Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu

Hugh Freaking Dillon
Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
edited December 2011 in Other Music
what a piece of utter trash.
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  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,092
    That's an insult to trash
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    mookeywrench wrote:
    That's an insult to trash

    :lol:
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  • joewalshdc
    joewalshdc Posts: 948
    its offensive to the ears in every sense....
  • veddertown
    veddertown Scotland Posts: 5,260
    I'm reluctant to listen to this as Lou Reed is one of my favourite artists and Metallica despite having some decent songs just aren't. It would be like an aural equivalent of watching Marilyn Monroe getting pumped by Herman Munster I'd guess? :?
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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    The little I've made it through.....I think musically it has some cool stuff, or at least different from your standard Metallica stuff, but Reed's voice and delivery just clashes with the music.
  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    mookeywrench wrote:
    That's an insult to trash
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  • arq
    arq Posts: 8,101
    I thought it would be like Load, everybody hated it and I loved it, this time I agree with every insult people can throw at Lulu, I've never listened to something so horrific, is like having your most treasured childhood memory being raped by a unicorn wearing a bear rug with platform shoes after a night of speed and LSD singing the national anthem in esperanto.
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  • caifan82
    caifan82 Mexico City Posts: 321
    Awful, just awful... and a double cd album of almost 90 minutes??! When I heard it, I thought I had been listening for hours and hours, but only 45 minutes had passed.
    When I heard people and reviewers saying it is one of the worst albums ever, I really thought they were exaggerating. But, after listening to the whole thing for the first and last time, I have to somewhat agree: it REALLY is up there with the worst albums ever made (by “credible” and talented artists of course).
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  • Edved82
    Edved82 Ireland Posts: 1,279
    Listened to half of it and had to stop, for my own sanity. its sad, because Metallica are still a fantastic live act. Shame they keep insisting on inflicting absolute shite on their fans ever since 1991 (with the exception of Death Magnetic)
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  • titchinello
    titchinello Posts: 3,139
    I've downloaded it, but not listened to it yet apart from a little snippet, don't know if james actually sings...
    but the way i look at it is that its a lou reed album, with metallica as his backing band.
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  • gimmesometruth27
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    i tried to listen to the voice 3 or 4 times. i did not get any easier with subsequent listens...
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  • Jason P
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    I think I would have preferred Bobcat Goldthwait (police academy years) over Lou Reed.

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  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,092
    titchinello wrote:
    but the way i look at it is that its a lou reed album, with metallica as his backing band.

    Except there's no collaboration going on, and Lou sounds so confused and lost as to what he should be doing to the point that he just shouts spoken words on top of the music track and hopes for the best.
  • Heisenberg
    Heisenberg Los Pollos Hermanos Posts: 4,958
    I thought St. Anger was bad, but this is embarrassing. It sounds like they just took two separate unfinished recordings that they didn't know what to do with, slapped them together and said "DONE!". Who the hell came up with the titles? "Iced Honey"? "Little Dog"? "Junior Dad"?...awful.
  • rrivers
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    When I heard about this I was excited. I don't know a lot of Lou Reed stuff, but I've always liked Metallica (more early stuff, but I enjoyed Death Magnetic). I thought it would be a cool album to pop on my ipod and come up on shuffle every once in awhile.

    Then I heard a snippet of "The View", I think it's called. Watching "The View" is less painful than listening to this. I didn't get through the whole song. Some might say I'm not giving it a chance, but based on what I'm reading I'm not missing anything. As I scrolled down this thread, I was expecting one person to say they liked it. No matter how awful something is, on this board there is always someone who says it is awesome. This really must be God-awful!

    Is it really all spoken word? No singing?
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  • Mamasan23
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    rrivers wrote:
    When I heard about this I was excited. I don't know a lot of Lou Reed stuff, but I've always liked Metallica (more early stuff, but I enjoyed Death Magnetic). I thought it would be a cool album to pop on my ipod and come up on shuffle every once in awhile.

    Then I heard a snippet of "The View", I think it's called. Watching "The View" is less painful than listening to this. I didn't get through the whole song. Some might say I'm not giving it a chance, but based on what I'm reading I'm not missing anything. As I scrolled down this thread, I was expecting one person to say they liked it. No matter how awful something is, on this board there is always someone who says it is awesome. This really must be God-awful!

    Is it really all spoken word? No singing?

    My hubby is one of the few people in the world that actually really likes St. Anger...he loves pretty much anything Metallica does...but even he can't listen to this crap. I don't think any words in the English language are strong enough to spew my hatred of this record!
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,690
    Love Metallica, but i have no desire to hear any of this. From what people are saying it's crap and luckily haven't even hears the single.
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  • youngster
    youngster Boston Posts: 6,576
    As a huge Metallica fan I want to thank everyone who posted in this thread for saving me $12 on this album. With the reviews I have read, I will save my ears the trauma of listening to this. Thanks.
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  • capthowdy1027
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    Just terrible.
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  • Kathi
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    I really like Metallica, but based on the reviews this has been getting, I'm scared to subject my ears to it. Curiosity will probably win in the end though.

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