Mistrial (album)
Encyclopedia
Mistrial is the fourteenth solo album
by rock and roll
musician Lou Reed
. A music video was created for the song "No Money Down" that featured an animatronic Lou Reed singing to the song. At the end of the video, the animatronic starts to tear itself apart. The music video was featured on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head
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Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by rock and roll
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
musician 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...
. A music video was created for the song "No Money Down" that featured an animatronic Lou Reed singing to the song. At the end of the video, the animatronic starts to tear itself apart. The music video was featured on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head
Beavis and Butt-Head
Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series created by Mike Judge. The series originated from Frog Baseball, a 1992 short film by Judge. After seeing the short, MTV signed Judge to develop the concept. Beavis and Butt-head originally aired from March 8, 1993 to November 28, 1997...
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Side one
- "Mistrial" – 3:20
- "No Money Down" – 3:09
- "Outside" – 3:02
- "Don't Hurt a Woman" – 3:59
- "Video Violence" – 5:35
Side two
- "Spit It Out" – 3:39
- "The Original Wrapper" – 3:37
- "Mama's Got a Lover" – 4:12
- "I Remember You" – 3:13
- "Tell It to Your Heart" – 5:08
Personnel
- Lou Reed - vocals, lead, power & rhythm guitar
- Eddie MartinezEddie MartinezEddie Martinez is an American guitarist, born and raised in New York City, who mainly functions as a session musician. He has worked with David Lee Roth , Run-D.M.C. , Robert Palmer , Meat Loaf , several Jim Steinman projects, and many others...
- rhythm guitar - Fernando SaundersFernando SaundersFernando Saunders is a musician, performer, vocalist and bass player from Detroit, Michigan.-Biography:Fernando Saunders has performed all around the world with music legends such as Marianne Faithfull, Joan Baez, Slash, Tori Amos, Jimmy Page, Luciano Pavarotti and Jeff Beck...
- bass, drum programming, background vocals, rhythm guitar on "Tell It To Your Heart" and "Don't Hurt A Woman", piano on "I Remember You", bass synthesizer and percussion on "Outside" - Rick Bell - tenor saxophone on "No Money Down"
- J.T. Lewis - drums, percussion
- Sammy Merendino - percussion, drum programming
- Jim CarrollJim CarrollJames Dennis "Jim" Carroll was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which was made into the 1995 film of the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll.-Biography:Carroll was born to a...
- background vocals on "Video Violence" - Ruben BladesRubén BladesRubén Blades Bellido de Luna is a Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, lawyer, actor, Latin jazz musician, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz genres...
- background vocals on "I Remember You" & "Tell It To Your Heart"
- Sylvia Reed - cover design