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-


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