Lou Reed/Metallica Collabo Anticipation Thread

That has a definite music-teacher-jamming-with-the-pupils-at-the-school-concert feel about it. Lou's trolling is now extending to publicly humiliating stadium rock acts, can't wait for the follow-up album

oooooooh-oooooohh white liy-eeeeeet

hetfield's fauhawk makes him look like one of the hipper celebrity babies

whitelightwhitelightwhiteliiiight

If there were ever a record to perform with both singers' backs to the audience, it's this one.

"Iced Honey" was good, despite Lou's autocue issues. WL/WH... mere words etc.

Who gives a fuck about autocue, it was great.

problem was he stumbled over some of his lines, I thought. But yeah, it was good.

It's the stumbling that makes it, and also the concomitant deadly serious intent, like Morton Feldman meeting Roy "Get It Together" North.

Well, I enjoyed it, yes.

I missed the first track, will catch up.

Obvious similarities to the latterday Fall I thought. Looking forward to Lou beating up the bass player on stage, firing the rest of the band mid-tour and then replacing the lot of them with his wife, a drum machine and my granny on bongos.

The brass band debagging of “Sweet Dreams Are Made Of Thin” was all the song deserved, and lucky to get away with that. Annie Lennox’s Q&A in this week’s ES Magazine, dear God: “Marylebone High Street is good for the soul,” “Daunt Books is just the dope.”

but then what would you expect from a middle aged rock star? She's been flogging Xmas albums and the like recently IIRC, ES Magazine seems like a perfect fit.

She's been middle aged all her life.

I like "Sweet Dreams Are Made Of Thin” as a title, btw. Get Victoria Beckham on this one, and get Lily Allen to write it.

Not a typo, btw - that's how she sings it on the record.

Well, who am I to disagree?

(obvious retort no 23521)

dudes in metallica do look like they're enjoying themselves in those clips.

They look like a beer commercial of some garage band whacking off to White Light/White Heat without knowing the words when who walks through the door, but Mr. Lou Reed himself. Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis Missouri.

And thats why its so awesome.

just got a recording of lou + laurie anderson performing some of these lulu tracks in 2010. should be interesting! will probably post on the blog soon.

Fun to imagine this originally a Reed/Anderson collab, and then they get into some argument about the heating bill, and Lou storms out and calls up James.

or lou singing "SPERMLESS LIKE A GIRL" and laurie just raising one eyebrow and lou looking sheepish

or lou trying to get laurie to scream "i am the rooooot"

four tet likes this album.

FourTet Four Tet
Not joking... it's really good. Not been into a rock record this much in ages.

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FourTet Four Tet
Am well into this Lou Reed Metallica album.

just got a recording of lou + laurie anderson performing some of these lulu tracks in 2010. should be interesting! will probably post on the blog soon.

― tylerw, Wednesday, November 9, 2011 12:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

whaaaat

I'm going to be feverishly hitting refresh on tyler's blog for the foreseeable future.

Some of that stuff is on youtube. I thought more people knew about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhaUDl4jbS0

yeah i think it was even posted upthread. not sure if this is the same gig i've got now...

here ya go! http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/12605700875/the-greatest-disappointment-heres-something-for
it's pretty good, some cool versions. "Junior Dad" is the only Lulu tune. might like the Lulu version better though! just a duo show as far as i can tell. zorn-free.

They just don't care who they alienate do they!
http://thequietus.com/articles/07370-metallica-to-play-black-album-at-download-2012

What next???

Metallica - the Raoul Moat of stadium metal - have followed up releasing their 11th best album by announcing that they're going to play their sixth best album in its entirety.

(Had to google Raoul Moat, and still don't get the reference)

idgi it either! also:
i am not too up on metallica fandom, but ... people really hate the Black Album? It's still seen as the ultimate sellout?
Just seems like at this point, for a good amount of their fans, that would've been the gateway. maybe i'm wrong.

Doran to thread, plz to explain wor Moaty reference.

Wasn't Moat the steroidal killer Geordie?

went crazy, killed himself embarrassingly?

that's the fella, also a folk hero for the stupid.

Impulsive, self-destructive, should have stayed in the sewers and never show his face again.

Pal of Gazza's too, iIrc

i am not too up on metallica fandom, but ... people really hate the Black Album? It's still seen as the ultimate sellout?
Just seems like at this point, for a good amount of their fans, that would've been the gateway. maybe i'm wrong.

It was the gateway for millions of fans, but for those of us who were older, a) it was a surprisingly weak collection of songs (good singles, loads of filler) and b) off-puting to see mainstream audiences embrace something that just wasn't anywhere near as good as the first four albums. It's trite looking back, it's an immaculately produced record, but it was a bitter pill back then.

Pudgy angry-man face, gingery mohawk, does a terrible version of White Light/White Heat

White Light/ White Moat

i listened to all of "junior dad" on the way home last night (lulu version) and kind of had a moment, got actual chills

love the strings at the end so, so much

yeah it is great. lou's vocal is fab -- wish he'd chill out and sing like that more often.

black album = 5th best surely?

yeah it is great. lou's vocal is fab -- wish he'd chill out and sing like that more often.

― tylerw, Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:50 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

for a lot of the album it sounds like he's really straining to be heard over a band as muscular as metallica...which sometimes works, esp on the really hard/fast songs like the "supreme violation/oh jack i beeseech ya" parts etc...but yeah on jr dad he's voice doesn't sound shot and i think it's because he could relax and not strain

It already made the bottom 100 at rate your music, sneaking in at #98:

http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/bottom/album/all-time

Metallica & Lou Reed : Lulu est un flop commercial
‎Jeux Actu MUSIQUE - 1 day ago

Megaflop af Metallica
‎Ekstra Bladet - 20 hours ago

Lulu di Metallica e Lou Reed: un flop annunciato?
‎Newnotizie - 2 days ago

Il flop 'n roll dell'anno
‎Lettera43 - Nov 1, 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cHesdP5BxY

earlier today, I was playing legos with my 3 year old son and kind of repeatedly singing the lines "I am the root" and "I am the table". My son thinks I'm crazy.

Lou Reed and Metallica both seem the sort to pride themselves on a flop like this for all the wrong reasons. That is, they'd probably think it's because they were too avant garde, pushing the boundaries too hard, too far. Challenging fans too much. Because they won't play according to your rules, maaaaaan.