Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance (1974)

Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance (1974)
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On the live album Rock N Roll Animal, Lou Reed showed he'd learned how to give his audience what they wanted, and do it well. Sally Can't Dance, on the other hand, was the polar opposite, a remarkably cynical album that pandered to the lowest common denominator of the market that had bought Transformer and Rock N Roll Animal, and didn't even do it with much flair. Reed's performances here are limited to vocals, except for some sloppy acoustic guitar on one track (this from the man who helped reinvent electric guitar with the Velvet Underground), and the sodden, overblown arrangements sink most of these tunes before they get past the first chorus; much of the time, Reed sounds like an afterthought on his own album. And while Reed's best songwriting ranks with the best rock of his generation, Sally Can't Dance is cluttered with throwaways that reach for the boho decadence of Transformer and come up empty (with special recognition going to the bizarre and truly puzzling "Animal Language"). Side two does offer two worthwhile songs: "Kill Your Sons," a powerful and deeply personal remembrance of Reed's bouts with shock treatment and brutal psychotherapy, which he would revisit in a much stronger performance on 1984's Live in Italy, and "Billy," a witty and surprisingly poignant remembrance of an old friend and how their paths in life diverged.


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Tracklist:
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01. Ride Sally Ride
02. Animal Language
03. Baby Face
04. N.Y. Stars
05. Kill Your Sons
06. Ennui
07. Sally Can't Dance
08. Billy
09. Good Taste
10. Sally Can't Dance (Single Version)

*1974 RCA / BMG Japan | CAT # BVCM-37729 {2006 Japan Mini LP Remaster}


Personnel:
Lou Reed – vocals, acoustic guitar on "Billy"
Danny Weis – guitar, tambourine, backing vocals, horn arrangement
Paul Fleisher – saxophone on "Billy"
David Taylor, Lou Marini, Trevor Koehler, Jon Faddis, Alan Rubin, Alex Foster, Lew Soloff – horns
Steve Katz – harmonica, horn arrangement
Michael Fonfara – piano, keyboards, Mellotron on "Ennui"
Prakash John – bass guitar, backing vocals
Doug Yule – bass guitar on "Billy"
Ritchie Dharma – drums on "Kill Your Sons" and "Ennui"
Pentti "Whitey" Glan – drums
Doug Bartenfeld – guitar
Michael Wendroff – backing vocals
Joanne Vent – backing vocals


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