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Oct 31, 2011The whole thing comes off as either an expensive major label joke or nigh-impenetrable high art concept. Maybe both.
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Nov 2, 2011It turns out that "Brandenburg Gate" is one of the only songs with an actual melody. The rest of Lulu is full of recycled, repetitive riffs; endless drones; more sex and violence than a slasher movie.
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Nov 2, 2011The godfather of avant-rock and the popular metal band don't click on any level.
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Oct 31, 2011LuLu is a work that invites derision, an album that wallows in a tarpit of ugliness.
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Oct 28, 2011Lulu is essentially a piece of shock art that's littered with vulgarity both lyrical and musical.
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Oct 28, 2011The bulk of Lulu sounds like your dad's drunk friend reciting his self-penned erotica over a melting ReLoad cassette.
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Nov 7, 2011Lulu sinks to almost unimaginable lows.
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Nov 1, 2011Audacious to the extreme, but exhaustingly tedious as a result, its few interesting ideas are stretched out beyond the point of utility and pounded into submission.
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Oct 31, 2011At no point does Lou Reed sound like he is singing with Metallica, and the same is true the other way around.
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Oct 26, 2011Any message contained within Lulu is lost in the whirl of discordant guitar work, Reed's mutterings and the complete sense of abject disappointment that surrounds the entire album.
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Nov 1, 2011An utter wreck that curiously, miraculously, might have been great.
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Oct 26, 2011Not only is Lulu the worst thing any of the players have been involved in, it's quite possibly a candidate for one of the worst albums ever made.
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Nov 1, 2011Lulu is a joyless mess, a grim, humorless record with no notion of when to say "when."
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 36 out of 233
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Mixed: 24 out of 233
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Negative: 173 out of 233
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