…as if he’s some clove-smoking douchebag that wandered in on open mic night at the local Starbucks.
This.
Sounds like some guy took a Metallica demo track and recited some dumbass poetry reading thingy he had conjured up during a creative writing class at the local community college.
Absolute shit.
Will surpass St Anger as Metallica’s biggest ever misfire.
This is totally unlistenable.
In a perfect world, the new album would come with a sticker with the above message printed on it.
Hetfield definitely sounds alive in this. I’ll give it that. I was expecting something a bit more melodic actually though. Like Nothing Else Matters/progressive stuff with Reed on top. But I dunno. It’s just one song, but so far it’s not good.
It’s just too repetitive. It sounds like it’s going nowhere.
The old school metallica was cool, coz those songs were a fucking adventure over and done with in 6-8 minutes. hell, even enter sandman’s got a fucking cool atmosphere to it.
This just seems… I don’t know. Boring. Empty. Urghh. I was really hoping for something left of centre.
The concept even… that seemed to give it a bit of promise. But…
wasted opportunity.
FUCK THESE DRUMS
[pirate]
Other than that, it’s not AWFUL, but… meh. I guess it helps that I’m not really too familiar with Reed’s work.
I AM THE TABLE
Agree about Lou passing his peak. The decade of the 80’s had some sort of bad juju for many popular artists’ misfires, including Reed but not limited to just him - like the Stones, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson, etc.
Although Lou had some decent stuff in the 90’s, like Magic + Loss and Ecstasy.
His best was his early 70’s works, and VU of course.
What year did New York come out? That might be the last good he did IMO. Ecstasy was alright… Mistrial was fucking horrid.
And there was no pink floyd in the 80s. Not all of the stuff was bad, but it wasn’t pink floyd.
Lou and Metallica both had peaks and valleys throughout their career as they’ve been around for 45 and 30 years respectively.
I don’t care that both of them have had iconic slabs of greatness (as well as some floating turds). This thread was started to discuss the Metallica and Lou Reed project, Lulu . . . and, based solely on the couple of samples that have been released so far, it looks like this album is going to be a giant steaming monolith of crap which will rival entries in both discographies as “the worst of the worst”.
It was a potentially exciting idea that went nowhere exciting and seems to have easily been made with a weekend of spare time, a brick of horrible hash, and a complete lack of imagination.
As an uninformed casual listener of Lou Reed (if it’s not on a greatest hits album or a movie soundtrack I probably won’t know it) it leaves me uninspired to look deeper into his catalog. And as a SERIOUS Metallica fan, it leaves me shaking my head and wishing this never happened.
Perhaps they need a few more sessions with Phil Towle or something.
Two artists well past it working together sounds a lot worse than I expected.
Oh wait! FUCKING MAGNETS!
All reed does these days are mutter nonsense. Makes you wonder if he even knows where he is.
I skipped toward the end of the track. When they start doing more singy shouty stuff with a faster backing instrumental it’s definitely better. The song still sucks, but it does have a better “part” to it than the beginning.
It’s hard to get that far in to the song if you’re just listening to it from the start, though.
I’m going to force myself to listen to the track completely tonight and give a fair review.
Sorry for double-posting my latest CoMiXXX.
Yeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhhyeeeeahhhhh!!!
lol.
I’ve just realised Metallica have been a shit band longer than they’ve been a good one.
Damn.
I just realised that Cliff passed away and left us with…
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…that.
fucking hell, this and morbid angel in the one year. shit year for metal.
Mastodon is out today to make it all better.
I’d like to do a remix off this Metallica/Lou Reed album and call it Justified Ancients of Lulu.
You can listen to the whole thing here:
http://www.loureedmetallica.com/listen-to-lulu.php
It’s not particularly good. In other news, the sky is blue.
Not a single song that stands out? Figured there would be one. Oh well.
So is this turd ‘Lulu’ officially released yet? I’m sure it will find its own cult following who worship it…
Nov. 1
Hilarious how both parties continually try and sell this abortion, as being the most important album of their careers. Repeating it over and over, like a mantra, as if we’ll all be convinced if told often enough.
Lou sounds particularly out of form here - both atonal and unfocused. And James should have learnt from St Anger that his vocals need mixing. His caterwaul on this album beggars belief that once again, NOBODY involved picked up on just how awful he sounds.
The music is ok - even commendable - though at times.
I clicked through the tracks a bit and listened to parts of maybe 4 or 5 of the tracks. Musically, it’s kind of interesting on some of them, but I just cannot stand the neverending horror that is Lou Reed with his bad poetry schtick.
“Bad Honey” almost sounds like a cool song and Lou gets closer to actually singing a song on that track, but because he tries singing we learn the painful truth . . . . the dirty old fart can NOT sing nowadays. It warbles so bad at parts that it sounds again like one of those “novelty” records we were discussing where you’re listening to a song sung by a retard and you’re afraid to say it sucks because the singer might ACTUALLY BE RETARDED.
Some of the tracks are like 13 minutes and 21 minutes long . . . . ugggh. Can’t we just bash our skulls with heavy lead pipes instead?
aw… its a shame… because i actually dig it… a lot.
its exactly what i expected too. its cool. i can see how people dont like it, same way i can see how people dont like st. anger, but again i will argue that both albums are amazing in their own ways.
but im happy with it, i cant wait to snag up the cd (in a few months, used most likely, im broke as fuck) but this is really cool stuff.
im not surprised people here dont dig it, its destined to sell more than a manson album… winking sly face
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