Lou Reed’s previous album Transformer was a huge hit, but if anyone bought this expecting more cheerful songs about trans people hitchhiking across the USA they were in for a surprise. This album is the dark side of Perfect Day, examining the destructive spiral of drug addiction for a couple called Jim and Caroline living in Berlin.
We get one romantic song about them meeting by the wall and enjoying some Dubonnet on ice, and then we get despair, prostitution, violence and eventual death by suicide. Calling the last track Sad Song is underselling just how grim this is by a long chalk.
Do we really need to hear crying children being taken from their drug addict mother? Well, maybe. Drugs aren’t all just going to the zoo and drinking sangria in the park, kids.
https://album.link/gb/i/257563947
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