Lou Reed & Metallica: Lulu – review

(Vertigo)Based on the work of early 20th-century expressionist playwright Frank Wedekind, Lulu features some of Lou Reed's more "challenging" lyrics set to Metallica's misfiring metal. It's not a successful union: the songs are too close to aimless, unfinished jams, Reed sounds as if he's trying too hard to be controversial (his opening line is "I would cut my legs and tits off when I think of Boris Karloff") and at 95 minutes it's far too long. It all comes together just once, on "Dragon", the...

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20:45 on October 27 2011

Lou Reed and Metallica: Lulu – review

Guardian Music — (Vertigo)An album of songs based on the taboo-busting fin-de-siecle plays of Frank Wedekind that opens with a lyric in which the female protagonist offers to "cut my legs... more info

23:05 on October 29 2011

Lou Reed & Metallica: Lulu – review

Guardian Music — (Vertigo)Based on the work of early 20th-century expressionist playwright Frank Wedekind, Lulu features some of Lou Reed's more "challenging" lyrics set to Metallica's mi... more info

Lou Reed Lulu Metallica

05:34 on October 28 2011