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Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu (2011)
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Metallica is an American thrash metal band from SF Bay Area California, formed in 1981.
The band was founded when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time lead guitarist Kirk Hammett (who joined the band in 1983) and bassist Robert Trujillo (a member since 2003) alongside Hetfield and Ulrich. Notable previous members of the band include former lead guitarist Dave Mustaine (who later went on to found the band Megadeth) and former bassists Ron McGovney, Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted. The band also had a long collaboration with producer Bob Rock, who produced all of the bands albums between 1990 and 2003 and served as a temporary bassist between the departure of Newsted and the hiring of Trujillo.
Metallica's early releases included fast tempos, instrumentals, and aggressive musicianship that placed the band as one of the "big four" of the thrash metal subgenre alongside Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax, during the genre's development into a popular style. The band earned a growing fan-base in the underground music community and critical acclaim, with its third album Master of Puppets (1986) described as one of the most influential and "heavy" thrash metal albums. Metallica achieved substantial commercial success with their eponymous fifth album (also known as The Black Album), which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. With this release the band expanded its musical direction resulting in an album that appealed to a more mainstream audience.
In 2000, Metallica was among a number of artists who filed a lawsuit against Napster for sharing the band's copyright-protected material for free without any band member's consent. A settlement was reached, and Napster became a pay-to-use service. Despite reaching number one on the Billboard 200, the release of St. Anger alienated many fans with the exclusion of guitar solos and the "steel-sounding" snare drum. A film titled Some Kind of Monster documented the recording process of St. Anger and the tensions within the band during that time.Uploader Speaks this was what made me drop em I stopped listening to them I was mad and I still am but why not listen and Share, when they were trying to come up, make tapes share ,share ,share get the word out so we did , sharing music was good enough when they liked it but later , anyway Radiohead has the right attitude about sharing hopefully some day so will Metallica
Metallica has released nine studio albums, three live albums, two extended plays, 24 music videos, and 45 singles. The band has won nine Grammy Awards, and has had five consecutive albums debut at number one on the Billboard 200, making Metallica the first band to do so; this record was later matched by the Dave Matthews Band. The band's 1991 album, Metallica, has sold over 15 million copies in the United States, and 22 million copies worldwide, which makes it the 25th-best-selling album in the country. In December 2009, it became the best-selling album of the SoundScan era, surpassing 1997's Come On Over by country artist Shania Twain. The band has sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide as of the release of their latest album, Death Magnetic. As of December 2009, Metallica is the fourth best-selling music artist since the SoundScan era began tracking sales on May 25, 1991, selling a total of 52,672,000 albums in the United States alone.
IN his childhood, Lou Reed longed to play rock and roll — a common dream, perhaps, but Reed was different. By his teens, he had learned to play guitar, had made his first record, had alienated his suburban parents, and had been subjected to electro-shock therapy. During these years, Reed's parents insisted that he take typing lessons so that he would develop a saleable skill, but that didn't seem to cure him of his rock and roll aspirations.
As much as he could, Reed tried to live the straight and narrow: he went to college at Syracuse University in New York; he joined the R.O.T.C. (he was kicked out for threatening to shoot an officer); after graduating, he took a post with Pickwick Records as a staff songwriter, and tried to pen Top 10 hits. But he never seemed to fit with the program — even as a songwriter. He realized that cookie-cutter hit writing was not his rock-and-roll dream, and in 1965, he and another staff writer, John Cale, formed a band called the Warlocks. As quickly as they added members, they changed band names: in the space of one year, they became "The Primitives," "The Falling Spikes," and, finally, "The Velvet Underground" — a name lifted from a pornographic novel.
Reed and Cale (along with Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker) worked for a while as the house band at Café Bizarre in Greenwich Village, but were fired one night for playing "Black Angel's Death Song" immediately after being told not to. On the night of their dismissal, they acquired a new fan — a rather well-known artist named Andy Warhol — and suddenly they were off on a new adventure. Warhol felt the Velvet Underground would work well in a multimedia show he had envisioned, called "The Exploding Plastic Inevitable." He added a German chanteuse named Nico to provide vocals and histrionics, and the show toured the U.S. and Canada to wildly mixed reviews. Objections were made not only to the avant-garde theatricality — and the sheer decibel level — of the show, but also to the subject matter of Reed's songs, which were diametrically opposed to the "Summer of Love" sentiments sweeping the nation.
The Velvet Underground released four albums in four years before Reed left, in 1970, and the group was roundly ignored by the music-buying public and by most critics. At the time, Reed was writing unflinchingly about the seedy Manhattan street he knew and lived in — a place of decay inhabited by artists, junkies, homosexuals, and sadomasochists. Sometimes, he wrapped all of these into one, as in "Sister Ray," a song about a transvestite heroin dealer. These tales of deviancy were told over a dissonant sonic backdrop — a combination that stretched the tolerance of most contemporary listeners. Still, the band's influence on later musicians was indelible.
It seems that just about everyone who bought an original Velvet's album wound up either starting their own group or becoming a rock critic. As final testimonial to their significance today, all Velvet Underground albums are still in print, and in 1995, a five-CD retrospective, Peel Slowly and See, was released to good sales and critical acclaim.
After Reed left the band and went underground himself, he worked with his father's accounting firm on Long Island. A year later, in 1971, RCA signed him to a solo contract and sent him to London to record Lou Reed, which was released in 1972. While in England, Reed met David Bowie, a self-proclaimed Reed fan; Bowie produced Reed's next album, Transformer (1972), which included Reed's most popular song ever, "Walk on the Wild Side." For the rest of the decade, Reed consistently put out inconsistent work. A certain core audience connected with Reed's visions of beauty in ugliness (Berlin, 1973) or noise in music (Metal Machine Music, 1975), but the public at large was left more turned off than on. In 1978, Reed released The Bells, which critics compared to such classics as Van Morrison's Astral Weeks and the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street.
By the mid '80s, Reed had laid down the Velvet's mantle and was writing brighter, more up-tempo songs (on 1984's New Sensations and 1986's Mistrial). Even while writing about death and other somber topics, on 1992's Magic and Loss, he avoided complete and abject depression. In 1993, Reed joined the other members of the Velvet Underground in a final, reunion tour of Europe. (Sterling Morrison died in 1995.)
Maybe Reed is a romantic at heart; after all, he once got married on Valentine's Day, and he speaks glowingly of his current love, Laurie Anderson. A new album, with the hopeful title, Set the Twilight Reeling, seems to be the work of a man who has finally made his peace with life.
Lulu is a collaborative album between rock singer-songwriter Lou Reed, and heavy metal band Metallica. The album will be released worldwide on October 31, 2011, worldwide, and on November 1 in North America.
The conception of the collaboration project began in 2009 when both Metallica and Lou Reed performed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th Anniversary Concert.After that performance, they began "kicking around the idea of making a record together," but didn't start working together until two years later. In February 2011, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett announced that in May 2011 the group would start working on something that's "not 100 percent a Metallica record. It's a recording project, let's put it that way."The project was revealed to be a collaboration with Lou Reed once the recording of the album had been completed in June 2011.
The collaboration was originally intended to be Metallica re-recording various previously unreleased tracks Reed had written over the years.Among these unreleased demos was a collection of songs composed for a play called Lulu—a theatrical production of two plays originally written by the German playwright Frank Wedekind.Reed shared the demos of these songs with the members of Metallica to help bring the "piece to the next level," and the group provided "significant arrangement contributions" to the material.David Fricke of Rolling Stone heard at least two of the songs from the project in June 2011—"Pumping Blood" and "Mistress Dread"—and described their sound as a "raging union of [Reed's] 1973 noir classic, Berlin, and Metallica's '86 crusher, Master of Puppets."
BAND MEMBERS:
James Hetfield – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Lars Ulrich – drums, percussion
Kirk Hammett – lead guitar, backing vocals
Robert Trujillo – bass, backing vocals
Lou Reed - vocals, guitar
TRACKLIST:
CD1
01. Brandenburg Gate (4:22)
02. The View (5:21)
03. Pumping Blood (7:24)
04. Mistress Dread (6:53)
05. Iced Honey (4:38)
06. Cheat On Me (11:26)
CD2
01. Frustration (8:34)
02. Little Dog (8:02)
03. Dragon (11:10)
04. Junior Dad (19:29)
Genre: Heavy
Subgenre: Heavy Metal / Hard Rock
Bitrate: Vbr
Size: 160.87 MB
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