reed (2.55)
  2. Andy's Chest – Lou Reed (3.17)
  3. Perfect Day – Lou Reed (3.45)
  4. Hangin' 'Round – Lou Reed (3.32)
  5. Walk On the Wild Side – Lou Reed (4.13)
  6. Make Up – Lou Reed (2.56)
  7. Satellite of Love – Lou Reed (3.39)
  8. Wagon Wheel – Lou Reed (3.19)
  9. New York Telephone Conversation – Lou Reed (1.32)
  10. I'm So Free – Lou Reed (3.08)
  11. Goodnight Ladies – Lou Reed (4.2)

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