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zodiackilled
happy late anniversary to the time he posted a my little pony edit of the metal machine music album cover to facebook hours before he was meant to do a recording session with lana del rey but died instead
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A_Raging_Bull
Embodied the ethos of rock n' roll more than maybe even Chuck Berry. As a spiritual endeavor, where your soul is on the line.
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A_Raging_Bull
My cool friends prefer Lou, and my nerdy buddies think Bowie is the bee's knees. As an uncool non-nerd, Lou clears.
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silenceissexy77
i got mugged at knifepoint once while perfect day was in my headphones amazing song
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penisboy1234
That's crazy. Reminds me of that one time I mugged a dude with a knife while he was listening to Lou Reed.
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maggiebrean
as soon as he stopped banging tr*nnies he stopped making good music hmmm interesting
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sayanoputa
Lulu isn't really a disaster at all, and even James Hetfield's vocals are minor weakness compared to the excellent instrumentals Metallica provides. Changing the backing band for it would make it a drastically different project and would only really be concretely beneficial by changing the response it got, which Lou Reed didn't give two shits about. He recognized Metallica's potential, and most likely their significant following, and worked with them to create an excellent closer to his career and a highlight in the band's. Reed definitely encouraged their creativity and made them do better than they had been after the Black Album.
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sayanoputa
Making interesting music that's both a showcase of craft and thoughtful experimentation. Their instrumental contributions to Lulu are some of the best and least conventional they've ever made.
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Enot990
Well, the thing is, I can't say the instrumentation sucks 100% of the album. We have some cool riffs here and there, but it just doesn't work with Lou Reeds vocals. His voice sounds really weak put in this context. He has never been a super strong vocalist, but his kind of lazy laid back and not giving a fuck delivery used to fit in perfectly with the music he did. But here he just sounds out of place. And it is not the case where we have elements of music from completely different worlds put together but somehow it works with one another and creates some kind of interesting contrast. The issue with this project is that nothing fits with anything here, everything seems to fall apart and compositionally it is also all mess and drag. I don't hate Metallica, but they are not a very experimental band. Not that they don't try to experiment every once in a while, but I wouldn't say that they do it well.
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sayanoputa
nothing about Lou Reed's music has ever "fit perfectly." Even the Velvet Underground and Nico had untuned guitars and unconventional "idgaf" delivery from Lou Reed on most songs, on top of it being very lo-fi, dirty lyrics-wise, and overall boundary-pushing. On Street Hassle, the song, he's incredibly off-key and certainly not delivering a performance that most people would say fits with acoustic string instrumentals. Metal Machine Music is also certainly not an album that "fits" in most people's eyes. I would say the lyrics and vocal style of Lulu fit its instrumentals because of the transgressive mania and bitter defeat of Lulu's story. Conflict, anger, passion, neuroticism, the droning instrumentals sort of just beat themselves into your skull as Lou Reed utters some of the filthiest lyrics he's ever written. Lulu captures the sacred and profane, which "fits" for Reed's final album. If you can get into Sister Ray and all of MMM, you can get into Dragon and Junior Dad.
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