Lou Reed - Rock and Roll Heart (2006) Japan Mini LP Box FLAC Beolab1700

Lou Reed - Rock and Roll Heart (2006) Japan Mini LP Box FLAC Beolab1700



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Lou Reed - Rock And Roll Heart
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Artist...............: Lou Reed
Album................: Rock And Roll Heart
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 1976
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 62 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........: TRACKS - CUE - LOG - SCANS

Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 14/06/2014

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Tracklisting
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1. Lou Reed - I Believe In Love [02:46]
2. Lou Reed - Banging On My Drum [02:11]
3. Lou Reed - Follow The Leader [02:13]
4. Lou Reed - You Wear It So Well [04:52]
5. Lou Reed - Ladies Pay [04:22]
6. Lou Reed - Rock And Roll Heart [03:06]
7. Lou Reed - Chooser And The Chosen One [02:47]
8. Lou Reed - Senselessly Cruel [02:08]
9. Lou Reed - Claim To Fame [02:51]
10. Lou Reed - Vicious Circle [02:53]
11. Lou Reed - A Sheltered Life [02:20]
12. Lou Reed - Temporary Thing [05:13]

Playing Time.........: 37:47
Total Size...........: 237.14 MB

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Rock and Roll Heart was Lou Reed's first album for Arista Records, and one senses that he wanted to come up with something saleable for his new sponsors. Uptempo numbers with pop hooks dominate the set, the 12 songs zip by in an efficient 38 minutes, and instead of Reed's trademark meditations on the dark side of life, the lyrics are (for the most part) lean bursts of verse and chorus, in which the artist sings the praises of good times in general and rock & roll in particular (then again, on "I Believe in Love," Reed pledges his allegiance to both "good time music" and "the iron cross," a bit of perversity to remind us whose album this is). But if Rock and Roll Heart sounds like "Lou Reed Lite," there are more than a few flashes of Reed's inarguable talent. His band is in fine form (especially Marty Fogel on sax and Michael Fonfara on keyboards). "Banging on My Drum" is a crunchy rocker that recalls his work with the Velvet Underground; "A Sheltered Life" is an amusing bit of VU archeology (the Velvets demoed the song, but this marked its first appearance on record); and the closer, "Temporary Thing," is a bitter, haunting narrative that foreshadows Reed's next album, the harrowing masterpiece Street Hassle.

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