I never knew Lulu existed until I noticed there was another thread.
I downloaded one track from Lulu. It's pretty bad. I had to take it out of the shuffle list, so I haven't heard it recently enough to say much about it.
I thought the 1.0 Pitchfork 1.0 review of Lulu was a good instance of the genre. But I like even more the image that lurid conjured up, of Lou and Metallica getting stoned together and squinting really hard at whatever version of Frank Wedekind had made it to DVD. It's too bad they weren't still filming Some Kind of Monster for this.
That's a "1.0" for the rating and another for the version, I guess.
What's all this about Louise Brooks?
"Cut 85% of the verbiage and we might consider it for our 45 series."
Blah blah Alban Berg whatever.
Am I the only one who misread this as Pandora's litter box for a moment?
There will dawn a cold day in Gotham and upper middle class suburbs everywhere when Lou Reed is finally exposed as a tedious prank by Lester Bangs and assorted hangers-on.
A cold, rainy day if this Hurricane Joaquin stuff is true.
When Lou Reed died, I made a joke on FB about "Walk on the Wild Side" being a terrible song, and people got upset and then I felt bad and regretted it.
You should have waited a couple of days.
Come on, Smearcase, you can type the whole sentence out: "Of course, Alban Berg's Lulu sounded this bad to Viennese audiences of the time."
Ever seen Adorno's reminiscence of how depressed Berg was by the popular success? That he found it humiliating, and that it proved he wasn't serious, bringing on self-doubt.
Dunno about the recorded album, but I worked on a show a while back where Lou Reed sat in with Metallica for a few songs. I'm no Metallica fan, but it turns out they make a pretty fair Velvet Underground cover band.
But I like even more the image that lurid conjured up, of Lou and Metallica getting stoned together and squinting really hard at whatever version of Frank Wedekind had made it to DVD
If you read the linked proposal (or this comment) you will learn that it has the subject matter it does because Reed was working with Robert Wilson on an adaptation of the Wedekind. "Reed had trouble making sense of Wilson's narrative", runs part of a sentence in the sample first chapter, which, yeah, that's plausible.
Another good bit is "They play "Sweet Jane." Metallica attempt to rock in a linear way but it still feels awkward and asymmetrical."
Yeah, I got as far as "the music crumbles into polygons." Dude, I'm sure you know what a polygon is, but you should look up "music."
because Reed was working with Robert Wilson on an adaptation of the Wedekind
Oh man, I had forgotten that this happened. There's a Wilson adaptation of everything good. Most of them are terrible. POEtry was unfortunately the first Wilson I ever saw.
I very much disliked Wilson's adaptations of Daniil Kharms. I think I may have mentioned that at the time? It was like standard-issue Wilson with very light dusting of Kharms.