Metal Machine Music - The Endurance Test

[IATTBYB]

So one of the great things about Spotify is that I am getting to listen to all those albums I've heard about but am to thrifty (ok, so I'm cheap) to buy. So last night I decided I was going to try to get through Metal Machine Music, one of the most loathed albums of all time. I made it to the 8 minute mark (about halfway) of Part I. So the question goes out to the masses - How far can you get through MMM before you have to call it quits or your ears bleed?

[calvino]

Never listened to it - should try it sometime. I do consider myself a Lou Reed fan.

[tinnitus photography]

i listened to it once last year from start to end. it had its moments.

[Oil Can Boyd]

I'm a big fan of Lou but this doesn't do it for me. There is just too little time and too much good music that I own and don't listen to for me to spend an hour listening to that.

[LouieB]

Side three is the best.

 

LouieB

[Moss]

I just finished reading a Lester Bangs book where this was talked about. Apparently Lou Reed claims he put in bits of Beethoven and things in there but it's all noise to me.

[IATTBYB]

I've heard that Lou's claims about classical music bits in MMM were just part of a ruse that he was playing, trying to get critics and whatnot to claim that they heard the classical elements in all the noise and feedback when in fact there was nothing of the sort. Who knows, but I wouldn't put it past Lou to pull something like that.

[Ghost of Electricity]

I've heard that Lou's claims about classical music bits in MMM were just part of a ruse that he was playing, trying to get critics and whatnot to claim that they heard the classical elements in all the noise and feedback when in fact there was nothing of the sort. Who knows, but I wouldn't put it past Lou to pull something like that.

 

This is what the liner notes from the box set claim, as well as say that lou was in a dispute with his label and owed them one record under their contract. pissed with them, he gave them metal machine music and moved on to what he really wanted to do next. i have the box set and have listened to the excerpt there but nothing more.

[twoshedsjackson]

Dire as it is, it's Sgt. fucking Pepper compared to that abortion he just created with Metallica.

[Ghost of Electricity]

ouch.