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Bowie had a mischievous sense of humour yeah

Bowie loved to take the piss.

yeah you can joke but that was his actual view. you could even say lulu influenced blackstar

apparently Bowie called it Lou Reed's best album

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The spoken word being often very asynchronous from the music isn't even the worst thing about this album to me. It's the repetition, long periods of nothing happening, and the ridiculous, incredibly pretentious, shock value laden lyrics. I can usually overlook shitty lyrics, but when they're being spoken by an old man over the course of 70+ minutes, it's a serious problem. There's like one or two minutes' worth of good ideas in most of the songs on here that get drowned out by either being done for too long or drowned out by Lou Reed's ranting.

Disc 2 REALLY shits the bed with this album. Like, the first disc has its problems, but Iced Honey gets close to okay and Cheat On Me sounds like it could've been pretty good as a 5 minute instrumental. But on the second disc, the shortest song is 8 minutes, there are zero backing vox from James Hetfield (not that they're really good on this album anyway, but they work okay in Iced Honey and are pretty funny when matched with absurd lyrics in The View), they get addicted to having a good idea and repeating it for too fucking long, and worst of all, the "atmospheric" moments get really, really bad. Frustration has a couple minutes of decent 90s Metallica jamming stuck in there, interspersed with Reed ranting about being dry and spermless like a girl over weird noises. Little Dog is 8 minutes of nothing and truly sniffs its shit in the wind as the worst song on Lulu, which is quite the accomplishment. Dragon could potentially be maybe four minutes long, not fucking 11, and sure as hell not with those lyrics. Junior Dad is touching musically and lyrically, but goes on for four or five minutes too long on its own, and then they tack on almost nine minutes of droning noises.

Album Rating: 1.0

Well said FirstStrike. The repetitiveness and plain emptiness is just painful.

doesn't riff agreed

I AM THE TABLE

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Funnily enough, I remember that in most of the video interviews I watched related to this, Kirk Hammett always looked really pissed off. It made me think he's regretful about having been a part of this and that he hates it as much as almost everyone else does, even if he has spoken out in defense of it (which he's kinda obligated to, I guess, or else he'll look like a chump to many).



One time, Lars said this in an interview: "[…]when Metallica do impulsive riffing and Lou Reed is reciting abstract poetry about German bohemians from 150 years ago, it can be difficult to embrace." I think it's more difficult to embrace when Metallica is doing pretty much no riffing and Lou Reed is reciting abstract poetry about German bohemians from 150 years ago that doesn't even make chronological sense. She'd cut her legs and tits off when she thinks of Boris Karloff and Kinski in the dark of the moon? She gets killed by Jack the Ripper in the play and I guess there's a part in Dragon where that's supposed to be happening ("Are we really dead now?") but Boris Karloff wasn't even an actor yet when the events of the Lulu plays are supposed to be happening.

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Lars sucks heavily on this abomination.

Album Rating: 1.0

This album's what I point to for anyone who somehow hates Megadeth's Th1rt3en for whatever reason. Even considering the guys playing the music here are one of my all-time favourite bands, Th1rt3en easily sounds like one of the best albums of the last 20 years compared to Lulu. Then again, it had David Bowie's seal of approval, so the hell do I know, right?



Oh yeah, RIP Lou Reed.

Album Rating: 1.0

Muddle me this

Album Rating: 1.5

I actually liked Th1rt3en, Sure it was a step down from Endgame but that albums was decent imo. Super Collider was poor though. still better than this.

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finally gave this a spin and burst out laughing at how horrible the opening to it is. Lou Reed sounds like he'd never heard...any of it when they hit "record," and they decided to keep the first take anyway.

Album Rating: 3.0

im disappointed by you alexa

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It's complete shambles though. they didn't even try.

>3.5
>great

Damn

this isn't that bad. it's weird and entertaining, what more do you want.

Album Rating: 1.0

best riffs

better riffs