In the most unlikeliest pairing since Phil Collins and Bone Thugs N’ Harmony (or, perhaps, Orson Welles and Manowar?),
Velvet Underground stalwart Lou Reed teams up with the biggest riff
factory known to mankind, Metallica. Metalheads and old rockers alike
waited with baited breath for the first samples to appear online and
both were roundly disgusted at what they heard (it takes a lot to
disgust a metalhead, especially these days). Now that the monstrosity is
here, requiring two discs to soundly contain all of Reed’s bewildering
homespun ramblings and Metallica’s laborious, repetitive riffs — both
of which announce themselves from the outset in opener 'Brandenburg
Gate' — one quickly discovers stapling together rock legends does not a
great record guarantee.
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