metal machine music
 

i pulled this out of my collection for the first time in a long time today. it still sounds fucking great. even with the countless amazing noise, drone, and ambient over the years this still sounds like a landmark.

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i like to think the sqeaks on the record are mice dying in the studio from an audio overload

I never got the hate on this record from serious noise fans, most seem to think it's bullshit.

i put the album on for the 8 year old that i tutor. she didn't like it.

i really like it.

i think the hate comes from both the pretentiousness lou wrapped the album with and his (endlessly contradicting) claims that if people like it, they were idiots.

i really want to hear it. Is it just complete noise? is there any rythym, i dunno what to expect

no rhythm, no vocals.

just droning, dissonant electronics.

i bet your picture of metallica with ricky martin scares me more than my picture of tina fey scares you.

It's alright. It's got some interesting moments. Still probably the best work Lou Reed has ever appeared on.

"My week beats your year"

uhler: probably, i'm one upping you.

ive always thought of it as more guitar based ambiebnt drone, than noise. its not really harsh. i thought it was gonna be brutal as fuck till i realized the people who desribed it as such did so in 1975, before punk, before industrial, before no wave, before noise.

everyneurotic, best pic ever.

Lou Reed once said that when this came out he took it to to the RCA offices in Tokyo and they loved it.

no wonder, porky!

br: it represents what 'tallica is now, innit?

are not industry people known for their out and out lying and "praise" of whatever is thrown their way?

Well, Lou Reed's American side of business at the time told him that it was a crazy and absurd piece of work, and they worked for the same record company the Japanese did.

the u.s. label also denied lou's demand that it comes out on their classical subsidiary and largely played against it so that it didn't sell well (wasn't sent to distributors, pressings were wrong and returned, release date pushed back several times, no promos were sent, etc.)

My copy has a promo stamp.

but was it "sent?"