Lou Reed/Metallica Collabo Anticipation Thread

10 posts up, bro xpost

they should hire a thousand buskers to wander around singing about being the root

they should hire a root beer company to hand out free bottles w/ the album cover on them

Urban Dictionary: i am root
Root is Linux talk for a user that can do anything, this saying is related to saying
that they are the pwnz0r.
^^
did not know this, but i guess lou did. he is the pwnz0r indeed.

I AM THE ROOOOOOT

god i'm gonna be making that reference on linux message boards in 10 years and no one is gonna get it

u_u

we will have forgotten the roots of the root

I AM THE ROOOOOT is what lou screamed when he launched the Linux version of LOUZOOM

I am the ROOT. I just typed rm -f * at /. Oops. I am the oops

I think we're mishearing it and Lou is a big Marvel Comics fan:

http://heroclixin.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/groot1.jpg

I am WHAT?

The root, the root, the root is on fire ...

Actually, I keep thinking of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY4t6bB6tvI

http://uktv.co.uk/images/homepage/53327.jpg

pretty cool that loutallica are into open source sw imo

god damn it i'm spending the day in LA and was just having a cigarette outside this cafe. an old dude with a white beard went jogging by and my friend announced: "that was Cliff Burnstein!"

i almost chased after him just to get the chance to ask him one million loutallica questions, but i'm a little jetlagged and digesting a huge vegan reuben sandwich. :(

It's kind of hilarious that REM said "fuck it" when their contract was finally up while Metallica ran off to make artsong with Lou Reed

One of my favorite and most underrated threads on ILM: List the parallels between Metallica and REM

Very appropriate for both bands on a day like this.

It's kind of hilarious that REM said "fuck it" when their contract was finally up while Metallica ran off to make artsong with Lou Reed

― da croupier, Wednesday, September 21, 2011 2:48 PM

metallica are real artists, croup!!!

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

RIP

in all the excitement i missed the fact that Lou has a cameo on the new Booker T/The Roots record too!

just listening now...the song is called "The Bronx"

in it, Lou croons:

"The Bronx gets it's flava from the streets
...its flava from the streets.
I've got weight on my back.
Create, shift, invent - I've got flava...from the streets.
Come take a trip with me.
Don't hesitate just leave."

lou otm, the bronx does get its flava from the street.
this is pretty fresh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAblsWQibAk

the whole album is pretty good and (mostly) avoids the santana celebrity cameo syndrome, good number of instrumentals, roots obv do a great job

who else is on it? hetfield?

haha nah, not too many...sharon jones on a couple...biz markie...jim james of my morning jacket...

everything has vocals? i'd prefer an instrumental album.
that said, the lou track IS good! i like it.

no! there are instrumentals, seven are instrumentals...plus 2 "bonus track" instrumentals

i mean, of course, i'd *prefer* if lou freestyled over the whole thing. just like, talkin' about the boroughs, you know?
"queens
it's got that feeling
that special feeling
in the delis."

Hey, don't forget Lou's greatest cameo ever, starting at around 2:09. He was so moved he didn't even show up to the video shoot, he knew his voice was enough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tv3DjZvnY8

the hell?

ha, that video is a treat and a half.

On the way home tonight I popped into The Mysterious Bookshop where I saw Bizarro Ned waiting on line for Lawrence Block's signature. It took all my willpower to keep myself from thanking him for posting that video.

ned what the hell!!

i really hope that this project prompts some kind of magazine feature with the members of metallica speaking in detail about their favorite lou reed records and/or vice versa, that would just be straight up fascinating to me.

i want to read an interview where lou says st. anger is better than anything vu ever released

you will never read that interview, unless it is a fake interview

i am the roooooooooooot

^^^^

roo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oot
roo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oot
I was the third brother of five
Doing whatever I had to do to survive

On the way home tonight I popped into The Mysterious Bookshop where I saw Bizarro Ned waiting on line for Lawrence Block's signature. It took all my willpower to keep myself from thanking him for posting that video.

Too kind. (Don't ask me how I know about that cameo, I just do.)

I remember that cameo, yes.

I guess it's a consequence of them both doing the same charity gig (Nelson Mandela prob)

http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/action/large/2108249.jpg

^^^lulu listening party essentials include 'i am root' t-shirt and some kind of monster energy drink

Is she a snorg girl? She looks crazy.

heh, nope. she's 'think geek'

That Simple Minds song is horrid!

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xxpost -- the entire album is a disaster. Best review I ever read of it said that it was perfectly designed to test sound systems and served no other purpose.

You mean the Simple Minds one, obv?