TRAINWRECKORDS: Lou Reed and Metallica’s “Lulu”
Lou Reed loved to annoy critics, and Metallica has been making their fans angry for decades, but somehow they made an album so bad that they made the world angry.
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@aakkoin
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
My friend is THE biggest Metallica fan, and he doesn't want to talk about Lulu, doesn't want to acknowledge it, it's like a bad dream lol
@numberfive-t5c
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
Geese in 30 years…
@thepeopleonthecouch2928
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
I wish I could have gotten the double take when I first saw this thumbnail on camera.
@siahyz6477
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
This sounds like a person with dementia trying to remember slint
@androgynousbutter1373
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
The way that the first 7h of this video being up has made the most hilarious comment section I’ve seen in YouTube
@nocruzfloresno
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
Bob Wilson had to stick with Tom Waits to make great stuff such as Alice or The Black Rider, go hear the albums at look at what you can of the plays!
@imtablemusic
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
i am the table
@KilljoyRPMX
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
23:03 Honestly Dyers Eve kicks so much ass that any random vocals would work over it
@heikkiremes5661
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
Past the Woodstock 1994 gig, Metallica doesn't exist to me. 🙁
@JDBaldBabyVance
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
15:32 I AM THE WALRUS. GOO GOO G'JOOB.
@dlwseattle
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
I would love to know which lou reed solo albums you liked the best.
@prideofclouds
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
It really does show just how even if you're both super into it, some collabs just don't work. The silver lining to the latter end of Lou Reed's musical career is his appearance on Plastic Beach the year before because Some Kind of Nature feels like both collaborators understood what they were doing and one of the coolest songs I've ever heard and it was my first Lou Reed experience as a teenager.
Also what's with Lars Ulrich? Does he just always sound like, snippy and mildly offended to be talking at any given time?
@ThatIsAnAndroid
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
I liked it
@Xenz8-r7w
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
You're right in saying that Lou Reed ain't that deep… Even when compared to mainstream pop divas like Sabrina Carpenter and Dua Lipa.
@abwab-g8n
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
Ich bin der Tafel
@mohranzamdani
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
"heroin and drag queens before science confirmed those things were real" did non AI write this?
@cheeze4brains948
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
23:00 Someone needs to make a full mashup of this.
@thegrimbeekeeper
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
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@sabbathjackal
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
Heavy metal is classical music + electricity
Punk is a big middle finger
@EinDose
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
I always saw Lulu as an album whose reputation preceded it; that we know it as a bad album to such a degree that nobody has actually listened to it.
After this video I'm starting to think that this included Lou Reed and Metallica.
@mimmikibilly
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
I can say I appreciate Metallica branching out and trying different stuff. I think if they did this again AFTER this album, they could have done something cool together.
@Netjerikhet2
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
0:40 “he created the New York hipster archetype, with his dark glasses and snotty, difficult interviews…” 1965 Bob Dylan would beg to differ!
@jamesatkinsonja
June 4, 2026 at 6:11 am
1:33 While some people have cited it as 'avant Garde' and 'ahead of it's time'. 'Metal Machine Music' really seems to be a big 'troll' given Reed said 'anyone who gets to the end is dumber than me'. Apparently the Breen in Star Trek's voice is based on the album!
8:10 Metalic have said there big Dolly Parton fans which makes me wish they had done an album together!