Metallica / Lou Reed

[HoyaSaxa03]

I think we've discussed this elsewhere, sorry.

Don't plan on listening to the album, obviously, but this Chuck Klosterman review is fantastic

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7146312/lou-reed-metallica-album

If we still lived in the radio prison of 1992, do you think Metallica would purposefully release an album that no one wants? No way. Cliff Burnstein from Q Prime Management would listen to their various ideas, stroke his white beard, and deliver the following 45-second pep talk: "OK, great. Love these concepts. Your allusion to Basquiat's middle period was very apt, Lars. Incisive! But here's our situation. If you guys spend two months writing superfast Diamond Head songs about nuclear winter and shape-shifting, we can earn $752 million in 18 months, plus merchandizing. That's option A. The alternative is that you can make a ponderous, quasi-ironic art record about 'the lexicon of hate' that will outrage the Village Voice and mildly impress Laurie Anderson. Your call." Ten minutes later, Bob Rock would be parking his Lexus at the studio.

[vansmack]

"It will be legally purchased by the 13,404 Metallica completists who saw Some Kind of Monster on opening weekend, unless the album is exclusively sold at Walmart, in which case it will enter the Billboard charts at no. 2."

It's eminently quotable.

[chaz]

 "If the Red Hot Chili Peppers acoustically covered the 12 worst Primus songs for Starbucks, it would still be (slightly) better than this."

Ouch.

[StoneTheCrow]

Great read and selection of quotes.

Is commercial radio playing any of this?  I've heard The View a couple of times while flipping thru channels on Sirius.  That is some God-Awful music.

[brennser]

thats an awesome review!

[HoyaSaxa03]

Great read and selection of quotes.

Is commercial radio playing any of this?  I've heard The View a couple of times while flipping thru channels on Sirius.  That is some God-Awful music.

Doesn't commercial rock radio still just play 90s post-grunge stuff like Bush and Foo Fighters?

[Mobius]

Based on that review I imagine the album being something like the review

[Bombay Chutney]

Everything I read about this album makes me love it more and more.

[ggw]

Everything I read about this album makes me love it more and more.

I have to admit I find myself a little fascinated with the concept as well.  Especially when I read over-the-top stuff like:
The album is ?a set of wrenching, astonishingly profane songs inspired by two century-old German plays.?


And I am so happy that Lars Ulrich did not disappoint me in his interview with the NY Times.  Somehow I just knew that - at some point - he would drop that most hackneyed and trite description of the artistic process:

?It was cathartic," Mr. Ulrich said.

[Vas Deferens]

where's the Brian review of the album? I bet it will be positive.

[Justin Tonation]

Everything I read about this album makes me love it more and more.

EW via Metacritic: "The bulk of Lulu sounds like your dad's drunk friend reciting his self-penned erotica over a melting ReLoad cassette."

[Vas Deferens]

Lulu is the lost soundtrack to Battlefield Earth

[HoyaSaxa03]

where's the Brian review of the album? I bet it will be positive.

baited breath... i'm wondering how he would reconcile his hate for Grantland / Klosterman and dad rock.

[i am gay and i like cats]

maybe he finally had that breakdown some here have hoped for.  he should have been posting while it                  happened . . . that would have been cool.

[ggw]

I heard he has been camping out at Montgomery Mall in hopes of sparking an Occupy Hot Topic movement to rail against the corrupt capitalist commoditization of skinny jeans, chain wallets, and arm warmers.