A return to Lou Reed's "New York" deserves 5 stars
A return to Lou Reed's "New York" deserves 5 stars Lou Reed's "New York" reissue speaks to the present as well as his late-'80s Manhattan. Author: 5 stars By Bruce Sylvester If a single song line captures my feelings about the past year, it's Lou Reed's “You need a bus load of faith to get by,” from 1989's New York, his first album on Sire. It richly deserved its Grammy nomination and gold record sales award. Marking its 30 th anniversary, Rhino has reissued it in an expanded extravaganza: the original remastered album on CD and on two 180-gram vinyl LPs, plus a CD of its songs in evolut...
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