Lou Reed – Transformer (Speakers Corner)

It is a well-known fact that comparisons seldom get to the heart of the matter, but the example of Lou Reed also shows the complete uncertainty of those who drew them up. Is he now the Chuck Berry or the Sergeant Pepper of the 70s or did Reed specifically tinker with the image of a hypersensitive Frankenstein who scrapped his neuroses and drug trips to horror sounds? "Some records are so disgusting," raged Rolling Stone magazine, "that one would like to take physical revenge on the artists who have committed them, but far from acoustic bodily harm, the record "Transformer" shows itself, which scored strongly in the charts only a few months after the somewhat unlucky performance of the underground-heavy debut album Lou Reed.