Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu Poll

just noticed the legend for review ratings in the latest game informer ;)

yeah, imho, Disc 2 >>>>> Disc 1, although the last couple tracks on Disc 1 are pretty good too

i voted on this early, and i still think "junior dad" is amazing, but i think i'd vote "pumping blood" or "frustration" now

yeah i might switch to mistress dread now, but junior dad

just noticed the legend for review ratings in the latest game informer ;)

― goole, Tuesday, November 8, 2011 10:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i lobbied for it to be for 11/10 but got overruled!

lol

didn't actually notice it myself the first time, tipped by a comment here:

http://youtu.be/rheezx7gzwA

danggg -- sales figures are IN

MEGADETH – TH1RT3EN
Last week: 41,977 (debut)

REED*LOU & METALLICA – LULU
Last week: 13,320 (debut)

rip

Lou's never been about sales though. Excited to hear all 13,320 Lulu inspired bands in the upcoming months.

but . . . metallica!!

metalliwho?

Can't put a butterfly in a jar, haters

tbh in the current climate i'm kind of amazed that an album this fucked up (a double CD for that matter) sold that much!

wikipedia:

Death Magnetic debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 490,000 copies in just three days of availability.

i guess i just figured that more metallica fans would run out and buy it just because their band was involved, but tbh i haven't even bought a copy so who the hell knows

Wonder how many of those 13,320 are deluxe.

(Also wonder how many hundreds of thousands of copies they pressed.)

if you believe wikipedia, st. anger is double platinum, which is heartening

(double platinum in the us)

Pretty sure the ILX pre-covers album moved more copies than Lulu.

haha kinda doubt that

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/664326_10151313908245953_1994532525_o.jpg

the last thing we can believe in- LULU

i will donate $5 million to a charity of mitt romney's choice if he sings "junior dad" during his concession speech.

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/tasteofcountry.com/files/2012/08/Mitt-Romney1.jpg

EVERYBODY SING!

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

it really is perfect for mitt. how did lou know that it would be so perfect?

sequel

we need one

LULU2

feat U2

Lulu II: Kirk Hammett and the Chamber of Secrets

pumping blood should have gotten votes

off the pump off the thing

if i pump blood in the sunshine
and you wear a leather box of azaleas

SUPREME VIOLATION
OH JACK OH JACK OH JACK I BESEECH YA

i for real pump LULU In the hooptie on my way to work fairly regularly

oh, wouldn't it be lovely?

if i were a small town girl

"TRAPPED on the IS-le of DOC-tor mo-REAU" gets caught in my head at least once a week. genuinely love this album.

c'mon james!

would've voted "pumping blood"

I'm unsure as to WHAT I would have voted for on this... I think I only managed to make it through this album in its entirety once. My god, was it a memorable listen though... for possibly all the wrong reasons!

does lou know about this
Meet Lulu: An App That Lets Girls Rate Guys Anonymously
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/22/meet-lulu-an-app-that-lets-girls-rate-guys-anonymously.html

i can kind of imagine Lou singing: "An App That Lets Girls Rate Guys Anonymously!!!" with bewildered outrage on Lulu.

hahaha

i still think "brandberg gate" is p good

i can kind of imagine Lou singing: "An App That Lets Girls Rate Guys Anonymously!!!" with bewildered outrage on Lulu.

― tylerw, Thursday, August 22, 2013 11:50 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And with her app
That let's girls rate guys...
Anonymously!!
ANONYMOUSLY!!!

One fucks with, you don't actually care

Good album would be "Brandenburg Gate" and "Junior Dad" along with the ILM versions of "Little Dog" and "Pumping Blood."

http://b4t.ru/images/pictures/lou-reed-metallica.jpg

the last gang in town

Needs Vuitton bag and it's set for 2 pages inside the front cover of Vanity Fair.

Kirk Hammett always looks like he's about to cry

I think it was sometime during "Mistress Dread" that I started thinking that this isn't bad actually. By the second half of the album I was totally into it.

― silverfish, Friday, January 29, 2021 12:40 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

my first listen was the same experience

i have sung "iced honey" at karaoke it's great

I could see it being fun at karaoke

The biggest mistake they made in marketing this was not elucidating the narrative framework and characters. Not that it would have made the record a big seller, but it would have been a defence against people saying "this is just Lou's sex fantasy", etc. etc.

As it is, they threw out this long, wordy album and let the world make sense of it as best it could (not very generously).

I played it and liked it.

But if I try to recall any of it, it's only the ilx versions I recall.

In the end, it was an ordinary heart

I'm just a woman who likes men
But this is something else
I feel such stirrings

Supreme violation

psychic savagery

i want lovers like the rain
so many of them, so much the same

I would cut my legs and tits off
When I think of Boris Karloff and Kinski
In the dark of the moon
It made me dream of Nosferatu
Trapped on the isle of Doctor Moreau
Oh wouldn't it be lovely

This has been the quickest ten years ever.

"pumping blood" would be a really good wrestler entrance theme

Finally spiritually ready to listen to Lulu

this is the greatest journey a man can make

^^^^^^^

I love that Lou Reed loved it. It's wild that the tracks on the second half of the record have Spotify plays between like 160k - 260k, those are indie numbers.

It's easy to see why fans on both sides hated or wrote it off. It's not cool, it's loose in the areas where Metallica is usually tight, it feels tight where Lou usually has a looseness, it's lyrical and sexual in ways that are antithetical to how people traditionally listen to metal (maybe there are some goth or doom exceptions to this? Idk). I'm honestly surprised it hasn't had its critical re-evaluation yet, we've even passed the 10th anniversary (!).

Junior Dad flies by, shortest 20 min song ever.

Also the best 20 min song

I remain convinced that this will one day be as revered as, say, Trout Mask Replica: the “difficult” album that slowly worms its way into the canon.

I would cut my legs and tits off when that happens

the audience for an old man warbling about pussy over disconnected riffing is always going to be a niche one

Jokermen podcast finally did their Lulu reclamation episode, after doing every other Lou Reed & John Cale record.

https://podcastaddict.com/jokermen/episode/171949829

There's a Patreon ep with Robert Trujillo...would have been amazing to get Lars, but that's pretty cool.

A little off topic, but Laurie Anderson plays Junior Dad live at most of her concerts. If anyone is on the fence of seeing her live, its worth it just for that.

psychic savagery

just heard she did Junior Dad at Big Ears

for the second time!

She played it again in LA last night, but cut off the recording before "get the coffee / turn the lights on / say hello to Junior Dad," which for me was always the climax. Still deeply moving, though... and I love that she recognizes the power of this in-some-ways absurd song from this in-many-ways absurd project.

!

she also projected some of her own lyrics from "World Without End" in the background:

When my father died we put him in the ground
When my father died it was like a whole library burned down

Yeah that was genuinely moving, having a Lou presence in the set.