1. I want an oral history of the making of this album that includes commentary from the engineers, producers, Metallica’s management team and whoever Lou Reed happens to talk to now. I want to know how and why this happened and who let it happen.
2. My favorite parts are when Hetfield starts singing right after Lou Reed’s done with his talking part. Sometimes it sounds he tries to match Reed’s tone so that it isn’t too jarring. No use Hetfield, everything on this album is jarring.
3. Is Lou Reed just using any words that rhyme? Wait, did he always do this?
4. I kind of surprised how melodic “Brandenburg Gate” is for Metallica. But perhaps they’ve always done this, I’m not going to start confessing that I listen to Metallica before this album.
5. This album will be a lot better 15 years from now when we can say “Remember when Lou Reed did an album with Metallica?!” It’ll be a popular question that the quizzo robots of the 2020’s will use a lot.
6. “Lou Reed + _____” sounds weird at this point. Metallica at least could work with a rapper (see: Ludacris rapping over Black Sabbath on the last Girl Talk album - it could work!), but Lou Reed pairing up with anyone else in the 21st Century is straight up bonkers.
7. Lars Ulrich is the last drummer that should be allowed to solo.
8. “Why do I cheat on meeeeaaah!”
9. So these songs were mostly recorded in one-take? Seriously? Wow. Totally doesn’t sound like it.
10. After listening to “Frustration” for the second time I think I have it figured out. This is the musical version of The Room, right?
11. “Little Dog” is the most worthless song ever.
12. “Dragon” sounds like Metallica wrote half a song and Lou Reed wrote half a song and when they brought them together they considered it a song.
13. This isn’t restricted to Lulu, but do people really think Metallica is good? There are so many heavier and more inventive metal bands than them. Are they the metal band for people that don’t like metal?
14. Listening to Lou Reed’s lyrics on this album reminds me how lucid and awesome Bob Dylan still is.
15. I really don’t like Metallica, but this is clearly Lou Reed’s fault.
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I’m constantly reading things on the internet, everyday; in fact it’s my only source of information. I’ve disciplined myself enough that I don’t hear the useless chatter of traditional forms of consuming news. I’m happy that I don’t know the exact circumstances of what Hank Williams Jr. said or what happened to him and I still don’t know what that latest murder court case was about or what happened. I don’t need that noise and I’m better for it.
The current internet though has the comment option at the bottom of almost every piece of content published. It’s so prevalent that when websites like Grantland don’t give the unwashed masses the ability to include their uninformed two cents, it feels quiet, like a library. Often I do like the comments on articles as it can give a sense of the audience’s reaction, which alarmingly lines up with the original content in the first place. The only disconnect I can think of is The A.V. Club where the content is usually smart but the comments are among the dumbest.
But recently I’ve been reading the things I always read on the internet and enjoying them, but avoiding the comments. I’m not sure exactly why, but I’m just sick of the “sounds interesting” or “why this is wrong” or “exactly” that you usually get. If you have something to say, publish some media yourself and put some thought into it. Do enough research that you can make a informed thought that pushes the conversation forward. Curated sites like Hacker News do this all the time in which well thought out responses are created in curated on a topic, today it was the topic of Google’s new programming language Dart. Until then, don’t waste everyone’s time.
It’s on Fuse now. The format is completely different, but it basically comes down to two guests and a musical performance. It doesn’t appear that he has a studio or an audience because he was on location in some museum in L.A. for the intro and first sit-down guest.
“It’s maybe the best thing done by anyone, ever. It could create another planetary system. I’m not joking, and I’m not being egotistical.” — Lou Reed on his collaboration with Metallica which will be released November 1st. I think he’s already right.
Here’s another way to put it. The wise Ron Bennington once said in response to the disappointing ending of Lost that “just once I want something to live up to the hype.”
“Video Games” is the hype. And probably the best song too.
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