Rock 'n' Roll Animal
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| Live album by Lou Reed | ||||
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| Label (s) | RCA Records | |||
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5 (original) |
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40:32 (original) |
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Steve Katz , Lou Reed |
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Rock n Roll Animal (original spelling without apostrophes) is a live album by Lou Reed that was released in 1974.
background
The original album contains five songs, four of which were from Reed's time with Velvet Underground . They have been rearranged and reinterpreted in hard rock style. As a musician, Reed invited two future members of the second Alice Cooper band, guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter .
The album was recorded live at Howard Stein's Academy of Music in New York City on December 21, 1973 and released by RCA in 1974. A remastered version with two bonus tracks was released on CD in 2000. Further recordings of the concert were released in 1975 under the title Lou Reed Live . The guitarists' channels are swapped for Rock n Roll Animal .
reception
The album received mostly positive reviews from the critics after the commercial failure of its previous album Berlin . The Rolling Stone Album Guide awarded five out of five stars. Mark Deming awarded four out of five possible stars on Allmusic and wrote:
“Recorded in concert with Reed's crack road band at the peak of their form, Rock n Roll Animal offered a set of his most anthemic songs (most dating from his days with the Velvet Underground) in arrangements that presented his lean, effective melodies and street -level lyrics in their most user-friendly form (or at least as user friendly as an album with a song called “Heroin” can get). "
“Recorded during a concert with Reed's Roadband at the height of their form, Rock n Roll Animal featured a number of its anthemic songs (most from his time with Velvet Underground) in arrangements that presented its sleek, effective melodies and drug lyrics in their most user-friendly form (or at least as user-friendly as an album with a song called "Heroin" can be). "
In the German Sounds , the reviewer was happy that after the all too ambitious arrangements of the previous albums (“Suits… which were always a few sizes too big”), Reed was “finally the old, animal, degenerate Velvet underground singer, in a rock 'n' roll animal indeed, unpredictable and wild ”.
Track list
Original version
All songs were written by Lou Reed unless otherwise noted.
- Intro / Sweet Jane ( Steve Hunter , Reed) - 7:55
- Heroin - 13:05
- White Light / White Heat - 5:15
- Lady Day - 4:00
- Rock 'n' Roll - 10:17
Remastered version
- Intro / Sweet Jane (Hunter, Reed) - 7:48
- Heroin - 13:12
- How Do You Think It Feels - 3:41
- Caroline Says I - 4:06
- White Light / White Heat - 4:55
- Lady Day - 4:05
- Rock 'n' Roll - 10:21
Chart positions
album
| year | Chart | position |
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| 1974 | Billboard Pop Albums | 45 |
Web links
- Lou Reed - Rock N Roll Animal at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dave Marsh, John Swenson (Ed.): The Rolling Stone Record Guide , first edition, Random House / Rolling Stone Press, 1979, p. 318.
- ↑ Review of Rock n Roll Animal at allmusic. Retrieved February 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Sounds. Plates 66-77 . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1979, p. 731.