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Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu

Published October 30 2011


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=Staff's pick

Brandenburg Gate
The View
Pumping Blood
Mistress Dread
Iced Honey
Cheat On Me
Frustration
Little Dog
Dragon
Junior Dad


Genre Avant-garde Metal
Lou Reed/James Hetfield
Vocals
Tracks 10
James Hetfield
Guitar
Running time 87 Min.
Kirk Hammett
Guitar
Label Warner Bros Records
Lou Reed
Guitar
Release 31 October 2011
Rob Trujillo
Bass
Country USA
Lars Ulrich
Drums
Producer Greg Fidelman/Hal Willner
Keyboard
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Reviewing what will definitely be the most hated album of the year is hard. It's easy to just fall into the angry mob, write some semi-clever sentences of how much it sucks and then get on with your life. But what if there is something really good and everybody are too busy to notice it, while joking about James Hetfield singing that he is a table? Metallica have always had a special place in my heart. Hell, I even liked St Anger which makes us, what, a total of 5 people? Surely there must be something of quality here?

Many people might hate Lulu because they're expecting a Metallica album when it is in fact rather a Lou Reed album with Metallica as a backing band. With that said, I want to take this moment to reassure everyone that if you take the time to listen to it with another point of view it's actually kind of... no, wait, it's still rubbish. Absolute rubbish.

It's not even the concept that kills it; I can actually imagine that this collaboration might work under the right circumstances. There are occasional glimpses of good ideas but unfortunately they are lost in an endless mass of boring riffs, pseudo-poetic lyrics and way too long, unproduced songs. On top of this, all parts where James is singing seem to be written an octave too high which makes it almost painful to listen to.

I was hoping, to the last second, that something good would come out of this collaboration but I honestly never want to listen to this record again.

Performance
Originality
Production
Vocals
Songwriting

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Summary



2 chalices of 10 - Bjorn


Related links:

www.loureedmetallica.com