Lou Reed and Metallica record an album together

[masterofsparks]

Count me in the "never got into solo Lou Reed" group. In fact, the older I get, the less I even care about VU. I find myself increasingly drawn to their poppier, less screechy/avant stuff (i.e. Loaded, Live 1969, and about half of the s/t LP) as the years pass, but even then I wouldn't really be upset if I never heard one of their albums again.

In truth, Metallica's music means a lot more to me than Lou Reed's (this in spite of the fact that they've been pretty worthless for the last 20 or so years), but that probably has to do more with the fact that I grew up listening to their music and never really heard the Velvets until well into my teens and the Reed solo stuff much later.

[nec13]

Count me in the "never got into solo Lou Reed" group. In fact, the older I get, the less I even care about VU. I find myself increasingly drawn to their poppier, less screechy/avant stuff (i.e. Loaded, Live 1969, and about half of the s/t LP) as the years pass, but even then I wouldn't really be upset if I never heard one of their albums again.

In truth, Metallica's music means a lot more to me than Lou Reed's (this in spite of the fact that they've been pretty worthless for the last 20 or so years), but that probably has to do more with the fact that I grew up listening to their music and never really heard the Velvets until well into my teens and the Reed solo stuff much later.

Same here.

I can't tell you the last time that I've actually had the desire to put on a VU album. For me, they were a good, sometimes great band. But on the whole, I find them to be a bit overrated. The music coming out of the garage, freakbeat and psych-folk scenes during that age resonates with me a lot more than those old VU records.

(prepares to don flame suit)

[cavorting with nudists]

No point in flaming, but for me they really were genuinely, without exaggerating or forcing it to establish any kind of hep or avant credentials or anything, the greatest rock & roll band of all time. (Rolling Stones a close second.)

[cavorting with nudists]

Lou Reed albums I love/like a lot: Berlin, Rock & Roll Animal, Lou Reed Live, Coney Island Baby, Street Hassle, Blue Mask, Legendary Hearts. Live in Italy. Almost making the cut, somewhat surprisingly to me: Ecstasy. Unfortunately, the song on it that he seems to like the most--he played it on Elvis Costello's TV show and encored with it at the performance of Berlin at St. Ann's--is called "Rock Minuet" and it's revolting.  Not just lyrically--I even find the idea of a "rock minuet" revolting.

Lou Reed albums I'm glad to own: Transformer, Different Times (a 70s comp), Take No Prisoners, Songs for Drella, Magic & Loss, Set the Twilight Reeling. I never really got into New York for some reason.

I know you were all clamouring for this information, so--there you go!

[Omar]

"I can do ab crunches quite efficiently to it." -- Glenn Kenny

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2011/11/lou-reed-and-metallica-lulu.html

[Steve of Bloomington]

Judge if you will, but I think 'New York' was a great album. I don't listen to it on a regular basis, but I pulled it not long ago and thought it held up. It's very tied in to New York and the world in the 80s as far as lyrics go, but it's not 80s as far as the sound goes, which helps.

As far as the Velvets go, I still like them a lot, but like some others here I am more interested in checking out some other music than in listening to their records now. I have some favorite albums I will listen to a couple times a year (Double Nickels on the Dime, Funhouse, etc), but I'm not really one to wear anything out.

[fonpr]

Judge if you will, but I think 'New York' was a great album. I don't listen to it on a regular basis, but I pulled it not long ago and thought it held up. It's very tied in to New York and the world in the 80s as far as lyrics go, but it's not 80s as far as the sound goes, which helps.

New York is a very solid record.  Saw that tour.  The show was pretty great.  Half Japanese with Maureen Tucker opened.

Has anyone mentioned The Blue Mask?

[cavorting with nudists]

Me.

[fonpr]

Me.

Good show!

Haven't listened lately but I remember Waves Of Fear as wonderfully harrowing, both musically and lyrically.

[buffcoat]

New York is a very solid record.  Saw that tour.  The show was pretty great.  Half Japanese with Maureen Tucker opened.

Did Moe end the show with a dramatic reading from Atlas Shrugged?

[fonpr]

New York is a very solid record.  Saw that tour.  The show was pretty great.  Half Japanese with Maureen Tucker opened.

Did Moe end the show with a dramatic reading from Atlas Shrugged?

Nah, this was in the 80s.

She was dressed as Maggie Thatcher.

[cavorting with nudists]

Everybody saw this, I assume?

http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2011/11/08/lou-reed-at-starbucks-an-illustrated-account

[Omar]

"Iced Honey" on Later ... with Jools Holland.

[Paul DeLouisiana]

So they put it on in the record store I was shopping in yesterday and I said it sounds like the poor man's Grinderman.

[Crusherkc]

"You should see Trujillo (prounced 'Tru-hee-ho") gettin' down on this thing" - Joff from Newbridge Heights from the 11/08 show.