Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu

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Track Listing

1. Brandenburg Gate
2.
3. Cheat On Me
4. Frustration
5. Dragon
6. Junior Dad
7. Little Dog
8. Mistress Dread
9. Pumping Blood
10. The View


Album release date: October 31st

Official website: http://loureedmetallica.com/

Facebook page for updates: http://www.facebook.com/LouReedMetallica

The musical collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica, "Lulu," is coming your way this Fall and this space will be your spot for all things Loutallica(!). We want to start sharing with you just how the "Lulu" project, recorded at HQ just a few short months ago, is coming together. As you can see this site is a work in progress and the plan is to build it before your very eyes. Please bear with us while we piece it all together!

"Lulu" was inspired by German expressionist writer Frank Wedekind's plays "Earth Spirit" and "Pandora's Box," which tell a story of a young abused dancer's life and relationships and are now collectively known as the "Lulu Plays." Since their publication in the early 1900's, the plays have been the inspiration for a silent film ("Pandora's Box," 1929), an opera, and countless other creative endeavors. Originally the lyrics and musical landscape were sketched out by Lou for a theatrical production in Berlin, but after coming together with the 'Tallica boys for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts in New York in 2009 all guilty parties knew they wanted to make more music together. Lou was inspired enough by that performance to recently ask the band to join him in taking his theatrical "Lulu" piece to the next level and so starting in early May of this year we were all camped out recording at HQ studios in Northern California, bringing us to today and ten complete songs.

We can't wait to share this music and the whole experience with you. Please visit us often... we'll be posting updates on a frequent basis.
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Hetfield's words on collaboration

We were very interested in working with Lou. I had these giant question marks: 'What's it going to be like?' 'What's going to happen?' So it was great when he sent us the lyrics for the Lulu body of work. It was something we could sink our teeth into. I could take off my singer and lyricist hat and concentrate on the music part. These were very potent lyrics, with a soundscape behind them for atmosphere. Lars and I sat there with an acoustic and let this blank canvas take us where it needed to go. It was a great gift, to be asked to stamp Metallica on it. And that's what we did.
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Reed's words

We had to bring Lulu to life in a sophisticated way, using rock and the hardest power rock you could come up with would have to be Metallica. This is the best thing I ever did. And I did it with the best group I could possibly find. By definition, everybody involved was honest. This has come into the world pure. We pushed as far as we possibly could within the realms of reality.
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I am a huge Metallica fan but am left slightly perplexed by this collaboration.

Praying to god this isn't going to be a massive fail.

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Upadted with one full song released on youtube;

 
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I think their main problem is that they are too scared of being seen as not growing or developing so they don't rehash previous sounds. Unfortunately it's their older sounds that everyone loves... I don't think anything good will come from this.
 
dmpoole said:
They didn't collaberate with anybody on St Anger.
S&M was done with Michael Kamen.
Well actually Michael Kamen just told Metallica to turn up and play exactly what they normally play and he'll do the rest.
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Didn't know that!

but my post still stands as the worst album I've ever heard :D. (atleast I think I'm right in thinking that travesty is where Lars made some changes!)

in fact I've just listened to some Lou Reed and he's done some fantastic songs, just have to be the optimist.
 
I'm quite looking forward to this actually, Lou Reed has some classic tracks for some reason I love love love this song :/


Also, S&M is bloody fantastic.
 
Sinny said:
Didn't know that!

but my post still stands as the worst album I've ever heard :D. (atleast I think I'm right in thinking that travesty is where Lars made some changes!)
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They did use a producer but that's par for the course.
A group effort decided on the awful snare sound and no guitar solo's.

It's quite funny but since that album, when I'm setting live drums up on stage, my band will use the phrase "Its a bit St Anger" when there's a bit too much mid on the snare.
 
dmpoole said:
Yeah, on the DVD you can turn the orchestra off.
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Are you implying that without the orchestra they sound bad?

What a stupid comment, S&M was made with metallica and the orchestra.

That's like saying take the lead guitar out, or take the drum track out and then listen.

Seriously... :confused:
 
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