Comments on: Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:48:02 +0000

I’ve not heard this record, but used to be a massive Lou Reed fan in the early 1980s. Not so much these days. In the days when I was accumulating vinyl, I remember buying his Metal Machine Music double album from a local market. It was expensive (about Â£10), but bought it because I think it was a very rare album. It turned out to be four sides of nothing but unlistenable feed back. When Lou Reed does something that is bad, he tends to go the whole way. And produce something that is truly dreadful in the extreme.

By: Flightless

Flightless — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:18:31 +0000

I’m assuming it will get praised by The Culture Show and broadsheet newspapers. It may be another glaring example of the view which you have already put forward that mainstream music journalism/ criticism is broken.

Metallica probably did it partly as they believe too much of their own PR and may see it as a way to show how they are above the genre they first came from. Who knows why Lou Reed does anything?

By: Miika Kuusisto

Miika Kuusisto — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:39:55 +0000

This is pretty much correct. It’s quite baffling, cause I think Lou Reed really did some worthwhile stuff in the 70s and Metallica was the definite metal band of the 80s. But at the same time, I guess neither Metallica nor Lou have had anything to contribute to music in a long time and this mismatch made in hell just emphasises that.

Even as far as prententious artsy crap goes… You’re better off listening to pretty much anything else there is on offer. Any of Lou Reed’s earlier solo albums for example.