Lou Reed/Metallica Collabo Anticipation Thread

after salem at fader fort, which is all time

haha i didn't see that upthread--now i do

jesus wept

Here is some insight into how Lou writes his lyrics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1m1Bk-mDXM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Miut8CfGno

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTYxODY0NTIwMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTkxNjg4Mw@@._V1._SY314_CR1,0,214,314_.jpg

my office has a new employee starting today and so when I walked in to work this morning there were signs all over that said "WELCOME, LULU!" and i loled

looool

welcome to the realms of reality!

just set them aside & put them back up when it's out, feign surprise if anyone, lulu included, acts as if such office-wide celebration is unwarranted

"why are the signs back on the kitchen cupboards?"
*BRANDENBURG GATE*, wailing from the portable cd/tape deck in the stationery cupboard

its so nice to have Lulu here, I welcomed her.

omg @ thinking xxx

i give you the lyrics to "Junior Dad"
"Junior Dad"
Would you come to me
If I was half drowning
An arm above the last wave
Would you come to me
Would you pull me up
Would the effort really hurt you
Is it unfair to ask you
To help pull me up
The window broke the silence of the matches
The smoke effortlessly floating
I'm all choked up
Pull me up
Would you be my lord and savior
Pull me up by the hair
Now would you kiss me on my lips
Burning fever burning on my forehead
The brain that once was listening
Now shoots out its tiresome message
Won't you pull me up
Scalding my dead father has the motor
And he's driving towards
An island of lost souls
Sunny - a monkey then to monkey
I will teach you meanness fear and blindness
No social redeeming kindness
Oh-or-state of grace
Would you pull me up
Would you drop the mental bullet
Would you pull me by the arm up
Would you still kiss my lips
Hiccup: the dream is over
Get the coffee: turn the lights on
Say hello to junior dad
The greatest disappointment
Age withered him and changed him
Into junior dad
Psychic savagery

those are some pretty odd lyrics for Lou, it seems to me

a fair amount of non-sequiturs, broken phrases, plus all the direct-address/1st person "you" lines... no?

you flush it out, you flush it out

just met a dog named lulu

a little dog no less

I'm not singing all that, get tae fuck

Oh sorry, thought this was the other thread. Still not singing it

Would you drop the mental bullet?

just met a dog named lulu

― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Thursday, September 8, 2011 5:40 PM

XD get it to post here

last line of the song appears to be missing

"i hate you dad"

"doo doo wahhhhh"

this song includes the word "hiccup" in the lyrics.
that is harrowing.

"a monkey then to monkey" is the line that made Lars cry.

SPIN "gets" it

SPIN's 26 Fall Albums That Matter Most
LOU REED & METALLICA

Lulu (Warner Bros.)
Release date: November 1

The Skinny: There are gruff old-dude rockers who have seen/heard/endured it all, and then there are gruff old-dude rockers who have seen/heard/endured it all and also happen to be Lou Reed or members of Metallica. The pairing makes so little sense on the surface that it suggests a weird sort of inverted logic, and however it will shake out, say this about Lulu: There are few records due out this season that could literally race off in a thousand stylistic directions. The genesis of the project goes back to a theatrical production Reed conceived to put on in Berlin, based on the so-called "Lulu Plays" of an old German Expressionist writer who died in 1918. Then came a joint performance with Metallica for a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert in 2009 and a desire to do something interesting together in the studio. Flash forward to a little later, and here we are — with a grouping dubbed Loutallica on their very own website.

Fast Fact: Lou Reed, no stranger to bold proclamations, described the Metallica collabo music in New York magazine as "awe-inspiring. It's maybe the best thing done by anyone, ever. It could create another planetary system. I'm not joking, and I'm not being egotistical."

fyi, LULU is listed in all 26 spots for that feature. no other albums matter.

spin otm

There are 27 Fall albums that count. And they're all by The Fall.

Rolling Stone - Fall Music Preview: The Season's Hottest Albums
Lou Reed & Metallica - 'Lulu' (11/1)
"Everything is cut live – us staring at each other, playing," Lou Reed says of his new collaboration with the world's biggest metal band: 10 songs about extreme desire and violence, originally written by Reed for a theatrical production in Berlin and recorded with magnum-concert force at Metallica's studio north of San Francisco. "It's like going back to the garage when you're 15 years old," adds drummer Lars Ulrich, sitting next to Reed one day during the sessions. "A very expensive garage," Reed cracks dryly.

Reed and Metallica first played together at the 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame anniversary concerts in New York. "We knew we were made for each other," Reed contends. Indeed, the wildest thing about Lulu may be how natural he and the band sound together: the way James Hetfield's Viking bellow dogs Reed's parched vocal desperation in "Cheat on Me"; Metallica's perfect whiplash against the masochistic pleading in "Mistress Dread." "It was all about the lyrics," Hetfield says of the riffs and arrangements Metallica contributed to Reed's songs. "What is he trying to get across here? What is the feel? Whatever the feel is, let's amplify it."

"What is he trying to get across here? What is the feel? Whatever the feel is, let's amplify it.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QGphu-HTu2w/ThMOJNV18wI/AAAAAAAAFaI/4B-7Nwz6l3g/s1600/lou+reed.jpg

god what a great pic

is that the first confirmation that Hetfield has vocals on this too?

i think so! Viking bellow!

Power ballad duet is the next step.

don't stop belouving

yeah i seriously never even thought about the potential for Hetfield/Reed duets, which just puts this in a whole new planetary system for me

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

Hetfield doing "Caroline Says," Reed doing "Battery," the tour will have everything!

I've been workin on the interplay b/w lou and hetfield vocals on my lulu track so I'm glad I'm headed in the right direction

AWESOME

Nice!

basically all I'm doing is singing master of puppets in the shower on most days w/ half the lines in an old lou voice

comment on facebook:
I am tired of the cock teasing. Let us hear some music already!
OTM

basically all I'm doing is singing master of puppets in the shower on most days w/ half the lines in an old lou voice

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, September 15, 2011 8:32 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

omg record plz

30 second teasers or a single edit of a song would be lame at this point. i will be happy to hear the whole thing when it arrives.

the Het/Lou duetting puts me in mind of that awful Costello/Lou version of Perfect Day that shasta posted on some other thread. Lou doing some monotone mumbling while Het shoutgrowls

(Ha, I was half tempted to make "Junior Dad" pre-cover a fairly straight cover of "Sister Ray" with "junior dad" subbed in every time the title comes in.)