Bud the Baker Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 To listen to the entire, erm, tune. The Prize - A walk on the wild side! Can anyone beat 2 mins 16 seconds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 Nah, yer ok, metal machine music, whatever the feck that is, is shi..............................erm, not my taste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 19 seconds, and only cause i couldn't get to the stop button on time. In fairness though it was better than most of Gerry Rafferty's pish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windae cleaner Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 Brian Eno made a career out of this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted October 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 Just now, Slartibartfast said: I got to 3 minutes and 2 seconds then I absolutely had to stop listening - the dogs destroyed my speakers. Now they're looking at me funny. They may not like me any more. It's all your fault BtB. Looks like you're in the lead right now Dick Dastardly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted October 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 37 minutes ago, Slartibartfast said: It actually sounded like he had taken a collection of sound effects from really cheaply made 1960s/70s TV sci-fi and stuck them all together. Apparently Reed felt that the previous coupla albums he'd made with David Bowie's help had been too commercial and he wanted to make something a little less so - the general consensus is he succeeded! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalky1 Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 Playing it loud through the TV on repeat, mind you I am listening to stuff up loud on my phone with the earplugs jammed into my ears, so I can't hear it, lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 That's a superb representation of a post-modern, dystopian world. Harsh, industrial brutalism clashing with the sterile, monochromatic hues of newer, impersonal technological advances that signal human alienation from the products of labour. The discordant energy of the sonic landscape mirrors the absence of a sense of true self, and lack of personal equilibrium, as we struggle to maintain control. Aye, it's f**king shite! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shull Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 I agree with Drew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted October 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 1 hour ago, Drew said: That's a superb representation of a post-modern, dystopian world. Harsh, industrial brutalism clashing with the sterile, monochromatic hues of newer, impersonal technological advances that signal human alienation from the products of labour. The discordant energy of the sonic landscape mirrors the absence of a sense of true self, and lack of personal equilibrium, as we struggle to maintain control. I believe your avatar was listening to it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalky1 Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 5 hours ago, Slartibartfast said: Dat's cheatin' ya big cheeta. You call it cheating, I call it using my initiative Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Hughes in BlueSuedeShoes Posted October 27, 2016 Report Share Posted October 27, 2016 Any particular reason this was posted on the anniversary of the man's death or was that just a coincidence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted October 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2016 11 hours ago, Howard Hughes in BlueSuedeShoes said: Any particular reason this was posted on the anniversary of the man's death or was that just a coincidence? Just coincidence. It really came from the Gerry Rafferty thread and whether you could say that some music was bad or if it was just a case of everybody's taste being different. 99% of the time it's just a matter of taste but every now and then an artist will go the extra mile and produce an album that is genuinely bad. In the case of MMM Lou Reed was looking to deliver one final album to RCA, he was going through one of his heavier phases of drug use and came up with the idea of a double album of feedback to piss the record company off and to answer the criticism that he'd gone a bit commercial. Reed had artistic control stipulated in his contract and RCA were obliged to release the album as delivered, although if I'd been them I'd just have passed and let Reed walk out of his contract one album short. MMM is bad music because the driving forces behind the record sounding the way it does were non-musical. It' s my opinion that no-one could listen to the album all the way through, but having said that I salute Lou Reed for being the ornery son-of-a-bitch that he was! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hambud Posted October 28, 2016 Report Share Posted October 28, 2016 I take back what I said about bad music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastlandssaint Posted October 30, 2016 Report Share Posted October 30, 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Machine_Music Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Hughes in BlueSuedeShoes Posted October 31, 2016 Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 (edited) On 10/28/2016 at 0:26 AM, Bud the Baker said: Just coincidence. It really came from the Gerry Rafferty thread and whether you could say that some music was bad or if it was just a case of everybody's taste being different. 99% of the time it's just a matter of taste but every now and then an artist will go the extra mile and produce an album that is genuinely bad. In the case of MMM Lou Reed was looking to deliver one final album to RCA, he was going through one of his heavier phases of drug use and came up with the idea of a double album of feedback to piss the record company off and to answer the criticism that he'd gone a bit commercial. Reed had artistic control stipulated in his contract and RCA were obliged to release the album as delivered, although if I'd been them I'd just have passed and let Reed walk out of his contract one album short. MMM is bad music because the driving forces behind the record sounding the way it does were non-musical. It' s my opinion that no-one could listen to the album all the way through, but having said that I salute Lou Reed for being the ornery son-of-a-bitch that he was! It's rumoured that during the recording he left the recording studio and nipped out for a pint/a bite to eat/a quick hit before returning and overseeing proceedings. There's no two ways about it that Lou Reed did this to annoy people. And if the stories are to be believed he succeeded mightily. Edited to add:- Neil Young also did a similar two-fingered salute to his record company when he brought out the album Everybody's Rockin'. Edited October 31, 2016 by Howard Hughes in BlueSuedeShoes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted October 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 1 hour ago, Howard Hughes in BlueSuedeShoes said: Edited to add:- Neil Young also did a similar two-fingered salute to his record company when he brought out the album Everybody's Rockin'. I always thought Trans was the album that soured the relationship with Geffen. A tribute to Kraftwerk dominated by keyboards most of the vocals were filtered through a Vocoder it prompted many a hippy to question the nature of the shit they were smoking. Although Geffen eventually apologized to Young I always got the impression it was through clenched teeth. As with LR let's salute the awkward b'stards! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Hughes in BlueSuedeShoes Posted November 1, 2016 Report Share Posted November 1, 2016 19 hours ago, Bud the Baker said: I always thought Trans was the album that soured the relationship with Geffen. A tribute to Kraftwerk dominated by keyboards most of the vocals were filtered through a Vocoder it prompted many a hippy to question the nature of the shit they were smoking. Although Geffen eventually apologized to Young I always got the impression it was through clenched teeth. As with LR let's salute the awkward b'stards! I actually quite like Trans but in general it seems that the whole of his output on Geffen was willfully bizarre; from rockabilly (Everybody's Rockin') through electronic (Trans) then country (Old Ways) Geffen tried to sue him for misrepresentation as an artist. Then he left them, went back to Reprise brought out Freedom followed by Ragged Glory and recaptured his magic. Geffen must've been scratching their heads wondering where the hell they went wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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