iIN DRURY VS LOO REED

Simon silverdollarcircle

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Don’t really get Ian Dury’s ‘genius’ status. He was good at rhyming. He used to teach art at Barnfield College in Luton before he got into the music biz. The only person I ever knew who owned an Ian Dury album was really annoying.

Lou Reed was a bad-mannered midget who looked like a hedge fund manager on dress-down Friday. His records are all crap – just Springsteen for smackheads – and he used to hit his wife whenever David Bowie was higher than him in the charts…which was frequently, as nobody really liked Lou Reed. “Metal Machine Music” isn’t even a good noise album – though it is funny how he looks such a cock on the cover.
This prompted me to listen to metal machine music for the first time ever last night and fucking hell yeah it's so puny and thin isn't it? None of that satisfying bowel wobble you get with merzbow
 

version

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I like the sound of MMM, but I've never listened all the way through. It sounds like a hologram or a thin sheet of hot, flickering metal. That Cale thing attributed to VU called 'Loop' is much heavier.

 

Leo

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when you think about it, it would be very on-brand for Lou to release a giant uncommercial fuck you to RCA, while at the same time NOT giving the avant/noise crowd something they'd rate either. f' yous all around!
 

catalog

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I bought mmm on vinyl for 20 quid in dead wax when I was a teenager and the guy was like, do you know what you are buying here?
 

Leo

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he's not my all-time fav but I have plenty of velvets and Lou records. "Rock'n Roll Animal" is a really good live album, with dueling Alice Cooper Band guitarists going off, "Transformer" is a great moment in time, "Coney Island Baby" puts just about all other post-velvets releases to shame, and Robert Quine's guitar of "Blue Mask" is ferocious. he released plenty of crap, for sure.
 
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