What Are You Listening To Now?

[southee]

Purchased today Lou Reed's - Metal Machine Music on Double Vinyl (Remastered) to the shock of Mrs. Southee!!!!

If anyone knows their music will totally understand what I am talking about!!!!

http://www.facebook.com/mobileprotectio ... 2455741769

There is even a facebook page about this album.

Genius or Utter self indulgence....??????

Remastered ???!!! Why bother???

A Stereo Reproduction of the original Quadraphonic master.........

A serious question here......has anyone actually got through this masterpiece???

[Interceptor]

A serious question here......has anyone actually got through this masterpiece???

The guy who did the AllMusic review did

One would be hard-pressed to name a major artist who ever released an album as thoroughly alienating as Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music; at a time when noise rock and punk had yet to make their presence known, Reed released this 64-minute aural assault that offered up a densely layered soundscape constructed from feedback, distortion, and atonal guitar runs sped up or slowed down until they were all but unrecognizable. Metal Machine Music seems a bit less startling today, now that bands like Sonic Youth and the Boredoms have created some sort of context for it, but it hasn't gotten any more user friendly with time -- while Thurston Moore may go nuts on his guitar like this for three or four minutes at a stretch, Metal Machine Music goes on and on and on for over an hour, pausing only for side breaks with no rhythms, melodies, or formal structures to buffer the onslaught. If you're brave enough to listen to the whole thing, it's hard not to marvel at the scope of Reed's obsession; it's obvious he spent a lot of time on these layered sheets of noise, and enthusiasts of the violent guitar freakout may find it pleasing in short bursts. But confronting Metal Machine Music from front to back in one sitting is an experience that's both brutal and numbing. It's hard to say what Lou Reed had in mind when he made Metal Machine Music, and Reed has done little to clarify the issue over the years, though he summed it up quite pointedly in an interview in which he said, "Well, anyone who gets to side four is dumber than I am." For the record, I did get to side four. But I got paid for it.

[southee]

A serious question here......has anyone actually got through this masterpiece???

The guy who did the AllMusic review did

One would be hard-pressed to name a major artist who ever released an album as thoroughly alienating as Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music; at a time when noise rock and punk had yet to make their presence known, Reed released this 64-minute aural assault that offered up a densely layered soundscape constructed from feedback, distortion, and atonal guitar runs sped up or slowed down until they were all but unrecognizable. Metal Machine Music seems a bit less startling today, now that bands like Sonic Youth and the Boredoms have created some sort of context for it, but it hasn't gotten any more user friendly with time -- while Thurston Moore may go nuts on his guitar like this for three or four minutes at a stretch, Metal Machine Music goes on and on and on for over an hour, pausing only for side breaks with no rhythms, melodies, or formal structures to buffer the onslaught. If you're brave enough to listen to the whole thing, it's hard not to marvel at the scope of Reed's obsession; it's obvious he spent a lot of time on these layered sheets of noise, and enthusiasts of the violent guitar freakout may find it pleasing in short bursts. But confronting Metal Machine Music from front to back in one sitting is an experience that's both brutal and numbing. It's hard to say what Lou Reed had in mind when he made Metal Machine Music, and Reed has done little to clarify the issue over the years, though he summed it up quite pointedly in an interview in which he said, "Well, anyone who gets to side four is dumber than I am." For the record, I did get to side four. But I got paid for it.

My challenge is on for this weekend!!! Can Southee do it???

[Q.]

[Magpiespower]

Biggie Smalls
"Friend of Mine"

I don't give a b*tch enough to catch the bus...

[zipzap]

Purchased today Lou Reed's - Metal Machine Music on Double Vinyl (Remastered) to the shock of Mrs. Southee!!!!

If anyone knows their music will totally understand what I am talking about!!!!

http://www.facebook.com/mobileprotectio ... 2455741769

There is even a facebook page about this album.

Genius or Utter self indulgence....??????

Remastered ???!!! Why bother???

A Stereo Reproduction of the original Quadraphonic master.........

A serious question here......has anyone actually got through this masterpiece???

Not me, but I always was intrigued by it after Lester Bangs' obsessions with it and Lou in general

http://www.rocknroll.net/loureed/articles/mmmbangs.html

[southee]

Purchased today Lou Reed's - Metal Machine Music on Double Vinyl (Remastered) to the shock of Mrs. Southee!!!!

If anyone knows their music will totally understand what I am talking about!!!!

http://www.facebook.com/mobileprotectio ... 2455741769

There is even a facebook page about this album.

Genius or Utter self indulgence....??????

Remastered ???!!! Why bother???

A Stereo Reproduction of the original Quadraphonic master.........

A serious question here......has anyone actually got through this masterpiece???

Not me, but I always was intrigued by it after Lester Bangs' obsessions with it and Lou in general

http://www.rocknroll.net/loureed/articles/mmmbangs.html

Hence why i bought it on vinyl....something about it that fasinates me

[brod]

Roots - Sepultura

[Leaping Lindner]

Hence why i bought it on vinyl....something about it that fasinates me

Vinyl is good sure, but this would be the best way to listen to it I'd think (get that true 70's feel).......

[The Dark Knight]

Pearl Jam- Yellow Ledbetter

[HH3]

American Tragedy - Hollywood Undead

[Wizard of Oz]

Outworld - Outworld

[Sky Pilot]

Prodigy Firestarter. Fat of the Land. Still good after all this tme

[Q.]

Awesome.

[Gozu]

Foo Fighters-Medium Rare
Melvins-Endless Residency disc #4-Stoner Witch

[Ian]

The Best Of Bob Dylan..........

with my 17 yo metal head son, I think he's finally remebering there is more than just metal!!

[Leaping Lindner]

After hearing The Screaming Trees in the early 1990s I did my absolute best over the next twenty years to avoid anything associated with Mark Lanegan. A friend of mine recently pointed out to me that I am a fool (we knew that ) and lent me Mark Lanegan's last two solo CDs - "Bubblegum" and "Field Songs" - I can't stop playing them.They are ****ING BRILLIANT. I can't believe it's the same guy. Who says the early stuff is always the best???

[zipzap]

After hearing The Screaming Trees in the early 1990s I did my absolute best over the next twenty years to avoid anything associated with Mark Lanegan. A friend of mine recently pointed out to me that I am a fool (we knew that ) and lent me Mark Lanegan's last two solo CDs - "Bubblegum" and "Field Songs" - I can't stop playing them.They are ****ING BRILLIANT. I can't believe it's the same guy. Who says the early stuff is always the best???

I like his albums with Isobel Campbell too LL - Sunday at Devil Dirt is really cool

[Dogwatcher]

End Game - Rise Against.

Reminds me of Bad Religion.

[HH3]

Got some awesome CDs today...

Of Mice and Men - The Flood
August Burns Red - Leveler
Vanna - They Came Baring Bones

All very good!!!