Remember that the city is a funny place
RCA/Legacy is going to be releasing a 30th anniversary edition of Lou Reed's Coney Island Baby. Sounds good to me, but couldn't they rerelease Metal Machine Music, preferably on vinyl (with a locked groove on the fourth side)?
Anyway, Coney Island Baby isn't that great of an album. I don't think it's as bad as Peter Laughner said in his brilliant Creem review (any review that starts off by saying, "This album made me so morose and depressed when I got the advance copy that I stayed drunk for three days" has to be good). It does have some decent songs. I like the title track. I like that he mentions Ohio in another song. All in all, it's a nice thing to listen to every now and then, as long as you're not expecting the equivalent of White Light/White Heat or Loaded.
I just hope they remaster the album. Every version I've heard of it sounds horrible -- all muddied up in that mid-70's way. Give me a crisper, clearer mix, and I'll be happy to plunk down $15-20 for a CD version (my old copy is on cassette tape(!)) of the album.
I'll withhold further judgement until I hear the actual release in August.
