The 1980 Listening Post - Lou Reed - Growing Up in Public

Lou Reed - Growing Up in Public

#140

by Jim Shanman

April 1 1980

Lou Reed

Growing Up in Public

Allen’s Rating: 2 out of 5

Jim’s Rating: 1.5 out of 5

See, this is why I would never do this project... you'd have to listen to albums like Growing Up in Public. After 10 years of addiction, this attempt at a confessional of sorts falls way short, kind of sad, really. The only redeemable quality of this is the music and the only track worth listening to is "Think it Over" All those years with Velvet Underground and Bowie and this is what we get. Yeesh. OK, I'll give it a kindly 1.5 because the music is pretty solid, but lyrics are goofy lame, his vocals are way below what you'd hope for and there is nothing memorable on this. Seriously, someone should rewrite lyrics for each of the tracks and salvage the music at least.

https://open.spotify.com/album/5OOwDQX2GFKOopLRgviaXy?si=Ud_JhOMUQyu-hPtS9mJ10w