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Old 12-22-2017, 10:44 PM   #80 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Maajo View Post
The thing is that the consensus has become that it's a classic. If you ever look at any time it's brought up on social media, about 4/5 comments are positive, and I think a lot of the reviews are like that too.
I definitely consider MMM a classic, but not because it's widely considered to be such. An album like that in 1975 is just so insanely unheard of and had a massive effect on the avant-garde scene. It might be a troll album, but I don't think that that's the only motivation behind it. Lou Reed always had a disposition toward the experimental, so it's not very unlikely that he used his jadedness as a jumping off point for something that he really wanted to do.

Unless you're talking about Eminem's new album? If so, let me know and I'll explain how hype trains work.
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