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Originally Posted by Frownland
I definitely consider MMM a classic, but not because it's widely considered to be such. An album like that in 1975 is just so insanely unheard of and had a massive effect on the avant-garde scene. It might be a troll album, but I don't think that that's the only motivation behind it. Lou Reed always had a disposition toward the experimental, so it's not very unlikely that he used his jadedness as a jumping off point for something that he really wanted to do.
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I like MMM too, and I don't think anybody listens to music just because it's popular. Maybe when you're in high school and you're trying to impress your friends or get laid, but those people always hate on music for the same reason. Regardless of Reed's motivation, I like abstract.