Lulu ... has anybody heard it?

[Dave W]

its a NYC downtown junkie, tranny, andy warhol,  poser, bad artist, suicide loser kind of thing.

No wonder he's in the RRHOF.  

[Dave W]

The Velvet Underground had a lot of influence on bands I've dug over the years.  Giving you the creeps quite possibly was the desired effect sometimes.  Metallica OTH has always been safe as milk.

Are you sure it's actual influence, or could it be just a case of people claiming them as an influence because it's the thing to do?

[nofi]

  the velvet underground gave thousands of kids the confidence to form their own crappy bands.

[uwe]

He deserves fame for the lyric of Walk on the Wild Side alone. Much of what he and The Velvet Underground have done escapes me, but he's still a pivotal figure.

[Barklessdog]

I enjoyed the LP Berlin, a very depressing album, but very good.

[Dave W]

He deserves fame for the lyric of Walk on the Wild Side alone. Much of what he and The Velvet Underground have done escapes me, but he's still a pivotal figure.

Why anyone would think the lyric of Walk on the Wild Side is any good escapes me.

[Rob]

Why anyone would think the lyric of Walk on the Wild Side is any good escapes me.

Better than "Tweeter and the Monkey Man"

[PhilT]

I was switching TV channels and hit by accident the last spot on "Later with Jools Holland" (which is the only music show the BBC has left on TV). After a minute or so of "WTF is that" my wife read out the lineup for the show from the listings guide and it slowly dawned on us that it was Lou Reed & Metallica playing "White Light, White Heat". It looked and sounded like everyone in Metallica having their own individual, freeform, atonal ball, while Lou Reed was thinking, "I'm sure there's a song in here somewhere, where's the viola?". I never expected to criticize a rendition of a Velvet Underground song for being a mess, but was a mess, and worse, it was the wrong sort of mess. 

[Barklessdog]

This just in....

http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/klipsch-and-lou-reed-partner-up-on-purple-earphones/

Klipsch has partnered with rock icon Lou Reed on a re-issue of the popular Image X10i earphones.

Can Lou do no wrong?

You know they say its better to ghet a bad reaction than no reaction at all.

[Dave W]

Paul Klipsch must be spinning in his grave.

[uwe]

I was switching TV channels and hit by accident the last spot on "Later with Jools Holland" (which is the only music show the BBC has left on TV). After a minute or so of "WTF is that" my wife read out the lineup for the show from the listings guide and it slowly dawned on us that it was Lou Reed & Metallica playing "White Light, White Heat". It looked and sounded like everyone in Metallica having their own individual, freeform, atonal ball, while Lou Reed was thinking, "I'm sure there's a song in here somewhere, where's the viola?". I never expected to criticize a rendition of a Velvet Underground song for being a mess, but was a mess, and worse, it was the wrong sort of mess. 

You haven't heard enough Lour Reed bootlegs then, this is a disciplined rendition, though neither Herr Reed nor Herr Hetfield would get a job as background singers with the Beach Boys! 

[PhilT]

You haven't heard enough Lour Reed bootlegs then, this is a disciplined rendition, though neither Herr Reed nor Herr Hetfield would get a job as background singers with the Beach Boys!  

You're trying to sucker me into listening to that again, aren't you? <sticks Warholesque bananas in ears>

[Highlander]

They also performed Iced Honey and The View; small interview with Reed and Ulrich with comments from Jools Holland describing the music being very dark - Reed commenting "Is Hamlet dark...?", reply "Yes", Reed - "Then I like dark..."
Q- what's your idea of a great weekend...?
A - Reed - "Doing this..."
A - Ulrich - "Home with the kids..."

The "Later" appearance was their "live" debut and they seemed to enjoy it... no plans to tour, as of yet...

Interesting... I'll end up getting the CD... a fan of both but not a rabid one... never seen Metallica but saw Reed back in the eighties...

Uwe - Eric Bloom has a far superior voice to James Hetfield - can't see where you got the likeness in styles - care to name a couple of tracks I can back-to-back...?

[uwe]

Hetfield sounds to me like a darker, gruffer, singingwise more limited Eric Bloom. In Places. Listen to stuff like Harvester of Eyes or Veteran of the Psycic Wars. A lot of the more commercial BÖC stuff was sung by Buck Dharma or one of the Bouchard brothers.

[Dave W]

From a fake music news article on a parody site:

"The collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica was easily the highest point in an otherwise terribly dull year for music news. Lulu, their album of plodding heavy rock and mumbled teenager poetry, was so misguided, lazy, and inherently funny on every level that it left all other stories wanting.

At the risk of harping on a topic that's already been covered, it was seriously amazing. Where they failed musically, Lou Reed and James Hetfield harmonized perfectly while responding to criticism, their voices merging to create the sonically fueled apparition of one incredible mega-dick. Hetfield chalked the album's cold reception up to "fearful people" and Reed claimed that it had been intended for "literate people," shrugging off all responsibility for creating bad music and placing it on the shoulders of an imaginary audience that was being unfair and narrow-minded."