The Bells
by Lou Reed
- Type: Album
- Released: April 1979
- Label: Arista
- Country: United States
- Length: 40:41
- Community rating: 3.01/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Recorded during an intensely turbulent personal period, Lou Reed's 'The Bells' is a remarkably dense, highly experimental art-rock oddity. The album utilizes a muddy, almost impenetrable Wall of Sound production style to frame incredibly dark, deeply introspective, and heavily nihilistic reflections on urban despair and emotional collapse.
Genres
Descriptors: wall of sound, suicide
Tracklist
- Stupid Man (2:33)
- Disco Mystic (4:30)
- I Want to Boogie with You (3:55)
- With You (2:22)
- Looking for Love (3:29)
- City Lights (3:22)
- All Through the Night (5:01)
- Families (6:09)
- The Bells (9:16)
Credits
- Lou Reed - primary artist, arranged by [horn arrangement], backing vocals, electric guitar, guitar synthesizer, mastered by, mixed by, producer, written-by, guitar synthesizer [bass]
- Don Cherry - arranged by [horn arrangement], trumpet, guitar [african hunting], written-by
- Marty Fogel - arranged by [horn arrangement], guitar, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, ocarina, written-by, electric piano [fender rhodes]
- Ellard Boles - backing vocals, bass, guitar synthesizer [bass], written-by, twelve-string guitar [fender electric]
- Michael Fonfara - backing vocals, electric piano [fender rhodes & yamaha], synthesizer [oberheim & mini-k枚rg poly-ensemble], executive-producer, written-by
- Donn Davenport - design, art direction
- Howard Fritzson - design, art direction
- Ren茅 Tinner - engineer, mixed by
- Ted Jensen - mastered by
- Manfred Schunke - mixed by
- Michael Suchorsky - percussion, written-by
- Garry Gross - photography by
- Fred Marcellino - photography by [hand tinting]
- Nils Lofgren - written-by