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Lou Reed: Ecstasy (WEA)

Tom Cox, The Guardian, 24 March 2000

IT BEGINS WITH a grumble: not Lou himself, but a bass guitar attempting to clone the sound of an OAP getting on a downtown bus, reaching for his bus pass, and realising he's left it in the betting shop.

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