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On 1976's Coney Island Baby, Reed's songwriting began to move into warmer, more compassionate territory, and the result was his most approachable album since Loaded. On most of the tracks, Reed stripped his band back down to guitar, bass, and drums, and the results were both leaner and a lot more comfortable than the leaden over-production of Sally Can't Dance or Berlin. Crazy Feeling, She's My Best Friend, and Coney Island Baby found Reed actually writing recognizable love songs for a change, and while Reed pursued his traditional interest in the underside of the hipster's life on Charlie's Girl and Nobody's Business, he did so with a breezy, freewheeling air that was truly a relief after the lethargic tone of Sally Can't Dance. Kicks used an audio-tape collage to generate atmospheric tension that gave its tale of drugs and death a chilling quality that was far more effective than his usual blase take on the subject, and Coney Island Baby was the polar opposite, a song about love and regret that was as sincere and heart-tugging as anything the man has ever recorded. Coney Island Baby sounds casual on the surface, but emotionally it's as compelling as anything Lou Reed released in the 1970s, and proved he could write about real people with recognizable emotions as well as anyone in rock music.

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Lou Reed

Coney Island Baby

RCA
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Released01/22/2021Catalog Number19439797181Customer Limit1Learn more
Released10/09/2006Catalog Number82876782512Learn more
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Released01/12/2018Catalog Number88985349061Learn more