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Old 05-22-2013, 08:33 AM   #73 (permalink)
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Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music





I've just been listening to this album for the last twenty minutes and I've decided to review it for no other reason than to say that in all this time I have had no idea what the fuck was going on. Throbbing Gristle makes more sense than this. I'm listening to it as background music while I surf the interwebs, so it's all pretty much just going past me without sounding like anything other than free form noise, but I imagine that if I sat down and actually listened to this that I would become frustrated in about thirty seconds and go stick my head in the toilet. I don't suppose making sense is the point though, so much as just screwing with the listener as he desperately tries to figure out what's happening to his ears. Mission accomplished, Lou. Yet somehow I am still enjoying myself. Honestly I don't even think this is because of any quality of the album, I'm just in the mood for some weirdness and would just as soon listen to Philip Glass or Diamanda Galas. I just happened to decide on this.

And if you're looking for a description of the "music" then fuck off. If you don't know what this is then you probably wouldn't care anyway.


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