Zer0

It's Lou Reed & The Metallicas. They wrote a concept album about the life of the Scottish singer Lulu.

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Actually, now that I think about it...James Hetfield probably would find yelling "I am the table" over and over pretty deep.

Honestly, I kind of really want to know what the recording sessions were like. It had to have been one of the most sad occurrences ever.

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Zer0

I say they were all as drunk as f*ck, there's no other explaination. I really hope that they'll look back someday and wonder "oh sweet jesus what were we thinking?". But the sad thing is they probably won't.

I'm also thinking, what would Metallica 1983 make of Metallica 2011? I say they'd be very depressed. Seriously have a listen to Kill 'Em All and imagine that band being involved in an album like Lulu.

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TheBig3

I'm sure 19 year old me thinks I'm a total sell-out pussy. The problem is 19 year old me is a sheltered moron with no world experience.

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Zer0

By world experience do you mean make millions, develop a bloated ego and loose touch with reality as a result of fame? If that's the case then I'd happily hang out with 19 year old you. At least being 19 and not giving a f*ck was fun.

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TheBig3

Yes, thats exactly what I mean by world experience. And 19 year old me hates you. I was an angry young man...and I loved Metallica.

But honestly, what Metallica in 1983 thinks about this album isn't a strong argument. In all honesty, I'm not going to listen to this album. It sounds like it would be bad and the reviews seem to back that up. But what does Metallica need to prove about their chops anymore? From where I sit, they aren't given the proper credit for what they've contributed to the music world (Yes, I am saying they are underrated) and they are universally hated for unrelated things like Napster and that St. Anger movie.

Plenty of bands make absolutely ****ty albums. Few of them changed changed a musical landscape as thoroughly as Metallica has. In the scheme of things, I think they’re doing just fine.

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Necromancer

Lars Ulrich stated on "That Metal Show" (with a grin on his face) that it was nothing more than a jam session without any kind of organized song structure at all.

He was talking earlier in the show how this all came about. How Lou Reed said to him at one time, that they should jam sometime. And Ulrich's reaction was like he was surprised when Reed actually called him and took the band up on the ideal.

I don't know why anyone would try to make some kind of big deal out of a simple jam session (only), and nothing more than that.

NSW

I saw this episode of That Metal Show, and I remember thinking at the time that Lars seemed a bit uncomfortable talking about it then. They all did. I suspect he realized what a bomb they'd made.

I listened to one song all the way through. They sounded like a band of wannabe kids jamming out for the very first time in their parents garage. Uncoordinated and cacophonous. It was painful.

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Unicr0n

Nineteen year old me totally thinks I'm a sell-out pussy too, I would imagine. He also probably thinks it's atrocious that I smoke a pack and a half of cigarettes a day and that I haven't gone to college.

Nineteen year old me is a dick, though. And thought he had world experience when really he was just a whiny kid.

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Salami

I have no idea what nineteen year old me will be like.

But seriously, it would greatly surprise me that anyone would offer to "jam" with Lars Ulrich, less so follow through when the offer is accepted. Lou Reed must have been really desperate.