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Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off
I don't think it's about the triteness of the line, Irving, just that it's a sixty-nine year old man singing it that makes it ridiculous.
(I'm not even going to address how fucked up that line is in terms of objectifying black women.)
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Who the fuck is defending the lyrics on DT's last album?
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haters
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Nice try, Lou
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As terrified as I am to admit it to this group of hungry beasts, I like this a bunch. I understand why one would not, but I don't think the album warrants this amount of hatred and scorn. I'm not trying to be contrarian at all; I simply think that Lou Reed and Metallica have crafted something quite unique, interesting, often thrilling, and nearly always compelling. I severely doubt that poterity will judge the record as harshly as most are judging it currently. Let the hate commence...
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Not even going to bother with this because I don't enjoy Metallica in the first place and this sounds like a new level of bad. Whoop.
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As terrified as I am to admit it to this group of hungry beasts, I like this a bunch. I understand why one would not, but I don't think the album warrants this amount of hatred and scorn. I'm not trying to be contrarian at all; I simply think that Lou Reed and Metallica have crafted something quite unique, interesting, often thrilling, and nearly always compelling. I severely doubt that poterity will judge the record as harshly as most are judging it currently. Let the hate commence...
Just... think about it this way:
Is there any moment you can conceive of where you'd think "Oh, gee, you know what the perfect album to listen to right now would be? Lulu!"
The album tries to be ridiculously grandiose, but has no lyrical, vocal, or, for the most part, instrumental content to back it up. It's a long-winded rambling with backup "OOH-AH"s the likes of only James Hetfield can deliver, supported by a few bad, repetitive riffs and the really, really bad drumming.
But it's all meant to make us read plays, right?
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album is pure poetry. you guys are just too stupid to see the carefully calculated beauty.
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The album tries to be ridiculously grandiose, but has no lyrical, vocal, or, for the most part, instrumental content to back it up.
Ridiculously grandiose? How so? Because there's a concept behind the music? It's a very a raw sounding recording. There are no layered vocals or slickly overdubbed guitar parts. Sure, there are some orchestral stringed instruments. They are needed to execute the wide range of sound this covers. Still, it's very restrained. I'd say it's certainly no S&M in terms of a "grandiose" Metallica comparison. Vocal-wise, James sounds better here than he has on anything since that very album. Regarding the lyrics, if you can't see anything of artistic merit, I don't know what to tell you. Same with the music itself. Even the average hater will generally say things like "man, these riffs would be great on a real Metallica record " or "if only this was an instrumental album."
It's a long-winded rambling with backup "OOH-AH"s the likes of only James Hetfield can deliver
Name one instance where that actually happens.
But it's all meant to make us read plays, right?
The lyrics to each song stand on their own quite well. I don't see what could be so difficult to understand if you know the basic inspiration behind them.
album is pure poetry. you guys are just too stupid to see the carefully calculated beauty.
You say that in jest, yet it's the very truth you refuse to accept.
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edgar allen poe
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This album sucks and whoever likes it sucks.
End of story. Goodnight.
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Ridiculously grandiose? How so? Because there's a concept behind the music? It's a very a raw sounding recording. There are no layered vocals or slickly overdubbed guitar parts. Sure, there are some orchestral stringed instruments. They are needed to execute the wide range of sound this covers. Still, it's very restrained. I'd say it's certainly no S&M in terms of a "grandiose" Metallica comparison. Vocal-wise, James sounds better here than he has on anything since that very album. Regarding the lyrics, if you can't see anything of artistic merit, I don't know what to tell you. Same with the music itself. Even the average hater will generally say things like "man, these riffs would be great on a real Metallica record " or "if only this was an instrumental album."
The album is long and dense, thus, creating the atmosphere of a project that asserts itself as larger than life, or, if you will, grandiose.
You may disagree, but it tries to cram itself full of instrumental arrangements, vocals, and lyrics which assert themselves as poetic but really amount to nothing short of hollow. You need look no further than the hilarious quotes floating around the comments on this review to see that. The sheer way in which Reed rambles on and on and on contributes to the grandiose nature of the project, piling words into the music in an a-melodic way that screams "we never really thought this out, but it's still as big and cool as you expected it to be!" It's grandiose because it flaunts tracks with immense length and little to no real content.
It's an exercise in posturing and nothing more. Because, for fuck's sake, this is Lou Reed and Metallica, and they can't handle the fact that anything the two would create in tandem might be less than spectacular.
Maybe you think it's great. Hats off to you for that. As I've said elsewhere, people find merit in John Frusciante's "Smile from the Streets You Hold," which even John himself holds to be a piece of shit. But the fact of the matter is that there is, objectively, very little of musical merit on this record.
But it's all meant to make us read plays, right?
This was meant as a joke against another user from another of the reviews posted here. Or maybe it was you. I don't really care. He seemed to argue that the entire point of the album was to inspire people to read the plays it was, supposedly, based on.
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I argued the entire point of the album was to read the plays? lol. Please quote where the fuck you read that. You most likely are referring to me, because I am one of the few people to even bring up the plays. I said that is one of the things, among many others, that I got from this album. Which was to check the plays out.
This album is full of jokes. William Shatner does awful covers of songs, that are so bad they are good and comedic, yet when Lou and Metallica burst out with some hilarious shit you people just don't get it. Holy shit, if you take this album seriously you need to get your head checked and you need to find a sense of humor somewhere...anywhere.
I AM THE TABLE. ICED HONEY.
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bill shatner ain't no musician, homes
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all of you shut the fuck up for fuck sakes
not satty
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especially satty
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BOOTZ
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especially you
and take it
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You leave her out of this
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don't lie u kno she felt good
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