Street Hassle
by Lou Reed
- Type: Album
- Released: February 1978
- Label: Arista
- Country: United States
- Length: 36:38
- Community rating: 3.86/5 from 6 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Anchored by its towering, remarkably ambitious three-part title track, 'Street Hassle' represents Lou Reed's raw, uncompromising plunge back into the sleazy underbelly of New York City. The album utilizes experimental binaural recording techniques to deliver a fiercely vulgar, intensely deadpan, and deeply urban exploration of sexual hedonism and street survival.
Genres
Descriptors: vulgar, hedonism, lgbtq, street, confessional
Tracklist
- Gimmie Some Good Times (3:16)
- Dirt (4:45)
- Street Hassle (11:00)
- I Wanna Be Black (2:56)
- Real Good Time Together (3:23)
- Shooting Star (3:13)
- Leave Me Alone (4:48)
- Wait (3:13)
Credits
- Lou Reed - primary artist, guitar, bass, piano, vocals, mixed by, producer, songwriter [all songs written by]
- Aram Schefrin - arranged by [string arrangement]
- Angela Howard - backing vocals
- Christine Wiltshire - backing vocals
- Genya Ravan - backing vocals
- Jo'Anna Cameron - backing vocals
- Michael Suchorsky - drums
- Manfred Schunke - engineer [delta studio]
- Heiner Friesz - engineer [dierks mobile studio]
- Gray Russell - engineer [record plant, assistant]
- Gregg Caruso - engineer [record plant, assistant]
- Rod O'Brien - engineer [record plant], mixed by
- Ted Jensen - mastered by
- Richard Robinson - producer
- Marty Fogel - saxophone [amplified]
- Stuart Heinrich - guitar, backing vocals
- Michael Fonfara - piano
- Steve Friedman - bass [lead]