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Re: METALLICA and LOU REED: Official Web Site Launched
apex-twin wrote:Having said all that, I find it to be a refreshingly daunting piece of work - and would say it's the most interesting thing I've heard in relation to Tallica since Justice
You cannot be fucking serious...
It's something new, and it goes completely against the grain. They're not relying on their back catalogue or someone else's. They're not trying to "re-invent" themselves and have half the band wear eyeliner. They're taking the signature sound to a new environment, not bothering with the general consensus.
The album has them, doing what they do best, in a place they've never been before. For better or for worse, I feel the effort is commendable.
Re: METALLICA and LOU REED: Official Web Site Launched
I think recording a radio-ready, straight-forward (almost hard rock) record, self-titled "Metallica" is what no one expected them to do in 1990/91 and it was ballsy.
They basically said, we can come in here, do the music you don't want us to do, and we'll still sellout, we'll still make your sister hit her knees and open wide, because we're fuckin' Metallica and you're not.
I also don't think people expected them to follow up that mammoth was basically a double-album loaded with blues songs. They didn't expect that either. And although it was their UYI moment, and GNR's UYI was better... it was good stuff and gutsy.
If you feel the effort is commendable, that's fine, what i'm focusing on this the comment as "most interesting since Justice". There's no way that's possible.
And that's frankly been the problem since Reload. A covers album (no matter how good) was predictable. A symphony album was REALLY predictable as I think Scorpions or someone else (can't remember) had already done it. St. Anger was another obvious attempt to connect to a modern audience in a really CD-clusterfuckey sort of way. And then they relied on their past, Death Magnetic, to try and pull their asses out of the grave, and although it worked, the album is severly overrated. It's better than Reload & St. Anger, but it wasn't even the best rock album of 2008.
So yeah, I guess on that level this Lou Reed collab is something no one expected, but I just think the whole thing is a wasted opportunity. They wrote material that will NEVER be widely accepted, that will always be trashed, that never had a chance. ever. It might be ballsy, but how smart was it?
I'd much rather had an album with Iggy Pop doing vocals with Metallica riffs n' melodies, then having James come in for harmonies. Now that would've kicked ten tons of ass.
Re: METALLICA and LOU REED: Official Web Site Launched
haha a couple guys at work know i'm a metal head...they go "hey did you buy the new metallica album? we didnt even know it was out"...i proceeded to play them the 30 second preview 
the one guy goes "man i'm glad i didnt buy that cold. i would broke something"
aparently it only sold 13,000 copies out of the gate
