Lou Reed - Berlin

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Music Review: Mostly sad, the shape of thought in our time
Rating: 3 Stars

Pointy headed intellectuals spouting off on the obvious are sure to be the main grabbers of attention in the media which dominate a world in which every problem has an answer which is clear, direct, and wrong. Rock 'n' roll is just as bad. Lou Reed is a perfect example. People who want to know what the music on this album is like might be typical, superfluous superficialities produced by a nation of shoppers in a world of global spectators. "Caroline Says" is about some dramatic queen, with poor Lou Reed singing, "But of course, I thought I could take it all." Then she says she can't continue to be only mine, "but she's still my queen." I'm not rating the music very high on this song.

The song that makes this CD worthy, for me, is "How Do You Think It Feels" which asks, "And when do you think it stops?" Popularity in the media is obtained by the ability to communicate feelings, but this song takes its feelings to extremes, "when you've been up for five days." Desire is the feeling that this song exudes, and lust seems to be the feeling that gets the biggest workout, as "always make love by proxy" must be about relying on the media for fulfilling fundamental desires. Those of us who have devoted so much of our lives to evaluating the things a consumer society can offer ought to ask ourselves if Lou Reed gets out in front of our questions once in awhile by asking how we dare to evaluate so much that is fundamentally at loose ends. "Oh Jim" might be a sincere attempt to supply some answer about how people are coping, or failing to cope. The next song, another "Caroline Says" asserts "This is a bum trip." So she put her wrist through a window pane, it's so cold in Alaska. There is razor that cuts a wrist in a later song, and you might not want to listen to anything that ends this way. It must be "The Bed," in which "I said Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, what a feeling!" Then the song gets spooky. This might be freaking people out before "Sad Song" at the end, which is a relief.

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