If there were ever a record to perform with both singers' backs to the audience, it's this one.
― Eagles ft. Michael Vick (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
"Iced Honey" was good, despite Lou's autocue issues. WL/WH... mere words etc.
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 09:04 (twelve years ago) link
Who gives a fuck about autocue, it was great.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 09:18 (twelve years ago) link
problem was he stumbled over some of his lines, I thought. But yeah, it was good.
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 09:23 (twelve years ago) link
It's the stumbling that makes it, and also the concomitant deadly serious intent, like Morton Feldman meeting Roy "Get It Together" North.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 09:28 (twelve years ago) link
Well, I enjoyed it, yes.
I missed the first track, will catch up.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 09:29 (twelve years ago) link
Obvious similarities to the latterday Fall I thought. Looking forward to Lou beating up the bass player on stage, firing the rest of the band mid-tour and then replacing the lot of them with his wife, a drum machine and my granny on bongos.
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 09:38 (twelve years ago) link
The brass band debagging of “Sweet Dreams Are Made Of Thin” was all the song deserved, and lucky to get away with that. Annie Lennox’s Q&A in this week’s ES Magazine, dear God: “Marylebone High Street is good for the soul,” “Daunt Books is just the dope.”
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 09:38 (twelve years ago) link
but then what would you expect from a middle aged rock star? She's been flogging Xmas albums and the like recently IIRC, ES Magazine seems like a perfect fit.
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 09:53 (twelve years ago) link
She's been middle aged all her life.
I like "Sweet Dreams Are Made Of Thin” as a title, btw. Get Victoria Beckham on this one, and get Lily Allen to write it.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 09:57 (twelve years ago) link
Not a typo, btw - that's how she sings it on the record.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 10:59 (twelve years ago) link
Well, who am I to disagree?
(obvious retort no 23521)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 11:12 (twelve years ago) link
dudes in metallica do look like they're enjoying themselves in those clips.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
They look like a beer commercial of some garage band whacking off to White Light/White Heat without knowing the words when who walks through the door, but Mr. Lou Reed himself. Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis Missouri.
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
And thats why its so awesome.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
just got a recording of lou + laurie anderson performing some of these lulu tracks in 2010. should be interesting! will probably post on the blog soon.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
Fun to imagine this originally a Reed/Anderson collab, and then they get into some argument about the heating bill, and Lou storms out and calls up James.
― Tower Feist (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
or lou singing "SPERMLESS LIKE A GIRL" and laurie just raising one eyebrow and lou looking sheepish
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
or lou trying to get laurie to scream "i am the rooooot"
― tylerw, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
four tet likes this album.
FourTet Four Tet Not joking... it's really good. Not been into a rock record this much in ages.______________________________FourTet Four Tet Am well into this Lou Reed Metallica album.
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FourTet Four Tet Am well into this Lou Reed Metallica album.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 9 November 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
― tylerw, Wednesday, November 9, 2011 12:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
whaaaat
― sleeve, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
I'm going to be feverishly hitting refresh on tyler's blog for the foreseeable future.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
Some of that stuff is on youtube. I thought more people knew about it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhaUDl4jbS0
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 10 November 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i think it was even posted upthread. not sure if this is the same gig i've got now...
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 November 2011 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
here ya go! http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/12605700875/the-greatest-disappointment-heres-something-forit's pretty good, some cool versions. "Junior Dad" is the only Lulu tune. might like the Lulu version better though! just a duo show as far as i can tell. zorn-free.
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 November 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
They just don't care who they alienate do they!http://thequietus.com/articles/07370-metallica-to-play-black-album-at-download-2012
What next???
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Thursday, 10 November 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
Metallica - the Raoul Moat of stadium metal - have followed up releasing their 11th best album by announcing that they're going to play their sixth best album in its entirety.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
(Had to google Raoul Moat, and still don't get the reference)
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
idgi it either! also: i am not too up on metallica fandom, but ... people really hate the Black Album? It's still seen as the ultimate sellout? Just seems like at this point, for a good amount of their fans, that would've been the gateway. maybe i'm wrong.
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
Doran to thread, plz to explain wor Moaty reference.
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
Wasn't Moat the steroidal killer Geordie?
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
went crazy, killed himself embarrassingly?
― goole, Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
that's the fella, also a folk hero for the stupid.
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
Impulsive, self-destructive, should have stayed in the sewers and never show his face again.
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
Pal of Gazza's too, iIrc
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
i am not too up on metallica fandom, but ... people really hate the Black Album? It's still seen as the ultimate sellout? Just seems like at this point, for a good amount of their fans, that would've been the gateway. maybe i'm wrong.
It was the gateway for millions of fans, but for those of us who were older, a) it was a surprisingly weak collection of songs (good singles, loads of filler) and b) off-puting to see mainstream audiences embrace something that just wasn't anywhere near as good as the first four albums. It's trite looking back, it's an immaculately produced record, but it was a bitter pill back then.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
Pudgy angry-man face, gingery mohawk, does a terrible version of White Light/White Heat
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
White Light/ White Moat
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
i listened to all of "junior dad" on the way home last night (lulu version) and kind of had a moment, got actual chills
love the strings at the end so, so much
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it is great. lou's vocal is fab -- wish he'd chill out and sing like that more often.
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
black album = 5th best surely?
― charlie h, Thursday, 10 November 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
― tylerw, Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:50 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
for a lot of the album it sounds like he's really straining to be heard over a band as muscular as metallica...which sometimes works, esp on the really hard/fast songs like the "supreme violation/oh jack i beeseech ya" parts etc...but yeah on jr dad he's voice doesn't sound shot and i think it's because he could relax and not strain
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 November 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
It already made the bottom 100 at rate your music, sneaking in at #98:
http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/bottom/album/all-time
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 11 November 2011 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
Metallica & Lou Reed : Lulu est un flop commercialJeux Actu MUSIQUE - 1 day ago
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― buzza, Friday, 11 November 2011 07:25 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cHesdP5BxY
― niels, Friday, 11 November 2011 11:16 (twelve years ago) link
earlier today, I was playing legos with my 3 year old son and kind of repeatedly singing the lines "I am the root" and "I am the table". My son thinks I'm crazy.
― peter in montreal, Saturday, 12 November 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
Lou Reed and Metallica both seem the sort to pride themselves on a flop like this for all the wrong reasons. That is, they'd probably think it's because they were too avant garde, pushing the boundaries too hard, too far. Challenging fans too much. Because they won't play according to your rules, maaaaaan.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 November 2011 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
For some reason it all brings to mind this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njIhIwSqt-g
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 November 2011 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdrgdh5U3z0&list=PL7CDDF3296CD889DA&index=3&feature=plpp_video
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 12 November 2011 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
I still can't believe this is happening.
― pplains, Saturday, 12 November 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link