Lou Reed/Metallica Collabo Anticipation Thread

So basically the Pitchfork score is saying that it's better than St. Anger but not as good as Ian Astbury rambling on about witches on top of Boris.

happy LULU day everyone! got my copy!

pumping blood rules

mistress dread is as hard as metallica has rocked in like 20 years

"pumping blood" does rule. shifts through like three awesome riffs and then there's all that weird stuff in between.

also yeah "mistress dread" is kind of an awesome example of how "thrash" can also equal "drone"

I have to confess I've only heard this on my Bose earbuds.

Really want to hear it on a non-RadioShack stereo.

November 1, 2011: the day music ended.

the day music became itself

Dropped by a mall store today and they had a whole pile of these front-racked. Have a sneaking suspicion however, from the chitchat of the employees,that they've sold more copies of the 40th anniversary reissue of Jethro Tull's Aqualung.

damn, what's on the reish, did not even know about that. what a day for music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr7iWaJraAA

smile sessions seemed to be the big seller at the store i went to this AM

m@tt i'm scared you are spending the day listening to lulu and smile. it seems like a kinda grody combo. or maybe surprisingly delicious?

Yeah pretty sure Smile was the big one at this place too. Or maybe the U2 reissue. Jethro Tull was a bit down the list. Followed by Lulu.

Here's the Tull double disc set (but you can grab the ultradeluxe with vinyl thrown in, if this isn't enough Tull for ya: http://www.amazon.com/Aqualung-40th-Anniversary-Jethro-Tull/dp/B005FVFWOI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1320186803&sr=8-3

looks tight.
the legendary metallica/tull beef continues.

Attention mash-up masters, please place Lou Reed's "Lulu" ramblings on top of "Aqualung," thanks!

flulute solo!

Pumping Lung

I would love MeTullica.

would love the idea of MeTullica winning a grammy.

if you can't beat em, join em. literally.

junior dad is pretty good, cheat on me is the worst

listened to songs for drella today for the first time

like, this whole lulu thing, is I don't know, you know

some people were discussing this on a panel show last night. one guy said "lou reed swings. metallica dont."

just listened at a friend's house on a good stereo

i really like most of CD 1...dragon is definitely the worst song

but yeah parts of this are really fucking striking and bizarre music

the end of junior dad is no shit some of the best music released this year IMO...

Unfortunately I wasn't near a real record store today, so I swung by a chain store to pick up this and Megadeth. Was also hoping to get Smile, but fucking B3st Buy isn't even stocking it in-store.

I AM THE ROOT.

The p4k reviewer doesnt seem acquainted with what Lou Reed is supposed to sound like when at his best post Transformer (Coney Island, Blue Mask, New York, Magic and Loss, Ecstacy) his only reference is Street Hassle (which is an amazing song but imo not a good album and appeared on PF500 as well) so i'm not sure he really likes lou reed solo and it's not surprising that he wouldn't like lulu. It sounds exactly like Lou Reed playing with Metallica and the 1.0 is just ridiculous.

Popmatters gave it a 1 too...

Drowned in Sound made the review a homage to Lester Bangs review of Metal Machine Music, which probably means they don't completely hate the record..?

Seems like a lot of reviewers are missing the point. This is an unqualified great record, definitely emblematic of Music in the Year 2011.

oh, Rihanna is featured on a song?

Of note!:

Lou Reed and Metallica have just released this year’s frontrunner for strangest musical collaboration: Lulu, a 10-song album inspired by the work of German Expressionist playwright Frank Wedekind. We get reactions from Maura Johnston of the Village Voice and Phil Freeman, music writer and editor of RoadRunnerRecords.com. Plus, Maura and Phil help us explore unusual musical partnerships – and they offer their picks of the good and not so good.

(Sneak in a mention of the ILX precovers and happiness will be eternal.)

This will be at 2 pm Eastern Time, FWIW.

i think niels is right about most people not really being acquainted with lou's solo career. the 70s, sure, maybe touchstones like new york or drella later, but otherwise, lou's output for the past 25 years or so isn't much listened to. feel like in order to deal with lulu, you should be at least aware of his (admittedly pretty flawed) later period stuff. lulu didn't come out of nowhere -- he was doing this kind of really unpleasant, twisted/sexual lyrical thing all the way back to "like a possum" and "rock minuet". not that he didn't deal with that type of thing before, but it seems to me those songs are the beginning of what he's doing now...

I think also he's upped the performance art quotient significantly over time, and Lulu should be understood as fitting into that vein of work.

Looking forward to Hetfield's tai chi demonstrations when they play live...

Rob Trujillo squat-stomping around with an electric viola

Lars removes his cymbals, plays standing up

kirk is already sterling-like in his quiet guitar majesty, obvs. Hetfield's Nico/Gerald Malanga.

Nico would be a fine voice for Lulu.

Guessing that when Reed wrote the lyrics for Robert Wilson, he meant for a gal to sing them.

I used to live a couple blocks from Malanga. He was heavy and walking with a cane. No more whip dancing for him. Time's a bitch.

is that Letterman performance where Lou's only percussionist was a dude wearing leather pants and slapping his thighs on YouTube?

really like the allmusic review, seems like the first one that really tries to honestly engage w/lulu (at the same time not ignoring it's flaws)

this is probably the closest to my feelings on the record (though i kinda find hetfield loveable)

http://allmusic.com/album/lulu-r2311356/review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6EBpyyEI5I&feature=related

ecstasy is a pretty cool album tbh

xp good review. Interesting suggestions for future collabs too: Sunn0)))! Jesus Lizard! Shellac!

That Phil/Maura talk is happening now BTW.

It was strange listening to actual thing last night after all the speculating and pre-tributing. Allmusic review ia def closest to my feelings about right now, though I think I like more? I don't know, man it is some weird thing.

I'd like to hear The Hold Steady cover "Brandenburg Gate."

relevant twitter hastag #LouAtStarbucks