Lou Reed/Metallica Collabo Anticipation Thread

Reed's singing was great until the '80s.

OTOH this Phil guy is claiming that the Judgment Night soundtrack holds up, which I respect.

"This Phil guy" is noted ILM poster and metal man unperson.

Ah I see his comments upthread regarding never getting Lou or the Velvets.

literally 10 minutes before tylerw's post I was in a starbucks and saw I guy I thought was Lou Reed.

~cosmic~

yesterday was LULU day, but I didn't know November was going to be LULU month!

highlight:
He just came back with another scone (blueberry?). Sitting back down. He looked at me and shook his head derisively. #LouAtStarbucks

Mustaine indeed wins for once, Megadeth's new album is going to sell nearly four times that of Lulu.

yeah but every person that bought lulu is going to form a band

m@tt the correct term is "mob"

yeah but every person that bought lulu is going to form a band cover it

every person that bought lulu is going to heaven

You know, as horrible as most people think this album is, Louloutallica have managed to create a fucking event album that is getting talked about.

Sort of. (People in 'real life' I have heard talking about this album outside of ILXors = zero, zip, nada.)

awesome comment on facebook about a hammett interview:
This puts all the haters to shame stating cliff would roll in his grave.... as kirk states that he found velvet revolver through cliff...tisk tisk

Sort of. (People in 'real life' I have heard talking about this album outside of ILXors = zero, zip, nada.)

Different experiences I suppose, but I've heard quite a few people talking about this out and about! Latest example was kids at the coffee shop this morning going on and on about it. Plus I've seen tons of my facebook friends that are usually those "ten album a year" folks going on and on about this.

It's been kinda neat hearing about Lou Reed from people I know who don't spend a lot of time thinking about Lou Reed

Tons of discussion about this record around the office, but also lots of VU-aware folks in my office so ymmv

If I wasn't such a VU stan, I'd almost envy people who know him as the "Walk On The Wild Side" guy revered by nerds, who shows up every once in a while on TV singly horribly amid a cast of weirdos.

You know, as horrible as most people think this album is, Louloutallica have managed to create a fucking event album that is getting talked about.

Every single IRL person I have discussed this with - including people who are active music fans - had no clue what I was talking about/had never heard of it.

i can definitely understand the bewilderment among 'tallica fans who know next to nothing about him.
god, i think about lou reed so much.

lou should make an album with the "heart of gold" guy revered by nerds, who shows up every once in a while on TV singly horribly (Though usually solo or with some generic old farts - no tai chi or pants slappers)

http://www.bigozine6.com/TRKK/VAvancouver/VAvancouver202.mp3

lol I'm in class and had google to "lou reed neil young vancouver" to find out what that might be

the internet is magic.
i was sort of excited to hear that, but lou kinda blows it. song does not need bellowing.

i recently heard lou reed's "jealous guy" so I can guess

oooooh you know you make me jealoussssss!

Maybe he can reteam with Clive Davis for The Great American Shoutbook

Lou Reed Shouts The Classics

haha is that the saturday night live band backing him up?

maybe? doesn't hal willner do that band?

lol i was just joking but you may be right!

If Tom Waits and William Shatner had an old baby...

Gave it a mostly positive review at This Recording! http://thisrecording.com/today/2011/11/2/in-which-we-invest-everything-in-lou-reed.html

i liked that! (though i disagree i think junior dad is amazing)

also that might be one of the best lou reed pictures i've ever seen at the top, and he has a lot of good pictures

On This Recording, do you have to do your own Google Image Search or does the editor do that for you?

i recently heard lou reed's "jealous guy" so I can guess

photo is from that stupid Smoke movie iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b30MmUUWKv0

I recommend Marc Anthony's "Lucy In The Sky Of Diamonds" from this shindig if you're hungry for more godawful after.

Hey, why did the guy stop working with Robert Quine? Dude was a great foil.

He always ends up hating his collaborators. He can't share the limelight. Oh wait.

quine and reed had a pretty major falling out after reed mixed him off of Legendary Hearts.
quine has some of the best/funniest bits in the Transformer bio.

Hey, he did a little Al Pacino "hoo-ha!" in there, at the 2:40 mark.

http://www.furious.com/perfect/quine.html

Musically, the first week and a half was really great, out of the four years.

OK, that Marc Antony Lucy not so hot, but didn't hate it. People should check out the Eddie Palmieri version of "You Never Give Me Your Money" to see how it's really done.

Marc Anthony "Lucy"

Wow what a great interview with quine

This keeps getting better with repeated listening...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/nov/03/lou-reed-second-album-metallica?CMP=twt_fd

"They are my metal blood brothers," Reed claimed. "No one wants Lulu Part 2, but on Radio Lou, in my head where I hear these songs, I want more of it.

ILX wants Lulu Part 2, Lou!

Just got it, finally. And . . . shit. I'm kind of liking it. It's really weird, kind of funny, and delusioinal and demented.

Use Your Illulusion II, Vol. 2