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The Bells (CD)

By: Lou Reed (Artist)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for The Bells (CD) Album By Lou Reed (Artist)
1   Stupid Man  
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  
9   Bells, The  
 

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Review

The Wire (6/00, p.38) - "...Reed's somewhat quixotic quest to make supermarket disco boogie resonate with emotions that are plainly not there....skillfully rendering a mood a utter desolation..."

Title Note

Personnel: Lou Reed (vocals, electric guitar, synthesizer, bass); Ellard Bolles (12-string electric guitar, synthesizer, bass, background vocals); Don Cherry (African hunting guitar, trumpet); Marty Fogel (ocarina, soprano & tenor saxophones, Fender Rhodes piano); Michael Fonfara (electric & Fender Rhodes pianos, keyboards, Orberheim synthesizer, background vocals); Michael Suchorsky (percussion).

Producer: Lou Reed.

Reissue producer: Rob Santos.

Recorded at Delta Studios, Wilster, West Germany. Originally released on Arista (4229). Includes liner notes by Timothy & Karin Greenfield-Sanders.

Digtially remastered by Elliott Federman (SAJE Sound, New York, New York).

Intriguing even by Reed's own standards, THE BELLS is an experimental album, recorded in so-called binaural sound, a process which he became enamored with in the late '70s. Theoretically, it was supposed to simulate a 360 degree soundfield, although Reed himself has since admitted it didn't work.

Reed's usually plainspoken vocals are somewhat affected here, and the overall sound--courtesy of Marty Fogel's overdubbed saxophone section--verges on early '70s glam rock. Lyrically, the songs range from the meaningless "Disco Mystic" (it consists of the repetition of just those two words over a four minute instrumental), to more typical Reed dissertations about walks on the wild side, the most chilling of which "All Through the Night," is sung against a backdrop of cocktail party chatter. Also noteworthy are "City Lights," one of Reed's first overtly political songs and the title track.

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