Lou Reed and Metallica: Lulu – review

(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 and tits off" clearly isn't intended to be a barrel of laughs. Even so, it's impossible to over-emphasise just how gruelling the hour-and-a-half you spend in the company of Lou Reed and Metallica is. That's partly because the lyrics are harrowing, and furthermore sung from a female viewpoint: this means that, at one juncture, y...

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