Lou Reed & Metallica Project (11/1)

[CaptainZombie]

Not sure what kind of album this is going to be, but there are 10 songs they recorded together and releases 11/1 here in the US.

http://www.loureedmetallica.com/

The musical collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica, "Lulu," is coming your way this Fall and this space will be your spot for all things Loutallica(!). We want to start sharing with you just how the "Lulu" project, recorded at HQ just a few short months ago, is coming together. As you can see this site is a work in progress and the plan is to build it before your very eyes. Please bear with us while we piece it all together!

[Brian_OS]

Re: Lou Reed & Metallica Project (11/1)

Uh...... No

[trobinson97]

Re: Lou Reed & Metallica Project (11/1)

This should be interesting.

[DJ]

Re: Lou Reed & Metallica Project (11/1)

Could be interesting. I love Metallica and am a Lou Reed fan, so I will give it a shot.

[CaptainZombie]

Re: Lou Reed & Metallica Project (11/1)

This album is freakin nuts...............but in a good way. Just very different. I am not a fan of Lou Reed's talk singing at all, but there are some killer riffs on these songs. Somehow these songs work with Reed's kind of singing, but would of rather of had James singing. This seems more like an atmospheric type of an album. I do see a lot of people hating it, which I wouldn't blame anyone.

You can listen to the whole album on their site for free, releases on 11/1

I really like 'Iced Honey', the one song where the music and lyrics go well together. 'Cheat on Me' is another good one, damn song clocks in at 11 minutes. 'Frustration' is kickass, I would love for them to move towards songs like 'Frustration' (again not the Lou lyrics). 'Dragon' is the heaviest on the entire album and feels like an extension of 'Frustration'. If I can find a way to tune out most of Lou's voice, there is some enjoyable stuff here from Metallica.

http://www.loureedmetallica.com/listen-to-lulu.php

DJ, you'll probably really like this album since you like both Reed and Metallica.

[DJ]

Re: Lou Reed & Metallica Project (11/1)

This album is freakin nuts...............but in a good way. Just very different. I am not a fan of Lou Reed's talk singing at all, but there are some killer riffs on these songs. Somehow these songs work with Reed's kind of singing, but would of rather of had James singing. This seems more like an atmospheric type of an album. I do see a lot of people hating it, which I wouldn't blame anyone.

You can listen to the whole album on their site for free, releases on 11/1

I really like 'Iced Honey', the one song where the music and lyrics go well together. 'Cheat on Me' is another good one, damn song clocks in at 11 minutes. 'Frustration' is kickass, I would love for them to move towards songs like 'Frustration' (again not the Lou lyrics). 'Dragon' is the heaviest on the entire album and feels like an extension of 'Frustration'. If I can find a way to tune out most of Lou's voice, there is some enjoyable stuff here from Metallica.

http://www.loureedmetallica.com/listen-to-lulu.php

DJ, you'll probably really like this album since you like both Reed and Metallica.

I like that we can listen for free before the album drops. Metallica said it wasn't about money, doing this record, they just wanted to jam with Reed and try some new things. I'll give it a thorough listen tomorrow. Thanks for the heads-up.

[Stroehms]

Re: Lou Reed & Metallica Project (11/1)

Oh Jesus. This way better than I thought it was going to be. Delicious.

[EnigmaNemesis]

Re: Lou Reed & Metallica Project (11/1)

Oh Jesus. This way better than I thought it was going to be. Delicious.

Agreed... and I know you and I are sick MetallicA fans Stroehms!

\m/ -.- \m/

Ask me some time about hanging out with them for an hour and a half and watching them warm up at their Death Magnetic tour ... ::wink::

[DJ]

Re: Lou Reed & Metallica Project (11/1)

Agreed... and I know you and I are sick MetallicA fans Stroehms!

\m/ -.- \m/

Ask me some time about hanging out with them for an hour and a half and watching them warm up at their Death Magnetic tour ... ::wink::

Spill the beans, Enigma! I thought the band played really well on that tour; I saw them on Election Night back in 2008. The Sword opened and killed it as well.

[Stroehms]

Re: Lou Reed & Metallica Project (11/1)

Agreed... and I know you and I are sick MetallicA fans Stroehms!

\m/ -.- \m/

Ask me some time about hanging out with them for an hour and a half and watching them warm up at their Death Magnetic tour ... ::wink::

:0 Tell Us!

Spill the beans, Enigma! I thought the band played really well on that tour; I saw them on Election Night back in 2008. The Sword opened and killed it as well.

I saw them on that tour. Amazing. The Sword also dominated and their performance really got me into that band. Down also played..... Man, they are not my thing.

[TheMatrix31]

Re: Lou Reed & Metallica Project (11/1)

Just listened to a bit, impossible to listen to.

Seems like some of that mishmash stuff that people do, transposing vocals and music that aren't supposed to go together.

Argh. Sad thing is the backings sound pretty good. Maybe someone will be able to remove the vocals from this so we can have (basically) a Metallica instrumental album? Is that possible?

EDIT: Just listened to some of "Dragon" too, and all I can come up with is that its a damn shame that that music is blown on this project when it could have been a ****ing awesome track for the next actual Metallica album.

[jyoung]

Re: Lou Reed & Metallica Project (11/1)

Some lyrics from this album:

NSFW

Spoiler

"Waggle my *** like a dog prostitute coagulating blood"

"Your (couldn't understand word) is like a colored man's ****, spurting blood"

"I'm a woman who likes men, but this is something else"

"The taste of your vulva, everything on it. The hair on your shoulders. The smell of your armpit"

"Spermless like a girl. Like a girl. Spermless like a girl. I want so much to hurt you, marry me, I want you as my wife. Spermless like a girl. More man than I. I want you so much, to hurt you. I want you as my wife. Crustacean, is my lexicon of hate."

[TheMatrix31]

Re: Lou Reed & Metallica Project (11/1)

Yeah, see? That's stupid as ****.

[OSUFan_88]

Re: Lou Reed & Metallica Project (11/1)

Lou Reed is ****ing ruining this album and it's pissing me off.

Why Metallica? Why?

[CaptainZombie]

Re: Lou Reed & Metallica Project (11/1)

Just listened to a bit, impossible to listen to.

Seems like some of that mishmash stuff that people do, transposing vocals and music that aren't supposed to go together.

Argh. Sad thing is the backings sound pretty good. Maybe someone will be able to remove the vocals from this so we can have (basically) a Metallica instrumental album? Is that possible?

EDIT: Just listened to some of "Dragon" too, and all I can come up with is that its a damn shame that that music is blown on this project when it could have been a ****ing awesome track for the next actual Metallica album.

I am actually looking into this right now. There is a guy I work with and a buddy of mine from here on OS that have recording equipment. I am going to see if we can get Lou's vocal's stripped out. I think these songs are pretty good without Lou's vocals, and just a total shame that these songs got wasted on an album like this. This would have been a great follow-up to Death Magnetic if James sang on all of these songs. Too bad they didn't do 2 versions, one with James signing and just Lou doing the background vocals.

The one good thing about this is that it's not a Metallica album. They are actually writing material for their next album which is set to record sometime next year.