Metallica & Lou Reed - Lulu

I have a gut feeling that this album might be proclaimed a masterpeice in about 20 years time.

  On 12/6/2011 at 11:07 PM, beerwolf said:

I have a gut feeling that this album might be proclaimed a masterpeice in about 20 years time.

luckily they are close to perfecting gut transplants

The videoclip for The View was directed by Darren Arofnosky it seems

  On 12/6/2011 at 11:34 PM, analogue wings said:

  On 12/6/2011 at 11:07 PM, beerwolf said:

I have a gut feeling that this album might be proclaimed a masterpeice in about 20 years time.

 

luckily they are close to perfecting gut transplants

  On 12/7/2011 at 7:52 PM, beerwolf said:

 

  On 12/6/2011 at 11:34 PM, 'analogue wings' said:

 

  On 12/6/2011 at 11:07 PM, 'beerwolf' said:

I have a gut feeling that this album might be proclaimed a masterpeice in about 20 years time.

luckily they are close to perfecting gut transplants

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/20/david-bowie-lou-reed-masterpiece-metallica-lulu

hate to say I-told-you-so, but gut feeling confirmed, though much sooner than 20 years

Bowie's material hasn't exactly been great the last couple of decades, so I'd take his judgement with a pinch of salt.

ZOLE

never did get around to hearing this, even if just for the laughs.

Loose jams never were Metallica's strongest side, to put it mildly.

Bowie's last album was 10/10

Bowie's been remarkably consistent for most of his career. The only Bowie album I'd actually consider bad is Hours. But I still don't know that I'd trust his taste in music. Most great artists love at least some shit music. His comment did put this album back on my radar though, and I do want to hear it at least once (was scouring google for a non-torrent download of it to no avail just before coming here [because torrents render my internets useless for anything other than the torrenting]). The drums on that one single(?) were mind boggling.

Listening again. The vocals are definitely the worst part, maybe just because they're so damn dry. I'd most likely actually pay for it if it were completely instrumental, since the music is actually pretty strong.

Lars Ulrich is the worst part, always.

Yeah but you don't hear his voice so it's not too bad.

You hear his drums.

hahaha, well I'd say he's on par with the drummer from Pelican in terms of his skill compared to the rest of the band

Pelican guy improved a lot with the last LP!

oh right! I admit I haven't heard their recent work, but once someone told me about how bad the drums were, that's all I can hear haha

I finally listened to this. For most of the album, I felt like I was listening to two unrelated albums that had been squashed together. But on Little Dog it seemed like the two disparate elements were finally working together aesthetically, and the remainder of the album worked for me. Metallica have mentioned wanting to try something new with the album, but their contribution sounds exactly like what they've always done minus the careful guitar/song arrangements. Overall i think it would have been better as a spoken word album. But if I'm ever compelled to listen again maybe I'll change my tune. I was warming to it by the end, so anything's possible.

  On 4/26/2015 at 8:03 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

I finally listened to this. For most of the album, I felt like I was listening to two unrelated albums that had been squashed together. But on Little Dog it seemed like the two disparate elements were finally working together aesthetically, and the remainder of the album worked for me. Metallica have mentioned wanting to try something new with the album, but their contribution sounds exactly like what they've always done minus the careful guitar/song arrangements. Overall i think it would have been better as a spoken word album. But if I'm ever compelled to listen again maybe I'll change my tune. I was warming to it by the end, so anything's possible.

We should totally have a Lulu listening party one of these days!

Haha, deal! Next time I'm in San Fran will make it happen. We will also have to be very drunk when it happens.

This album matures in a very strange way with age.

It’s still completely hilarious, on one hand. On the other, it’s probably one of the most cathartic albums I’ve ever heard.

I still can’t believe this actually happened.

Btw, if anyone hasn’t heard the WTF podcast interview with James Hetfield, he talks a little about it...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nme.com/news/music/metallica-lou-reed-lulu-explained-1940496/amp