Lou Reed/Metallica Collabo Anticipation Thread

Source material (really):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZzT8e8PeqY

I've just heard this for the first time today, and it made for a really fucking odd experience. When Hetfield's vocals came in I thought I was listening to some theatrical heavy metal showtune or something, y'know... like one of those songs from a musical where there's a narrator and it's punctuated by bits of singing... and that's before I squirted my coffee through my nose when he started barking that he was the table.

More Fricke...

When Metallica Met Lou Reed: Inside the unlikely sessions behind their art-metal fusion, 'Lulu'

I just noticed another lou collabo is going on tonight:

LIVE from the NYPL: ROBERT WILSON with RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, LOU REED, LUCINDA CHILDS
Friday, September 30, 2011, 7 p.m.

Program Locations:
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Bartos Forum (Map and directions)
Fully accessible to wheelchairs
$25 General Admission, $15 FRIENDS, Seniors and Students with valid ID - Become a FRIEND for a $10 discount on every ticket for LIVE

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There are almost as many hilarious lines by Fricke in that RS story as there are in "Dragon".

I couldn't read that Fricke story. Scared I'd laugh so hard, it'd feel like someone was trying to claw out my collarbone with their fingernails.

"We have m-e-t-a-l in our name. But we can go fucking anywhere and do anything."
"We have m-e-t-a-l in our name. But we can go fucking anywhere and do anything."
"We have m-e-t-a-l in our name. But we can go fucking anywhere and do anything."
"We have m-e-t-a-l in our name. But we can go fucking anywhere and do anything."

i can't even imagine what this means but i agree

"This makes... And Justice for All sound like the first Ramones album."

"This makes... And Justice for All sound like the first Ramones album."

"This makes... And Justice for All sound like the first Ramones album."

"This makes... And Justice for All sound like the first Ramones album."

"This makes... And Justice for All sound like the first Ramones album."

"This makes... And Justice for All sound like the first Ramones album."

By that measure all the songs on Lulu should be eighteen hours long.

"a new kind of doom in metal"

the doom of being reduced to inanimate objects

Metallica's instrumental track for "The View," cut that day in the same room where they made 2003's St. Anger, is an irregular stomp with a thrash-speed finish.

legendary room imo

haha i thought of you when i saw that

marker's abbey road

:-)

Reed and Metallica first played together in 2009, when the band backed him at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's anniversary shows at Madison Square Garden. Reed immediately suggested they record together. The initial plan was new versions of some of his older songs.

wow, we could've had a whole album of "Sweet Jane"

can't wait for this to hit songmeanings.net

omg

ICED HONEY
You can't put a butterfly in a jar
If the effort's too high no matter who you are
You can't catch the moon, or the sun or the stars
It doesn't matter who you are
Iced honey
Now me I've tried a million tricks
To make life cold and make it stick
Not running heat that flames then out
But the proud piece of ice that always floats
Iced honey
If I can't trap a butterfly or a bee
If I can't keep my heart where I want it to be
If no matter how much soul and heart
I put to the wood
If a flaming heart is not that good
Iced honey
If you can't put a butterfly in a jar
If violence mars your final hour
If you make others feel like jam
Poured on a piece of charbroiled lamb
If it's all mixed up and you cannot shout
And your oxygen starts to run out
If your final gasp has the recipe wrong
And instead of hello you say so long
If your energy starts to leak out
And people wonder what you're all about
A heartbreaker with an unattached heart
The story of love gives them all a start
And me, I've always been this way
Not by choice, just this way
I can't put my honey pot in a jar
Or a heart or a fist of some young boy
If you can't put a butterfly in a jar
No wonder no need to wonder where you are
It might seem like Hell, the river Styx
Your affection never sticks
No matter what you say, no matter what you do
A butterfly heart flies right past you
There's nothing to say, nothing to do
See if the ice will melt for you
Iced honey

I can imagine Lou singing these words backed up by Metallica barbershop quartet style

tempting to speculate which lines are hetfield's

x2 that this must be the a cappella number

I can imagine Lou singing these words backed blacked up by Metallica barbershop quartet style

And Metallica as well. Going do-de-do-de-do.

I bet that in some other world Dante is fucking fuming that he never thought of that Styx/sticks rhyme.

Fucking Lou Reed

*kicks table*

"Hey Dante - it Styx in your craw don't it?"

can't put my honey pot in a jar

makes ya think

Dude from Baroness at Scion conference called this album the worst, most unmusical thing he'd ever heard.

Man I love Baroness, but that dude is clearly not the table.

You're either on the table or off the table.

Or you're the table!

I find it impossible to believe anyone seriously likes "The View." I am not a person who accuses others of repping stuff for purely trollish reasons, but "The View" has broken my will in that regard. I listened to it twice and didn't hear anything - not a single sound - that I'd ever want to hear again.

Strawman, going to the table.

the shortest strawman

"The View" would be aiite if the mix were better

"If you make others feel like jam
Poured on a piece of charbroiled lamb"

LOL at Fricke's "despite the age difference" line, as if the span between Reed and no-spring-chicken Metallica were that significant. Can only imagine Lou thinking of the these near-50 dudes as kids or something.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lshr45SXja1r3wrpwo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1317734409&Signature=3M6fHkCw4vLut5hrzQMTntkVZ9s%3D

Lars is Baterista do Metallica!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9CHvWnj1D4

can't hear much mayb...

shut up announcer dude! let loutallica speak!
also what the hell is the footage of lou in a chicken outfit.

Gah, I look at the freeze frame and I'm all 'who's the bald bastard they've got to interview Lo...oh Christ, fucking Lars.'

LARS ULRICH barista de Metallica

If you make others feel like jam
Poured on a piece of charbroiled lamb
hoping there's a tie-in cookbook.

jaxon r u hi

oops wrong thread

The Joy of Lulu

Roast Legs and Tits with mint sauce

Iced Honey

Lulu & Loulia

Chapter Four - Creative Place Settings: Be The Table