Blog: ChordStrike

Lou Reed has always gone against the grain. During 1967's so-called summer of love, his band The Velvet Underground released a debut album about prostitution and heroin addiction. Then, when the hippy revolution turned sour, the VU released their happy, trippy pop album, Loaded , starting with the decidedly hippyish "Who Loves The Sun." But most contrary of all was Reed's 1975 solo album, Metal Machine Music (1975), four sides of unlistenable noise [...]