Lou Reed/Metallica Collabo Anticipation Thread

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 :)