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07-25-2006, 04:04 PM
|  | I did a twisty | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: On Some Faraway Beach
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| | | Lou Reed's Coney Island Baby to Be Reissued /comments upon Metal Machine Music
Poor Metal Machine Music. Lou Reed's 1975 valentine to noise continues to languish on worst-album-ever lists while his 1976 follow-up, Coney Island Baby, reaps all the accolades. And now, Coney Island Baby is due to receive the deluxe reissue treatment on August 15 courtesy of RCA/Legacy. The expanded album will contain new liner notes by Reed and six bonus tracks. According to Billboard.com, those extra cuts are "Nowhere at All", "Downtown Dirt", and "Leave Me Alone" (the latter two having only been previously available on a 1992 Reed box set), as well as never-before-released versions of "Crazy Feeling", "She's My Best Friend", and "Coney Island Baby" that were recorded with former Velvet Underground member Doug Yule during rehearsals in 1975.
As for Metal Machine Music, well, according to the new Coney Island Baby liner notes (via Billboard.com), "Metal Machine Music had an unusually high number of returns and was taken off the market in three weeks. I had no money and no guitars. The roadies had taken them when they hadn't been paid. I was in debt to everyone including the musicians union. RCA put me up in a hotel while the future fell, to be decided." Out of all that, Coney Island Baby was born. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/n...Reissued#37127
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07-25-2006, 07:07 PM
|  | A danger to society!!1111 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: On Peter Cook's dick
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| | | Has anyone heard Metal Machine Music? I haven't, but I've always been curious to hear it, even though by all accounts it has been slammed critically and otherwise...
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Originally Posted by Made of Fail The five days I worked on October [the U2 album] were the days that Edge was doing his guitar sounds. And then I got fired. | |
07-25-2006, 08:07 PM
|  | say it ain't so | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: calgary, ab.
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from what ive heard, its not music. heh.
its like, 2 hours of guitar feedback, apparantly. |
07-25-2006, 08:41 PM
|  | stop stop stop | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Dagobah
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Originally Posted by murphy. well
from what ive heard, its not music. heh.
its like, 2 hours of guitar feedback, apparantly. | yet, when Sunn O)) does it, it's called art? yikes.
Lou is the man. |
07-25-2006, 10:45 PM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Hamilton, New Zealand
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Originally Posted by emily34695 Has anyone heard Metal Machine Music? I haven't, but I've always been curious to hear it, even though by all accounts it has been slammed critically and otherwise... | I was once seconds away from spending about 60 bucks (that I could not afford to spend) on the (rather pointlessly) fancied up version a few years ago, but then sense took control of me. I asked for a listen at the listening post, and it was just howling feeback, basicaly; as promised. Now that I have money to waste, I think I may buy a copy, just to say I own it. It could be a good album to turn up when the kids in class are not being on task. Might scare them back into line! | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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