Reminds me a lot of Hero of the Day. This was one of those rare collaborations of a clash between night and day. This album really is like a work of art at a museum that only few people see the value and meaning in. Rest in Peace, Lou Reed
I think the issue with this album is it was marketed as a Metallica with Lou Reed album. It's basically a Lou Reed album with Metallica as his band. I don't like all of this album, and I'm a huge Metallica fan and a moderate Reed fan, but to me, this is a profoundly moving song.
I didn't like this album when it came out... Since then my life fell apart, I nearly succumbed to addiction, spent time in jail contemplating how quickly I descended to the bottom, and then slowly rebuilt my life over the last several years- now better than ever, sober, appreciating every day for the gift it is... Now I'm in love with this record, it truly is an artistic masterpiece. Don't do drugs kids.
Alan Sasek thanks for sharing this story. I can relate to it almost EXACTLY when compared to my life. Good luck and do whatever you do to stay sober brother
4 years clean and sober myself, and though I was not imprisoned I very well could have been driving around with narcotics in my car. I don't miss that life in the least.
Last year I struggled with cocaine addiction. I had no one by my side and had to go through it all by myself, I had to recover alone, for my own good after an overdose. Now I'm sober, and I'm gonna tell, quarantine is making no good to me, but I'm still strong. Dont do drugs kids.
On hearing the completed song for the first time, both lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and singer James Hetfield were reduced to tears. "I had just lost my father literally three or four weeks previously," Hammet explained to Mojo. "I had to run out of the control room, and I found myself standing in the kitchen, sobbing away. And something else extraordinary happened right after that. James came into the kitchen in the same condition - he was sobbing too. It was insane. He managed to take out both guitar players in Metallica in one fell swoop, with his amazingly poetic lyrics. And he came into the kitchen and he was laughing. He looked at James and I, and said: 'That's a good one, huh?'"
In 2011, when Lulu was released, until now, 2023, I think this is Lou's swan song. I remember how upset Lori Anderson was when it wasn't accepted well, and David Bowie told her that it is Lou's masterpiece and people need time to catch up with it. I just don't understand why people can't see the self-loathing, self-serving, man-hating, self-destructive Lulu that Lou writes about Is probably his best work. That being said, Lou, himself said what he didn't accomplish on Berlin , he did on Lulu.
It is mind blowing, it was a work of pure genius. I don’t see how someone could actually listen to it and think it’s just bad but a lot of people don’t really understand music and art.
Lou Reed could have spent the last 25 years of his career (after getting sober and turning in his second and last Gold Record performance in New York) like many's the "important" music icon, cashing in on the tour circuit and endless increasingly geriatric renditions of Walk on the Wild Side, Perfect Day, and the more sanitary and pop-oriented selections from the Velvet Underground catalog. I'm glad he chose instead to make a bunch of difficult and flawed albums closed out by this towering middle finger to the critics that he always hated.
+Darby Blair you shouldnt judge other people musical talent when the only video youve uploaded is a dogshit acoustic over. sorry bud. thats just the fuckin way she goes.
one of those perfect end-of-life songs like Johnny Cash performing "Hurt" or David Bowie's "Blackstar".... What wonderful musical gifts. Thank you Lou, forever.
Commented on this song before, and I’ll do it again. This song puts me in the universe. It connects me to everything I can’t feel on my own, but I will one day, because this song shows me it’s possible to get beyond my own petty bullshit. I don’t know why this song does it, I just know it does. Sometimes just giving yourself up to not knowing shows you the way to understand. Here’s to the open minds....🍻
Lou’s magnum opus, took many years for me to realize, can’t believe I never realized how absolutely breathtakingly beautiful this song is, oh yes definitely going into my will for funeral preparations. Rock on Lou, you absolute legend, wherever you are.
I think the main reason people don't like the record is that most people who encounter it are Metallica fans who aren't ready for it, and a small contingent of Lou Reed fans who can't accept any heavy metal as real art, but there's still a few of us who will forever defend Lulu as the masterstroke it is.
i just dont like late Lou stuff. 60's through late 80's sure. I like when Lou used to try singing still, and not tried to fit as many words as possible in a bar awkwardly. This is a good song though.
I feel like this album wasn't meant for mass consumption. It's a personal thing. If you can't handle an introverted experience and thrive of music that makes lots of people move and whatnot, this isn't for you. I just keep thinking of walking in the city and listening to this. Great, calm, reflective music.
Holy fuck, I started out listening to Metallica with the 80s stuff, moved on to the 90s stuff and loved all of it. When I heard about “St.Anger” I at first thought “Wow everybody hates this so it must be the bottom of Metallica as a whole or some shit” and it’s now one of my favorite albums of all time. Then I heard about LuLu and I’ve known about it and joked about it for a while and tonight I finally gave the full thing a chance and I have to say that it’s genuinely a fucking masterpiece. I enjoyed every second of this album, it’s not heavy or thrash or anything like what I’ve heard before from Metallica. I know that Lou Reed was the one playing the biggest role in this and he’s a genius in my eyes, thinking about this album and what it represents as a whole really shows how wonderful it is. I’m definitely going to check out more of Lou Reeds work, Rest In Peace, and in my eyes there’s not a single bad Metallica album in existence.
Start with the Velvet Underground albums for Metallica themselves couldn t believe that L R gave them a chance to work together.T V U is the best american band
I loved this album. haha must be the only one. Lou went out making music that wasnt commercial and not giving a fuck. perfect. I love that metallica did something different aswell. yea its sloppy. yea its over the top but how boring if lou did some songwritery sap and metallica just did another metal album. it makes you think and its surprising. thats good enough for me
I don't think it's a good album to say, but I do think it's better than St. Anger at least, yeah the first half of this album, yeah, it sucks really bad, but the other half, I actually thought it wasn't bad, especially Junior Dad
I am 18 years old, Metallica started my taste in Metal, but there were always people complaining about records like: Load, Reload and Lulu, so I gave myself the task of listening to those albums and fell because the majority that listens to Metallica are closed-minded people. Lulu at first seemed strange to me, a strange combination between Lou Reed and Metallica, but one day I was totally devastated, I sank into depression again and listened a little, it seemed like a misunderstood album, I bought it and I just loved it. piece of art. Junior Dad is a great closing to the album.
It strange seeing so many comments about "being open minded" enough to listen to this or giving it a chance...., My god, this is a materpiece! This is a gift. Its not just you giving it the time of day, this is expanding your emotions and depth. This is a medatative stroll into darkness and human emotion that so few ever speak of out of shame and loathing. You should consider yourself blessed and lucky to have experienced this song. You dont have to qualify it any further than that.
This song is, without a doubt, Lou Reed's swan song and final masterpiece. Lou Reed's greatest song is Romeo Had Juliette from the New York album. RIP, Lou.
The problem is 99% of the listeners approached this as a Metallica album... and it obviously isn't. Reed had written all these songs before he asked the band to interpret them. This song is particular in fucking excellent. It approaches Sunn O))) levels of ambient metal.
I was gonna say the closest collaboration I can think of is Scott Walker and Sunn O))), but even then they are both far less mainsteam and they stylistically make logical sense given Walker's darker and more experimental later work. I still can't believe we got a collaboration like this and it stands as Lou's finale release. Think this song is both heartbreaking and beautiful as a career closer
I have never heard any of Lou's songs only Lulu and I like it. This sounded so different from what I was listening back in 2011, I see this as a metallica album cause bc of them I know this
This is so influenced by John Cale. He introduced the drone sound to Lou. This comes from Sister Ray. I'm surprised that no one else mentioned it. I avoided this project up to now. I'm so happy I came around. This is an absolute masterpiece. RIP Sweet Lou Reed. This world needs you more than ever.
Everyone say that Lulu is horrible but i like too much,especially The View,Mistress Dread,Frustation and Junior Dad :D I hope not to be the only one who like it...
If we take time for deeper thought of what it means when people describe him as 'horrible', it's a relative statement. It is just a synonym for BAD or EXTREMELY BAD. But The concept of GOOD & BAD are kind of meaningless. They cannot be defined because they are not quantitative terms. So I think if people are saying he is horrible, I Interpret that to mean that his style is extremely eccentric. It does not follow the 'cookie cutter' paradigm of contemporary pop music. I think because of these TV shows like AMERICAN IDOL, & THE VOICE, The current generation believes ( possibly subliminally ) that those who win these contests are representing what today's standard is for talent and for what is considered good music. Lu Reed is about as far from this as a musician can be. So those who are programmed to follow this contemporary standard will most likely call Lu Reeds music horrible. But I do believe there are just as many people who find these types of musicians appealing. I am one of them. I'm sure there are many more.
Back when the album first came out, this just came across as a nice little album closer. However, since Lou Reed's passing, this song has now taken life as a sort of farewell to the man who made us take a walk on the wild side and inadvertently gave birth to noise music. If only we can somehow get a music video of this in the vein of Johnny Cash' cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt". Godspeed Uncle Lou. We sorely miss you.
Im a woman and i had a great relationship with my dad but this really tore me up listening to it. I cant imagine the impact of guy listening to this, especially if he had a bad relationship with his father. Just WOW!!!!
He may be right, but I kinda wish Bowie would've collaborated with Lou instead of Metallica. But I guess Bowie had his hands tied with his The Next Day album.
I think that is about 75% true. In that some of it isn't quite there, a little painful when it fails because it has such ambition, but thank god he had this much ambition left. It's fearless, which is so, so rare.
I don't know, but for me, not only his vocal performance, but also his lyrical structure, rhymes and overall meaning of the lyrics kills it. And from all these things, I mind his vocals the least. I just don't like these lyrics. Sometimes I even like it, but then one lyric comes and ruins the whole song for me. I just can't relate to these lyrics and don't agree with them. I agree that he makes it fearless, just says what he thinks and feels, and I always appreciate that in lyrics, but I mostly can't agree with his lyrics. He was just different, and don't take it offensively or anything, but some of these lyrics are making me say: "Man, he was kinda crazy". He was probably complete opposite of me in most things, that's why I can't like and appreaciate his work enough, but understand why some people can
I think the people who hate this album just don't know what true Art and Poetry in music means! And they just choose to hate what they don't understand... But I think it's a real Masterpiece, and this song is pure Emotion.
What the hell are these so-called music fans below talking about??? This is awesome. Clearly, most of the critical comments are from brain-dead, old-school Metallica fans who never liked (or heard of) Lou Reed in the first place, and who think that Metallica "sold out" when they became main-stream. Kudos to Lou and Metallica for taking risks and not giving a shit about the consequences. After living the kind of debiltating life Lou lived (shock therapy, heroin addiction, alcoholism, depression) most people would be incapable of wiping their own ass, let alone come up with masterpieces like Transfomer, Berlin, New York, Magic & Loss + all the VU albums.
I really like St. Anger and Lulu is terrible. After hearing all the songs, I think that the only songs on this album that are slightly enjoyable are "Pumping Blood", "Iced Honey", "Cheat On Me", and "Little Dog". Everything else is either boring or obnoxiously bad, "Mistress Dread" and "Frustration" might actually be the WORST songs on this entire album. I'm not sure which one sucks more.
Josh S Re Yeah, one of the Metallica fans that want Metallica to repeat MOP one millions times...you will never understand what Metallica is about. Sorry.
It's been 2 years since i discovered Lulu. I didnt quite get it initially, but this song... This song amazed me. As my musical taste grew, i grew to appreciate the album as a whole. One of my favorite albums ever. This is my comfort song. Thank you, Lou. Thank you, Metallica. This song kept me here. It still does, and I hope that it'll be the case for the future.
Say hello to junior dad The greatest disappointment Age withered him and changed him .....Into junior dad We all grow old, we wither and we die, to see our fathers succumb to this is the greatest disappointment. It's life and Lou lived it.
Greatests disappointments are those felt by fathers ever and everywhere concerning their sons We are made like this Lou's submitted him to electroshocks Disappointment
Beautiful song, god damn myself for not giving it a chance when it first came out. This album is probably my favourite album currently. Compelling stuff.
"Psychic savagery"... sometimes I think about my dad when I hear this, gone for 22 of my 35 years now, and how I can look back and see points of effect in my life where I had to learn on my own or mistakes made without guidance, and I just cry and allow a couple empty, formless wishes.
Would you come to me If I was half drowning An arm above the last wave Would you come to me Would you pull me up Would the effort really hurt you Is it unfair to ask you To help pull me up The window broke the silence of the matches The smoke effortlessly floating Pull me up Would you be my lord and savior Pull me up by my hair Now would you kiss me, on my lips Burning fever burning on my forehead The brain that once was listening now Shoots out its tiresome message Won't you pull me up Scalding, my dead father Has the motor and he's driving towards An island of lost souls Sunny, a monkey then to monkey I will teach you meanness, fear and blindness No social redeeming kindness Or oh, state of grace Would you pull me up Would you drop the mental bullet Would you pull me by the arm up Would you still kiss my lips Hiccup, the dream is over Get the coffee, turn the lights on Say hello to junior dad The greatest disappointment Age withered him and changed him Into junior dad Psychic savagery The greatest disappointment The greatest disappointment Age withered him and changed him Into junior dad
To me ,the long ending is for you to sit and reflect on your father and your grandfather and any that have passed ,of you really let yourself go,you'll hear them and touch there souls,you'll get to say good bye the way you always wanted to,you'll get to forgive or ask for forgiveness ,they'll hear you and they will talk....just eat mushrooms first ,changed my life this song
People read somewhere that this album is bad. Well, fortunately i was always one of those who never gave a fuck what others say. And this is the moment when it pays off.
I think Lou is very comfortable with the fact to unsettle so many people with LULU, so his work is fuflfilled on earth, thx for that, you were a great inspiration to me. To all the critics: this is no music for children---grow and you`ll see. this is soul touching art for the wounded.
I have an album by Lou called Magic Loss. The whole album acknowledges the fact that he lost his magic touch. It was one of his later albums but before Lulu.
More condescending nonsense from boomers, as if getting older makes shitty music sound better. Probably, you think this sounds good because you can't actually hear it.
This is a masterpiece.I cried listening to thisI Lost my father when I was12 to cancer.He couldn't face me in his last days in his weakened state.He had lost control of his body .He was unable to accept that he was now weaker than his son.1979.
@@darrenthetuber743 More than enough, if you ask me. I prefer this song to all the processed trash that passes as "music" nowadays. Who cares if the rest of the album isn't this good. This song is gorgeous.
This was definitely made for the sake of music and experimentation, so I agree about the authenticity. I do think St. Anger was very authentic too. Maybe even more than any other Metallica album.
+FixxxerZ7 Load and Reload were REALLY good albums! St. Anger and Lulu on the other hand....not so much! But I do enjoy St. Anger and some of Lulu, I mean I listen to them a lot more than I expected lol.
My top 10 of the songs in this album. 10)Junior Dad 9)Little Dog 8)Cheat On Me 7)Frustration 6)Iced Honey 5)Brandeburg Gate 4)Dragon 3)Pumping Blood 2)Mistress Dead 1)The View
From least fave to fave 10. Little Dog 9. Dragon 8. Frustration 7. The View 6. Pumping Blood 5. Mistress Dread 4. Iced Honey 3. Brandenburg Gate 2. Cheat on Me 1. Junior Dad
[Verse 1] Would you come to me if I was half drowning? An arm above the last wave? Would you come to me? Would you pull me up? Would the effort really hurt you? Is it unfair to ask you, to help pull me up? [Verse 2] The window broke the silence of the matches The smoke effortlessly floating Pull me up Would you be my lord and saviour, pull me up by my hair? Now would you kiss me, on my lips? [Verse 3] Burning fever burning on my forehead The brain that once was listening Now shoots out its tiresome message Won’t you pull me up? Scalding, my dead father has the motor and he's driving Towards an island of lost souls Sunny, a monkey then to monkey I will teach you meanness, fear and blindness No social redeeming kindness Or - oh, state of grace [Verse 4] Would you pull me up? Would you drop the mental bullet? Would you pull me by the arm up? Would you still kiss my lips? Hiccup, the dream is over Get the coffee, turn the lights on Say hello to junior dad The greatest disappointment Age withered him and changed him Into junior dad, psychic savagery The greatest disappointment The greatest disappointment Age withered him and changed him Into junior dad [Instrumental]
I think this album gets more stick than it deserves.. its art in its own right, just because its different from the "standard" of lou reed & metallica doesnt make it bad.. its an incredibly unique sound and deserves recognition in its own right
Would you come to me If I was half drowning An arm above the last wave Would you come to me Would you pull me up Would the effort really hurt you Is it unfair to ask you To help pull me up
its simply people didnt like it because it was more of a lou reed album , with metallica as a backing band ( it was great by them being the big band they are to shape their band aroung lou reed) so people who didnt listen to lou reed found it strange, but i think it goes pretty well among lou´s discography
abyssal, monumental, stratospheric, vertiginous, a song for the soul, and a final of 10 minutes in weightlessness, thank you Lou for this testament, for this legacy. For ever.
Just listened to this song for the first time after writing off this album as a joke when it was first released. This song is fucking great, wish I gave this a chance back in the day.
This album stands the test of time, for Metallica and for Lou. The music is melodious and metal-who else has ever managed to pull that off? It’s also a heartfelt, honest homage to Alban Berg. Sure, the lyrics get a little adolescent here and there but that’s hardly a first for heavy metal. A bafflingly unacknowledged album.
I loved this album and this song from the moment it came out. The older I get, the more I love it. If this was on a loop for 24 hours I could listed to it and still want more
Funny how my younger self didn’t get the album back then, until I’m in my mid 40s.. all broken, beat and scarred (no pun intended) and realize this song is a complete masterpiece
Suyash Pandey man I’ve loved them for 34 years. One sucked me in and every album and tour since has kept me in the family! I love how positive these comments have been!
@@jacobfelt9512 I discovered heavy music a bit late...and this particular band has helped me out to pull off my life's greatest struggles...they are pretty close to my heart too...
Absolutely beautiful piece O music. First time I have ever heard it…and I grew up listening to The Velvet Underground and Lou (seen him 5 times in concert). Thanks for the post!
Lu Lu was not well received. David Bowie called Lu Lu A Masterpiece . Junior Dad is just that. Lou Reeds Last Masterpiece. Like Bowie Black Star. Johnny Cash doing Hurt. That last Testament. I listen to this often. It's Powerful. And it's Beautiful.
Reminds me a lot of Hero of the Day. This was one of those rare collaborations of a clash between night and day. This album really is like a work of art at a museum that only few people see the value and meaning in. Rest in Peace, Lou Reed
I think the issue with this album is it was marketed as a Metallica with Lou Reed album. It's basically a Lou Reed album with Metallica as his band. I don't like all of this album, and I'm a huge Metallica fan and a moderate Reed fan, but to me, this is a profoundly moving song.
this album fuckin rules
And low man’s lyric
I didn't like this album when it came out... Since then my life fell apart, I nearly succumbed to addiction, spent time in jail contemplating how quickly I descended to the bottom, and then slowly rebuilt my life over the last several years- now better than ever, sober, appreciating every day for the gift it is... Now I'm in love with this record, it truly is an artistic masterpiece. Don't do drugs kids.
Alan Sasek thanks for sharing this story. I can relate to it almost EXACTLY when compared to my life. Good luck and do whatever you do to stay sober brother
4 years clean and sober myself, and though I was not imprisoned I very well could have been driving around with narcotics in my car. I don't miss that life in the least.
Toasting your sobriety with a shot of Jameson and two fat rails of Peruvian flake. Cheers!
Last year I struggled with cocaine addiction. I had no one by my side and had to go through it all by myself, I had to recover alone, for my own good after an overdose. Now I'm sober, and I'm gonna tell, quarantine is making no good to me, but I'm still strong. Dont do drugs kids.
Recovery helped me appreciate some of St Anger.
On hearing the completed song for the first time, both lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and singer James Hetfield were reduced to tears. "I had just lost my father literally three or four weeks previously," Hammet explained to Mojo. "I had to run out of the control room, and I found myself standing in the kitchen, sobbing away. And something else extraordinary happened right after that. James came into the kitchen in the same condition - he was sobbing too. It was insane. He managed to take out both guitar players in Metallica in one fell swoop, with his amazingly poetic lyrics. And he came into the kitchen and he was laughing. He looked at James and I, and said: 'That's a good one, huh?'"
Good story, tells it all!
I also cried listening to it, then I found out about this anecdote of Kirk and James, it is definitely a great poem
Haha Metallica lost all reality years ago, they should have been sobbing at how bad this crap was.
Thanks for the story.
Nice
@@heresjohnny999 Brother - you took the words out of my mouth. And fuck their new one too
In 2011, when Lulu was released, until now, 2023, I think this is Lou's swan song. I remember how upset Lori Anderson was when it wasn't accepted well, and David Bowie told her that it is Lou's masterpiece and people need time to catch up with it. I just don't understand why people can't see the self-loathing, self-serving, man-hating, self-destructive Lulu that Lou writes about Is probably his best work. That being said, Lou, himself said what he didn't accomplish on Berlin , he did on Lulu.
you are right! this is really the best from him
His best since the 74ish.
Ian Astbury (The Cult) was the BIGGEST champion of this album.
@@kevandalzell7906lmfao 😂😂
It is mind blowing, it was a work of pure genius. I don’t see how someone could actually listen to it and think it’s just bad but a lot of people don’t really understand music and art.
Lou Reed could have spent the last 25 years of his career (after getting sober and turning in his second and last Gold Record performance in New York) like many's the "important" music icon, cashing in on the tour circuit and endless increasingly geriatric renditions of Walk on the Wild Side, Perfect Day, and the more sanitary and pop-oriented selections from the Velvet Underground catalog. I'm glad he chose instead to make a bunch of difficult and flawed albums closed out by this towering middle finger to the critics that he always hated.
Well fucking said!
Amen holy shit
Yeah but this isn't music
It's shmusic
+Darby Blair you shouldnt judge other people musical talent when the only video youve uploaded is a dogshit acoustic over. sorry bud. thats just the fuckin way she goes.
one of those perfect end-of-life songs like Johnny Cash performing "Hurt" or David Bowie's "Blackstar".... What wonderful musical gifts. Thank you Lou, forever.
A beautiful and touching comment. It's always great to find other people who "get it."
I agree with this enlighenened comment !!
It's truth: thank you Lou for this wondeful music
I totally agree Larry.
Commented on this song before, and I’ll do it again. This song puts me in the universe. It connects me to everything I can’t feel on my own, but I will one day, because this song shows me it’s possible to get beyond my own petty bullshit. I don’t know why this song does it, I just know it does. Sometimes just giving yourself up to not knowing shows you the way to understand. Here’s to the open minds....🍻
Lou’s magnum opus, took many years for me to realize, can’t believe I never realized how absolutely breathtakingly beautiful this song is, oh yes definitely going into my will for funeral preparations. Rock on Lou, you absolute legend, wherever you are.
This song is the final long walk and reflection on life. Just had that 'The End' vibe. This song is a masterpiece.
I think the main reason people don't like the record is that most people who encounter it are Metallica fans who aren't ready for it, and a small contingent of Lou Reed fans who can't accept any heavy metal as real art, but there's still a few of us who will forever defend Lulu as the masterstroke it is.
i just dont like late Lou stuff. 60's through late 80's sure. I like when Lou used to try singing still, and not tried to fit as many words as possible in a bar awkwardly. This is a good song though.
Agreed...
Amen
You simply are stupid
Very well said.
Inmortal Lou
I feel like this album wasn't meant for mass consumption. It's a personal thing. If you can't handle an introverted experience and thrive of music that makes lots of people move and whatnot, this isn't for you. I just keep thinking of walking in the city and listening to this. Great, calm, reflective music.
look, we get it. we just don't like it. both points of view are fair enough.
You're killing my good vibe man. Leave me alone.
No, if you like this then anything is good. This is shit.
Thats why Metallica has gained so much of respect apart from the fame. From the most heavy to the most delicate n deep stuff...they are right there.
If it wasn't meant for the masses and was personal then it wouldn't have been released to the masses.
Holy fuck, I started out listening to Metallica with the 80s stuff, moved on to the 90s stuff and loved all of it. When I heard about “St.Anger” I at first thought “Wow everybody hates this so it must be the bottom of Metallica as a whole or some shit” and it’s now one of my favorite albums of all time. Then I heard about LuLu and I’ve known about it and joked about it for a while and tonight I finally gave the full thing a chance and I have to say that it’s genuinely a fucking masterpiece. I enjoyed every second of this album, it’s not heavy or thrash or anything like what I’ve heard before from Metallica. I know that Lou Reed was the one playing the biggest role in this and he’s a genius in my eyes, thinking about this album and what it represents as a whole really shows how wonderful it is. I’m definitely going to check out more of Lou Reeds work, Rest In Peace, and in my eyes there’s not a single bad Metallica album in existence.
Street Hassle..... ❤️
Transformer album is a masterpiece
James Hetfield is the table, after all.
check out ecstasy. its a great album and quite recent. very undrrated. a bit like this
Start with the Velvet Underground albums for Metallica themselves couldn t believe that L R gave them a chance to work together.T V U is the best american band
I loved this album. haha must be the only one. Lou went out making music that wasnt commercial and not giving a fuck. perfect. I love that metallica did something different aswell. yea its sloppy. yea its over the top but how boring if lou did some songwritery sap and metallica just did another metal album. it makes you think and its surprising. thats good enough for me
I don't think it's a good album to say, but I do think it's better than St. Anger at least, yeah the first half of this album, yeah, it sucks really bad, but the other half, I actually thought it wasn't bad, especially Junior Dad
All I remember about the album is that I didn't like any of the songs with the exception of Junior Dad.
yea its not something you put on when your mates are round haha
I enjoy this album quite a bit
I love this album. I sadly had a weak execution, imo.
I am 18 years old, Metallica started my taste in Metal, but there were always people complaining about records like: Load, Reload and Lulu, so I gave myself the task of listening to those albums and fell because the majority that listens to Metallica are closed-minded people. Lulu at first seemed strange to me, a strange combination between Lou Reed and Metallica, but one day I was totally devastated, I sank into depression again and listened a little, it seemed like a misunderstood album, I bought it and I just loved it. piece of art. Junior Dad is a great closing to the album.
Possibly Lou Reed's finest song.
I’ve talked trash on this album from day one...then this morning I listened to Junior Dad and broke down into tears! Gorgeous is an understatement
It strange seeing so many comments about "being open minded" enough to listen to this or giving it a chance...., My god, this is a materpiece! This is a gift. Its not just you giving it the time of day, this is expanding your emotions and depth. This is a medatative stroll into darkness and human emotion that so few ever speak of out of shame and loathing.
You should consider yourself blessed and lucky to have experienced this song. You dont have to qualify it any further than that.
This song is, without a doubt, Lou Reed's swan song and final masterpiece. Lou Reed's greatest song is Romeo Had Juliette from the New York album. RIP, Lou.
The problem is 99% of the listeners approached this as a Metallica album... and it obviously isn't. Reed had written all these songs before he asked the band to interpret them.
This song is particular in fucking excellent. It approaches Sunn O))) levels of ambient metal.
I was gonna say the closest collaboration I can think of is Scott Walker and Sunn O))), but even then they are both far less mainsteam and they stylistically make logical sense given Walker's darker and more experimental later work.
I still can't believe we got a collaboration like this and it stands as Lou's finale release. Think this song is both heartbreaking and beautiful as a career closer
not true. lou reed fans didnt like it either. I did
I’m a Lou Reed fan, I’m not a fan of Metallica and that’s an understatement but I always loved this album and thought the collaboration was perfect.
I have never heard any of Lou's songs only Lulu and I like it. This sounded so different from what I was listening back in 2011, I see this as a metallica album cause bc of them I know this
This is so influenced by John Cale. He introduced the drone sound to Lou. This comes from Sister Ray. I'm surprised that no one else mentioned it. I avoided this project up to now. I'm so happy I came around. This is an absolute masterpiece. RIP Sweet Lou Reed. This world needs you more than ever.
This is his 21st Century 'Heroin'.... all Ambience and Brooding Power. Magic... and Loss.
I heard this song when I was 12 year's old, I thought it was trash.
I've grown enough to actually appreciate it and I'm glad I did.
Everyone say that Lulu is horrible but i like too much,especially The View,Mistress Dread,Frustation and Junior Dad :D
I hope not to be the only one who like it...
Valen Lloret David Bowie says this album is genius, so you aren't alone.
Iced honey✊
If we take time for deeper thought of what it means when people describe him as 'horrible', it's a relative statement. It is just a synonym for BAD or EXTREMELY BAD. But The concept of GOOD & BAD are kind of meaningless. They cannot be defined because they are not quantitative terms. So I think if people are saying he is horrible, I Interpret that to mean that his style is extremely eccentric. It does not follow the 'cookie cutter' paradigm of contemporary pop music. I think because of these TV shows like AMERICAN IDOL, & THE VOICE, The current generation believes ( possibly subliminally ) that those who win these contests are representing what today's standard is for talent and for what is considered good music. Lu Reed is about as far from this as a musician can be. So those who are programmed to follow this contemporary standard will most likely call Lu Reeds music horrible. But I do believe there are just as many people who find these types of musicians appealing. I am one of them. I'm sure there are many more.
People who never went to a gig, or bought an album, or bought a shirt or do anything really except live online... love to hate on this album.
No you arent alone I love this album too especially Brandenburg Gate, Dragon and Junior Dad :)
This song is not meant to be understood. This song is meant to be experienced.
Back when the album first came out, this just came across as a nice little album closer.
However, since Lou Reed's passing, this song has now taken life as a sort of farewell to the man who made us take a walk on the wild side and inadvertently gave birth to noise music. If only we can somehow get a music video of this in the vein of Johnny Cash' cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt".
Godspeed Uncle Lou. We sorely miss you.
It sounds so ALIVE nowadays.
People are starting to recognize that this is a really good album...
Can't believe this came out over a decade ago. Wish Lou was still around :(
God me too 😢
Im a woman and i had a great relationship with my dad but this really tore me up listening to it. I cant imagine the impact of guy listening to this, especially if he had a bad relationship with his father. Just WOW!!!!
It brings me to tears
I've just read that Bowie thought this album is Reed's masterpiece and with time people will realize that.
Diego Pigasus That's actually what brought me to this. I shook it off when this was first released but it deserves a second chance.
I don't think time will do anything, the only real problem that most people have with the album is Lou Reeds vocals, sonically it doesn't sound good.
He may be right, but I kinda wish Bowie would've collaborated with Lou instead of Metallica. But I guess Bowie had his hands tied with his The Next Day album.
I think that is about 75% true. In that some of it isn't quite there, a little painful when it fails because it has such ambition, but thank god he had this much ambition left. It's fearless, which is so, so rare.
I don't know, but for me, not only his vocal performance, but also his lyrical structure, rhymes and overall meaning of the lyrics kills it. And from all these things, I mind his vocals the least. I just don't like these lyrics. Sometimes I even like it, but then one lyric comes and ruins the whole song for me. I just can't relate to these lyrics and don't agree with them. I agree that he makes it fearless, just says what he thinks and feels, and I always appreciate that in lyrics, but I mostly can't agree with his lyrics. He was just different, and don't take it offensively or anything, but some of these lyrics are making me say: "Man, he was kinda crazy". He was probably complete opposite of me in most things, that's why I can't like and appreaciate his work enough, but understand why some people can
it's magical ... so many hidden meanings and feelings in such piece of music .. Rip Lou Reed
glad to be so open minded that i can enjoy this piece of musical poetry in all it's depth! Thank you metallica! and rest easy, Lou!
I think the people who hate this album just don't know what true Art and Poetry in music means! And they just choose to hate what they don't understand... But I think it's a real Masterpiece, and this song is pure Emotion.
Lou's swan song and final masterpiece. A temple to pray in
Rofl..
can we just admit that underneath all the residual hate left over from Metallica's 90s output and St. Anger that this is a truly brilliant art record
No
What the hell are these so-called music fans below talking about??? This is awesome. Clearly, most of the critical comments are from brain-dead, old-school Metallica fans who never liked (or heard of) Lou Reed in the first place, and who think that Metallica "sold out" when they became main-stream. Kudos to Lou and Metallica for taking risks and not giving a shit about the consequences.
After living the kind of debiltating life Lou lived (shock therapy, heroin addiction, alcoholism, depression) most people would be incapable of wiping their own ass, let alone come up with masterpieces like Transfomer, Berlin, New York, Magic & Loss + all the VU albums.
So you're not actually a music fan if you don't like this album? You're a waste of space
+Darby Blair Ladies, please. You're both pretentious.
normanbates' mom this album would be better if Lou Reed wasn't singing and Metallica was playing master of puppets instead.
I really like St. Anger and Lulu is terrible. After hearing all the songs, I think that the only songs on this album that are slightly enjoyable are "Pumping Blood", "Iced Honey", "Cheat On Me", and "Little Dog". Everything else is either boring or obnoxiously bad, "Mistress Dread" and "Frustration" might actually be the WORST songs on this entire album. I'm not sure which one sucks more.
Josh S Re
Yeah, one of the Metallica fans that want Metallica to repeat MOP one millions times...you will never understand what Metallica is about. Sorry.
Fuckin' Hell; I'm crying!
This shit is fuckin' gorgeous!
It's been 2 years since i discovered Lulu. I didnt quite get it initially, but this song... This song amazed me. As my musical taste grew, i grew to appreciate the album as a whole. One of my favorite albums ever. This is my comfort song. Thank you, Lou. Thank you, Metallica. This song kept me here. It still does, and I hope that it'll be the case for the future.
beautiful, gnarly, pensive and sad.
A fitting epitaph...Damn the haters...
Surprisingly beautiful and moving... I regret to admit that i havent given this album a chance til recently. This track alone is worth the purchase.
Say hello to junior dad
The greatest disappointment
Age withered him and changed him
.....Into junior dad
We all grow old, we wither and we die, to see our fathers succumb to this is the greatest disappointment. It's life and Lou lived it.
Greatests disappointments are those felt by fathers ever and everywhere concerning their sons
We are made like this
Lou's submitted him to electroshocks
Disappointment
Beautiful song, god damn myself for not giving it a chance when it first came out. This album is probably my favourite album currently. Compelling stuff.
Compelling is the best word I've ever heard to describe this masterpiece. Perfect choice of word.
Finally the right word I was looking for. Thanks. The song is a goddamn masterpiece. A pretty deep and huge.
"Psychic savagery"... sometimes I think about my dad when I hear this, gone for 22 of my 35 years now, and how I can look back and see points of effect in my life where I had to learn on my own or mistakes made without guidance, and I just cry and allow a couple empty, formless wishes.
Jeff Wrubel I’m in the same boat brother.
Would you come to me
If I was half drowning
An arm above the last wave
Would you come to me
Would you pull me up
Would the effort really hurt you
Is it unfair to ask you
To help pull me up
The window broke the silence of the matches
The smoke effortlessly floating
Pull me up
Would you be my lord and savior
Pull me up by my hair
Now would you kiss me, on my lips
Burning fever burning on my forehead
The brain that once was listening now
Shoots out its tiresome message
Won't you pull me up
Scalding, my dead father
Has the motor and he's driving towards
An island of lost souls
Sunny, a monkey then to monkey
I will teach you meanness, fear and blindness
No social redeeming kindness
Or oh, state of grace
Would you pull me up
Would you drop the mental bullet
Would you pull me by the arm up
Would you still kiss my lips
Hiccup, the dream is over
Get the coffee, turn the lights on
Say hello to junior dad
The greatest disappointment
Age withered him and changed him
Into junior dad
Psychic savagery
The greatest disappointment
The greatest disappointment
Age withered him and changed him
Into junior dad
Thanks for the lyrics ....true Lou... Profound!
Gracias bellezón.Saludos desde España.
¡Gracias por la letra!
@@sergio_zurita te amo zurita
this will be towering above us forever
i like that everyone seems on board with not hating this album.
+andrew aronson WHY DOES THAT HAVE TO BE YOUR PIC ARHHHHHHHHHHH
cause, you know, it don't matter. none of this matters.
***** dem eyebrows though
there's still a lot not not hating it ):
great relaxing song, this album is a masterpiece
Howard Stern brought me here! Wow, he was right ... ever seen a grown man cry? \m/
GaRRaPatero España Howard brought me here as well..technically kc Armstrong brought me here
Same here
To me ,the long ending is for you to sit and reflect on your father and your grandfather and any that have passed ,of you really let yourself go,you'll hear them and touch there souls,you'll get to say good bye the way you always wanted to,you'll get to forgive or ask for forgiveness ,they'll hear you and they will talk....just eat mushrooms first ,changed my life this song
People read somewhere that this album is bad. Well, fortunately i was always one of those who never gave a fuck what others say. And this is the moment when it pays off.
good!
I think Lou is very comfortable with the fact to unsettle so many people with LULU, so his work is fuflfilled on earth, thx for that, you were a great inspiration to me.
To all the critics:
this is no music for children---grow and you`ll see.
this is soul touching art for the wounded.
I have an album by Lou called Magic Loss. The whole album acknowledges the fact that he lost his magic touch. It was one of his later albums but before Lulu.
Holy shit and that's what being a pretentious asshole is
Agreed
@@LMC-xz6qh Some people like stuff that a lot of people don't. How dare they. They should like what everyone else likes, those assholes.
More condescending nonsense from boomers, as if getting older makes shitty music sound better.
Probably, you think this sounds good because you can't actually hear it.
This is a masterpiece.I cried listening to thisI Lost my father when I was12 to cancer.He couldn't face me in his last days in his weakened state.He had lost control of his body .He was unable to accept that he was now weaker than his son.1979.
This is astonishingly good.
@@mm2008nin why would it be? This is an incredible song
This the one song as a whole that survived the notion of this legit being a compelling collaboration
@@darrenthetuber743 More than enough, if you ask me. I prefer this song to all the processed trash that passes as "music" nowadays. Who cares if the rest of the album isn't this good. This song is gorgeous.
A dark, ethereal,sentimental, space. A journey home. Riding the tides...
This is beyond amazing ....I totally get it
One of the best things of the last two decades.
Emanuele V. Helen Keller would say this that this is shit.
The worst thing that happened to this band other than this album, is that cliff died instead of kirk.
Only good Metallica album tbh
+zantix .MG Well that and St. Anger!
Such a beautiful song.
This song is just different. Hard to explain. I come back to it every few years.
Fuck the haters.
I love this album
🐈 in memory of Junior: we all love and remember...
I...i really like this song..
Austin Lockwood I do too. Despite its length, it’s the best song of the album, and one of the only ones that’s worth listening to
You will get used to the length especially if you are a dream theater fan listening to 23 minute songs like a change of seasons and octavarium.
...what a masterpiece of a song...
I needed a 9 month quarentine to apreciate this album
The album isn't great but this tune is absolutely fantastic and made the whole collaboration worthwhile.
I don't care if you like or hate this album, but this is most authentic work by Metallica since "...And Justice for All"
This was definitely made for the sake of music and experimentation, so I agree about the authenticity. I do think St. Anger was very authentic too. Maybe even more than any other Metallica album.
Load and Reload were 100% authentic and what the band wanted to play then.
Midas Baijense totalmente de acuerdo con tigo. st anger es directo y crudo, sin adornos se masca la ansiedad por los cuatro costados.
+FixxxerZ7 Load and Reload were REALLY good albums! St. Anger and Lulu on the other hand....not so much! But I do enjoy St. Anger and some of Lulu, I mean I listen to them a lot more than I expected lol.
Since Reload.
At first, I didn't get the whole album but right now I think this song is just something out of this world...
The lyrics are spectacular I've cried so much into this song. Kirks solo without His lovely a wah is giving me chills and more feeling.
Masterpiece
Frank Reynolds: "oh my god... I get it.."
My top 10 of the songs in this album.
10)Junior Dad
9)Little Dog
8)Cheat On Me
7)Frustration
6)Iced Honey
5)Brandeburg Gate
4)Dragon
3)Pumping Blood
2)Mistress Dead
1)The View
From least fave to fave
10. Little Dog
9. Dragon
8. Frustration
7. The View
6. Pumping Blood
5. Mistress Dread
4. Iced Honey
3. Brandenburg Gate
2. Cheat on Me
1. Junior Dad
Thanks for sharing this.
This song is a masterpiece...period.
Oh, Lou...we miss you.
This is very moving. Bowie was right in calling _Lulu_ Reed's masterpiece.
[Verse 1]
Would you come to me if I was half drowning?
An arm above the last wave?
Would you come to me? Would you pull me up?
Would the effort really hurt you?
Is it unfair to ask you, to help pull me up?
[Verse 2]
The window broke the silence of the matches
The smoke effortlessly floating
Pull me up
Would you be my lord and saviour, pull me up by my hair?
Now would you kiss me, on my lips?
[Verse 3]
Burning fever burning on my forehead
The brain that once was listening
Now shoots out its tiresome message
Won’t you pull me up?
Scalding, my dead father has the motor and he's driving
Towards an island of lost souls
Sunny, a monkey then to monkey
I will teach you meanness, fear and blindness
No social redeeming kindness
Or - oh, state of grace
[Verse 4]
Would you pull me up?
Would you drop the mental bullet?
Would you pull me by the arm up?
Would you still kiss my lips?
Hiccup, the dream is over
Get the coffee, turn the lights on
Say hello to junior dad
The greatest disappointment
Age withered him and changed him
Into junior dad, psychic savagery
The greatest disappointment
The greatest disappointment
Age withered him and changed him
Into junior dad
[Instrumental]
I think this album gets more stick than it deserves.. its art in its own right, just because its different from the "standard" of lou reed & metallica doesnt make it bad.. its an incredibly unique sound and deserves recognition in its own right
Would you come to me
If I was half drowning
An arm above the last wave
Would you come to me
Would you pull me up
Would the effort really hurt you
Is it unfair to ask you
To help pull me up
its simply people didnt like it because it was more of a lou reed album , with metallica as a backing band ( it was great by them being the big band they are to shape their band aroung lou reed) so people who didnt listen to lou reed found it strange, but i think it goes pretty well among lou´s discography
i think this was the only song from the whole project that actually worked
Darren Forbes pumping blood is actually really good too
+박선영 "Pumping Blood" has great instrumentals, the vocals are absolute garbage though. But I do get a good laugh from Lou's drunken babbling.
Iced Honey is another really good one.
havoren
The vocals being fucked is part of the appeal.
havoren, have u considered you are the one that's garbage and the one that's babbling?
abyssal, monumental, stratospheric, vertiginous, a song for the soul, and a final of 10 minutes in weightlessness, thank you Lou for this testament, for this legacy.
For ever.
Just listened to this song for the first time after writing off this album as a joke when it was first released. This song is fucking great, wish I gave this a chance back in the day.
The song that made Metallica cry 😭
This is a masterpiece
This album stands the test of time, for Metallica and for Lou. The music is melodious and metal-who else has ever managed to pull that off? It’s also a heartfelt, honest homage to Alban Berg. Sure, the lyrics get a little adolescent here and there but that’s hardly a first for heavy metal. A bafflingly unacknowledged album.
I loved this album and this song from the moment it came out. The older I get, the more I love it. If this was on a loop for 24 hours I could listed to it and still want more
Absolutely brilliant.
Funny how my younger self didn’t get the album back then, until I’m in my mid 40s.. all broken, beat and scarred (no pun intended) and realize this song is a complete masterpiece
Forgotten masterpiece of Lou Reed, I honestly would call this one of Metallica's and Lou Reed's best songs.
Music for the few who love it. And I am one of them. Thanks Lou & Metallica for having the guts to go off track!
Thats why Metallica has gained so much of respect apart from the fame. From the most heavy to the most delicate n deep stuff...they are right there.
Suyash Pandey man I’ve loved them for 34 years. One sucked me in and every album and tour since has kept me in the family! I love how positive these comments have been!
@@jacobfelt9512 I discovered heavy music a bit late...and this particular band has helped me out to pull off my life's greatest struggles...they are pretty close to my heart too...
The last song on the last album Lou Reed released while he was alive
this is a decent jam I have to admit
As much as I hate this album a couple days ago hearing this song in full for the first time while stoned af was the best experience ever.
Bemused by the many negative reviews of this collaboration - it's really quite brilliant, and a brave move by both parties.
Absolutely beautiful piece O music. First time I have ever heard it…and I grew up listening to The Velvet Underground and Lou (seen him 5 times in concert). Thanks for the post!
This album is art, period.
Work of art of the highest order
This song puts me back on the road that makes sense.
Masterpiece
This is the ultimate test of music understanding. If you end up hating this song don't consider yourself human being. ☺
Lu Lu was not well received.
David Bowie called Lu Lu
A Masterpiece .
Junior Dad is just that.
Lou Reeds Last Masterpiece.
Like Bowie Black Star.
Johnny Cash doing Hurt.
That last Testament.
I listen to this often.
It's Powerful.
And it's Beautiful.
Some playlist must not have a dislike button at all to be idiot-proof, what a masterpiece!
I just love this