New York
by Lou Reed
- Type: Album
- Released: 6 January 1989
- Label: Sire
- Country: United States
- Length: 56:55
- Community rating: 3.93/5 from 7 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'New York' is Lou Reed's highly acclaimed, fiercely conceptual tribute to and critique of his crumbling hometown. Utilizing a stripped-down, twin-guitar rock sound, Reed delivers incredibly poetic, deadpan, and sarcastic street narratives exploring urban violence, political corruption, and social decay.
Genres
Descriptors: political, conscious, violence, street, literate, male-vocals, distorted, storytelling, melodic
Tracklist
- Romeo Had Juliette (3:10)
- Halloween Parade (3:33)
- Dirty Blvd. (3:29)
- Endless Cycle (4:03)
- There Is No Time (3:46)
- Last Great American Whale (3:42)
- Beginning of a Great Adventure (4:57)
- Busload of Faith (4:50)
- Sick of You (3:25)
- Hold On (3:24)
- Good Evening Mr. Waldheim (4:36)
- Xmas in February (2:57)
- Strawman (5:54)
- Dime Store Mystery (5:03)
Credits
- Lou Reed - primary artist, backing vocals [background vocals], guitar [left], mixed by, producer [produced by], songwriter [all songs written by], written-by
- Spencer Drate - art direction [art director]
- Dion DiMucci - backing vocals [background vocals]
- Jeffrey Lesser - backing vocals [background vocals], engineer [record and mixdown engineer], mixed by
- Jennifer Gross - coordinator [production was coordinated by]
- Shirley Divers - coordinator [production was coordinated by]
- Sylvia Reed - design, design concept [concept], creative director [creative direction]
- Fred Maher - drums, electric bass [fender], engineer [record and mixdown engineer], mixed by, producer [produced by]
- Rob Wasserman - electric upright bass [clevinger upright six-string bass]
- Victor Deyglio - engineer [assistant engineer]
- Frank Newberry - equipment [equipment was handled by]
- Mike Rathke - guitar [right], mixed by, written-by
- Bob Ludwig - mastered by [mastering]
- Moe Tucker - percussion [percussionist]
- Waring Abbott - photography by