#Lulu Reed

[dirtylowdown2]

via Blake Thompson

[soulmusicsongs]

Lovin' - Lulu Reed (Idle Gossip / Lovin', 1960)

[frampk]

it’s so disorienting to look at young Lou and listen to old Lou and vice versa

like looking at him

and hearing this

[veni-vidi-vici-ous]

i can feel the earth spinning and this

is the fucking window my high ass just climbed through thank you thank you

[marcbolanfan]

Happy LULU/Frampk’s wife’s BIRTHDAY!!!!

@frampk

[ungoliantschilde]

Lulu, by Lou Reed with Metallica - 2011.

Lou Reed answers the question of “What if Bob Dylan was an unrepentant, angry dickhead who forever coasted on a great album from the late 1960s?”

Lars often comes off as a pretentious ass. The usual criticism of Lars is that he’s not a great drummer. My rebuttal to him being a dick is that yes, he can be a dick. And his contribution to Metallica is to be the editorial side of James’ brain. James writes riffs. He plays guitar like a drummer, to put it bluntly. So, Lars’ job as a drummer is to follow James’ riffs. Behind the scenes though, the whole band relies on Lars to pick the best riffs and put them in the right place. Dave Mustaine wrote the riff for “the Four Horsemen”. It’s a classic Metallica thrash banger. When Dave recorded the riff for his own song, it became “Mechanix”, a forgotten gem that will never show up any best of list. That’s what Lars does. He edits the band and puts all of it together. He is a decent, functional drummer… but he’s a spectacular musician.

So, Lou Reed was an asshole that recorded that Velvet Underground album and he knew Andy Warhol and blah blah blah who gives a fuck.

Metallica played “Sweet Jane” with Lou Reed at some televised concert thing, and Lars hit it off with Lou. Because of course they fucking did.

Lou and Metallica made a concept album based on a series of plays written by who gives a fuck from the time period of I don’t care to read more about pretentious assholes making self-satisfied crap for nobody to enjoy.

This is the worst thing Metallica ever did. It’s not even a good Lou Reed album. It’s Lou Reed spitting angry nonsense about a play that no one read for 2 hours while Metallica plays in the background. Lou doesn’t sing. It’s all spoken word with Metallica trying to make it work as a backing band.

And just in case you’re wondering, the recording sessions were reportedly awful. Lou Reed getting into screaming matches with the band, near fist fights, and more. Lou was a 69 year old former heroin addict that wrote all of his best stuff before 1981. He was an angry fossil with delusions of greatness at this point in his life.

Metallica was feeling creative and enjoyed playing with Lou at the concert, so it felt like a fun adventure for them. Oops.

Their playing is good. The songs are just bad, if that makes sense. Every review says that this should be seen as a Lou Reed album. Lou Reed fans say the album is “difficult” and “requires patience”.

Because it sucks.

There are no songs worth hearing. There was one single and I don’t care to look up what it’s called.

[crossoverheaven]

[evil-wawe-form]

Lou Reed & Metallica - Cheat On Me

[guerrilla-operator]

Lou Reed and Metallica // Iced Honey

If you can't put a butterfly in a jar If violence marks your final hour If you make others feel like jam Poured on a piece of charbroiled lamb If it's all mixed up and you cannot shout And your oxygen starts to run out If your final gasp has the recipe wrong And instead of hello you say so long If your energy starts to leak out And people wonder what you're all about A heartbreaker with an unattached heart The story of love gives them all a start And me, I've always been this way Not by choice, just this way I can't put my honey pot in a jar Or a heart or a fist of a-some young boy If you can't put a butterfly in a jar No wonder, no need to wonder Where you are It might seem like Hell, the river Styx Your affection never sticks No matter what you say No matter what you do A butterfly heart Flies right past you There is nothing to say Nothing to do See if the ice will melt for you

[themandownstairs]

you can tell I'm a tumblr user because when you ask my favorite Metallica album my answer is the one where an ambiguously queer old man stumbled in and rambled insane poetry about a play he saw over James Hetfield claiming to be numerous furniture pieces for an hour

[yonoseporqueestoy]

Sometimes I forget this exists

[mitjalovse]

The 10's and veterans? I mean, look, every decade is different, but the 10's probably felt strange for them. While I believe we still lack the distance needed to define the period, I would dare to claim that weirdness actually made them. Thus, I propose Lulu by Metallica and Lou Reed as one of the early harbingers of that. Before you laugh, hear me out – imagine two similar musical entities doing something in the vein of Lulu these days. They would probably get a much better response than the record we discuss. Moreover, Lulu might be a tough listen – intentionally, I'll add –, yet both Reed and Metallica are basically firing more than one would've assumed. Not bad for a bunch of people who were called old farts then, ey?

[soulmusicsongs]

Idle Gossip - Lulu Reed (Idle Gossip / Lovin', 1960)

[frampk]

who ordered the Lulu Slab

[veni-vidi-vici-ous]

what do u think of my lulu jacket (its still not done but i cant get this damn chain to stay on also im going to put some lyrics from junior dad on there somehow i just want to do it when it feels right

anyway heres my

HEART ON MY FUCKING SLEEVE!!!! and my RED STAR OF IDIOCY!!!!

[marcbolanfan]

favourite Marc and/or Lou songs⁉️

+ I hope you get well soon‼️

Some of my favourite Marc songs are

The Friends (1968)

Nameless Wildness (1974)

Eastern Spell (1968)

Sea Beasts (1969)

Causal Agent (1976)

Frowning Atahuallpa (1968)

And many more

Some of my favourite Lou songs

I Want to Boogie with You (1979)

Sally Can’t Dance (1974)

The View (2012)

Perfect Day (1972)

Like a Possum (2000)

And way too much more

Also I am feeling better too!