Check Out This Preview From The Lou Reed & Metallica Project ‘Lulu’
Posted by Empress Eve | September 19th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
Lou Reed and Metallica have released a 30-second preview of the song “The View” from their upcoming collaboration album Lulu.
Check out the preview here below, along with full track listing and album cover art.
The full song The View will be available at online music retailers on September 27, 2011, while the full album Lulu comes out on November 1, 2011 in North America (on October 31, 2011 worldwide).
What this preview sounds like to me is a Metallica song with Lou Reed doing William Shatner-style spoken word over it. And I’m OK with that. Now, this is only a brief snippet of the song, so I have no idea if it’s all like this or even if the entire album sounds this way. I am curious though, being a fan of both Lou Reed and Metallica, and I’ll definitely be picking up the album when it’s released.
The idea for these two giants of modern music to work together was born after the 25th anniversary Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame concerts in New York City in October 2009. Metallica -singer/guitarist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Rob Trujillo – played with Reed on Velvet Underground classics “Sweet Jane” and “White Light/White Heat.” “We knew from then that we were made for each other,” Reed says.
After that triumphant performance, Reed suggested they all make a record together. At first they planned to record an album of Reed’s older material, what Ulrich describes as “some of Lou’s lost jewels – songs that he felt he’d like to give a second spin, and we could do whatever it is we do to some of those songs.” That idea “hung in the air for a couple of months.” Then, a week or two before that session was to begin, “Lou called up and said, ‘Listen, I have this other idea.’”
That idea was to record a series of songs Reed had written for American avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson and German theater group the Berliner Ensemble’s production of the Lulu Plays, which premiered in Aprilat theTheatre am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, founded by Bertolt Brecht. The songs are inspired by German expressionist Frank Wedekind’s early 20th century plays Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box, and were a rewrite of Edgar Allan Poe’s, The Raven, which emerged as a graphic novel on Fantagraphics Press.
Track Listing
1. Brandenburg Gate (4:19)
2. The View (5:17)
3. Pumping Blood (7:24)
4. Mistress Dread (6:52)
5. Iced Honey (4:36)
6. Cheat On Me (11:26)
7. Frustration (8:33)
8. Little Dog (8:01)
9. Dragon (11:08)
10. Junior Dad (19:28)
Ouch. I’m going to admit that I’ve loved most Metallica albums. Even enjoyed Load and ReLoad to some degree (they grew on me). This? I don’t know. Kinda sounds bizarre, like there’s just something “wrong” with it. Almost like someone was playing the record backwards. I’ll remain open minded and give it a chance but definitely not going to purchase this one on November 1st without hearing more of it first.
http://twitter.com/cGt2099 Greg Davies/cGt2099
Sounds bizarre… but look at the last track, almost 20 minutes long!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Christian-LaVenture/100001665897640 Christian LaVenture
WTF ???? When we were kids we used to play records backwards to hear the hidden messages. Sounds like that. I don’t think I will be buying that one right away.
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