buffyleigh
5
Interesting to have The Velvet Underground followed by Transformer. Great record by Lou Reed, another major album. Perfect Day and Walk on the Wild Side deserve by themselves 5 stars.
Mick Ronson and David Bowie were hugely influenced by The Velvet Underground and they repaid the favour by working on this album with Lou Reed. There’s definitely a glam feel to parts of this, but the lyrical content and Lou Reed’s distinctive style loses none of its edge. We still get boundary pushing tracks about trans people, sex of all flavours and a whole song about how nice it is to spend the day in the park off your head on heroin. Smacktastic!