Lou Reed – Street Hassle (VG+/VG) – LP, US 1978

Street Hassle is an LP by Lou Reed from 1978 released on the Arista label.

About this album

Street Hassle finds Lou Reed pushing rock into sharper, bleaker territory, with his signature street-level lyricism set against tense, artful arrangements. Released in 1978, it followed the more accessible Coney Island Baby and reasserted Reed’s taste for confrontation, irony and emotional ambiguity. The title track stands as one of his most ambitious late-1970s statements, stretching his New York realism into a fragmented mini-epic, while songs such as “I Wanna Be Black” and “Dirt” underline the album’s raw humour and confrontational edge. The record helped cement Reed’s reputation as a chronicler of urban life who could turn discomfort into lasting art.

Genre: Pop & Rock