Anyone ever made it all the way through Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music?

Question by Be Here Now, Paperbag: Anyone ever made it all the way through Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music?
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a143/GunslingerXYZ/MetalMachineMusic.png

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr0KkzbbqPI

I listened to this in its entirety yesterday. I am so proud of myself. lol

Lou Reed’s a genius and has been involved in many of the finest albums and songs of all-time (“Heroin,” anyone?), but this is a total chore.

Though I will say this, once you are deep into it, you start to hear music in it. Except you’re not sure if it’s there or if you’ve gone batsh*t crazy. lol

It’s so absurd and wrong Nick Hornby (author of About a Boy and High Fidelity) compared Radiohead’s beautiful, challenging, and legendary Kid A to Metal Machine Music!

“Novelist Nick Hornby compared Kid A to Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, implying that it was an attempt at “commercial suicide” in order to escape from a label contract. He summarized a common source of opposition to the album in a review for The New Yorker, lamenting the change in musical style from The Bends (1995) and OK Computer.”

Perhaps Mr. Horny needs better headphones if he’s equating such songs as “How to Disappear Completely” and “Idioteque” to 64 minutes of guitar feedback played at different speeds.

Best answer:

Answer by likegibberish (Going Mobile?)
I did a couple of months back. Not easy. I don’t get the comparison, I think Kid A is magnificent.

Edit: Oh, thanks for the questions about Lou Reed and THe Velvets. Finally, I’m not the only one asking questions about ’em.

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