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Kerrang!Nov 17, 2011LuLu is an album that will require many plays before the music contained within beings to make sense. [29 Oct 2011, p.50]
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Nov 2, 2011It takes some commitment, and maybe a little homework, to get the most out of the album.
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Nov 1, 2011Things can get ponderous once Metallica start impatiently stomping, but often they turn Reed's pretensions into something muscular.
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Oct 31, 2011Ultimately, Lulu is a brave experiment for both Reed and Metallica, but it's one that falters as often as it succeeds.
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Oct 27, 2011Reed's words dictate the musical structure. Often, Metallica simply fall in behind them in a free-form drone. Like much of Reed's late-period work, this is abstract and literary but even by his standards, Lulu is gruelling.
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Nov 1, 2011It's not an especially good album, but its failures are noble rather than ignoble-byproducts of ambition rather than hubris.
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Q MagazineDec 13, 2011Occasionally it's so insane that you can't help but be swept along with it. Mostly, however, it's so over the top the more likely reaction is to run it off and make sure you don't hear it again in a hurry. [Dec. 2011 p. 122]
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Nov 11, 2011It's not truly terrible, but it does feel akin to a musical version of King Kong Vs. Godzilla, two monsters decimating everything in their path until there's nothing left, except the back catalogues.
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Nov 4, 2011Up until Lulu, I didn't think it was possible to be both enamored and disgusted at the same time. Mind? Blown.
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Oct 31, 2011It's not a successful union: the songs are too close to aimless, unfinished jams, Reed sounds as if he's trying too hard to be controversial and at 95 minutes it's far too long.
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Oct 28, 2011It's not hard to see why both parties agreed to the alliance--Metallica gain artistic cachet, Reed gains an audience--but it is not an alliance that welcomes listeners with open arms.
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Oct 27, 2011There's an insurmountable disjunction between the sound of Metallica doing their nut in the background and Reed's papery old voice rambling away upfront.
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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