Things I learned about this Lou Reed / John Cale collab from the early 90’s.

-Cale and Reed still hate each other
-The record is a song cycle about Andy Warhol
-All the songs are super simple
-Almost all the songs are duets, either electric piano and guitar, or electric viola and guitar
-Reed sings most of the songs
-Of the songs Cale sings, two out of the four are from Warhol’s perspective
-the lyrics are powerful, almost pitch-perfect, especially Reed’s delivery on “Work”, one of my favorites
-the recording is dry and essentially without reverb, and Cale’s keyboard is startlingly precise. He doesn’t miss a beat, which is hard to do when you are essentially pounding repeated patterns against Reed’s often unhinged electric thrash.

I like it.  Dig.

Goon and Goonier