Sunday, September 18, 2011

Lou Reed and Metallica: Lulu First Audio Clip

(Special Guest Appearance by Sebastian ex -Flux Information Sciences)




The first sound clip from the Lou Reed and Metallica album Lulu has arrived. It has been said that an opinion is like an asshole, every one has one. This is an unreal case of that however. Here though we are talking about roughly 30 seconds of sound from 90 minute long album, and people are already dismissing the album completely. The net is already engulfed with hatred for the Lou Reed and Metallica album, mostly coming from Metallica fans, many of whom have felt deeply betrayed by Metallica over the years. We are talking about 30 seconds of sound. Here’s another take if on from no less then Sebastian Brault. If you lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the late 90’s you may remember his capitalism themed noise band
Flux Information Sciences: Here’s a sound clip



And here’s fellow noise-musician Sebastian Brault take on the 30 seconds of sound to be found on the Lulu clip:
“If Lou Reed just talks it's too easy. Was hoping they'd really collaborate, but instead it seems to be superposition”
I find the one clip from the album sort of promising. I do I agree with him, if the album is only that then I will be sort of disappointed. However, I have seen photographs of Lou Reed and Metallica in which you can Lou Reed with a guitar in his hands and also seated in front of one of those electronics set-ups he’s used when he collaborates with John Zorn and his wife Laurie Anderson. So I think it’s very unlikely that the whole album will be that way.
Flux Information Sciences…funny they should come up in this context, funny they should pop on this one. I have drifted so far from that Williamsburg scene. They talk about the spirit of adventure of a very young Lou Reed going to New York in his early 20’s. For me it’s almost the inverse. The spirit of true adventure didn’t set in until I moved from New York to Las Vegas in my early 30’s. Las Vegas is anything but boring, but I guarantee you that Las Vegas has a very small “experimental” art scene, although what does exist there can sometimes trump what’s going elsewhere. For example, I don’t think this Human Centipede 2 film that was just banned in the U.K. is playing at any theaters in New York when it opens on Oct 7th, but the Sci-Fi Center in Las Vegas is doing a weekend long Human Centipede 2 festival.
I think that for Lou Reed’s New York in the 60’s was somewhat of an open book, the Velvet Underground did not have much of a following at that point.
Funny, I would have thought that Flux Information Sciences would have been about to explode in the late 90’s, or that they would have, like the Velvet Underground, been uncovered as a lost gem years later. That hasn’t happened so far, but here you do get Sebastian weighing in on the whole Lou Reed/Metallica thing.
Funny.

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