Review# 313So this is now streaming through the official Lou Reed & Metallica site http://www.loureedmetallica.com/listen-to-lulu.php
It is not good. Here is a copy of the concept: “Lulu was inspired by German writer Frank Wedekind’s plays “Earth Spirit” and “Pandora’s Box,” which tell a story of a young abused dancer’s life and relationships.
The plays, originally published in 1904 and set in Germany, Paris and London in the 1890s, whirl between the points of view of Lulu, an inverted-Eve-like cipher-mirror of desire and abuse, and the people who fall desperately in love with her. Lulu is the great femme fatale. She was conceived as immoral. Or amoral.”
The plays, originally published in 1904 and set in Germany, Paris and London in the 1890s, whirl between the points of view of Lulu, an inverted-Eve-like cipher-mirror of desire and abuse, and the people who fall desperately in love with her. Lulu is the great femme fatale. She was conceived as immoral. Or amoral.”
So, interesting idea? Does it work when an old man talks some lyrics in a very old-manny voice while the most commercially successful metal band plays some rather boring riffs in the backround and Lars Ulrich abuses a drum kit like he is a 12 year old boy who just learnt to masturbate? Ummm... no. Oh and James Hetfield yells “I AM A TABLE I AM A TABLE” … yes James. And that is not even the most bizarre lyric... “I swallow your sharpest cutter, like a coloured man's dick” … ummmm???
And the album is long... just too long and tedious. Especially the 19.29min song at the end, Junior Dad, which drags on and on with just strings and not really a lot going on.
And check out the dislikes for the first track to be released, The View, below.
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