Lou Reed/Metallica "Lulu" just awful

For those that really know Lou's history...they'll know that he maliciously released Metal Machine Music...to bitterly fulfill a contract... the album was purposely bad (a double album of distortion). He thought it was clever because people would take it as serious art (and the joke would be on them...and the record company). Well this album wasn't supposed to be a joke...and it's probably worse.

I've never verified this personally...but supposed some copies of the album were purposely pressed so the arm would not move far enough to lift automatically. It would not surprise me because he can be such a #$%^weed.

At least he tries and does new things. The Raven CD comes to mind.

So many musicians recycle the same stuff over and over again. How interesting is that.

MMM was in fact put out to satisfy contractual obligations. He owed two LPs so he put out a double LP of feedback loops with artsy liner notes. Each side was one second above the bare minimum required for an album per his contract.

I laugh when I see that RCA released a 24 karat CD remaster of it. Barnum was right.

I loathe Lou Reed.

For the record, I am aware of the history of MMM. I'm also aware that Lou Reed has - to this day - denied the story. I doubt that he has liability concerns these days, but he may still be being cheeky.

Either way, I wasn't commenting on the intent behind the release of MMM, merely that it sucks.

Marty

Marty...your posting must have come in right while I was posting mine...just a coincidence we were both talking MMM. I wasn't ref'g to your post--no disrespect intended.

But now that you brought that up.... I know he's denied that... and probably only he will ever know...but it was monumentally bad. I also read that (this says a lot about us fans too) during that (MMM promotion) time when he got off a plane in Japan, they had MMM blaring through the airport sound system...apparently taking it very seriously.

I would bet a huge amount of money though that it was a purposeful FU rather than "art."

I'm afraid Lou's jumped the shark...and the sad thing is...he's the only one who doesn't know it.

Transformer remains my favorite album of ALL time... period.