Initially, the collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica aroused my interest. Both were extraordinarily style icon in their prime in their field and are influential about genre borders. Reason enough in listening to this CD.
At first hearing, however, disappointed me the CD. Or rather, you did not meet my expectations. While much of Lou Reed and Metallica is now one of the most mainstream and is suitable as background music while driving, Lulu flew first on the way to shopping back out of the CD player.
Since I but free does not want to leave out of a supposedly bad CD prescribe by Loriot, what I have heard, I dealt in detail with this work.
I read a little lyrics and informed me roughly about the background of Lulu. A look at the reviews of other listeners was also revealing.
It became clear to me that this CD does not work when it is consumed without the context of the literary text and the legislative history as music for a dramatic setting.
With a few clicks I can orient myself within minutes so far on the Internet that the strange songs and the very strange texts on this CD make sense. The information is freely available on the net and I have to be a German scholar, musicologist, art expert or otherwise intellectuals to understand this.
However, the work is worth it.
For me the fact opened a plant in which form and content constitute an extraordinarily convincing unit. This is, in my view, the strength of Lulu.
Lou Reed, the broken old man slips into the role of broken, suffering, alive, of love, of passion and of itself failed and desperate people and gives the characters a voice. Now we know from Lou Reed that he himself has not left anything in his life (drugs, men, women ...). When it comes to highs and lows (and especially deep) is the human condition, then Mister Reed can certainly be regarded as an expert. And that's what makes his presentation so believable.
To my ears the brutal metal sound of Metallica is the perfect musical complement to Reeds verbal presentation: The age and decay but still passionate drawn up aggressive voice in combination with the brutal sound of the band complement usually excellent (only missing the drums it. in several places of subtlety)
Of course, here we find no songs in the narrower sense (verse chorus - verse Chorus Solo Chorus circuit).
Of course that's what Lou Reed are here by themselves, only in remote sense vocals.
Of course, the music is not beautiful (whatever that means).
And: Of course that's not the kind of album, have been waiting for all fans of Metallica.
But: All that wants the music presented here may not be.
The drama Lulu lit the depths of interpersonal relations: fraud, hatred, abuse, murder, humiliation, despair ... It is no surprise when a musical realization of this substance anmutet first ugly, disturbing, disgusting and bulky to inaudible.
My conclusion: Inveterate Metallica fans stay away! This is not the CD, on which you have been waiting for.
For all other music lovers, the excursion in musical fields away from the usual listening habits may well be worthwhile.
