Reviews (page 8 of 8)
I love Lou Reed. I love the Velvet Underground. I have never heard this album before. ….aaaaaand I will never hear it again. This album was, for lack of a better word, cringy. I felt like I was listening to a Jackie Rodgers Jr skit. I expected him to break out with “Meshugana! meshugana! Gerr, gerrr, gerrr” Weirdly, one bright spot “Caroline Says 2”. All of the sudden it sounded like Lou Reed again. Then it went away.
Sounds a lot like Tom Waits in places, but it just didn't have the same impact to me.
Lou Reed sucks
One of the most boring and utterly mind numbing things I have ever listened to. Ptew!
DNF’d
I can appreciate a concept album, but this is just too slow and depressing for me. The music is actually pretty good, but the long drawn out depressing voice cancels out the music. Listen again: no Purchase for my collection: no Favourite Song: none
first half of the album was meh and to quote my notes directly after finishing the second half: "What the hell was this album, it's depressing AF and the songs are not even good."
Terrible.
Ugh won't be listening to this again
I went into this album with high expectations. I always love concept albums, and I expected this one to be no different. But it was just so underwhelming. I didn’t care for most of it. There were always elements that ruined each song for me. For example, The Kids was an alright song for the most part. A bit too long, but it was going well enough until about 5 minutes in, where you can hear a crying baby for about a minute. This is the most uncomfortable I’ve been so far on this 1001 albums journey. Just such an uninteresting album. Maybe if I go back and listen again with the lyrics, I’d have more of an appreciation for it, but my first impressions are that it’s just not a good album. The opening track gave me hope, I did like it quite a bit. But after that, there were really only a couple highlights. The last track had some beautiful music, but I just wasn’t interested in the lyrics or how they were sung. Especially the repeating of “sad song”. I don’t see myself ever returning to this album, and maybe not even returning to Lou Reed in general, unless another of his albums is in this list. 3/10, rounded down to 1 star. Top 1: 1. Berlin
This album does absolutely nothing for me. The vocals seem very dry and boring.
This album gets worse as you listen through it. I managed to make it through, but I wouldn't recommend it.
how do you think it feeeels, working all day at harveys? up all night watching reels, no butter is not, a, veg-etable, ro-bert
I really dislike this, it’s a 1 or a 2. The question is do I hate it or not? Like the smell of petrol, I keep coming back from more. I had it over a weekend so had plenty of opportunity to listen. It’s got all the annoyances of Transformer or Banana but non of the stand out tracks. The music sounds less amateur though with Jack Bruce and Steve Winwood in the squad. I like Lou’s tone, he’s got a soothingly smooth singing voice. But the lyrics and rhyme schemes are just so bad, it’s like my toddler is making it up as he goes. I hate it. But I kind of love to hate it.
Was going to rate two stars by way of it being very unspectacular folk, but then they added crying children. Don't put crying children in your music
Not a fan
I hate every thing about Lou Reed. End of story.
I fking hate everything Lou Reed. Get bent with this drug-addled pompous mumbly dogshit. 1/10 0 stars.
Not for me It's a bit to slow to really kick off
Did not like this one at all.
Not my jam
Life is too short and there's too much good happy music out there to put myself through more than 2 tracks of this shit
Pretty boring l. Don't understand where the charm is
Not great
Maybe years of watching toks damaged my brain but I can't recognize this as music
I like the flutes in the last song this was just a bad album
I just do not care about Lou Reed. Boring album
Not for me
Look, I love Lou Reed, but this felt like over self-indulgence or a lack of editing. Not a fan of most of the record. I’m sure they were very pleased with themselves for making it, but much of it is just… too much. Caroline Says II is good. Kid is really good until the actual kids come in. I don’t want to hear babies crying when I’m listening to music. Nope. I was sad that Sad Song didn’t end 3 minutes earlier.
1/5. Not a very enjoyable album. Boring and uninteresting.
Lou Reed you are literally evil for making me listen to this
09/12/2022 Bruh….just finished listening to this in studio and what the fuck. I will never be listening to this album again. It’s so ridiculously depressing. The Kids is just heartwrenching for no good reason. As fucked up as this sounds, this sounds like the music that would be the soundtrack for a movie for the virgin suicides or one of those extremely bleak and hopeless movies. Saw that Bob Ezrin was connected to this and then it all made sense. (The Wall by Pink Floyd says hello). End of the night update: can’t see why anyone would voluntarily listen to this album. This shit is glorified trauma porn, seriously. Idc if I’m being dramatic, this shit put me in a dark and down mood for the rest of the day. — Got back in from SA this morning. Went straight to school. Studio is going slow today. Feeling really frustrated with my pavilion design, but am praying that I will get it all figured out in the coming days.
This one was garbage. 1/5
Meh
Depressing
Ik kan echt helemaal niets met die gast.
Man I love transformer and Velvet Underground. Ans you know I get it was a concept but it really did sound like someone od ing and throwing up in an alleyway. Absolute Jizz.
No
Not really enjoying this. Disappointed. Thought it would be a blinder, but average at best. Lou Reed sounds bored mist of the time. Some half decent choons but generally pretty dull and body
"Paranoia, schizophrenia, degradation, pill-induced violence and suicide" and Reed's "spoken and shouted" performance.”
Is there a zero?
What a disaster. It starts off bad then gets a little better only to spiral back down. I did not care for this album. It was not enjoyable. I skipped a couple of songs because I was over the album by that point.
I've heard this name before. Always thought he was a producer. Nope, just a boring jazz slug or something. Awful.
neej, sinds LULU kan ik echt geen Lou reed meer horen.. It's a no for me
dont know if i can listen to this. cannot make out what hes saying thank god for spotify lyrics. caroline says i is so embarrassing. well its over, ended up not hating it THAT much, but i cant get into the lyrics and the way he sings.
Strange different. Interesting to listen to once
Lou Reed meeh
They can’t all be einners
This wasn’t music, it was a monotone dirge *
I hated this.
I really wasn't a fan of this one, I'll have to agree with the early critics and call this hot garbage and wtf was up with the lyrics, especially at the end and then the part where it just sounds like everyone's dying??
Meh
Meh - Lou isn't even singing. He's speaking along with the music. 3/10.
Epitome of white people music. Uhmmm beginning was slow, then the end gets really dark... I was expecting too much yet again. Looked up the album, apparently it was commercial flop.
Quite boring
Miserable chatting man with noise
Lou Reed. Licht. Viel Schatten. Und dann dieses Album, bei dem ich nicht weiß, was es mir sagen soll. Vielleicht verstehe ich es auch einfach nicht. Ich habe mich dabei kolossal gelangweilt. Muss ich nicht noch mal haben.