ALBUM: Lou Reed "Metal Machine Music."

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ALBUM: Lou Reed " Metal Machine Music."

The stories about this album get passed around more than the fucking record,

It's one of the first albums I bought when I was getting into experimental music. Not Crap at all, but it's really the only Lou Reed I play besides the Velvet Underground.

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ALBUM: Lou Reed " Metal Machine Music."

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CRAP

Boogens_Archive

ALBUM: Lou Reed " Metal Machine Music."

33 by Boogens_Archive

Not crap for the sheer fact that the record was pressed so that side 4 plays continuously (does not end) and you literally have to walk your ass over to turn it off!

Brett Eugene Ralph_Archive

ALBUM: Lou Reed " Metal Machine Music."

34 by Brett Eugene Ralph_Archive

I really love a lot of Lou Reed's music, and I am interested in the mythology behind this record--amphetamine psychosis manifesting itself as a massive "fuck you" to record company and fans alike. I like reading about Metal Machine Music about as much as I like reading other kinds of pranks and performance art. This is not to say that I will ever likely feel the need to listen to this record. I mean, I like that the Burning Man got burned up and stomped all those hippies' buzz--but that doesn't mean I needed to be there to see it happen.

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ALBUM: Lou Reed " Metal Machine Music."

35 by Dunderpate_Archive

An unheralded masterpiece. Totally fucking brilliant. So, so good.

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ALBUM: Lou Reed " Metal Machine Music."

36 by Coshhlocker_Archive

Somehow I've managed to unintentionally avoid this album for years after hearing repeatedly of what a seminal piece of work it is.

So far I'm about 12 minutes in and I sincerely hope I get to play Paperboy when it's finished.

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ALBUM: Lou Reed " Metal Machine Music."

37 by robert thefamilyghost_Archive

NOT CRAP! his best solo record, and he did have a few other good ones...but Metal Machine Music is amazing...

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ALBUM: Lou Reed " Metal Machine Music."

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Sid Hartha wrote:'It can't be done.' They said, 'We
transcribed it.

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ALBUM: Lou Reed " Metal Machine Music."

39 by Steve V_Archive

Pitchfork Media interview with Lou Reed about MMM.

Pitchfork: There's always been considerable chatter about whether or not Metal Machine Music was intended as a joke, or a stab at the record industry-- do you think the continuing conjecture about your intentions for the record is, now, as much a part of the art as the music?

Reed: The myth-- depends on how you look at it, but the myth is sort of better than the truth. The myth is that I made it to get out of a recording contract. OK, but the truth is that I wouldn't do that, because I wouldn't want you to buy a record that I didn't really like, that I was just trying to do a legal thing with. I wouldn't do something like that. The truth is that I really, really, really loved it. I was in a position where I could have it come out. I just didn't want it to come out and have the audience think it was more rock songs. It was only on the market for three weeks anyway. Then they took it away.

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