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Good and bad have never been very useful designations when it comes to Reed, anyway. Even his lamest records have proven to be worth dusting off and wrestling with every few years. He remains one of rock’s genuinely enigmatic enigmas. Also, he’s the author of the Velvet Underground, Transformer, Berlin, Street Hassle, New York, and Songs for Drella, which is to say he has earned the eternal benefit of the doubt, a debt he has never hesitated to call in.
Master of Bation by Sean Nelson - Seattle Music - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
Sean Nelson (FORMERLY OF HARVEY DANGER, GUYS!) has the first Lulu write-up that deals with it with the honest perspective of someone who’s listened to Mistrial or The Raven more than ten times.
It is a very good piece that grapples with an album that somehow has the bad rep it deserves, but maybe not for the right reasons.
