Wall of Mouths

All i can say about it is “Meh”… I’m sure i’ll hear it at some point, but It’s hard for me to get excited about anything new from Metallica these days and i’ve never been a fan of Lou Reed.

Apparently Metallica reckon its their best work in ages, hmmm… can’t quite see a band ever saying ‘its a bit crappy, but please buy it anyway’…

It got a good review in the Daily Telegraph, read into that what you will…

I don’t think anyone life is complete without listening “Lulu”. It’s a kind a cosmic joke. It’s not the worse album ever made but probably worse of 2011. But if you consider yourself a music fan, you have to listen this. Simple like that.

The Pitchfork review gave me a laugh:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15996-lou-reed-metallica/

eg “The Internet had all the evidence it needed to preemptively crown Lulu the Worst Album of All Time. But even in that regard, Lulu disappoints”.

I’m gonna have to check it out! Pity it’s not on Spotify

I´m gonna buy but I´m not telling my wife about it:D hahhaaaa

And then you’ll be in trouble!!

@Dermot - that’s a really good review. Sums it up well.

got there before me

realityfuck wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9LcJwX9dnE

Even though they’re all on it - it’s not a “metallica” album It’s a Lou Reed album with music by Metallica.

They ar every careful to point that out :P Plus Rob has said recently they’re in the studio now recording their next proper album for next year.

It is lyrically pretentious and impregnable; it is sonically monotonous, unfocused and unfinished. It’s like a one-take-drunk nightmare jam going nowhere, a marathon of poor vocals and second rate free form riffage. Lou Reed’s rap/singing almost never even remotely occupies the same space-time continuum as the music. I already knew Reed couldn’t sing, but what up with Hetfield? He sounds like a nursery of rabid raccoons trying to revive West Side Story.

That being said, “Little Dog” is a quietly effective and heartbreaking song. Pity they didn’t scrap just about everything else and start again from there. But it’s kinda cool they tried something so experimental. It’s just sad that it so truly blows.

Had a good chuckle at the ‘I am the table’ line with some of The Answer’s fans in Belfast on Friday night..

Cuchulain wrote:

Wouldn’t call it the Worst Album of 2011 but it is very mediocre. Like waiting for something to happen that just doesn’t come.

I played the new Magazine album ( No Thyself ) right after it and it is just so much better it’s unreal. Now there’s a contender for Best Album of 2011 !

“Worst album of” subject is kind a expended topic. I mean you have every kind of technical support, guitars, amps, etc… and lot of money to create a sound or image, a word that you want/wish. In the other hand there’s a band whose limited sources going nowhere, miserable day job, day late and dollar short situation bring the white noise. I kinda respect that. There’s a passion but no time, money or talent. So it’s considerable. I can safely say who haven’t listen this album yet…believe the anti-hype. This could be the worst album ever made by any music genre. We need more time and a new perspective to decide that.

I actually thought the Jools thing was OK. seeing them do it live gave me a better understanding. Still crap tho and yes, Lou cannot sing to save his life.