Music Review

Different Times: Lou Reed in the '70s

EW's GRADE
A-

Details Lead Performance: Lou Reed; Genre: Reissues

Before he cleaned up and turned into a politically concerned artist, Lou Reed was the reigning duke of decadence, chronicling the infinite varieties of deviant disaffection in a deadpan croak. Different Times: Lou Reed in the '70s's collection of tracks from the early to mid-'70s is a dandy memento mori of Reed's erstwhile ethos, the essence of which is best captured in ''Kill Your Sons'': ''All of the drugs that we took/It really was a lot of fun.'' A-

Originally posted Jun 28, 1996 Published in issue #333-334 Jun 28, 1996 Order article reprints
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