Entertainment For Lively Minds
Great Collaborations Of Our Time
Posted by ganglesprocket on 16 June 2011 - 12:56pm.
George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias, Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson.
To this august list we can surely add Lou Reed and Metallica!
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Thrash Metal Machine Music?
Strange..
I thought Lou was a Soul Man
It's when I read rock "journalism"
like that, that I say a silent prayer of thanks for The Word.
Couldnt agree more
"Rawk" as construed by what's left of the old "music industry"....
I still persevere with Rolling Stone
but I think it's more out of habit than genuine interest. Other than the political/home affairs features, it seems to take less and less time to read every month.
Can we include...
...Focus and PJ Proby? (1977, post-Akkerman)
Lou Reed's Solo work
is incredibly overrated. Discuss.
Is it?
I didn't think it was generally higly rated at all. Exceptions possibly being Transformer, New York and Songs for Drella. (and maybe Berlin, which may be a masterpiece but I dont feel the need to ever here it again).
He's just a very...
...dour man with an exceptionally limited voice who seems to have spent his entire life being fawned over by acolytes and a media unprepared to say, "Actually, this isn't much good, is it...?"
Amen to that
For every transcendal piece of music (Walk On The Wild Side), he's produced about 50 unlistenable dirges, regardless of solo or with VU (Black Angel's Death Song, The Gift, Murder Mystery, NY Telephone Conversation, Metal Machine Music being the key offenders)
Unfortunately some music journalists (though seemingly not at word) find it very hard to step back and say to the sacred cows, actually this is a bit rubbish. Oh well. One of those things I suppose.
Um.
I like Black Angel's Death Song. What's wrong with it?
Agreed in general, though.
I like The Gift
but isn't it a John Cale song?
(Not seeking to open the Cale v Reed debate, especially as it's no contest in my book)
Sammy Davis Jr & The Animals
Ella & Louis
did some fine duets, with panache and humour: