Metallica and the legendary Lou Reed are set to release their much talked about collaboration titled "Lulu". I have never had any problems with Metallica, even caught
them live a few years ago…killer show (except for Lars, who after a while gets
quite annoying). Lou Reed, well without Lou pushing the boundaries from the
late sixties on we would not have had any number of musical genres that graced
our musical memories. But…and it’s a big But, I know this is supposed to work
as maybe a performance piece where Lou reads/sings the lyrics throughout and
Metallica provides the musical base for it all and occasionally we hear James
scream something…I just can’t seem to get the picture of them as their own
individual artists out of my head , they just don't mix together well.
If you take
Lou’s voice tracks and maybe mix them with some different music it might take on another
whole life of its own that works, and the same goes for Metallica…..but
together in my opinion just does not work, peanut butter and chocolate it is not.
Lulu is released Oct
31st worldwide and November the 1st in North America, you
can check it out now for free as it’s streaming at Lou Reed & Metallica
Joe Cornelisse-SSGS
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