Resequence: Lou Reed: New Sensations - Spectrum Culture

Resequence: Lou Reed: New Sensations - Spectrum Culture

One of the main factors that separates Lou Reed’s classic albums from the first two decades of his career – a longish list that by most accounts would uncontroversially include Transformer, Berlin and Street Hassle – from their more “acquired taste” counterparts – Rock and Roll Heart, Legendary Hearts. Mistrial – is the care, or lack of care, with which they seem to have been assembled. For a perfectionist, Reed’s work could sometimes seem surpr…