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Lou Reed - The Bells


Lou Reed
The Bells

    An underrated gem from Lou Reed's back catalog, this disc exists in its own musical universe of chugging rhythms, confessional lyrics, and drifting horn figures. This is the sound of a walk through the city, as snippets of conversation from open windows and music from several different bars combine into something oddly compelling. Don't let "Disco Mystic" put you off.

Everybody always talks about the poor homeless orphan waifs, but what about the homeless fathers? The time has come to call the fathers home from the stale curbstone shores. Sometimes they're bad and Take No Prisoners. But who then do they finally hurt but themselves? And when they give of themselves, they reaffirm
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what great art has always been: an act of love toward the whole human race. Then it becomes time to give at least a little love back.

Lou Reed is a prick and a jerkoff who regularly commits the ultimate sin of treating his audience with contempt. He's also a person with deep compassion for a great many other people about whom almost nobody else gives a shit. I won't say who they are, because I don't want to get too schmaltzy, except to emphasize that there's always been more to this than drugs and fashionable kinks, and to point out that suffering, loneliness and psychic/spiritual exile are great levelers.

The Bells isn't merely Lou Reed's best solo LP, it's great art. Everybody made a fuss over Street Hassle, but too many reviewers overlooked the fact that it was basically a sound album: brilliant layers of live and studio work in a deep wash of bass-obsessive noise. Most of the songs were old, and not very good, with a lot of the same old cheap shots.

The first indication that we've got something very different here is the no-bullshit cover art; the second, a cursory listening to the lyrics. Immediately, one notes the absence of mirror shades, needles and S&M. Lou Reed is walking naked for once, in a way that invites comparison with people like Charles Mingus, the Van Morrison of "T.B. Sheets" and Astral Weeks, and the Rolling Stones of Exile on Main Street. The Bells is by turns exhilarating ("Disco Mystic," an exercise in churning R&B that should be a hit single, if there's any justice), almost unbearably poignant (all of the lyrics) and as vertiginous as a slow, dark whirlpool (the title opus).

Throughout, the sound is dense, as dense as Street Hassle with at least double the content. When Reed began to move toward jazz on Rock and Roll Heart, I just figured he was going to close his career with the same shuck that people like Stanley Clarke used to open theirs. I underestimated him. There's a real band on this record, and these musicians are giving us the only true jazz-rock fusion anybody's come up with since Miles Davis' On the Corner period. They're often doing several interesting, unusual things at once: on cuts such as "Stupid Man" and "Looking for Love," they swing with a vengeance. "City Lights" teems with little whistles, bells and noises that buzz around each other like sad fireflies. And all through the LP, Reed plays the best guitar anyone's heard from him in ages.

As for the lyrics—well, people tend to forget that in numbers like "Candy Says," "Sunday Morning" and "Oh! Sweet Nothing," Lou Reed wrote some of

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Lou Reed - The Bells   Lou Reed   The Bells
New Unplayed 9 Track Eec, Arista
CD   $9.79   Record Mill
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Audio Cd Japan, Rca, 4988017642696, 2007 Special Order
NEW CD   $26.25   Inandout Dis
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EX/EX CD   $58.10   F-seventies
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Stupid Man/disco Mystic/i Want To Boogie With You/with You/looking For Love/city Lights/all Throu...
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The Bells - Lou Reed   Lou Reed   The Bells
Label: Arista Records, Published: 1979 Lovely Ois/slight Edgewear Germany, Arista Records, 064-6...
C:EX,M:EX LP   $12.86   recordsale
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Lou Reed - The Bells Album   Lou Reed   The Bells
Canada, Arista, Ab 4229, 1979
NEAR MINT LP   $15.36   coolforever
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Uk With Inner Sleeve Vg Arista, Spart1093
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Arista Recs., 1979, Spart 1093, Ex/nm, Ps.
LP   $19.58   VinylUK
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Canada, Arista, Ab 4229
Near Mint LP   $25.00   Eugene Musza
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Italy, Arista, 1979
M-/M- LP   $30.19   astral dream
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Digitally Remastered Cd W/ Orig. Artwork. We Use Pro Audio Equip. (not A Computer) To Transfer Th... Special Order
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Description: </ Japan, Bvcm-37748
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CD   $6.99   Alternativem
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Compact Disc Is New. Manufactured In The Us 5k02328 Usa, Sbmk725033.2, Sbmk725033.2, 3/1/2008
new CD   $8.88   NORTH ATLANT
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sealed sea CD   $41.60   Tokyo Music
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Nice Clean Used Lp. No Noise Or Scratches. Bk $12. Us, Arista, 4229, 1979
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1979 Original Press, Custom Inner Sleeve, Co Arista, Ab 4229
SS LP   $7.70   Let It Be
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In Stock. Shipped Within 24 Hours. Confirmation Email After Shipping. Number Of Media (discs, Tap...
used/gebra LP   $7.67   Total Recall
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1979,co,don Cherry Arista Ab 4229
VG+/M- LP   $8.40   Solid Viper
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Cut Corner Arista Ab4229 / 1979
VG+ / VG+ LP   $8.99   Musical Ener
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Arista Spain P1979 A
F/VG LP   $7.41   Woodstock
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Reed, lou - The Bells LP   Reed, lou   The Bells
1979 Release Arista, Ab4229
LP:NM, CVR LP   $9.95   Recordsonthe
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Sweden, Arista, 7c 062-62630
nm/nm LP   $10.77   vakuum
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Lp Vinyl, Reed, Lou: The Bells, Arista 5c 062 62630/holland/woc/cust.innersl./'7 9 M-/vg... Stup...
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France, Arista 2c070-62630, 1979
EXC EXC LP   $15.00   Vinyl
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SS ST CC LP   $15.00   Times Square
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(arista Al4229) Original Australian Pressed Lp In Outstanding Condition. Australia, 1979
M- / M- LP   $13.76   Oz Music Onl
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Us 60s/70s Pop/rock (lps) Arista Ab 4229 +printed Inner Sleeve (wh Special Order
VG+/EX Any/All   $9.79   Sounds Trave
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Reed, lou - The Bells CD   Reed, lou   The Bells
Lou Reed The Bells (2006 Japanese Exclusive Limited Edition 9-track Cd Album Originally Released...
New/Mint Sticker   $44.04   eil / esprit
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Reed, lou - The Bells Single   Reed, lou   The Bells
Lou Reed The Bells (scarce 1979 Us Arista Label Promotional Only Press Pack Includes 6-page Pres...
New/Mint Press Kit   $71.80   eil / esprit
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VG+/M- LP+CDR   $37.40   Solid Viper
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Remastered Eu, Buddha, X, 2000
SS SS CD   $11.46   RECORD WORLD
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Upc# 0886972503325 :: Condition: [used-mint] [available In 4-6 Days] [fill-rate Fo Sbme Speci, ... Special Order
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