New Sensations
by Lou Reed
- Type: Album
- Released: April 1984
- Label: RCA
- Country: United States
- Length: 42:57
- Community rating: 3.07/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Lou Reed embraced a surprisingly warm, highly optimistic pop-rock aesthetic on 'New Sensations', stepping away from the bleakness of his prior work. The album features bright, new wave-inflected production and deeply melodic, playful songwriting reflecting a renewed sense of personal joy and urban energy.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic
Tracklist
- I Love You, Suzanne (3:17)
- Endlessly Jealous (3:58)
- My Red Joystick (3:36)
- Turn to Me (4:23)
- New Sensations (5:49)
- Doin' the Things That We Want To (3:56)
- What Becomes a Legend Most (3:39)
- Fly Into the Sun (3:08)
- My Friend George (3:58)
- High In the City (3:28)
- The Great Defender (Down at the Arcade) (3:41)
Credits
- Lou Reed - primary artist, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, vocals, producer, written-by, guitar, vocal
- Liz Lauman - artwork [hand coloring]
- Connie Harvey - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
- Eric Troyer - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
- Fernando Saunders - backing vocals, electric bass, bass [string], rhythm guitar, double bass, electric bass guitar, guitar, background vocals vocal
- Jocelyn Brown - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
- Rory Dodd - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
- Fred Maher - drums, drums (drum set)
- Shankar - electric violin
- Dan Nash - engineer [assistant, atlantic studios]
- Roger Moutenot - engineer [assistant, skyline studios]
- Jon Faddis - horns, horn
- Michael Brecker - horns, horn
- Randy Brecker - horns, horn
- Tom Malone - horns, arranged by [horns]
- Greg Calbi - lacquer cut by [runout etching ⚾︎], mastered by
- Waring Abbott - photography by, art direction
- Peter Wood - piano, synthesizer, accordion
- John Jansen - producer, producer, engineer
- Tom “Bones” Malone - horn