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.