If you think the Smashing Pumpkins and their alt-rock ilk inventedangst-ridden depression rock, you owe it to yourself to check out LouReed's newly remastered and at-long-last reissued 1973 album "Berlin"(RCA). A sprawling concept effort produced by Bob Ezrin (who went onto work on Pink Floyd's "The Wall"), the album charts the decadentdownward spiral of an unstable and suicidal woman named Caroline."She's not afraid to die/All of her friends call her Alaska," Reedsings, and that's not even the most haunting moment. That honorwould have to go to "The Kids," in which Caroline's children arecarted away from their drug-abusing mom, and their crying merges withthe playing of Jack Bruce, the Brecker brothers, Tony Levin andguitar giants Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner. This is some of the mostpowerful rock ever produced - just don't listen to it if you'realready feeling despondent.
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