In the British avant-garde music magazine The Wire, David Keenan wrote "Metallica's unrelenting sledgehammer style works as the perfect complement to Reed's vision of compassionless love" and concluded "[a]gainst all the odds, Lulu functions as the ultimate realisation of Reed's aesthetic of Metal Machine Music, cruel vulgar, half in love with power and pain but with a bruised, beating heart at its centre. According to McIver, Lou Reed and Metallica had created an "avant-garde theatrical" soundtrack which is "not easy to listen to" and recommendable for Lou Reed fans. Metallica have performed way beyond what many thought them capable; they improvise freely as Reed's musical bitch, while for him this marks his most outré offering since Metal Machine Music". [4], The collaboration was originally intended to be Metallica re-recording various previously unreleased tracks Reed had written over the years. However, with problems recording so many songs at one time, the band decided that half of the songs were to be released and the band would continue to work on the remaining songs and release them the following year. [16] "[42] Mattin in his review of Lulu for Volcanic Tongue agrees when Lou Reed said "This is the best thing ever done by anybody" and he adds "Lulu is more Lou Reed than Lou Reed and that surely means that this is the best thing ever done by anybody. In response to this and the overall negative reaction to the album, Reed commented, "I don't have any fans left. "[34] Reviewer Julian Marszalek of The Quietus gave it a very negative review, commenting that "the effect is that of Lou Reed ranting over some Metallica demos that were never intended for human consumption." This version here is one of the most balance vinyl you can find for this album. The band has been playing it live since the album's release. Like Load, the album artwork was again created by Andres Serrano, which is a mix of bovine blood and his own urine. Marszalek summarized the review by suggesting that time spent listening to Lulu could have been better spent watching grass grow, "or perhaps wanking into a sock. Reed wrote the majority of the lyrics. In a review titled "Metallica and Lou Reed's 'Lulu' Is Actually Excellent", James Parker of The Atlantic wrote "I don't think the record is crap. It makes it more precious for those who were involved.[51]. Reload was recorded at The Plant, a wood-panelled studio in Sausalito, California. [11] 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. The album is a follow-up to Load, released the previous year, and Metallica's last studio album to feature the ...And Justice for All-era lineup, with bassist Jason Newsted leaving the band in January 2001, though it was not his last release with the band. [4] Upon its release, Lulu received mixed reviews, and an extremely negative response from many fans and several prominent critics. [18] The song's music video was directed by Darren Aronofsky, with cinematography by Matthew Libatique and produced by Scott Franklin through Protozoa Pictures, his and Aronofsky's production company. The album is the final full-length studio recording project that Reed was involved in before his death in October 2013. [4] After that performance, they began "kicking around the idea of making a record together,"[6] but did not start working together until two years later. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, and has been based in San Francisco for most of its career. [4] On the other hand, Musician described the album as "greasy, driving, full of fat grooves, lyric and rhythmic hooks, and sonic curveballs". "[37] Uncut gave the record a positive review,[38] singling out the closer "Junior Dad" for praise and calling it "breathtaking" and "astonishing", a "perfect ending to the most extraordinary, passionate and just plain brilliant record either participant has made for a long while." He's probably laughing his head off at it all this very minute. The session was produced by Bob Rock, who also produced Metallica's previous two albums. [15] Dan Snierson from Entertainment Weekly said Reload "continues Metallica's journey into stripped-down maturity while toying with fresh melodic textures" and "also forsakes some of the punchy hooks and gut-clenching heft that elevated recent Metallica CDs". Hence, the artwork is titled "Piss and Blood XXVI". 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In some ways it's almost cooler that people didn't embrace it, because it makes it more ours, it's our project, our record, and this was never made for the masses and the masses didn't take to it. Lulu debuted in the top 10 of the charts in eight countries. "[11] All tracks were made available for listening on the official Lou Reed & Metallica website before its release. [44], At Lou Reed's 2015 posthumous induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Reed's widow Laurie Anderson announced that David Bowie had referred to Lulu as Reed's "greatest work". The album was released worldwide on October 31, 2011, and on November 1 in North America. The official Metallica website with all the latest news, tour dates, media and more. [19] Canadian journalist Martin Popoff lamented the "dull, unfinished, unrealized" songwriting in many songs, but praised the production and groove of the album. 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