Lou Reed/Metallica Collabo Anticipation Thread

That Nosferatu YouTube is tremendous.

― kshighway, Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:02 PM

it's raining out but i'm tempted to climb up on my roof RIGHT NOW and shoutsing SMALLLLLLLLLLL TOWNNNN GIRRRRRRRRRRLLLLLLL

hope that no matter how much shit/hate these guys get for this, they always know in their hearts how awesome this in fact really is

YES

4th time through and i am really ~getting it~

---> Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu Poll <---

at like 4:30 on Mistress Dread, do you hear someone in the background yell "WOAH!" all pumped-up style?

Lou on 'pumping blood' was just giving me some srs (Benjamin) Smoke vibes.

fr a sec

Quietus guy doesn't get it

http://thequietus.com/articles/07219-lou-reed-metallica-lulu-review

Hahah I figured that'd be Julian's review. (He's a friend and the other day he was venting over its existence. I tried to cheer him up by directing him to the pre-covers project.)

shame on all of you for downloading this leak. you would probably download the magna carta.
i'm staying pure so i can listen to it on Nov. 1 through my Bowers & Wilkins speakers
http://www.cybertheater.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/clip-image0021.jpg

He's being a bit hasty there cos there are some pretty good moments on it imo, but do agree that there is some terrible stuff too (Iced Honey is awful). Still rather bewildered by sprawl of the thing, gonna take a while to sink in. Does Lou sound like Grampa Simpson to anyone else out there?

Basically the less it rocks the better it gets.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltcy41mdhA1r1oa80o1_500.jpg

lol

"iced honey" is amazing

ooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooo iCED HONAYYYYYYEAHHH

I made it about 3 minutes into track 3. I'm done.

YOU HAVE TO KEEP GOING

DON'T GIVE UP!!!

"junior dad" is at the end dude

i mean that.

if you feel like giving up on this record skip to "junior dad"

This thread is informative, as we now know which board member would have walked out of the first performance of ” Rite of Spring”

XD

Harsh but otm

my friends and i just did this: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/10/lou_reed_metallica_lulu_lyrics.php

"Don't Cheat On Me" sounds like if "Saturday Night Special" and John Stewart's "Gold" were mashed-up and someone added an outtake of Bob Seger pinching a loaf and singing the lyrics to "Atomic Dog".

Could used a gradual five-minute fade-out as well.

i officially don't want to listen to any other music

what is other music, even?

It's a store and oh never mind

what is democracy?

for iced honey, any junior dad would give up his only begotten little dog.

I love how they go for fake out endings on more than one track.

'C'MON JAMES!' definitely the highlight so far (currently on 'little dog')

I think Little Dog is the worst track.

Are we sure the "spermless like a girl" part of "Frustration" isn't from one of the fakes?

This thread is informative, as we now know which board member would have walked out of the first performance of ” Rite of Spring”

This thread is informative, as we now know which board member thinks 2011 Lou Reed = Stravinsky.

Your are pretty salty about this album huh?

i want to hear Jesu cover Brandenburg Gate.

unperson: what's with your frustration, little dog? don't like the view over from brandenburg gate?

kind of interesting playlist from Loooou in rolling stone. I touch myself!

Reed describes these 10 songs as the cream of his "mental jukebox," from songs he loved growing up to ones he discovered later. All reflect the flab-free aesthetic he perfected first with the Velvet Underground, then as a solo artist. "One of the beautiful things about rock is the no-kidding-around," he says. "I wanted to get a sense of closeness, like William Burroughs. That's asking for trouble: Who could beat Uncle Bill? But there was a way you could: in a rock song."

1."Smoke From Your Cigarette" | Lillian Lech & Mellows, 1955
Lillian Leach has the most beautiful smoky voice, like a femme fatale. And the tempo is so slow. Even though it is doowop, the record transcends it. They had a male lead singer, but he was smart enough not to sing this.

2."Angel Baby" | Rosie and the Originals, 1960
I love the stumbled beat and the out-of-tune guitar. It's teenage lust at its peak. Warhol played this constantly at the Factory, with Edith Piaf and Maria Callas.

3."The End of the World" | Skeeter Davis, 1962
If there is a better bar song, I'd like to know what it is.

4."I Touch Myself" | Divinyls
This captures a whole different world of being in love than these other songs.

5."Save The Last Dance For Me" | The Drifters, 1960
[Co-writer] Doc Pomus was getting married. He had polio, he's in his wheelchair, and his friends were dancing with his wife-to-be. He started writing on a place card: "You can dance, you can carry on." Doc's daughter gave me the place card. You will never hear this song the same way after knowing that.

6."The Wanderer" | Dion, 1961
I always loved that guy-group thing. "The Wanderer" – "I tear open my shirt and show 'em Rosie on my chest" – is hard to beat. Isn't that a weird title from some white guy in the Bronx? That would be a dream. He's not going to wander past the A train.

7."Hello Mary Lou" | Ricky Nelson, 1961
It's the James Burton guitar solo. [Guitarist] Robert Quine once made me a tape of all of the Burton solos from Ricky Nelson's records. Burton had this great way of sliding into each one. When he played with Elvis Presley, it got buried in the big band, the gospel choir and the 14 banana-and-bacon sandwiches.

8."Ooby Dooby" | Roy Orbison and Teen Kings, 1956
He's known for the great ballads, but this is rockabilly at its best. Roy Orbison is the real Ricky Nelson here. The other side, "Go Go Go," has a great guitar break, like the white version of a Chuck Berry solo. A dead aim – two fast rockabilly songs on the same record.

9."Foot of Pride" | Bob Dylan, 1983
That's the song I picked to do at Bobfest [in New York in 1992]. I'd been listening to it almost every day for two months. It's so fucking funny: "Did he make it to the top? Well, he probably did and dropped." There are so many verses, it was impossible to learn. G.E. Smith, who was playing with me, turned the pages. There is a lot of anger here. It's not the Three Stooges.

10."Mother" | John Lennon, 1970
One of the greatest songs ever. It has straight-out-of-the heart feeling about a filial relationship, done in the simplest way, with the simplest language possible. It breaks your heart – a very brave recording. When I was touring Europe recently, we did "Mother." It was fun going for the primal note.

i officially don't want to listen to any other music

wait, waht?

joek, yes?

You are pretty salty about this album huh?

"Salty" implies that I'm angry about the fact that it's fucking awful. I'm not. I'm very disappointed that Metallica participated in this project, because I like all but two of their (primary) albums (Load and ReLoad - I don't care about S&M, even though it should have been an early warning as to their vulnerability to awful ideas). And/but even the extremely low expectations I had for Lou Reed's participation - based on my belief that roughly 95 percent of his output is garbage and his critical reputation is one of those undying mysteries which I will never, ever be able to understand - fell short of the mark. His vocals on this thing are absolutely awful, even by the standards of his own previous output. He sounds like he recorded the vocals for each track in a single take after being awakened from a coma. He doesn't even attempt to give the lyrics any kind of meter or cadence that matches the music behind him. He just shouts arrhythmically, letting his voice crack not for dramatic purposes but just because he's lost control of his instrument in old age. It's boring, depressing and basically the opposite of pleasurable in every way. But I'm not mad. If anything, I'm happy, because I work for Roadrunner Records, and the new Megadeth album comes out the same day as Lulu, and the latter's total irredeemable shittiness absolutely guarantees that for once in his career, Dave Mustaine will outsell Metallica.

Ok. my rites of spring post was a joke btw

opening acoustic part of brandenburg gate really reminds me of something off of New York

If anything, I'm happy, because I work for Roadrunner Records, and the new Megadeth album comes out the same day as Lulu, and the latter's total irredeemable shittiness absolutely guarantees that for once in his career, Dave Mustaine will outsell Metallica.

I don't think so. Megadeth will sell, what, 40-50,000 copes of 13 the week of the 1st, and there are still many, many Metallica fans who will still buy anything they put out, regardless of how bad it is. Even if Lulu sells a quarter of that Death Magnetic sold in its first week, it'll still probably top the US album chart. It'll be interesting to see how many Metallica fans stay away from this.

Well, I know what the iTunes pre-orders look like, and it's Megadeth > Metallica by something like 4-1. I think Metallica's gonna take a hit on this one. The taint of Reed will sink them. Especially now that people can actually hear before buying.

I love the idea that there are millions of Metallica fans who don't even know this album is coming yet. Their reactions are going to be so delightful.

there are some really good riffs on this album, i love the heavy part of dragon