Advantages: superb sound, superb performances Disadvantages: a couple of songs drag a bit
Lou Reed himself originally wanted to call this album Lou Reed Talk And Talk And Talks.
It's certainly an odd album, pitched midway between a straight live album and stand up comedy. There's over 100 minutes of music but only ten tracks which gives you an idea straight away that these are not simple live renditions of Lou's songs.
By 1978 Lou had pretty much come out of his mid 1970s drug period. He was still not entirely clean, but was in better shape than he had been for at least five years. He had a superb band behind him, led by keyboard player Michael Fonfara, and most of them had been touring with Lou for a few years. The musicians were capable of playing the most tender ballad before suddenly and shockingly roaring off like a locomotive at full speed. Lou had a habit of extending or shortening songs on a whim, but the band ...
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 ...
, all of her friends call her Alaska, when she takes Speed they laugh and ask her, what is in her mind." Its from here that they the album tackles Carolines mental breakdown with How Do You Think It Feels - a song asking, from Carolines point of view, how the listener or Jim thinks it feels when "you've been up for 5 days because you're afraid of sleeping", "to always make love by proxy", "when do you think it stops" etc.
It is after Caroline Says 2 that the album becomes almost unbearable to listen to - The Kids is a song I have great difficulty listening to - it documents how Caroline is having her children taken away as "they" say she is not a good mother and then Lou goes on to detail in a matter-of-fact voice all of the things that led "them" to this conclusion. It ends with the sound of real children crying "mommy" - it is ...
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