Or at least shoot him up with some smack and doll him up like a tranny so he can make one last decent album. This latest thing is just too utterly horrible… More steaming a pile of shit than that pretentious, embarrassing Raven crap. Even more unlistenable than Metal Machine Music! More obviously a phoned in attempt at making a quick buck than releasing a greatest hits album every year for the past 30 years despite a solo career conspicuously absent of a single hit! Make it stop!!! End the Madness!!!!
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I’ve been saying this for years. At least since his last semi-decent album “New York.” But now I add Metallica to my please-kill list. I would provide a link to them doing “White Light White Heat” with Lou Reed live, but I can’t bring myself to even see a still from that horrendous abortion.
I was just listening to New York. It’s still decent. I think in 1988 he was still resisting the sycophantic media and musicians who have since convinced him that every time he farts he redefines hipness… It’s a little sad. Or maybe Lou decided that teaming up with a band whose last decent album was also released in 1988 would make his shit stink less by comparison. But Metallica have made no bones about their being greedy whores, so I can’t really fault them for producing this half assed bullshit. Just another pay check for them… I saw the videos of them doing Sweet Jane and for some inexplicable reason Aneurysm by Nirvana. I need to listen to this to wash my earholes out:
yeah you’re right, that is really really bad.
Remember him in Get Crazy, from 1983? Even then, he was type-cast as a washed up songwriter trying to make a comeback.
Here is a clip of him trying to write one last decent song:
I totally forgot about that movie. A classic piece of cinema. Nada featuring Lee Ving is one of the most criminally underrated fake Hollywood punk bands of the 1980s. “JUMP ON MY FACE, YOU WIMPS!” Gotta add that to my Netflix queue.
Mack, I can’t even bear to listen to the track you posted to start this thread. I read some “samples” of lyrics for the whole project in a newsgroup and that put me off actually wanting to have to listen to any of it. Do you think they know that someone already wasted countless hours of humankind’s precious time by turning these stories into an opera? (it’s a sucky opera, too).
I’ve mostly ignored this thread (and listening to anything off the collabo) because Lou Reed didn’t write anything after New York. You’re not going to convince me otherwise, it’s more fun to pretend he just gave up or died or something. He never worked with Susan Boyle, he never worked with Metallica. Also because I’ve been listening to VU’s Loaded like non-stop and this would probably ruin him for a bit for me.
I think all you guys are just jealous that Lou Reed didn’t collaborate with you.
Crybabies.
Yeah. I had this whole jazz/ska/bluegrass fusion odyssey based on Gogol’s “The Nose” worked out that he would have just KILLED on. But he never returned any of my calls. The bastard.