Released April 1979 Length 40:37 Artist Lou Reed Label Arista Records | Recorded 1979 Producer Lou Reed Release date April 1979 Genre Rock music | |
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Studio Delta Studios, Wilster, West Germany The Bells
(1979) Growing Up in Public
(1980) Similar Lou Reed albums, Rock music albums | ||
The Bells is a 1979 album by Lou Reed, released through Arista Records. It is recorded in binaural sound.
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Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, music critic Lester Bangs wrote, "With The Bells, more than in Street Hassle, perhaps even more than in his work with the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed achieves his oft-stated ambition—to become a great writer, in the literary sense." In a less enthusiastic retrospective review, Select magazine wrote that "The Bells saw his music disappearing down the pan ... Even self-parody is barely achieved in these half-assed songs played by a bunch of dullards, with Lou sounding painfully uninspired."
Personnel
Horn arrangements by Lou Reed and Marty Fogel, except "With You" - horn arrangement by Don Cherry and Marty Fogel.
Songs
1Stupid Man2:33
2Disco Mystic4:28
3I Want to Boogie With You3:54