Lou Reed - Berlin
It's unlike any of his other albums. The production on Berlin doesn't really reflect Lou Reed's personality, I don't think - I'm sure he likes being very simple and raw, and you get the impression he just wants to play his songs in the studio and leave again. It's a very strong production in that sense, because the producers clearly thought 'Let's do something more than that with this'. That's what I find so striking; for me, it just shows you what you can do with production, which is to take something that could be quite ordinary – although I don't think any of those songs are ordinary, actually – and turn it into something more. I don't think [producer] Bob Ezrin took an easy option. It's just genius, the way it's put together. It's so dark and depressing, and the combination of all that makes it very powerful.
Baker's Dozen
Alan Wilder Of Recoil & Depeche Mode's 13 Favourite LPs
Alan Wilder Of Recoil & Depeche Mode's 13 Favourite LPs
Luke Turner
, May 9th, 2011 07:29
As Short Circuit fast approaches, we talk to Alan Wilder about his 13 favourite records, and how they shaped his work in post-Depeche Mode project Recoil