Lou Reed reworks Metal Machine Music
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Play the hits! Lou Reed has joined up with German ensemble Zeitcracker to re-record his notorious 1975 longplayer Metal Machine Music.
The project has been lying in a vault somewhere since 2002, when Zeitcracker performed the former Velvet's album of feedback at a concert in Berlin.
The contemporary classical act were guided by their saxophonist Ulrich Krieger, who transcribed the original sounds into an acoustic music score.
Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music - Performed by Zeitkratzer Live will be available from the 3rd of September on DVD, with a three-part CD to follow.
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who here has actually sat all the way through it?
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Correction: Zeitcracker didn't perform Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.
They performed Feedback. Lou Reed happened to have been informed in advance so he could exploit the event for cultural capital.
Wow
Lets resurrect Lester Bangs especially...
me
once.
listening to a track of it occasionally is a genuine pleasure. any more than that and you want to die.
I sat through it all once
at about 3am writing my dissertation. After a while you sort of get into it, but I have no desire to ever feel like that again, ever.
I have
It's a brilliant piece of music.
A DVD?
Of what? Some Germans standing near some amps that are on pretending to know what they're doing? WHO IS GOING TO BUY THIS?
All of my posts recently have ended with me type-shouting.
yep
i even put it on at a party once! king of the good times me :0
I listen to it sometimes when I want to play something
as I go to sleep.
Which sounds like an insult even though it's not meant to be
Well it knocks Magic and Loss
etc into a cocked hat - give me MMM over New Sensations any day
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