Coney Island Baby es un álbum de Lou Reed, publicado en 1975 por RCA. El disco incluye 14 canciones, entre ellas «Crazy Feeling», «Charley's Girl», «She's My Best Friend» y «Kicks».
Sobre el álbum
La discografía de Lou Reed nos regala la melancolía nostálgica de "Coney Island Baby", un álbum que, de inmediato, se percibe como un regreso a una sensibilidad más personal y emotiva. Este disco explora temas de amor, aceptación y la búsqueda de identidad con una honestidad desarmante, conectando con el oyente a un nivel profundo. El álbum se siente como una confesión, un diario íntimo transformado en música.
Las guitarras suenan más suaves y melódicas, mientras que las letras de Lou Reed se vuelven más introspectivas y vulnerables. La canción homónima "Coney Island Baby" o "Claim to Fame" son ejemplos de su habilidad para crear baladas que llegan al alma. Por otra parte, la producción es más orgánica y menos experimental que en trabajos anteriores, lo que realza la calidez y la intimidad de las composiciones. El álbum suena reconfortante y sincero, una joya para los amantes de las letras con significado.
"Coney Island Baby" consolidó la reputación de Lou Reed como un maestro de la narrativa, capaz de transformar sus experiencias personales en arte universal. Su impacto radica en su capacidad para evocar emociones complejas con una aparente sencillez, fortaleciendo su legado. Para los amantes del rock con alma y las letras que invitan a la reflexión sobre la vida, este disco es una adquisición imprescindible. Es una prueba irrefutable de que la vulnerabilidad también puede ser una fuente de inmensa fuerza artística.
Listado de Canciones
- Crazy Feeling2:58
Letra
You're the kind of person that I've been dreaming of You're the kind of person that I always wanted to love And when I first seen you walk right through that bar door And I seen those suit and tie johns buy you one drink and then buy you some more, I had a I know you had that crazy feeling now, now, now, you're got that crazy feeling You know that I've had that crazy feeling, too I can see it in your You got that crazy feeling now, now, now, now, now, you got that crazy feeling I've had that crazy feeling, too Now everybody knows that business ends at three And everybody knows that after hours love is free And you, you really are a queen oh, such a queen, such a queen And I know, 'cause I made the same scene I know just what you mean, because You got that crazy feeling now, now, now, you're got that crazy feeling You got that crazy feeling deep inside now, I can see it in your eyes You got that crazy feeling now, now, now, you're got that crazy feeling And you got that crazy feeling, too I feel just like, feel just like you (Crazy feeling, crazy feeling) - Charley's Girl2:36
- She's My Best Friend6:00
- Kicks6:06
Letra
Hey man, what's your style How you get your kicks for living Hey man, what's your style How you get your adrenalin flowing now How you get your adrenalin flowing Hey man, what's your style I love the way, try to call now Hey man, what's your style I ain't jealous of the way you're living I ain't jealous of the way you're living When you cut that dude with just a little mania You did it so, ... ah When the blood comma' down his neck ... Don't you know it was better than sex, now, now, now It was way better than getting mean 'cause it was, the final thing to do, now Get somebody to come on to you and then you just get somebody to to now, now, come on to you And then you kill 'em, yeah You kill 'em, now, now, cause I need kicks ... I'm getting bored, I need, need, need, need now, now some kicks Oh, give it, give it, give it, give it to me now, now, kicks Hey man, what's your style How you get your kicks for living Hey man, what's your style How you get your adrenalin flowing now, now, now, now, now How you get your adrenalin flowing Hey man, what's your style You know, I love the way you drive your car now Hey man, what's your style I ain't jealous of the way you're living Ain't jealous of, now, now, the way you're living Hey, newspaper ... You did it so, wow, crudely, now With that blood coming down his chest It was way better than sex, now, now It was way better than getting mean It was the final thing to do Get somebody to came, come on to you, then Get somebody to, ah, come on to you Better kill them now Better kill him now, now Yeah, yeah, yeah, kill him now, now 'Cause I need kicks I need some kicks I'm getting bored I need, need, need, need, need, need, need some kicks Yeah, need, need, need, need, need, need, need some kicks Oh, give it now, kicks Yeah, need some kicks Yeah, need some k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k, kicks Oh, give it me now, now Kicks, kicks, kicks, kicks ... - A Gift3:47
Letra
I'm just a gift to the women of this world I'm just a gift to the women of this world Responsibility sits so hard on my shoulder Like a good wine, I'm better as I grow older, and now - - I'm just a gift to the women of this world I'm just a gift to the women of this world I'm just a gift to the women of this world It's hard to settle for second best After you've had me, you know that you've had the best And now you know that - - I'm just a gift to the women of this world (I'm just a gift to the women of this world) (I'm just a gift to the women of this world) Responsibility sits hard on my shoulder Like a good wine, I'm better as I get older, and now - - I'm just a gift to the women of this world You know that I'm just a gift to the women of this world Just a gift now (I'm just a gift to the women of this world) (I'm just a gift to the women of this world) (I'm just a gift to the women of this world) (I'm just a gift to the women of this world, just now) (I'm just a gift to the women of this world, just a gift) (I'm just a gift to the women of this world) I'm just a gift to the women of this world I'm just a gift to the women of this world .... - Ooohhh Baby3:45
Letra
You're the kind of girl that everybody's warned me about You're the kind of person that everybody's here staring at But now you are a topless dancer working out of a bar on Times Spuare And everybody wishes you were back down in some corner only Baby know, you make me go Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby ooohhh-ooohhh-ooohhh Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby ooohhh-ooohhh-ooohhh Your old man was the best P and E man down on the streets And all the guy in the precinct always was watching for him on the beat But when he ripped off Seymour he was really not a doing so fine And everything is knots, well except - - his hands and legs and maybe even mime he see they just make them strip off, they say Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh ooohhh baby, ooohhh Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh hey, baby, ooohhh-ooohhh It's very funny asking me why they keep the lights on down so low Well, yesterday's chase's today's competition or didn't you know And all the fluorescent lighting make so your wrinkles they don't show And it's very funny the way that 20 bucks an hour cannot go if you don't make 'em go, now, now, now Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh ooohhh baby, ooohhh Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby ooohhh-ooohhh-ooohhh Everybody wondered 'bout you when you was seen in drinking some beer You got here from Ohio and your mother said you hooked her in the real near that's the way it goes now Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby ooohhh-ooohhh-ooohhh hey, shake your bones now, mama Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ah hey, ooohhh baby, ooohhh walk it, now (Ooohhh baby, ooohhh, ooohhh baby, ooohhh) Get down (ooohhh baby, ooohhh, ooohhh baby, ooohhh) (Ooohhh baby, ooohhh, ooohhh baby, ooohhh) (ooohhh baby, ooohhh, ooohhh baby, ooohhh) (Ooohhh baby, ooohhh, ooohhh baby, ooohhh) (ooohhh baby, ooohhh, ooohhh baby, ooohhh) (Ooohhh baby, ooohhh, ooohhh baby, ooohhh) (ooohhh baby, ooohhh, ooohhh baby, ooohhh) ... - Nobody's Business3:41
- Coney Island Baby6:36
Letra
You know, man, when I was a young man in high school You believe in or not, that I wanted to play football for the coach All those older guys, they said he was mean and cruel But you know, I wanted to play football, for the coach They said I was to little too light weight to play line-back So I say I'm playing right-in Wanted to play football for the coach Cause, you know some day, man, you gotta stand up straight Unless you're gonna fall Then you're gonna die And the straightest dude I ever knew Was standing right for me, all the time So I had to play football for the coach And I wanted to play football for the coach When you're all alone and lonely in your midnight hour And you find that your soul, it has been up for sale And you getting to think about, all the things you done And you getting to hate just about everything But remember the princess who lived on the hill Who loved you even though she knew you was wrong And right now she just might come shining through and the glory of love, glory of love Glory of love, just might come through And all your two-bit friends have gone and ripped you off They're talking behind your back saying, man you are never going to be a human being And you start thinking again About all those things that you've done And who it was and who it was And all the different things you made every different scene Ah, but remember that the city is a funny place Something like a circus or a sewer And just remember, different people have peculiar tastes And the Glory of love, the glory of love The glory of love, might see you through Yeah, but now, now Glory of love, the glory of love The glory of love, might see you through Glory of love, ah, huh, huh, the glory of love Glory of love, glory of love Glory of love, now, glory of love, now Glory of love, now, now, now, glory of love Glory of love, give it to me now, glory of love see you through Oh, my Coney Island baby, now (I'm a Coney Island baby, now) I'd like to send this one out for Lou and Rachel And the Lord appeared and he has one made of two Coney Island baby Man, I swear, I'd give the whole thing up for you - Nowhere At All
Letra
Somebody's got to help me this girl's drivin' me insane Cause some they likes it hot, and some they likes it cold and some they just don't like it at, like it at all now Somebody's got to help me this girl's drivin' me insane Now somebody she's got to help me It makes me feel like, ah, that I'm nowhere at all It makes me feel like I'm nowhere at all Somebody's got to help me this girl's got me on the line now Cause some they likes it hot, and some they likes it cold and some they just don't like it at, like it at all now Somebody's got to help me this girl's drivin' me insane Somebody's got to help me She makes me feel like, I'm nowhere at all It makes me feel like I'm nowhere at all I'm nowhere at all I'm nowhere, give it to me now I'm nowhere at all now No honey, Rocky don't know it at all I'm no, no, nowhere at all I'm nowhere at all now oh, give it to me now - Downtown Dirt
Letra
Picking up pieces of information Down on the docks Picking up pieces of information about you And how to pick locks Scouting around on the Lower East Side and matresses in the rain Those uptown ladies with their uptown coats Come down here to get laid It's a boring macho trip And I'm the type that fascinates Hey, Mrs Pamela Brown, how's the Dakota? You're twenty eight years old and your face has been lifted But you still look so much older You been desoiled and your linen is drab, You've got the crabs The things they sell you Your credit cards I love you for it I love you for it Sell your sugar I'm a humanitarian I give it all to myself That way you're clean And I stay out of debt And psychologically you know Hey, psychologically it's better that I think that I'm dirt Psychologically it's better that I think that I'm dirt Don't you know it's better to think I'm dirt Don't you like to have some dirt That all it's worth it's just dirt Cheap Cheap damn dirt Hey Pam, dirt Cheap dirt Dirt Uptown dirt Dirt - Leave Me Alone
Letra
Everybody's gonna try to tell you what to do, uhh-haa And never, never, never, never, let it be said that it's true oh-oh, hey, give it to my baby Leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me alone Leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me alone They're the kind of people that'll always let you down I know you, too, you don't ever give it a frown oh, do it, do it, now, do it, do it Leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me alone get down, baby Leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me alone oh, come now, leave me alone, mam, okay, baby Oh, oh, yeah ah-ha-ha, oh, oh, yeah Ah-ha-ha, oh, oh, yeah ah-ha-ha, oh, oh, yeah Ah-ha-ha, oh, oh, yeah ah-ha-ha, oh, oh, yeah Ah-ha-ha Don't you know some people, they just don't know when to stop give it to me, now They can't tell the floor from the ceiling or the top And there're other types, they always make you wait And they're always the first to say, the state you come from Leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me alone Leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me alone Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me forever Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me forever Leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me alone, oh Leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me alone leave me alone Ah-ha-ha, oh, oh, yeah ah-ha-ha, oh, oh, yeah Ah-ha-ha, oh, oh, yeah ah-ha-ha, oh, oh, yeah Ah-ha-ha, oh, oh, yeah ah-ha-ha, oh, oh, yeah Ah-ha-ha, oh, oh, yeah ah-ha-ha, oh, oh, yeah Ah-ha-ha - Crazy Feeling2:58
Letra
You're the kind of person that I've been dreaming of You're the kind of person that I always wanted to love And when I first seen you walk right through that bar door And I seen those suit and tie johns buy you one drink and then buy you some more, I had a I know you had that crazy feeling now, now, now, you're got that crazy feeling You know that I've had that crazy feeling, too I can see it in your You got that crazy feeling now, now, now, now, now, you got that crazy feeling I've had that crazy feeling, too Now everybody knows that business ends at three And everybody knows that after hours love is free And you, you really are a queen oh, such a queen, such a queen And I know, 'cause I made the same scene I know just what you mean, because You got that crazy feeling now, now, now, you're got that crazy feeling You got that crazy feeling deep inside now, I can see it in your eyes You got that crazy feeling now, now, now, you're got that crazy feeling And you got that crazy feeling, too I feel just like, feel just like you (Crazy feeling, crazy feeling) - She's My Best Friend6:00
- Coney Island Baby6:36
Letra
You know, man, when I was a young man in high school You believe in or not, that I wanted to play football for the coach All those older guys, they said he was mean and cruel But you know, I wanted to play football, for the coach They said I was to little too light weight to play line-back So I say I'm playing right-in Wanted to play football for the coach Cause, you know some day, man, you gotta stand up straight Unless you're gonna fall Then you're gonna die And the straightest dude I ever knew Was standing right for me, all the time So I had to play football for the coach And I wanted to play football for the coach When you're all alone and lonely in your midnight hour And you find that your soul, it has been up for sale And you getting to think about, all the things you done And you getting to hate just about everything But remember the princess who lived on the hill Who loved you even though she knew you was wrong And right now she just might come shining through and the glory of love, glory of love Glory of love, just might come through And all your two-bit friends have gone and ripped you off They're talking behind your back saying, man you are never going to be a human being And you start thinking again About all those things that you've done And who it was and who it was And all the different things you made every different scene Ah, but remember that the city is a funny place Something like a circus or a sewer And just remember, different people have peculiar tastes And the Glory of love, the glory of love The glory of love, might see you through Yeah, but now, now Glory of love, the glory of love The glory of love, might see you through Glory of love, ah, huh, huh, the glory of love Glory of love, glory of love Glory of love, now, glory of love, now Glory of love, now, now, now, glory of love Glory of love, give it to me now, glory of love see you through Oh, my Coney Island baby, now (I'm a Coney Island baby, now) I'd like to send this one out for Lou and Rachel And the Lord appeared and he has one made of two Coney Island baby Man, I swear, I'd give the whole thing up for you