Lou Reed/Metallica Collabo Anticipation Thread

Thread from 1983: So who IS that insufferable indie dude in the new Honda scooter TV ads?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK6y9_0gsEg

i like this album a lot, i'm still listening to it quite a bit

Metallica & Lou Reed - Lulu

This week: #149
Last week: #34
Weeks on chart: 2
Sales this week: 3,150
Cume: 16,470

Waggle my ass like a dog prostitute coagulating heart...pumping blood...c'mon James!

I blame napster

Shush, Lars!

lOuTaLLica!
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/01/lou_reed_metallica_lulu_pazz_and_jop.php

the truth hurts

"the songs are made from a kind of vertical integration where the players communicate through each other to a perceived bottom layer"

awesome write-up, Brad, i am proud to stand as one of the 9 Lulu voters in P&J

yeah that was a great piece brad

the album is really deeply enjoyable to me on so many levels i haven't processed yet that i just hope i'll be able to fully articulate it in 2020 when i'm explaining why this is my Xth favorite album of the decade.

yeah the problem is that i still can't process my enjoyment of this record so i made fun of lars

anyway thank you dudes

the SUPREME VIOLATION SUPREME VIOLATION part always gets me

"the songs are made from a kind of vertical integration where the players communicate through each other to a perceived bottom layer"

fun thing is i wrote this last night and now i'm not sure what it means, which is in keeping with the record imo

yes, great piece! i'm glad that there's some actual serious thought being put into it. it's a motherfucker of a record, and i think you nailed why. the improv aspect of lulu is fascinating, and i think could (should?) be a model for other rock bands. like, the whole of some kind of monster is about the band being totally incapable of dealing with each other -- and here they are on lulu totally dealing with each other in this scary, liberating way. it'd be rad if like zz top made a record like this -- not content wise, of course, just going for a purity of sound, a maelstrom of energy. i can't say that lulu's a "masterpiece" but it sure as hell is something.

when james sings "iced honey" i like to pretend he's saying "i'm stuntin'"

yeah on "some kind of monster" they seem kind of lost as to how to operate as people in a band together

bringing in lou, it's going to be lou's thing, lou will be in charge...it was probably kind of liberating, plus the scattershot way it sounds like lou worked on the thing was totally the opposite of what you say in some kind of monster

in the original draft i wrote about st anger a lot and how it is interesting in that it is the product of four people who cannot make a record together

also bob rock's description of st anger as "dudes just playing in a garage together" totally applies to lulu and does not apply to st anger at all

yeah, the documentary makes it look as though making a metallica album is one of the HARDEST THINGS EVER.

along the same lines, i was reading an interview with pete townshend about how long it took to record some of the Who's albums, and I thought: i would love if there was just an hour's worth of townshend/entwistle/moon improvving in the studio with zero prep.

also bob rock's description of st anger as "dudes just playing in a garage together" totally applies to lulu and does not apply to st anger at all

― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Friday, January 20, 2012 2:02 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wah? the movie showed them C&Ping riffs together in protools to construct songs! bob rock is such a chooch

tbf a lot of dudes playing in garages these days have protools

i love that scene. james is like "i can't write enough lyrics :("

really proud to say i saw some kind of monster in theaters

in the theater, rather

dragged my friends w/ me 2

Lars is the singer; Lou is the drummer.

^^you just blew my mind!!

http://ben.cleansingfiredor.com/img/hesthedjtl2.jpg

Dragon is the only song on the entire album that really works. But man, it really works. Perhaps because Lars does not suck nearly as much as he does throughout the rest of the record, or perhaps because the gross lyrics don't get stuck in Lou's throat on the way out, or perhaps because those guitar solos are quite good. Probably all of that. I bet it was one of the last songs recorded, if not the last.

dragon mainly succeeds on the basis of dat riff

a friend accused me of "irl trolling" when i wouldn't stop asserting that i unironically love this album

This album was top ten in the Wire magazine readers poll btw. Subscribers only got to vote for one album each too, so there is some love out there for it.

\(^o^)/

I think this album gets better every time I hear it.

in 10 years all the people that voted for shit like fleet foxes in pazz & jop instead of this will hang their heads in shame

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=LIW8F8QIcY0

m@tt otm

one star reviews from amazin - the highlights

- I tell you, between this and the new Queensryche album being the equivalent of hearing fingernails scraping down a chalkboard, my fond musical memories are being tainted more and more. Guys, please stop.

- The first song reminded me of my dog when I was a kid, that howled when my stereo was too loud.

- Lou Reed? Metallica? Together? What freakin planet are you guys on? To much west coast? WTF???

- Lulu is poo-poo, and I refuse to offer a sophisticated criticism beyond that because both artists should be ashamed of themselves to unleash this garbage.

- don't waste your time reading these views, you'll know weather you like it or not within 30 seconds.

- I wish this would have been one they got together recorded and left in one of their little vaults of stuff and long after they were dead someone could find it and go...hey look at this...then I would be too old to even hear...

- You listen to this and shake your head, how could someone have green-lighted this project? And one disc wasn't enough, this turd is 2 discs long! Simply, unbelievably BAD!

- Its not the worst album ever recorded (That would be reserved for Metallica's 2003 trainwreck "St. Anger") but it comes pretty darn close.

- awful.metallica stop wasting my money.retire already u suck.awful awful awful awful.terrible.terrible.terrible.a total piece of A.worst thing ever since the laST METALLICA ALBUM.

- Yuck!! If this is the kind of crap Metallica is going to put out now..well, in the words of facebook---I'll unlike them.

if this was a poll, i'd vote "To much west coast? WTF???"

http://twitter.com/#!/keshasuxx/status/163071301236436995

#ledgendary

worst thing ever since the laST METALLICA ALBUM.

I'm surprised someone that hated Death Magnetic so much would even bother with this.

that's the awesome thing about Metallica fans: they keep. coming. back.

it's a dream come true for a troll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCq4SqGStzE

Top Comments
Howard Stern
gforadis 2 days ago 38
Thumbs up if you are listening to this crappy song thanks to Howard Stern
quicken02 19 hours ago 18

Markers, did you see this?

Ian Astbury Defends Lulu
http://thequietus.com/articles/07865-loutallica-lulu-ian-astbury-the-cult

doran not down with the cause :(

John Doran
12 hours ago

In reply to danmac:

WIRE were clearly 'trolling' their subscribers. Only a genuine mouth breathing idiot would have ranked that album above, say, Wolves In The Throne Room, Obake, Liturgy or Yob...

kind of weird to think of ian astbury reading pitchfork