Metal Machine Music [IMPORT]

Lou Reed

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 22, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1975
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Bmg Int'l
• ASIN: B000005S37
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #346,052 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Metal Machine Music, Pt. 1

2. Metal Machine Music, Pt. 2

3. Metal Machine Music, Pt. 3

4. Metal Machine Music, Pt. 4

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Lou's Revolutionary Album Composed Completely with Feedback. Generally Regarded as Either the Greatest Album of all Time Or the Worst, Depending on Your Vantage Point. all Original Cover Art is Restored on this Edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars !@$!#@!$%!@$#! ER!ETY!UYT!YF! #$%!#!$#$%, April 17, 2000

By	the antichrist (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

$!%^@$!%^@$!%^@$!^%@RTQCRWQGFWGHQWF&^!%^%!^%^!%!&^%!&^%&^%!^%&^!%^!&^!%^&T!YTWYWYWF!*&Q^!&*^@!&*@^!*(&@^!&*@^!&*@^!IUHKJQHWKQJHWJKQHWQWQWQW GFHGWFEYTTQWRCE!UDGWKQDUBQOIUDBO!(*@B&~*#&B~O*#&~UH~BH!(*~Y#~UY#UI~P&#*~:UJKL~!:UI@U~:!O(~IOUIO:!&@()*():( If you enjoyed reading this, and perhaps derived something meaningful from it, while gaining a deeper insight into mankind, well then this album is for you!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Punishing in a good way, November 12, 2004

By	M. Hilton "so eclectic it hurts" (Indianapolis, IN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Sorry, but I had a profound spiritual experience when I heard this album all the way through for the first time (I'd previously heard a few snippets of it on Dr. Demento). Like another reviewer said, this album sounds exactly like the inside of my head. I never knew someone else on earth heard that sound, and Lou actually captured it, whether on purpose or not.

The best pranks run so amok that nothing is ever the same again. Metal Machine Music is such a prank. It was the beginning of the end of rock's tyranny over the cutting edge. It's the reason I traded in Bob Dylan for Aphex Twin as my favorite artist. It was one of the defining moments of a career that defined the term "anti-hero." It's punishing in a good way. Thank-you-sir-may-I-have-another!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Try to get accustomed to it., October 18, 2000

By	"homeros77" (Santiago, Chile) - See all my reviews

It is hard to add something original after all the other reviews on this page (someones very good, indeed) but I try to tell you about my own experience. I bought this record and I put it on the Cd player at my car. I hardly stand it the next five days, always listening to it, everytime I catch the car to go anywhere. My friends avoid me, telling me I was insane. I carry a girl who was hitch hiking on the road, and she was the only who liked it. Anyway, on the sixth day listenig to it, really having a very bad time, my ears opened up and the sound, the pure sound of great melodies hidden under all the noise filled my brain. Now I enjoy MMM very much. I mean, it is a far different experience from Transformer or Ecstasy or any other of his "normal" albums (except maybe White light/White heat, a very noisy one too), but is curious and can open your mind to instrumental music, and noise music (every Sonic Youth fan must love this album). Read also the "notation" of Lou on the cover, saying that his intention in doing music was not write abot sex, drugs and violence. I think it is the first time an artist explains an album on the cover. Other thing I must say is that Lou developed this album mainly to get rid of the record contract with RCA, and that he considers (I don`t know if today he thinks the same) it is just a bad joke and noise with no sense at all. Well, I think different. Sorry, Lou