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David Bowie calls Lulu a masterpiece!
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David Bowie has hailed "Lulu" as a "masterpiece," calling it "Lou's greatest work."

Bowie's opinion of "Lulu" was revealed during the speech Reed's widow, Laurie Anderson, gave last night (Saturday, April 18) at the the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, where her late husband was being posthumously inducted as a solo performer.

"One of [Lou's] last projects was his album with Metallica," Anderson said in her speech. "And this was really challenging, and I have a hard time with it. There are many struggles and so much radiance. And after Lou's death, David Bowie made a big point of saying to me, 'Listen, this is Lou's greatest work. This is his masterpiece. Just wait, it will be like 'Berlin'. It will take everyone a while to catch up.'"
 
Giving Lulu another listen. I never thought it was bad, if you remember it Metallica and Lou Reed. Not supposed to sound like either alone.
 
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Nowhere near horrible as the original. This just sounds misplaced.
 
I love this stuff


Mustaine > Hammet.
But also Four Horsemen beats The Mechanix because of Cliff Burton.
 
Agreed, and the vocal is more "understandable" due to slower pace. It's a better song overall.

To not belittle my beloved Megadeth - (Kill'em all + Ride the lightning + Master of puppets) < Peace Sells.
I don't like post AJFA Metallica, I think that first three albums are great but nowhere near as epic as their reputation. Especially Master Of Puppets, hailed as one of the best heavy metal albums ever, has multiple points of filler and boredom and slips off after a few tracks. RTL is pretty much saved by Creeping Death being on the latter half of the record.

AJFA is a masterpiece. For me, it's Metallica on their top, doing songs that deal with real-life topics, more heavy and more progressive than anything from them before and after. I can even enjoy Kirk's solos, they are very cleanly executed which isn't typical of him.

I just did a run of a whole album on Youtube. While I was finishing the paragraph above, album ended and obviously, next thing in playlist of this guy stared. Enter Sandman.
Now, what a load of crap. Shutting down, good night.
 
Not just the vocals or lyrics, I think Horsemen's tempo is actually better suited to the composition. Feels a lot stronger.
 
Zare said:
I think that first three albums are great but nowhere near as epic as their reputation. Especially Master Of Puppets, hailed as one of the best heavy metal albums ever, has multiple points of filler and boredom and slips off after a few tracks. RTL is pretty much saved by Creeping Death being on the latter half of the record.
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I do agree with you on Master of Puppets. For many years I thought the same about the debut album, but this has changed a lot recently. I don't think Ride the Lightning suffers from filler or boredom. I'd say it is as great as its reputation. Creeping Death is an impressive and anthemic in your face riff fest headbanger, but the other songs have variation, some of them with melodic brilliance. Also: the best guitar leads (harmony and end-solo) are on the Ride the Lightning album, namely Fade to Black. That harmony might be in my top 3 of all time, by any band.
Zare said:
AJFA is a masterpiece. For me, it's Metallica on their top, doing songs that deal with real-life topics, more heavy and more progressive than anything from them before and after. I can even enjoy Kirk's solos, they are very cleanly executed which isn't typical of him.
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I think Justice... suffers from the same Puppets syndrome, although One is a clear exception in the melodical department and I also thought Blackened was a very strong opener. Unfortunately most other songs are quite repetitive and monotone.
Zare said:
(Kill'em all + Ride the lightning + Master of puppets) < Peace Sells.
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Ride the Lightning > Kill'em All > No Life til Leather > Master of Puppets > anything else released by Metallica or Megadeth (I don't like these albums enough to put them in order, but I'll soon spin some Megadeth to see how it feels these days).
 
Night Prowler said:
"If 'Death Magnetic' was a logical successor to [1988's] '…And Justice For All', the next album will be a heavier Black Album," METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett tells Rolling Stone, using the popular nickname for 1991's "Metallica". "We're not going to the depths of complexity that we did for 'Death Magnetic'. The stuff we're coming up with is more groove-oriented, a heavier version of what we were doing in the early Nineties."

"When people talk about the old stuff, they think 'Justice'," Ulrich tells Rolling Stone. "But look at 'Harvester Of Sorrow' on that album. It's a fairly simple five-minute song. And 'Fuel' [on 1997's 'Reload'] is an absolute scorcher live. Right now, I'm thinking shorter, more to-the-point."

I'm very dissapointed by this. I hate Fuel. I also think that they are much better at writing long songs.
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"Fuel" took time to grow on me but I really like it now. Either way, heavier than their 90s stuff? I'm in.
 
Didn't see that interview the first time around. I'm very pleased to read that. Death Magnetic was good but way too bloated. There wasn't any single song that I enjoy throughout, rather fragments of songs that show potential. If they could take those fragments and craft them into fleshed out, tightly arranged songs, then they're good to go. Very few of their long songs are enjoyable to me. Also, doesn't seem like they're trying to rewrite Fuel, but go in that direction in terms of song structure, which is fine by me. If they could mix the structure and arrangements of their 90s albums with the riffs and raw power of Death Magnetic, then theyll have a solid album I think.
 
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