Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu

I've bought every Metallica album since The Black album on day of release and seen them over 20 times live, I will not be buying this it is bloody awful.
 
If you thought St Anger was Metallica’s nadir think again :

Lour Reed & Metallica* – Lulu

2 CD’s, 10 songs, 87 minutes


Like a D grade Jim Morrison, Lou Reed atonally talk/sings his ‘lyrics’ backed by Metallica on this steaming pile of self-indulgence and self-delusion…… one of stupidest lines is :

I beg you to degrade me / Is there waste that I could eat ?

Well Metallica have well and truly degraded themselves by putting their names to this drivel, I can just picture the four of them in the studio chowing down on Lou’s waste……. not a pretty site. How the 4 of them could have thought that this album was worthy of release is beyond me. If they were all off their faces on drugs they would have some sort of excuse but they are all clean and sober. Bring back the Class A’s !!

At times it’s as if Lou got a random word generating program and plucked the lyrics from it. His voice grates, there is no redeeming quality to it. His ‘legacy’ won’t be damaged by this as he’s put out this type of pretentious garbage before, and he’s never been a singer anyway.

Metallica seemed to have turned the corner after St Anger, Death magnetic was a return to form (apart from the brickwalled production mess) and there was hope for the future. Then this happened 

The only way this project could be saved is for Lou’s voice to be deleted forever, same for Hetfields backing. Cut the album from 87 minutes to 50 and use the good stuff that is actually on there. It’s a pity as there are some good riffs on there, it’s just Lou’s voice is so distractingly appalling that it makes it almost impossible to enjoy anything about it. Lars does however have a snare drum that sounds like a snare drum, at least he learnt from St Anger in that respect. This project reeks of him though, I guess he thinks Metallica needed to be taken into the realms of art-rock ?

Sometimes something is so bad it’s good, not in this case however. I do recommend it be listened to once though, if you can get through it. You’ll wonder how Lou Reed is seen as such a legend in the industry. On this he comes across as a tone deaf, pre-pubescent poet with a fascination for bodily functions and fluids. The guy is, in a word, a clown.

Hopefully they never tour with this, put it behind them and get on to making a follow up to Death Magnetic. They wanted to experiment and they’ve done it now. Let’s just put this whole sorry, embarrassing mess behind us !!


*= the only consolation is that it’s not Metallica & Lou Reed
 
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Jools Holland November 8th & 11th apparently.....should be interesting lol.

I am pretty ashamed to say I don't mind this, I could put it on in the house and leave it playing away.

I do think it has a lot of good points, the words are far more interesting than usual (if a little embarrassing). The songs are a lot more like jam sessions, much more dynamics, less structure and more like a soundtrack, building up tension, groove and drama. Loving Kirks work too. It's the sound of an uninspired bands undiluted stream of conciousness dirge, set against some unfathomable 'dark' storyline...it's interesting! It's naked, raw, pitiful, discarded - self parodying? It's crap and beautiful.

Ok that's enough BS.


The next record better sound like Justice, or **** it.


Edit: God I hope it doesn't win a grammy though.
 
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I listened to some of this a few days back. I have NO IDEA why they even collaborated in this, two very different types of music.

I like Lou Reed and I like the Velvet Underground. I also used to like Metallica when they were actually any good. This album, however, is apalling.
 
there on later with jools now and its dire, lou reed mubmling over a thrashy guitar track thats distorted.

reminds me of a broken washing machine slowly dying.
 
I've not listened to this yet, but will give it a go tonight I think.

Many people knock S&M, but I LOVED that album, the orchestra just makes sense.
I have no idea who Lou Reed is however, hence my reluctance to listen to this when I first saw there was a collaboration out.
 
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just watched it...

I just do not understand...

theyre stage presence is SO different! Lou looks completely out of place with them.. he also looks so frail and he doesnt move at all he just stands there and groans out the (****) lyrics...

Did someone say there were gonna be on again on the 11th? if so will be interesting to see what they play then....?

I wonder if they realise themselves how crap it is...

EDIT: is it just me or is james looking quite old in this?!
 
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I watched that Jools Holland, and was shocked. It looked like a bunch of fathers in the grip of a mid-life crisis getting their school band back together.
The dynamic felt all wrong, it seemed massively under rehearsed and i'm not sure Lou Reed's vocals work with Metallica's sound.
Saying that, not listened to the album to compare..
 
its what happens when bands sobar up, just look at the red hot chilli peppers. as soon as they got clean it was all that californication rubish.
 
I read that this started out life as a reworking of old Reed tracks then the great mumbling one decided to do this 'concept' album. Surely somewhere along the line Metallica thought this was garbage? Even with Ulrich wanting to almost distance himself from 'metal' and hang out with the art crowd, even he must have said to himself "wtf am i doing?"
 
Shock Horror,

I posted that this album is going to be horrible from what I've heard so far (near enough the whole album) on Lou reeds facebook comment, promptly got deleted and kicked from the page.

How ever will I live my life haha.

also, did anyone hear the bass on Jools holland? was it me or was it way out of time?
 
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