Lulu by Lou Reed & Metallica

Lulu is essentially a piece of shock art that’s littered with vulgarity both lyrical and musical.

The whole thing comes off as either an expensive major label joke or nigh-impenetrable high art concept.

... they come out with what may be the most disappointing album in a decade.

Audacious to the extreme, but exhaustingly tedious as a result, its few interesting ideas are stretched out beyond the point of utility and pounded into submission