Artist: Lou Reed
Album: Coney Island Baby
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 1975/2015
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 35:28
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 810 MB

Tracklist:

01. Lou Reed – Crazy Feeling (02:54)
02. Lou Reed – Charley’s Girl (02:39)
03. Lou Reed – She’s My Best Friend (05:59)
04. Lou Reed – Kicks (06:01)
05. Lou Reed – A Gift (03:45)
06. Lou Reed – Ooohhh Baby (03:45)
07. Lou Reed – Nobody’s Business (03:48)
08. Lou Reed – Coney Island Baby (06:34)

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Coney Island Baby is the sixth solo album by Lou Reed, released in January 1976. It is also the title of a song on that album. The name presumably refers to the Excellents’ 1962 doo wop song of the same name, and/or a 1924 Les Appleton barbershop music song of the same name. The album features the song “She’s My Best Friend”, which was originally recorded by Reed’s band The Velvet Underground in 1969. The Velvet Underground version of the song was included on the 1985 compilation album VU. The 30th anniversary re-issue of Coney Island Baby includes bonus tracks featuring Reed’s Velvet Underground bandmate Doug Yule.From 1972’s Transformer onward, Lou Reed spent most of the ’70s playing the druggy decadence card for all it was worth, with increasingly mixed results. But 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 blasé 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 — something you might not have guessed from most of the solo albums that preceded it. –Mark Deming