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LOU REED "the bells" cd, 1979

solo career stats:
studio albums........22
studio singles........44

this album: #130 US

singles:
"disco mystic".....no chart action
"city limits".........no chart action

i own about nine or ten Lou Reed album i guess, and all of them apart from "new york"(which i love) come out with around the same score!
this one is strange, its not out-and-out Reed as we know him, this one has elements of funk/disco and even on one track has Reed putting on an accent, cant quite work out what the accent is,could be sort of Carribean/Cuban maybe?,
apparently, according to allmusic, this album contains Reed's own personal favourite track of his own, its the title track...that track is an instrumental with definate avante-garde overtones, personally i cant see what he obviously does in it, but i'd say it obviously came out exactly how he wanted it to.
best song on here for me is actually the one he appears to put on that weird accent i mentioned further up the page...
and yes, with reed in a "disco" type mood we have the standard disco word "boogie" in one of the album titles.
all up, this album IMO, is his "trans"(neil young) in that it is,for the most part, the most un-lou album i have ever heard!

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: the bells
best track: families

tracks:

1. stupid man **
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMt-jSLe__M audio
2. disco mystic *
3. i want to boogie with you **
4. with you *
5. looking for love **
6. city lights **
7.all through the night *
8. families **
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJdCqZJWQxI audio
9. the bells *
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFenqBmKqGQ audio

3s=0
2s=5
1s=4

rating: 1.5
"allmusic" rat this one a converted 2.4