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METALLICA and LOU REED – Lulu (Pts 1-4)
So, you’ve probably heard. Metallica and Lou Reed ran into one another in a dark alley of Hell and made a Doctor-Moreau-level abomination called Lulu that’s pretty much equally embarrassing for everyone involved – the players and the listener alike. Brandon pulls out Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp” to figure out if Lulu qualifies. Meanwhile, … Continue reading
METALLICA and LOU REED – Lulu (Part 4)
Hide yo koalas. It’s a battle between Metal Machine Music and a bloviating glittery piñata of grotesquery with a Tabasco enema.
METALLICA and LOU REED – Lulu (Part 3)
Now this is what I call a tangent! We came to talk about Loutallica’s Lulu and ended up with our own little polemic about Camp. By the end of this dialectic, you won’t even need to read Sontag’s “Notes on Camp” because Jenn and Brandon will have transcribed the whole damn thing. But hey, at … Continue reading
METALLICA and LOU REED – Lulu (Part 2)
Did you know that sex and death are the only subjects seriously interesting to an adult? We have Yeats to thank for that insight. That’s right. Jenn Lao is talking fucking Yeats in this discussion of Loutallica’s Lulu. Other guest appearances include Franz Kafka, Lady Gaga, and I Heart Huckabees. Brandon even chimes in for … Continue reading
METALLICA and LOU REED – Lulu (Part 1)
So, you’ve probably heard. Metallica and Lou Reed ran into one another in a dark alley of Hell and made a Doctor-Moreau-level abomination called Lulu that’s pretty much equally embarrassing for everyone involved – the players and the listener alike. Brandon tries to figure out if the wretchedness of this album may have been intentional. … Continue reading
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