http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KkFcQZw_TM

Lou Reed’s semi-comeback, at least with critics, circa 1982. Sober for approximately 2 years, Reed takes the opportunity to look at his years as an alcoholic and drug addict with graphic intensity. “Waves of Fear” makes the Velvet’s “Heroin” look like a romantic ballad (which in many ways, it kind of always was). The supremely sick dissonant, metallic guitar solos by Robert Quine are almost as disturbing as the lyrics.