Lou Reed/Metallica Collabo Anticipation Thread

Kind of upset by these purges of Lulu in the Democratic Party's platform this year.

No shit, maybe obamas saving it for when romney asks ”are you better off than you were 4 years ago?”

SMALL TOWN GIRLLLL

Romney: Are we better off than we were 4 years ago?
Obama: I want to see your suicide, I want to see you give it up, give it up, your life of reason

Ryan: I guess I would just put the onus and the burden on them to explain why they did all this, these purges of God.
Biden: The liquid exchange of our heart. Are we both dead now?

http://i.imgur.com/amDC62Q.jpg

Hoverhanding Lars.

JAMEZ: Damn, guys. Just got off the phone. Lou died this morning.

ROBT: Oh man! That old guy was really cool!

LARZ: His pontification in the studio about what matters when musicians record together is something I'm always going to remember and cherish and treasure, much like those pieces of art up there on the wall [points at wall]. He was a talented man who wrote many songs the world knows, and I can only hope that he feels no pain any longer.

ROBT: yeah.

JAMEZ: yeah.

KIRK: yeah.

[silence]

KIRK: Yeah, so um. Who was this Lou guy again?

i had a weird thought when this got bumped, speculating what the interviews w/ metallica members are going to be like when lou dies

― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:37 PM

http://twitter.com/Cllnsn/status/395289862674591744/photo/1

Also a clarification that Lou Reed did not write the soundtrack for Transformers

finally listening to this for the first time.

i like it just fine so far

He was very open, he would say, "Lars, I love you", and text me a heart. It was so beautiful.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/30/metallica-lars-ulrich-lou-reed-rocknroll-poetry

LOOKIN LOOKIN

someone get this on spotify

i got tired of waiting that, got it on CD for the car recently

waiting FOR that

yup. gonna end up itunesing this i think

dudes, natalie merchant has released a tribute to LULU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYRyD-_iyQw
oh wait

http://assets-s3.rollingstone.com/assets/images/list/20130612-natalie-x306-1371056127.jpg

"A puny body and a tiny dick
A little dog can make you sick"

i really look back fondly on the time in my life when I was looking forward to LULU

The ILX set, that is..

hiccup
the dream is over
get the coffee
turn the lights on

The second disc of this is still so fucking great.

i genuinely think "junior dad" is a masterpiece for both lou and metallica and i'm glad he got to make it before he passed and i really enjoy this album as a whole maybe give or take "little dog"

^^ otm, "Junior Dad" is an all-time great Lou Reed song, fuiud

did we deal w/ the live versions of junior dad he was playing on his last tour?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsQdhHYrL2Q

still crazy to me that his keyboardist was the dude from barenaked ladies. have we dealt with that.

lou left us so many things to deal with

Why did you paint the walls?
Why did you clean the floor?
Why am I so shy? Why am I a little girl?
Why did you plaster over the hole I punched in the door?

I like the Lou Reed touring versions a lot more than the Loutallica ones. :/

psychic savagery.

lots of anti-lulu sentiment in those scott o))) threads

anyway i listened to lulu last night and it's still great. all those eerie moments when metallica scale back in "frustration"

the riff of "dragon"

c'mon james

my dead father has the motor
and he's driving towards an island of lost souls

"Cheat On Me" come up on iPod the other day, still awesome.

psychic savagery

psychic savagery

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lots of anti-lulu sentiment in those scott o))) threads

possibly because it contains line like “I swallow your sharpest cutter like a coloured man’s dick.”

that position i get, feel like everyone else's gripe is that this isn't their preferred version of old guy yelling over primal metal riffs and avant garde passages

which i also get

honestly in my memory it was basically something the internet was prepared to LOL about and became a meme and a lot of ppl never even really heard it or engaged w/it

yeah. i'd go so far as to say that way more people heard just the preview snippet of "The View" than ever heard the full song, much less the full album.

i try to not begrudge ppl not engaging with it bc on many levels it's very repellent, as alternately pretty and exquisitely grotesque i find it. but imo the distaste for it is often overstated. it's an avant garde record, it's probably kirk hammett's finest moment as a guitarist, it's probably the only time lars' drumming has made any sense to me (he's the other lead singer on this record), and the lyrics (when they're not inexcusable, for instance the line dan isolates) are packed with gorgeous phrasing

psychic savagery

i keep saying "avant garde" which is unnecessarily reductive bc this also works as a really expansive sequel to ecstasy, so it's functionally a lou reed record with some great metallica riffs

ha was just going to say that the lyrics on lulu are pretty of a piece w/ parts of ecstasy and the raven... i don't know, i almost think it's too bad lou didn't make a couple more records in that timespan. i increasingly feel as if he was really onto something.

haha yeah people are like "LULU is so nuts" and i'm not even sure it's the most bonkers record he released in the 2000s! (aka Raven)

Yeah Lulu certainly wasn't such a bolt from out of the blue if you had even been sort of following Lou in last 15 yrs...that was one of the best things about Lulu, is it forced people in the mainstream who either didn't know shit about Lou or only knew "Perfect Day" / "Walk on the Wild Side" to contend with him now and all of his wonderful weirdness.

But Tyler's dead on about Lulu being a piece with Ecstasy for sure..."Like a Possum" for inst

Also, Lulu threads bringing out all the Lulu stans

yeah I guess I've always felt "Walk on the Wild Side" was treading close to a line of (perhaps unintended) hostility that I didn't want to deal with so hearing from people who have been doing deep Lou dives that shit like "I swallow your sharpest cutter like a coloured man’s dick," is not only par for the course but part of the appeal, well I think everyone can see where I'm going here