When we first learned that Lou Reed and Metallica had gone and made an entire album together, just about everyone asked the same question at the exact same time: How could this possibly sound? We’re still a long way away from a definitive answer, but based on the just-leaked 30-second clip of their collaborative track “The View,” we’re a whole lot closer to figuring this thing out.
Judging by these 30 seconds, the Reed/Metallica album will sound pretty awkward! And goofy! Is Reed going to keep going with that overblown, half-parodic beat-poet vocal style all through the album? Did he really think it was a good idea to say the word “despises” like that? Is Metallica going to be in their Load-era turgid-riff style for the entire length of the album? And if this is the first 30 seconds of the album that everyone involved wanted us to hear first, then how bad is the rest of this shit going to be? Listen below!
Lulu is out 11/1 on Warner Bros.
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I heard that bit last night, and I almost fell off my chair. “Awkward” doesn’t even fully describe it. Honestly, I don’t know what Metallica is thinking… Out of ideas much? Or a contract signed while drunk in Vegas? I don’t know what else to think…
sounds like a poorly executed mashup. are we sure someone didn’t put this together on Audacity? lets investigate.
It is a mashup! it’s a mashup of my grandfather doing his first spoken word at a poetry night hosted by first year drama students.
Destined for the 99 cent bin of music history.
I can’t believe they wrote a song about Barbara Walters.
I used to worship Metallica. They really should’ve quit while they were ahead….
Did Lou and Metallica just get done listening to a bunch of Rollins Band and decided they should sound more like them?
No joke – I just played this clip and within the first 25 seconds, I involuntarily and simultaneously crapped into my hand while snorting a line of staples. Now I’m sitting here with a marketing report I’ll have to tape together and a palm ful of assdirt.
These are the days of our lives.
Really? No. REALLY?!
i knew this would happen. we all knew this would happen.
and yet i’m still disappointed.
This sounds like my band! Yes, we’re THAT* good.
* “It’s maybe the best thing done by anyone, ever”. Truly immortal words by Lou Reed. Wikiquote material, ladies and gentlemen.