Transformer

The Velvet Underground的主力Lou Reed的第二张个人专辑，被认为是他“一生的代表作”，是华丽摇滚的经典大作。在这张专辑中，Lou Reed采用了呢喃式的演唱方式，貌似漫不经心，但却富有独特韵味。专辑由深受Lou Reed的音乐熏陶的David Bowie和Mick Ronson制作，确实是强强联合，专辑中的 "Walk on the Wild Side", "Perfect Day" 和 "Satellite of Love"都是红极一时的歌曲。这张专辑在商业上的成功甚至超过了Lou Reed在the Velvet Underground时期的任何一张专辑。专辑赢得了许多的荣誉，包括在2003年入选NME评出的 "Greatest Albums Of All Time"，还入选了Q Magazine的 "100 Greatest Albums Ever"。

这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第194位。

David Bowie has never been shy about acknowledging his influences, and since the boho decadence and sexual ambiguity of the Velvet Underground\'s music had a major impact on Bowie\'s work, it was only fitting that as Ziggy Stardust mania was reaching its peak, Bowie would offer Lou Reed some much needed help with his career, which was stuck in neutral after his first solo album came and went. Musically, Reed\'s work didn\'t have too much in common with the sonic bombast of the glam scene, but at least it was a place where his eccentricities could find a comfortable home, and on Transformer Bowie and his right-hand man, Mick Ronson, crafted a new sound for Reed that was better fitting (and more commercially astute) than the ambivalent tone of his first solo album. Ronson adds some guitar raunch to "Vicious" and "Hangin\' Round" that\'s a lot flashier than what Reed cranked out with the Velvets, but still honors Lou\'s strengths in guitar-driven hard rock, while the imaginative arrangements Ronson cooked up for "Perfect Day," "Walk on the Wild Side," and "Goodnight Ladies" blend pop polish with musical thinking just as distinctive as Reed\'s lyrical conceits. And while Reed occasionally overplays his hand in writing stuff he figured the glam kids wanted ("Make Up" and "I\'m So Free" being the most obvious examples), "Perfect Day," "Walk on the Wild Side," and "New York Telephone Conversation" proved he could still write about the demimonde with both perception and respect. The sound and style of Transformer would in many ways define Reed\'s career in the 1970s, and while it led him into a style that proved to be a dead end, you can\'t deny that Bowie and Ronson gave their hero a new lease on life -- and a solid album in the bargain.