Lou Reed/Metallica Collabo Anticipation Thread

Because it wouldn't be fair for the discussion to exist on one artist thread and not the other.

http://www.metallica.com/images/Metallica_LouReed_tri2.jpg

http://www.metallica.com/news/20110615_news.asp

June 15, 2011
Secret Recording Project?

A few months ago our own Kirk Hammett hinted at a new Metallica project that's "not really 100 percent a Metallica record." While Kirk may have jumped the gun a little (and has since been properly punished with a series of push-ups!), we are more than proud to announce that we have just completed recording a full length album that is a collaboration with none other than the legendary Lou Reed.

Ever since we had the pleasure of performing with Lou at the 25th Anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at Madison Square Garden in October of 2009, we have been kicking around the idea of making a record together. Some of you astute Bay Area residents may have picked up news of recent Lou Reed sightings in the greater San Francisco area and we have indeed been working at our home studio at HQ on and off over the last few months. In what would be lightning speed for a Metallica related project, we recorded ten songs during this time and while at this moment we're not exactly sure when you'll hear it, we're beyond excited to share with you that the recording sessions wrapped up last week.

A true innovator and easily one of the most influential songwriters, musicians, and performers in rock music history, Lou's work with the Velvet Underground and as a solo artist has such an enduring quality that he has long been revered and respected by us and many of our peers. We can't wait for you to listen to the finished record, so as we like to hear ourselves say around here, keep watching this spot for updates . . . we'll be back with more details as they come together.

THR says the sessions were at least partially produced by Hal Willner

where's markers?

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/alternate-take/exclusive-metallica-and-lou-reed-join-forces-on-new-album-20110615

The result is at once unpredictable and viciously tight. "Pumping Blood" opens with a drone that breaks into a crunching march, goes into speed-metal gear and breaks into free-fall sections – all over seven minutes, cut live in one take. Another track, "Mistress Dread," features Reed singing across a relentless staccato riff played at manic velocity. "It doesn't feel like we're his backup band," Hammett claims. "It feels like we're a different band, in a situation we've never been in before." And, Trujillo notes, "it's making us a better band."


"A marriage made in heaven," Reed says in his first interview about the project, in the studio lounge during a break. "I knew it from the first day we played together: 'Oh, man, this is perfection, right in front of me.' "


At least Mo only joined the Tea Party

"Pumping Blood" opens with a drone that breaks into a crunching march, goes into speed-metal gear and breaks into free-fall sections – all over seven minutes, cut live in one take.

This sounds awesome, but, then, so did the idea of St. Anger before I heard it.

Some Kind Of Transformer

Mistrial Of Puppets

Satellite Of Load

And to think nobody predicted it when we had this thread: What Would An Elvis Costello/Lou Reed Collabo Sound Like?

Kill 'Em All Tomorrows Parties

Metallica Machine Music

Waiting For My Sandman

I really hope they credit this to Loutallica

"Cliffie Says"

"Some Kind of Monster II: Reed the Lightning"

Ride Sally Ride The Lightning

I really hope they credit this to Loutallica

something lexically apt about it being credited to Relica

It's all going to fall apart when Lou demands they replace Trujillo with Fernando Saunders

Haha

"The Unforgiven IV: Coney Island Baby"

Some kinda lars...

So who does Doug Yule replace?

whip it on me, james
whip it on me, james

Lars Yulerich

"Suckin-a on my ding-dong-UH"

Mark E Smith in on team Reedtallica too?

The glory of Lars
the glory of Lars
will see us through

Mark E Smith in on team Reedtallica too?

That would make it even better, but I was thinking more about latter-day Hetfield (i.e "ain't my bitch-AHH") doing "Sister Ray".

the unforgiven go doo doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo

irl lol

Landmine
Has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my ding dong

Cale 'Em All

Reed The Lightning

Imploded Classic Inevitable.

I am going to choose to be excited about the possibility that this is good.

I dunno. I kind of wish THIS had happened
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bFyHXEP6Pg

Trust I seek and I find in Lou

"the thing that should not be"

And then we spoke of kids on the coast
and different types of organic soap
And the way suicides don't leave notes
Then we spoke of Mustaine
always back to Mustaine

Batteray

Robert Trujillo had reached his limit. It was now mid-June which meant that he had been playing bass for Metallica for more than eight years. Eight years, and all he had to show were three grueling world tours and one very self-parodistic album. It was more than the human mind could bear.

hahaha

Kirk Hammett had reached his limit. It was now Mid-August which meant he had been separated from Jason Newstead for more than two months. Two months, and all he had to show was three dog-eared letters and two very expensive long-distance phone calls. True, when Jason had left the band and he'd returned to Battle Creek, Michigan, and Kirk to San Franciscio, he had sworn to maintain a certain fidelity. He would date occasionally, but merely as amusement. He would remain faithful.

OH GODDAMMIT ANTHONY

scooped because i actually took the time to look up jason newstead's hometown

a real metallica fan would have known that already

Jason came from Battle Creek, MI eh?

I'm Sticking with Cthulu

where's markers?

― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:20 AM

asleep, BUT I'M HERE NOW

if this sucks, i'm blaming it all on lou reed

because he's the only element of this that could make this record turn out bad

And then we spoke of kids on the coast
and different types of organic soap
And the way suicides don't leave notes
Then we spoke of Mustaine
always back to Mustaine

A fucking plus. Dude. Massive respect for this one

all of lou's parts, including the singing, will actually be played by bob rock

fuck you all this is gonna be hot

if that means this is going to be st. anger pt. ii, i'm down homie!!

lou will be in '72 form & metallica will just be goin for it rtl style and y'all will be oh we did not believe you brad but this is smokin hot and I will be like YEAHHHHH, WE DIIIIID IT

i hate it all why why why me, i cannot sleep w/ a head like this, i'm gonna cry, i'm gonna scream!

i rage, i glaze(d) (donut), i hurt, i hate, i wanna hate it all awaaaaaaaaaaaaay

and the unnamed feeling, it coooooomes allliiiive yeah yeah

mostly i just hope lou does all the singing and james does those wonder live ad-libs he's so beloved for

"for whooooooom the beeeeellllll tooooollls...YOU BETCHA"

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE ALIVE

"my lifestyle determines my deathstyle" does sound like a recent-vintage lou line tbrr

what about "you flush it out, you flush it out"

metallouca

YEAHHHHH, WE DIIIIID IT

please tell me this was an intentional reference to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIf1uMZ7WRw

do i have the strength!
to know i won't go!
can i find it inside to deal w/ what i shouldn't know!

*tinny drums*

ooooooooooooooooo
my lifestyle (birth is pain!)
determines my deathstyle
a rising tide (life is pain!)
that pushes to the other side
my lifestyle (death is pain!)
determines my deathstyle
a rising tide (it's all same!)
that pushes to the other side

keeeeeeeeeeep searchiiiiiiin

Haha, anthony, at "The Gift" parody.

So therefore maybe project should be called
Regifted

pretty sure this thread is already better than the album

wait so croupier IS miccio? I can't keep any of you clowns straight

i'm blount, dunno what the fuck ethan was doing calling me anthony

lol glad we cleared that up

please tell me this was an intentional reference to this

dude come on of course, I'm practically obsessed w/that song.

i'm not kidding btw when i say reed might be the worst thing on this

oh wow that totally changes my perception of markers

well he was like 8 when load came out so grain of salt

reload was my first metallica record iirc tbh

i was like 14 when they did mtv icon metallica and avril lavigne sang fuel

actually, 16 i think

I Wanna Be On The Black Album

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/blog_entry/1000x306/b956a7467c395eb12fac77bb66ea0dd2f415b4d7.jpg

It was good what we did yesterday
and I'd do it once again
The fact that you are metal
only proves you're my best friend
but it's truly, truly a sin

Aw, let me know when Bowie and Slayer make an album.

AND KERRY PLAYED GUITAAAAAAAAARR!!!!

wow.

it's the return of the thin white duke, raining blood in lovers' eyes

http://i.imgur.com/GlbDg.jpg

I'm with Markers on this. I can't name more than a half dozen Lou Reed songs I'd listen to all the way through with a gun to my head, and none by the Velvet Underground.

let's test this

dude..

lol

two terrible tastes that go terribly together

unperson!! *high-five*

(for the record, i've heard part of the velvet underground & nico -- might've finished it, not sure, and white light/white heat . . . so . . .)

congratulations on your opinions

best mudvayne song i've heard >> best vu song i've heard

so many ways to share the same challop

auto-sb

xp

i'm not the only one who walks between the rain, there are many . . .

2 isnt many dude

lol millennials

best mudvayne song i've heard >> best vu song i've heard

― markers, Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:20 PM Bookmark

http://i54.tinypic.com/2n15qub.gif

I MUST SAY THE LAST SHIT I TOOK IS BETTER THAN THIS LOU...what is it...REED YOU SPEAK OF

to be fair to markers, i've probably enjoyed mudvayne more than any post-load metallica, so

poll of metallica vs. velvet underground

i'm so excited for this. not that it will be good, but just for the fact that it will exist.

Think there will be a guest vocal by Antony?

Hope there will also be that guy doing tai chi at the front of the stage for live performances.

When you're crowned king tai chi

whole album is actually gonna be a concept thing about a martial arts battle between jean-michel basquiat and the napster guy

Between thrash and expression

"All lyrics by Delmore Schwartz"

"produced by sherwood schwartz"

ha

The sad thing is that I will like this record even if it sucks.

I hope it sounds like this:

http://youtubedoubler.com/T7t

would buy whole album that sounded like that

haha seriously this is legit awesome

someone get load records on the phone

An anonymous source is telling me that Bin Laden got himself shot cos he heard they were scheduling some time on the changer for this baby at Camp Delta.

Some Kind of Possum

Ride the Venus in Furs

MMM up your ass

Only one things is for certain: Lou Reed is going to sell more records with this one than he has in decades. Probably the most since "Transformer."

I kind of doubt it

i bet New York sold ok, just by dint of being at a time when ppl still bought stuff and having a couple minor mtv hits

ya better hit the lights with a flower

Really? Even "New York" didn't sell anywhere near what a Metallica record does.

xxpost "sell records"

It will chart higher than any Lou Reed album in decades as well.

Blackened Angel's Death Song

Even "New York" didn't sell anywhere near what a Metallica record does.

uh have you seen how low record sales have fallen recently

I know what you're saying, but it'll still sell more copies than The Raven, Ecstasy, Set the Twilight . . .

uh yes.

European Father

it'll sell more copies than Kids of Widney High mebbe...

Wonder if they'll tour.

I know what you're saying, but it'll still sell more copies than The Raven, Ecstasy, Set the Twilight . . .

okay sure

I wish John Cale would make a record with Megadeth.

Paris...1919!
The Academy...in Peril!

Lou Reed has had two gold albums in his entire career...every Metallica album is at least double platinum. even if Metallica collaborating with someone else sells a third of what they usually sell, it could be LR's highest selling album.

OTM

hope metallica plays this song live with lou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g11CHMEefbg

GIVE ME YULE GIVE ME FIRE GIVE ME THAT WHICH I DESIRE

:)

If ever there was a band less influenced by the VU, it's Metallica. I can't imagine two acts I'd like to hear collaborate less than these guys, now, each at or near the peak of their respective creative nadir. Then again, bar=low.

If ILX musicians decided to each do a Lou Reed/Metallica mashup track I would listen to that record fyi

This is going to be like a whole album of that Marianne Faithful collab.

If ILX musicians decided to each do a Lou Reed/Metallica mashup track I would listen to that record fyi

I'm on it

Next week it will be the Charlie Daniels Band produced by Dr. Dre.

i'd rather just hear Beatallica learn some VU tunes

More NY punk seniors keeping busy:

And Patti Smith's guest starring on Law and Order: Criminal Intent this wkend: http://www.spinner.ca/2011/06/17/patti-smith-law-and-order/

Mapplethorpe was her longtime "partner"? Fred Smith just some guy, I guess....

Spinner with the scoop!

requests for other ageing New Yorkers to stay current:

Marky Ramone on Celebrity Apprentice

Richard Hell replaces the boring one (Vinnie?) on Jersey Shore

http://www.fitness.com/articles/uploaded/1231111179_synergy.jpg

LOU: "Welp, I'm gonna go jam with Metallica for a bit. I'll try to get back around midnight."
LAURIE: "Okay, hon. Make sure you have your key."

guess people are still making these?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9LcJwX9dnE
hitler reacts to the news

TS: this vs. the imaginary bowie/slayer project mentioned upthread...

Waiting for the Man To Die
Rock and Roll and Death
Blood Ocean
The Blackest Angel's Song of Death
Black Sunday Mourning
New Dead Age
Oh Sweet Black Nothing
Some Kinda Black Night
Run Run Run Die Die Die
Enter Sandman Dinkins

i'm so excited for this!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuYcbEYbN_A&feature=related
i kinda like this. akin the rock n roll animal glam metal years.

does the new metallica bassist always look like that? lol

That was fuckin' hard to listen to.

I'm not excited about this anymore

good god

I can't even tell what key that's supposed to be in

I love the huge boo in the middle of the two cheers.

i believe that's the audience doing the "louuuuuuuu" thing. happens at all of his shows.

i dunno, sounded like a perfectly serviceable hard rock version of sweet jane to me!

I'm with the "That was fucking brutal" crowd.

I do kinda love how this is just par for the course for a guy who's whole career is a string of alternating sellout/contrarian moves

b-b-but hetfield doing the "sweeet jaaane-aaaagghhhh" backing vocals! hammett's guitar center solos! ulrich's face!
ok maybe it wasn't great.

Earlier this week I made myself a "Worst of Lou Reed" mix and frankly there was a lot of competition.

ooh gimme

I'm with the "That was fucking brutal" crowd.

i think the metal crowd & the melodic jams crowd understand "fucking brutal" differently though

I seriously cannot make out any actual notes or chords apart from that horrible soloing Richie Sambora is doing

Brutal meaning bad, not brutal meaning good.

perfectly serviceable!

Not going to pay attention to this anymore until I hear the wonderful Pomplamoose videosong ironic cover versions.

I'm in both crowds but that was brutal bad.

like, fit for service. if i walked into a large sports bar on a thursday night and heard a band of codgers playing this, i would be happy that they at least get a night out.

does the new metallica bassist always look like that? lol

Naw, man. Sometimes he looks like this:

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/8501/metallicacrab.gif

He invented crabcore.

Did finally click on that Pete 'n Lou video upthread. Hoo boy

omg what did I just watch

i dunno, sounded like a perfectly serviceable hard rock version of sweet jane to me!

which part of that sentence is supposed to be a good thing?

i was not terribly offended by it?

Is there any way to do a hard-rock cover of Sweet Jane that is more than serviceable?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH-k0CU1BpI

fuck me lou's voice is shot these days isn't it...

tbf he's 80 and his voice has been shot since he was about 40

Is there any way to do a hard-rock cover of Sweet Jane that is more than serviceable?

Is there any way for a person to refrain from doing a hard-rock cover of Sweet Jane?

by playing a hard rock cover of "I Love You Suzanne"?

do you guys not like this or something? this is a great hard rock version of sweet jane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc26EFI1_nw

also some great mustaches in that video.

oh man that Paris show

anyway it's more like a funk version tbh

god Lou looks amazing though

yeah it's almost like a headhunters song in the intro.

feel like we could poll the mustaches alone in that clip

Those stage moves Reed is featuring in that Paris video are some of the worst of all time. And i've had the (mis)fortune of seeing Metallica with Rob Trujillo live.

god Lou looks amazing though

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Er, "amazing" is one word for it. Not exactly the description i would use. "Amazingly shitty" maybe?

xp haha, yeah -- james brown he is not.

nah I love Lou's bleached insectoid phase

do you guys not like this or something? this is a great hard rock version of sweet jane.

uh, no that's not my favorite version of Sweet Jane, and not really hard rock either. that riff can get so plodding in the wrong hands. I think it's the kind of thing that maybe really limited musicians who are having a lot of fun just playing the riff over and over do a good job with, but more accomplished musicians that get bored with it or feel the need to wail on top just kind of accentuate the monotony of it.

fair enough -- seems to me the rock n roll animal period is about as hard rock as lou got -- but the dudes in lou's band there are pretty accomplished session guys, i'd say.

Some of his later songs are harder than anything on Rock n Roll Animal.

Not BETTER, but HARDER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfEMYE09JcE

yeah, i mean i'm just saying hard rock as in alice cooper i think.

"sweeet jaaane-aaaagghhhh"

have & probably will not listen (for multiple reasons), but mainly to preserve the crystalline absurdity of how I am envisioning this.

ok wtf is that raven track, i might have to check that album out

the raven has some cool stuff on it! and some terrrrrrrible stuff.
weirdly, i just learned about this...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SVQzi61NL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg
guess the world demanded a graphic novel based on lou reed's album based on edgar allen poe.

"Egg Cream" is another hard Lou Reed song, but I can't find the original album track on YT. It's like if Van Morrison recorded stuff like "Want a Danish?" with Crazy Horse.

not a graphic novel, exactly. an illustrated version of POEtry's libretto. from what little i can see on amazon, mattotti's work here is gorgeous, but it's the only point of appeal, imo.

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2011/06/29/29_loureed-silo.o.png/a_250x375.png
lou speaks
What about staging Lulu with the music you did with Metallica? When are we ever going to hear the results of that session?
I don’t think Metallica wants to be a band on Broadway! [Chuckles.] They’re metalheads. They’re not going to do that. But the version of the Lulu music I did with Metallica is awe-inspiring. It’s maybe the best thing done by anyone, ever. It could create another planetary system. I’m not joking, and I’m not being egotistical.

You scrapped half of Lulu for the stage version. What’s the Metallica version like?
There are two stories Lulu’s based on, and I rewrote Lulu from the get-go, taking the original plot — mostly Earth Spirit, not Pandora’s Box — and followed it essentially from the point of view of Lulu and the various people who love her, until she gets involved with Jack the Ripper. The basics. So the Metallica version will have absolutely all of that and more. It’ll probably come out by November.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/06/lou_reed.html

What made you think of Poe as being musical material in the first place?
It was a very underground, underground album. It had a lot of trouble coming out as a double CD, and it ended my relationship with the record company. It wasn’t their idea of a best seller: “I know, we’ll rewrite Edgar Allan Poe and make a fortune!” That’s why it’s nice to see them going under now and taking all their asshole A&R people with them. They’re getting what they deserve. They blew it with the Internet.

lol Lou

It’s maybe the best thing done by anyone, ever.

\(^o^)/

If only Lester Bangs was still around to see that he was wrong about Lou.

It’s maybe the best thing done by anyone, ever. It could create another planetary system. I’m not joking, and I’m not being egotistical.

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgmalxqhhG1qfjlblo1_500.gif

who are those ppl

rmde

I don’t think Metallica wants to be a band on Broadway!

^ yeah, those guys would never sell out.

i can see it: Kill 'Em All: The Musical!

who are those ppl

stop trolling please

SO EXCITED

Fake Toumarkers

rip

U2 going Broadway once looked like a rediculous idea too, and...

lashing out the action returning the reaction weak are ripped and torn away!
hypnotizing power crushing all that cower there is no day but today!

I love how Lou, over the years, has always said his current project is the best thing he's ever done, though this is the first time I can recall him saying it's the best thing ever created in the universe. Go Lou!

http://thepulp.net/PulpBlogs/YellowedPerils/wp-content/uploads/startlingstories_4809-lrg.jpg

http://recoilmag.com/news/grfx/metallica_no_longer_mandatory_1203A.jpg

hint for markers

aw lil james and cliff are so cuet :)

loool jon, thanking u -- jordan otm though, i was just trolling

Tetrahedra Of Space sounds like the name of a Voivod tune.....

Kill 'Em All: Turn Dark

still anticipating!

this is going to rock so majorly.

if this sucks, i'm blaming it all on lou reed

― markers, Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:36 PM

because he's the only element of this that could make this record turn out bad

― markers, Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:37 PM

markers NOT otm. lou is going to lift metallica up up up!

markers metallica is a good band but they don't have experience in creating planetary systems

maybe lars had to make a space mobile in kindergarden!

i have a great picture of lil' neneh cherry and lil' lars making a space mobile while don blasts out some free jazz

it's all coming together. here's a (tiny) pic of lou and don onstage together in the 70s
http://www.arrakis.es/~e.miquel/rnranimal/images/bandpics/loudon79.jpg

how dumb am I for never making the Neneh/Don Cherry connection?

have you made the eagle eye cherry connection yet?

don't forget Buck Cherry

oh i try

also warrant's tribute to the great free jazz trumpeter, "Cherry Pie"

"looking good today, looking good in every way…."

http://johnochwat.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/don_cherry_pink.jpg

plus Prince's ode to Don Cherry's ass, "Under the Cherry Moon"

there are some amazing sentences in neneh cherry's official online bio:

As a kid Neneh would make mud pies with Metallica's Lars Ulrich while staying in Copenhagen, as a teen she prepared dinner with her mom when Youssou N'Dour came over to play at a Swedish barn happening.

never heard of this eagle eye cherry

If you aren't trollin' there, you are one lucky son of a bitch. Might I suggest heading over to stream WXRT on their website. I almost guarantee you will hear it within the next three hours.

I almost guarantee you will hear it within the next three hours.

i like this sentence

not trolling. somehow I don't think I'll be listening to 3 hours of a stream from a Chicago radio station any time soon though.

hoping the lou-tallica collabo concludes with an epic jam on "save tonight," bringing the universe to a full circle once and for all.

wk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nntd2fgMUYw

even now that I'm listening I can't imagine that I'm going to still remember this 10 minutes from now

10 minutes from now it'll be gone

even now that I'm listening I can't imagine that I'm going to still remember this 10 minutes from now

america did.

or wanted to.

love u wikipedia:

"Save Tonight" is considered the signature song of Eagle-Eye Cherry.

aha, 1997. that explains everything

and It still burns, like me for you.

http://www.loureedmetallica.com/

lol

i wouldn't say i'm looking forward to this, but i am pretty curious. it is going to be terrible isn't it.

Oh I'm super anxious to hear this, not at all because I think its going to be great.

it's going to own

as long as reed doesn't sing

or play an instrument

that photo has a real "Weekend At Bernie's" vibe

Except Metallica is the bloated corpse being propped up, amirite?

lou reed is old

Just kidding markers, its all love <3

http://images.hitfix.com/photos/444530/jeff-tweedy_article_story_main.jpg

<3 <3

i listened to the second half of ecstasy the other day, first time in a decade. pretty good record!

'like a possum' a bad choice of running music tho

goddamn it, every time this thread is bumped i hope it's a new song posted online

lol sorry, great new pic, though, right?

the pic delivers for sure

for real, i'd like to hear a song from this too

Shoot markers, I figured with your Metallica fanboy #1 status Lars would be emailing you demos on the weekly.

he's in the next room doing mastering the record himself atm, doesn't want me to hear the songs till they're finished :-(

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/456/loumet.jpg

markers, is lars' dad there, too?
"destroy the tappppes, lars"
http://sevsone.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/torben-ulrich.jpg?w=300&h=223

lol i saw some kind of monster in theaters when i was 17 \(^o^)/

whyyy

how could i not

there was no choice

"i would press...delete"

^lars's dad otm about st. anger

i have a feeling my 11-year-old nephew is going to hate this!

metallica needs to think more about their 11-year-old fans

lou reed just needs to think more

"i would press...delete"

^lars's dad otm about st. anger

YES

i swear i said that quote like 1M times the week after i saw "some kind of monster"

like markers, i also saw it in the theater.

i did not see it in the theater, but it is worth seeing. one of the most intensely uncool rock docs ever, i think.

I still haven't seen it. :(

went with two of my high school friends, one of whom definitely wasn't into metallica, but he humored me anyway so thanks if you ever read this

The scenes with Dave Mustaine were crazy enough, but the fact that it was filmed two days after 9/11 on Dave's 40th birthday - and him stuck with Metallica by happenstance instead of being with his family in Phoenix - is even crazier.

woah

did not know that

one of the most intensely uncool rock docs ever, i think.

certainly one of the greatest though too!

it's uncoolness is a good thing!!!

http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/BoardFiles/164/Emoticons/sunglasses.gif

i need to rewatch it though, i haven't seen it in full since that historical day i saw it in the theater

oh yeah, it's cool -- it's just that i don't think i've ever seen a rock documentary where a band came across so terribly. they all seem deeply, deeply lame.

lars's dad seems pretty rad

"We were thinking about starting the album with that one!"

Record Collector: Rumor has it you aren't happy with the way you come across in the forthcoming METALLICA movie, "Some Kind Of Monster"?

Dave Mustaine: "No I wasn't. They edited out a lot more stuff than was there and they sent it to me for my approval. I said, I don't want you to use it. It was two days after 9/11, on my 40th birthday. I was supposed to be at home getting an AMG CL55 Mercedes from my family as a present, and I'm here with one of the guys that I've hated the most in my entire life — my entire existence on the planet — making a video tape in San Francisco, because I can't fly to Phoenix to see my family. And they sent me the tape and I said, 'No, I don't want you to use it,' and they went ahead and used it anyway. I'm like, 'Why send it to me for my approval if, when I say I don't like it, you go ahead and use it anyway?' "

Record Collector: Wasn't your approval a legal requirement?

Dave Mustaine: "Well, see, they said that I signed the paper so they figured, 'Fuck him, he's signed the paper.' You may remember September 13th, New York was still on fire, we had been up non-stop watching CNN. Everywhere you went, people were freaking out over white powder, there were bomb threats everywhere, you were having all kinds of fuckin' radical military maneuvers and shit... it was a war.

that photo has a real "Weekend At Bernie's" vibe

― buzza

laughed really hard at this

That's gotta be an Anton Corbijn photo there.

This thread has been comedy gold for me tonight. The "Pushead" cover art killed me.

can we poll which looks more like a bunch of dead guys, loureedmetallica.com vs television, on the marque moon sleeve

my friend pointed out that one of the possible connections here might be lars--->neneh cherry--->don cherry---->lou reed (don plays on "the bells" album by lou reed)

also lou cut an unreleased album with eagle eye cherry iirc

given the thread that we are in and these days we live in, i cannot actually tell if you are joking are not!

lol just kidding. but JUST IMAGINE.

eagle eye cherry and metallica album would probably be like markers fav album of all time

The Eagle Eye of the Beholder

How would famous rock stars ever meet if it weren't for the connections of deceased free jazz pocket trumpetists and their plugged-in offspring?

it's true, if not for ornette coleman, chickenfoot might never have existed

if not for anthony braxton, damn yankees would've never existed. true story.

Wilson Phillips Luc-Ponty

I'm trying to figure out James's pose in the photo.

"woah Trujillo, wtf did you eat for lunch bro"

http://www.metallica.com/images/Metallica_LouReed_crm3.jpg

http://www.metallica.com/images/Metallica_LouReed_tri2.jpg

whoa hetfield's explorer looks funky and weird

pictures won't load for me

Maybe you should Reload.

hah

agreed on hetfield's explorer, yuck

NOVEMBER 1ST

DEF CON: LOU REED

YAY!!!!!!

dude, what's a lou reed and metallica got to do to get the markers emoticon?

let's just get so psyched
The result is at once unpredictable and viciously tight. "Pumping Blood" opens with a drone that breaks into a crunching march, goes into speed-metal gear and breaks into free-fall sections – all over seven minutes, cut live in one take. Another track, "Mistress Dread," features Reed singing across a relentless staccato riff played at manic velocity.

lol @ "mistress dread"

god this is gonna be so amazing

haha

a friend of mine sold a piano to Lars Ulrich, Lars kept telling him he wanted him to "knock it out of the park on this one" which just meant Lars wanted to buy the piano at even less than the store paid for it. Which happened, and Lars was still pissed.

dude, what's a lou reed and metallica got to do to get the markers emoticon?

― any major based god will swag you (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, August 19, 2011 2:57 PM

\(^o^)/

gonna preorder this so hard

dude, what's a lou reed and metallica got to do to get the markers emoticon?

― any major based god will swag you (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, August 19, 2011 2:57 PM

\(^o^)/

― markers, Friday, August 19, 2011 2:05 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

:)

:D

Rolling Stone rates this album XD/5 stars

i hope so . . .

pfork rating 10.ohhhhshit

http://www.licklibrary.com/Images/Resources/Lou%20Reed%20and%20Metallica.jpg

hahaaaa

wtf kinda guitar is lou playing there?

a loutar?

lou always has really weird guitars. there could probably be a whole thread devoted to that.

http://www.tkshare.com/pic/20100805/20100805061548143.jpeg

http://i87.servimg.com/u/f87/11/07/14/16/78smil10.jpg

lol that he's wearing a shirt of himself

keepin it classy.
i think the guitar lou is playing might be a "moog guitar"?
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/11/24/bid-on-lou-reeds-moog-guitar/
http://cdn.synthtopia.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/lou-reed-moog-guitar.jpg
it's funny that a dude known for some of the more junky lo-fi recordings of the rock era is such a gear head.

lol that he's wearing a shirt of himself

this was a whole "phase" he went through

if i were lou reed i would wear a shirt of myself

"Who the Fuck is John Cale" shirts were sold out, presumably

i only wear shirts with my face on it

those moog guitars sound kinda awesome

looks like one of these http://www.ctbasses.com/

some kinda alembic knockoff because I guess a real alembic isn't boutique enough for lou haha

lou always has really weird guitars. there could probably be a whole thread devoted to that.

ha i saw lou a few years back and whenever i remember it i just remember the quiet part between songs when everyone was changing up and he picked up a guitar and said this, and there was a pause, is a seven-string guitar

http://www.ctbasses.com/LouReedFull.jpg

lol
i have a bootleg from the early 00s where lou stops in the middle of the song to point out that his second guitarist has some effect that makes his guitar sound like a piano. "you're playing a guitar? how does it sound like a piano." the audience sounds unimpressed.

from mojo
the extent to which the process has succeeded largely depends on one's appetite for Lou Reed declaiming over relentless dirge-riffing, but what's beyond doubt is the albums remarkable fusion of extreme components

there's a 19 minute long track called 'Junior Dad'

xp it seems this collaboration is really bringing out the worst in everyone

the audience sounds unimpressed.

just wanna add this to my anecdote & any other recollections of that evening. like that semi-disdainful reverence-demanding distance between performer and crowd.

someone using the word 'fusion' really bodes well for this collaboration btw, it's usually busted out for good cause

A fusion of this project and Kanye/Jay-Z would really make this a life changing event.

watch the pwn

TWITTER ACCOUNT

http://twitter.com/#!/Loutallica

sadly looks like some intern is doing it, not lou or lars :(

dammit. lou should really be out there tweetin' about this.
still, they've set up the account, there's no going back now. this is happening.

It had to go through Lou. Taxed and tariffed.

"Lulu": great name guys. Is it a concept album about the Scottish popstrel?

based on the berg opera iirc???

Call of Ktlulu

Lulu": great name guys. Is it a concept album about the Scottish popstrel?

LouLou

(guess it's actually based on "various stories originally written by the German playwright Frank Wedekind", which inspired the various lulu plays/operas/movies/etc. is there a song called pandora's box here or what)

Does it have a G.W. Pabst character singing about Louise Brooks being "such a perfect wit"?

definitely. also a cover of john cale's "jack the ripper"

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/loutallica_1.jpg
new pic. weekend at bernie's otm.

metallica guys betraying fanboy status by leaning in for the picture-of-me-&-lou pose

can we be shown metallica + lou reed

Ž

Every time I see a photo of the new guy in Metallica I'm all "Who's THAT clown...oh yeah, him."

you'd almost think they would just not even have him there, like the rolling stones and their bass player.

Somebody should do a shop of The Notorious Metallica Brothers

(sorry for iPhone glitch post)

wait when did Lou start wearing white footwear

We're still between Memorial and Labor Days, after all.

hope there's some quality backing vocals a la "u flush it out, u flush it out"

kind of hilarious that they are rolling out song titles one by one. o god, what will the next song title be!
http://www.loureedmetallica.com/lulu.php

lol

should we poll the song titles they've announced already. i would vote "junior dad"

something genuinely touching about Lou in that new photo. Can't quite work out what the eww/awww factor is tho.

The only thing genuinely touching is that new guy and his balls.

there's a 19 minute long track called 'Junior Dad'

There's a version of this song on youtube btw with Lou, Laurie & John Zorn and some other dudes. And it sounds like a mess with those guys, so who knows how it'll end up?

LITTLE DOG!

i'm so fucking excited for this

oh yeah this sounds perfectly suited to an arrangement by metallica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhaUDl4jbS0

Little Dog AKA Master of Whippets

what's lou playing there - an etch a sketch?

really feel like kirk should've written all the lyrics

or whoever it was that penned "you flush it out, you flush it out"

"Junior Dad" reminds me of those crappy body switching movies like

http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/09e/4bc968b9017a3c57fe03009e/vice-versa-original.jpg

i don't think enough people are freaking about about "Little Dog"

Metallica and Lou Reed sat together in the studio and said, "This is a song we have performed together. The name of this song will be Little Dog"

marinate on that

oh shit, they just revealed the cover art

http://www.adamcarolla.com/ACPBlog/wp-content/gallery/2009-09-25-ralph-garman-courtland-cox/14-littledog.jpg

i wonder if the guys in metallica got a say in naming any of the songs

it's beautiful:

http://i.imgur.com/cGsST.jpg

Junior Dad
Little Dog
Mistress Dread
Pumping Blood

based on these titles, I predict the next song to be revealed will be titled:
Uncle Death

lol

Crying Kids

Stepfather Sorrow

Disgruntled Godmother

lol

"Sad Lady"

Major Dad

lawl

When I was a young man, no bigger than this
Simon & Simon on CBS was not to be missed.

LOU MADE METALLICA CRY!!!

A recent recording session with Lou Reed left Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett and frontman James Hetfield a blubbering mess. The group were working on a song called ‘Junior Dad’ for their upcoming collaborative album called ‘Lulu.’ The lyric, “Say hello to junior dad / The greatest disappointment / Age withered and changed him,” stopped the show.

“(Reed) managed to take out both guitar players in Metallica in one fell swoop with his amazing poetic lyrics,” Hammett tells Britain’s Mojo magazine. Hetfield’s father abandoned him when he was 13. Hammett was struggling with the recent loss of his father.

“I had just lost my father literally three or four weeks previous,” he said. “I had to run out of the control room, and I found myself standing in the kitchen, sobbing away. James came into the kitchen in the same condition. He was sobbing too. It was insane.”

Somehow the world seems a more peaceful place knowing that two of rock ‘n’ roll’s heaviest hitters aren’t afraid to share a good cry from time to time. One figures they hugged it out and got back to work quickly. ‘Lulu’ — in stores Nov. 1 — is an album based on music Reed had originally written for a theatrical production. He changed course after playing with Metallica at the 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert in New York City.

:-(

lol this thing just keeps on giving. and i haven't heard a note!

otm

November the 1st- that's 2 whole months plus of lolz!

Lolu

lolou

kirk hammett always looks like he's going to cry. not impressed.

i bet trujillo was crying too but no-one noticed
http://gallery.photo.net/photo/7386680-lg.jpg

^^dude's jamming out on LITTLE DOG!

But HE'S not afraid to cry...

On top of everything else!

http://www.loureed.com/louzoom/

"See, guys, this is how I can read your twoots or whatever you call them."

"you zoom it out, you zoom it out"

LOU ZOOM!

Metallouco

Lou commissioning an iPhone app to simultaneously aid his failing eyes and publicize himself is very Lou. Though I can imagine a few other boho-establishment types doing it too. Byrnezoom. Lynchzoom.

a friend of mine says it actually works p good

fuckin a it works pretty good. lou would never lend his name to an inferior product.
http://www.237studio.com/images2/115625.jpg

wtf at louzoom!?

i kinda want to go spraypainting LOUZOOM grafitti everywhere in the world

Has Lou got creases ironed into his jeans?

That app looks nice, but I think I'm gonna wait it out for BurZoom by Varg Vikernes. "Dramatically set in Black Metal type, your contacts have never been this beautiful—or this huge and illegible!"

lol

who's zoomin' who? lou's zoomin' lou!

Maybe Lou can zoom his LITTLE DOG to make it a bit easier to spot in the park?

still the best thread on ilx

my louzoom defines my deathzoom

INCOMING!!!!

oh shiiiiit cousin!

http://www.loureedmetallica.com/about.php

yessss

"I have no real feelings in my soul/ Where most have passion I have a hole", state Reed's brilliantly uncompromising, harrowing, lyrics.

lollin

bob rock wrote that imo

"This," concludes Lou, "is the best thing I ever did. And I did it with the best group I could possibly find on the planet. By definition, everybody involved was honest. This has come into the world pure. We pushed as far as we possibly could within the realms of reality."

i love the world right now

this is gonna be so amazing

love when rock stars say things like that

realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality realms of reality

By definition, everybody involved was honest.

haha, wtf does this mean?

it's poetry

it's better that it's meaningless, frankly

"I wouldn't call it the heart of darkness", muses Reed. "I'd call it the heart of illumination."

"And when you stop thinking about it and listen to and experience the 90 minutes of music..."

yikes

metallica in super long album shocker

10 tracks/90 minutes of awesomeness, AOTY

otm

"It could be disturbing," suggests Rob Trujillo. "At the same time it could be beautiful. It's a marriage of attitudes."

Truly, the man is the lukewarm water.

album of the year

#1 Pazz & Jop
pitchfor will give it a 1.2

i'll burn that fuckin website to the ground

You find the best group on the planet to make a 10 track/90 minute album and pitchfork gives it a 1.2?

lol, st. anger was literally 75 minutes long

no doubt it would've been twice that length could a single cd hold that much music

i believe lou zoom technology allows lou reed to make a CD as long as he fucking needs it to be.

Well we already know that Pitchfork thought the greatest album of last decade, St. Anger, was only worth a 0.8 so I'm extrapolating the value added by Lou Reed.

hehehe

10.8 it is!

pitchfor will give it a 1.2

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, August 29, 2011 7:26 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'll burn that fuckin website to the ground

― little dog (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, August 29, 2011 7:27 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

my man

This is my favourite thread on ILX right now.

"I wouldn't call it the heart of darkness", muses Reed. "I'd call it the heart of anticipation."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyC0X1z4J0U

Well we already know that Pitchfork thought the greatest album of last decade, St. Anger, was only worth a 0.8 so I'm extrapolating the value added by Lou Reed.

just pulled this up. 100% sure there are many lols within but I couldn't make it past the second paragraph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxPbu5LtXo4

I haven't heard a single note and I've already pitched a review to The Wire.

yesss

here's my review, to be published soon on pfork, 10.0
"This is the best thing Lou ever did. And he did it with the best group he could possibly find on the planet. By definition, everybody involved was honest. This has come into the world pure. They pushed as far as they possibly could within the realms of reality. It’s maybe the best thing done by anyone, ever. It could create another planetary system."

Pitchfork is going to look pretty foolish after giving the Kanye album a 10.0 and they have to invent a new rating for this album. I propose 10.o_0

:-D

"Lulu" - Lou Reed and Metallica:

8.9 - Best New Planetary System

lol

loulol

"This," concludes Lou, "is the best thing I ever did. And I did it with the best group I could possibly find on the planet. By definition, everybody involved was honest. This has come into the world pure. We pushed as far as we possibly could within the realms of reality."

The last time he started frothing like this, it was about Growing Up In Public. And St Anger would have hit 90 minutes if they hadn't cut the guitar solos out.

at 141 minutes, "Some Kind of Monster" is way too short.

Shoulda been an MTV series.

Throughout two years of filming, over 1,000 hours of video were recorded, documenting the band's recording process.

man i'm seriously praying to god that they are documenting these recording sessions

Yeah, but then they cut out the solo scenes.

(xpost)

they got all the Lulu sessions on video but they had to destroy them because they were too harrowing.

997 hours of hetfield cryin' his eyes out.

Hope Torben's keeping an eye on Lou.

hope mustaine & lars's dad are both in the inevitable documentary too

I wonder if Lou refers to the "Black Album" as the "Colored Album".

Lou has never heard The Black Album.
Lou has never heard any Metallica.

"What ever happened to my little Long Islander friend? I miss you, Lou...I miss Sterling"

"Do you people have a curfew or anything like that? Does it matter what time you go home tonight? Do you have school tomorrow? Because we can do some normal length songs or a dozen twenty minute long tracks with no solos, whichever makes it easier for you.”

cannot WAIT for this. serious mega anticipation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_sJmIQrH54

I hear this great man was judging everyone there on their honesty

http://www.encycmet.com/news/torben_ulrich.jpg

And we all know he is a font of wisdom

LITTLE DOG

duuuude when is there going to be another song title REVEALED

I like the way LITTLE DOG is a combination of two stooges titles

do y'all think it will be lou singing on every track or are we gonna get het vocals too?

He does back-up panting and woofs on LITTLE DOG

the creamy doo-wop harmonies of het and lou are featured heavily, yes.

hope we're lucky enough to get some kirk backing vocals too

maybe lars has a poignant little mo tucker-esque vocal showcase a la after hours

"i wish it could happen to mee-aaggggggh"

Fucking Americans. Why aren't we going to get Morrissey fronting Iron Maiden or something as equally awesome?

Ladies and gentlemen...POWERSMITH

Ned - Master of LOLpets

"Suffer Little Children of the Damned"