![]() Wouldn’t Lou Reed approve of my impulsiveness? Don’t think, just emote. Instead, I decided to go with my gut and just respond instinctually to the noises coming through my speakers. I can’t do the same for Metal Machine Music. In Jeff’s post on Andrew Ridgeley, he listened to the music and intelligently discussed its shortcomings from both musical and lyrical points of view. All sixteen minutes and ten seconds of it. I waited until everyone left the office for the day. Don’t download it unless you are prepared. Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music, Part I ( don’t download) I read all of this and thought, “how bad could it be?” He recorded the work on a four-track tape recorder in his New York apartment, mixing the four tracks for stereo. He would then place the guitars in front of their amplifiers, and the feedback from the very large amps would vibrate the strings – the guitars were, effectively, playing themselves. ![]() The two guitars were tuned in unusual ways and played with different reverb levels. I was also really, really stoned.” However, as the last sentence in Reed’s liner notes to the recording would suggest, some motivation to release Metal Machine Music came as a reaction to restricting contractual obligations from RCA at the time the sentence, “My week beats your year.” Lou Reed claimed in the liner notes to have invented heavy metal music, and that this album was the ultimate conclusion for that genre.Īccording to Reed (despite the original liner notes), the album entirely consists of guitar feedback played at different speeds. Reed has since contradicted popular sentiment, stating that “I was serious about it. Metal Machine Music is generally considered to be either a joke, a begrudging fulfillment of a contractual obligation, or an early example of noise music. Here are a few choice excerpts from the Wiki: I don’t need to regurgitate it here (after all, that’s what my usual posts are for!). Plenty has been said about Metal Machine Music. I had no idea what Metal Machine Music was all about. “Damn him!” Of course, this was just based on me thinking this was Lou Reed in general. I hesitantly opened up the Amazon packaging. As you may have read over at his site, he retaliated by sending me Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music. So when I recently sent him Andrew Ridgeley’s Son Of Albert CD – a response to merciless ribbing – you’d think he would have kept the above apology in mind.īut he didn’t. “In terms of musical retribution, it may have been overkill.” “I just finished listening to most of “Only in America Volume 2,” he said. That was when Jeff sent me Only In America, Volume 2, which I posted – twice! – and most of you rightfully ignored. I think the reason Jeff doesn’t understand this is because he’s a housewife.Īnyway, so Jeff listened to the whole album – I didn’t even listen to the whole album – got another great post out of it, and promptly informed me that he was going to “repay” me.Īnd thus the game began. However, I don’t force myself to do it immediately because I simply don’t have enough hours in the day to listen to everything in my queue, and I know I’ll get to it eventually. I do, indeed, listen to just about everything that comes my way. I agree with Jeff that if people send you music, you should do everything in your power to listen to it. What I didn’t know at the time was:Ģ) Jeff didn’t want to listen to Paris Hilton.ģ) By sending the album, Jeff felt he was forced (forced!) to listen to Paris Hilton. However, I had heard “Stars Are Blind” at the gym, and didn’t hate it, so I downloaded the album and sent it on to Jeff to see what he thought. While I fully admit to starting this “game,” I didn’t do it with bad intentions – and now I’m being punished for it.īack in the Fall, Jeff had mentioned to me that Stephen Thomas Erlewine of All Music Guide has given Paris Hilton’s debut (and hopefully only) CD 4.5 stars. And what better way to celebrate the day of his birth than to highlight what a jerk he is?Ī number of months ago, Jeff started playing a game with me. He inspired this site, he designed this site, and he writes the entries for me serves as my creative consultant. First things first: Happy Birthday to Jefito! Jeff is, as you know, my gay somewhat heterosexual musical lifemate.
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