Advantages: great value for money and excellant staying power Disadvantages: may not be to everyones liking due to strength of scent
Having purchased a bottle of LouLou a couple of weeks ago while on a tight budget and needing a new bottle of fragrance, I was pleasantly supprised at the scent considering that it only cost me £10.
LouLou has quite a strong fragrance in my mind which I suppose may not be to everybodies liking, but is great if you like a perfume that lasts. After one spray the scent lasted all evening, unlike certain other perfumes which have cost me four times as much, and I have had to re spray every half an hour. Because of this the bottle lasts a much longer time saving you even more money.
The scent is hard to describe, exept that it is not floral or fruity but more musky i suppose.
The main draw back to this is that the bottle and packaging of the fragrence look very plain and old fashioned in my opinion ...
Advantages: a couple of decent songs Disadvantages: too much avearge material and average production
Arguably the least regarded Lou Reed album, Mistrial just seems to receive indifference from most people. It doesn't upset anyone, like Metal Machine Music did, nor does it excite audiences in the way that Transformer did.
Mistrial consists of ten average songs, played competently, sung ok, and produced ok. And that's about it. There's nothing that really stands out, the resolutely 1986 production utilises very basic drum machines for the first and last time in Lou's history, and everything sounds rather boomy and upfront, but hollow and lacking in substance.
The ttle track at least features a cracking melody, but Mama's Got A Lover, whilst not a bad song, sounds like a bad Lloyd Cole copy. A rather bizarre achievment sounds like a bad copy of someone who sounds like a bad copy of Lou Reed.
"Video Violence" has a sparky sound but ...
Tracklisting
1. Berlin
2. Lady Day
3. Men Of Good Fortune
4. Caroline Says I
5. How Do You Think It Feels
6. Oh, Jim
7. Caroline Says II
8. Kids, The
9. Bed, The
10. Sad Song
I wouldn't recommend this album to anyone who has just bought Transformer because they like Perfect day or Walk on the Wild Side or anyone with just a passing interest in the man.
This is not an easy listen - its Lou Reeds concept album about the breakdown of a marriage between Jim & Caroline and the mental collapse that follows.
It was produced by Bob Ezrin - a legendary producer who has worked with everyone from Lou to Pink Floyd to Janes Addiction - and the album sounds like it was recorded in Reeds head.
Opening song Berlin sets the tone with its creepy opening bars and its sparse lyrics about how they met by the Berlin Wall ...
Product Information for "Blue Breakbeats - Lou Donaldson" »
Product details
Title
Blue Breakbeats
Performer
Lou Donaldson
Genre
Jazz Instrument
Sub Genre
Alto Sax
Release Date
13/07/1998
Recomended Retail Price
10.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1998
Label / Distributor
Blue Note / EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics
Engineer
Rudy Van Gelder
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
724349470927
Catalogue Number
4947092
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel: Lou Donaldson (alto saxophone); Ed Williams, Blue Mitchell (trumpet); Lonnie Smith, Charles Earland, Leon Spencer, John Patton (organ); Melvin Sparks, Ted Dunbar, Jimmy Ponder, George Benson, Grant Green (guitar); Idris Muhammad, Ben Dixon (drums). Producers: Francis Wolff, Alfred Lion. Compilation producer: Bob Belden. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey between January 24, 1963 and June 12, 1970. Includes liner notes by Wayne Hunter a.k.a. DJ Smash. This is part of the Blue Note Blue Breakbeats series.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Turtle Walk
2.
Brother Soul
3.
Minor Bash
4.
Pot Belly
5.
One Cylinder
6.
Caracas
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