Lou Reed/Metallica Collabo Anticipation Thread

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

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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

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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

http://www.sterngeek.com/shows/1/the-howard-stern-show/2452/2012-01-30/
Howard Loves Metallica And Lou Reed's 19 Minute ''Junior Dad.'' 01/30/12. 7:55am

stern otm

kind of weird to think of ian astbury reading pitchfork

Feel bad for him that they only gave his collab with Boris a 3.0 or something.

The good news: Lou's touring Lulu in Europe.
The bad news: there's no Metallica.

http://www.noblepr.co.uk/Press_Releases/lou_reed/european-tour-2012.htm

Lou and band will perform material from Reed’s entire cannon of songs ranging from the Velvet Underground to his recent Metallica collaborative album LULU.
what a radical concept -- he'll play his greatest hits and some songs from his latest album!

you buried the lede, which is that the name of the tour is FROM VU TO LULU!

bummer that he's only playing in Europe, but kinda makes sense since there were a bunch of countries over there where the album charted in the top 10

finally listening to this. so far "The View" and "Dragon" really stand out. "Junior Dad" is pretty but I'm not quite sure I hear yet what everyone else is hearing.

I'm going to playing records at a thing tonight, trying to decide which song from Lulu I should play.

Kind of feeling "Cheat on Me"

"Pumping Blood" from ILXLULU

"Iced Honey" would be my party mix pick

I'd love to play anything from the two pre-Lulu records but I only have the ability to plan vinyl tonight.

I was thinking "Iced Honey" as well, I might play both

put "dragon" on and run

deep house remix of junior dad

when does the remix album drop anyway? heard moby does some sick things to "cheat on me."

I believe my reaction to a Moby remix of any of this record would be similar to yr average Metallica fans reaction to the real thing.

also rumored to be a will.i.am remix of iced honey w/ a mustaine cameo verse.

"Brandenburg Gate" (feat. Sean Paul)