Artist: Lou Reed Album: Mistrial Released: 1986 Source: RCA Genre: Album Rock Format: eac/ape.209mb
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Between
1982 and 1984, Lou Reed put together the best band of his solo career,
recorded three superb albums, and left behind a fine live double after
two rapturously received world tours — not a bad track record from a
guy who had been so inconsistent throughout the 1970s. One might well
have argued that Lou was due for a disappointment, and Mistrial
certainly filled that bill. On Mistrial, Reed opted to handle both lead
and rhythm guitar parts as he had on New Sensations, but with a few
shades less precision, and while Fernando Saunders once again did
yeoman work as a bassist, as a co-producer he didn't fill out Reed's
sound especially well. The decision to use a drum machine on most of
these tracks gives the album a stiff feeling, and a texture that
captures what was least fortunate about '80s rock, but most importantly
Reed didn't have an album's worth of top-shelf songs on tap. "No Money
Down" and "Tell It to Your Heart" are smart and funny sketches on the
difficult art of romance, while "Mama's Got a Lover" is an unexpectedly
sweet character study and "The Original Wrapper" is a game stab at
hip-hop from a 44-year-old white guy. But "Outside" and "Spit It Out"
are just filler, and "Video Violence" is a pretty strange attack on the
media from a guy who tried to bring the mindset of William S. Burroughs
and Hubert Selby, Jr. to rock & roll. Mistrial wasn't one of Reed's
worst albums (it's hard to imagine Sally Can't Dance ever being
deprived of that honor), but it certainly lowered his batting average
as he seemed to be on a hot streak — as if his longtime fans needed to
be reminded that he was fallible.
1 Mistrial Reed 3:20 2 No Money Down Reed 3:09 3 Outside Reed 3:02 4 Don't Hurt a Woman Reed 3:59 5 Video Violence Reed 5:35 6 Spit It Out Reed 3:39 7 The Original Wrapper Reed 3:37 8 Mama's Got a Lover Reed 4:12 9 I Remember You Reed 3:13 10 Tell It to Your Heart Reed 5:08
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