Metal Machine Music
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Leo
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fun facts:
- it was reissued a couple of years ago...in remastered form! what a joke.
- the reissue was done as a limited-edition. numbered series. i know a guy who worked on the project at bmg and he had the printer print up about 10 copies of issue #00001, so that lou and a few industry people/collector nerds (including himself) could claim to have the first one. lesson: never trust a limited-edition numbered series to be true.
- it was reissued a couple of years ago...in remastered form! what a joke.
- the reissue was done as a limited-edition. numbered series. i know a guy who worked on the project at bmg and he had the printer print up about 10 copies of issue #00001, so that lou and a few industry people/collector nerds (including himself) could claim to have the first one. lesson: never trust a limited-edition numbered series to be true.
I brought this on CD and felt really cheated, really ripped off. Nothing happens - sonically, musically, thematically. It's just some tones and feedback. Which is kind of interesting for about 60 seconds, but 70 minutes? Fuck off. Unenjoyable, self-indulgent shit of the first order.
nochexxx
harco pronting
you making me excited!
reed is obviously the least interesting, intelligent, sonically creative member of the velvets. the others all had these avant garde micro-tonal sound art whatever projects, and i think he felt insecure and wanted to do something like, totally wild and out there, like Cale, as kind of a joke.
he does have some clever moments with words though and chose a good name for an otherwise worthless piece of crap, and it somehow ends up getting talked about (by other pretentions crap takers) a lot more than, for instance, the sublime "Theater of Eternal Music".
the farce of modern music never stops giving...
he does have some clever moments with words though and chose a good name for an otherwise worthless piece of crap, and it somehow ends up getting talked about (by other pretentions crap takers) a lot more than, for instance, the sublime "Theater of Eternal Music".
the farce of modern music never stops giving...
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baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
theater of eternal music
and there is an actual "temple" in upstate NY where a drone supposedly has never stopped since its erection, and hopefully never will... talked to someone who went once, he said it was awesome... i think this might be it.
no reed does have a sense of humor sometimes. (as well as a scat fetish if a friend of mine who was part of the NYC 70s scene is not, all puns intended, full of shit
)EDIT: don't know WHAT Laurie Anderson saw in him... it was probably a political marriage.
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nah that's in manhattan , but eternal upstate drone sounds cool wherever-wahtever it might be
what silliness you utter, but I'm not at all surprised
at least u didn't say "LOU REED LIKE ALL OTHER MUSICAL PHENOMENA IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE REALLY CAME FROM AFRICA"
but u probably will
Must admit that I am surprised by the hostility
compared to enormous amounts of abstract music popular these days (noise, electronica, electroacoustic, wotever), Metal Machine Music is quite tame, even melodic in whole vast sections. I don't listen to it very often, but I certainly do not find it objectionable - it's the direct precursor to a lot of abstract music, what's the problem? People poo themselves over drumm's work but hate this ? i don't get it . it's tame and almost ambient in parts and anyone who believes Reed's schtick that it's not a carefully constructed piece of music is one gullible fecker ...
compared to enormous amounts of abstract music popular these days (noise, electronica, electroacoustic, wotever), Metal Machine Music is quite tame, even melodic in whole vast sections. I don't listen to it very often, but I certainly do not find it objectionable - it's the direct precursor to a lot of abstract music, what's the problem? People poo themselves over drumm's work but hate this ? i don't get it . it's tame and almost ambient in parts and anyone who believes Reed's schtick that it's not a carefully constructed piece of music is one gullible fecker ...
k, two more cents' worth, nomad-stylee -
if you lived through/were interested in the avant in the 70s & 80s, it's a classic . you don't have to like it, 'course. but it's a classic for good reason, and easily holds up to drop-the-needle real time scrutiny in discussion & analysis, which is why plenty of folks still take it seriously (i'm no huge fan but just sayin' that its place in music history is not unjustified, at all )
interesting maybe / maybe not that it was designed in part to have exactly the response that DannyL provides here down to the letter: righteous consumer indignation, OH THE OUTRAGE! THE INDIGNATION! HOW COULD HE! etc at someone having made a record such as this
kicks the shit out of that eno crap, btw , in fact there's a thread right there : brits suck up eno's farts while nyers were chewing on MMM and sister ray and suicide ... i know which one i'd choose if i had to do it again !
if you lived through/were interested in the avant in the 70s & 80s, it's a classic . you don't have to like it, 'course. but it's a classic for good reason, and easily holds up to drop-the-needle real time scrutiny in discussion & analysis, which is why plenty of folks still take it seriously (i'm no huge fan but just sayin' that its place in music history is not unjustified, at all )
interesting maybe / maybe not that it was designed in part to have exactly the response that DannyL provides here down to the letter: righteous consumer indignation, OH THE OUTRAGE! THE INDIGNATION! HOW COULD HE! etc at someone having made a record such as this
kicks the shit out of that eno crap, btw , in fact there's a thread right there : brits suck up eno's farts while nyers were chewing on MMM and sister ray and suicide ... i know which one i'd choose if i had to do it again !
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