Metal Machine Music goes on and on and on for over an hour, pausing only for side breaks with no rhythms, melodies, or formal structures to buffer the onslaught.
For an album that's often brought up in the worst albums of all time conversation, it sure is boring. Influential, but boring.
I understand you.
In the frightening hypothesis that you could only take one and only one album to the famous desert island, it is likely that Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" is not in your priorities. Logic: who would want to deal with solitude for the rest of their life with 64 minutes (and 4 seconds) of harsh larsens and white noise? Because that's exactly what this "record" contains...
But imagine that, by a sudden and cruel bifurcation of fate, things come to the ... read more
Lou Reed loses his mind and creates the harsh noise genre, and I lose my mind and give it a positive review.
Okay, me giving this album a score like this was predictable. It's no secret that I've been noise's bitch for the past month or so, so it shouldn't be surprising that I ended up liking one of the most influential and famous albums in the genre, especially considering it was made by a guy who I've given two perfect scores to. But let's be real here, hating on Metal Machine Music is one ... read more
Decent background music during work I guess.
All serious though, my mind kind of shut off during the second or third song. I felt numb to it after awhile.
Highly influential for the industrial scene while also being a very oddball release from a mainstream artist.
1 hour and 4 minutes of instrumental garbage because Lou Reed's head was so far up his own ass that he probably couldn't even breathe, let alone sing.
1 | Metal Machine Music A-1 16:01 | 63 |
2 | Metal Machine Music A-2 16:01 | 55 |
3 | Metal Machine Music A-3 16:01 | 54 |
4 | Metal Machine Music A-4 16:01 | 54 |