New Sensations is the thirteenth solo album

Album

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 by Lou Reed

Lou Reed

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...

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When this album was released, critics and listeners alike took note of a change in the songs as being more upbeat and fun than much of Reed's prior work.
Lou seemed to have abandoned the often self-destructive lifestyle of a New York rock star and retreated to the New Jersey suburbs.


Nevertheless despite this "retreat" from the city, Lou still decried the lifestyle of suburban materialism.

Side one

1. "I Love You, Suzanne" – 3:19
2. "Endlessly Jealous" – 3:57
3. "My Red Joystick" – 3:36
4. "Turn to Me" – 4:22
5. "New Sensations" – 5:42

Side two

1. "Doin' the Things that We Want To" – 3:55
2. "What Becomes a Legend Most" – 3:37
3. "Fly Into the Sun" – 3:04
4. "My Friend George" – 3:51
5. "High in the City" – 3:27
6. "Down at the Arcade" – 3:40

Personnel

• Lou Reed - lead & rhythm guitar, vocals
• Fernando Saunders
  Fernando Saunders
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   - electric & string bass, background vocals, rhythm guitar on "My Red Joystick" and "My Friend George"
• Fred Maher
  Fred Maher
  Fred Maher is an American drummer, programmer and record producer.He was a member of Massacre , Material, Scritti Politti, Lou Reed, and is best known as the producer of I'm Talking's album Bear Witness , Lou Reed's album New York , Matthew Sweet's album Girlfriend , and Information Society's self...
  
   - drums
• Peter Wood - piano, synthesizers, accordion
• Lakshminarayana Shankar - electric violin
• Michael Brecker
  Michael Brecker
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   - tenor saxophone
• Randy Brecker
  Randy Brecker
  Randal "Randy" Brecker is an American trumpeter and flugelhornist. He is a highly sought after performer in the genres of jazz, rock, and R&B, and has performed or recorded with Stanley Turrentine, Billy Cobham, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Sandip Burman, Charles Mingus, Blood, Sweat & Tears,...
  
   - trumpet
• Jon Faddis
  Jon Faddis
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   - trumpet
• Tom Malone
  Tom Malone (musician)
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   - trombone, horn arrangement
• Jocelyn Brown
  Jocelyn Brown
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   - background vocals
• Rory Dodd - background vocals
• Connie Harvey - background vocals
• Eric Troyer
  Eric Troyer
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  - background vocals