ILX pre-covers LULU -- the Lou Reed/Metallica album

To quote from the relevant bit of the thread -- and a key requirement in particular:

Can this be the next ILX "pre-covered" album? Please?

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, September 7, 2011 6:13 PM (Yesterday)

haha i'm into it

―  (gr8080), Wednesday, September 7, 2011 6:14 PM (Yesterday)

i was wondering how that hadn't been suggested earlier

― Speculum (some dude), Wednesday, September 7, 2011 6:21 PM (Yesterday)

one requirement should be that the fake songs have the same running time as the real songs

― Speculum (some dude), Wednesday, September 7, 2011 6:21 PM (Yesterday)

OTM^^

―  (gr8080), Wednesday, September 7, 2011 6:32 PM (Yesterday)

So, when is it out?

How long have we got?

And, where do we get the 'running times' from?

― Mark G, Thursday, September 8, 2011 1:58 AM (8 hours ago)

Available worldwide on October 31 on Universal Music
Available in North America on November 1 on Warner Bros. Records

Brandenburg Gate (4:19)
The View (5:17)
Pumping Blood (7:24)
Mistress Dread (6:52)
Iced Honey (4:36)
Cheat On Me (11:26)
Frustration (8:33)
Little Dog (8:01)
Dragon (11:08)
Junior Dad (19:28)

― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Thursday, September 8, 2011 2:01 AM (8 hours ago)

Junior Dad (19:28)

Blimey

― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Thursday, September 8, 2011 2:02 AM (8 hours ago)

Bleedin' nora!

I was going to bagsy "Cheat on me" but.. Eleven minutes?

.....

.. yeah, I could do that..

― Mark G, Thursday, September 8, 2011 2:03 AM (8 hours ago)

Something like Junior Dad needs someone to mix individual sounds from ILX contributors to make a whole 19 mins.

I have no idea if that's possible, but.

― Mark G, Thursday, September 8, 2011 2:04 AM (8 hours ago)

Claim your songs now.

(EDIT October 12: So this was all done and you can see the results below but here's the basic information:

i got "little dog"

i'll do brandenburg gate.

iced honey for me.

oh god, you guys MUST 'leak' this a few days before the real one. incredible. *bookmarks thread*

I'll do "The View"

Can it be an extended cover of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpXTISw_Huw&ob=av3e

dudes, going forward with this project, I really want to make sure that by definition, everybody involved is honest and that we push as far as we possibly can within the realms of reality. Just keep that in mind.

Right, I officially bagsy "cheat on me"...

also make sure it’s maybe the best thing done by anyone, ever.

I mean, I'm ready with inspiration: I listened to my mono "Sister Ray" three days ago!

Okay, so a running list, and keeping everyone honest:

Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- tylerw
The View (5:17) -- polyphonic
Pumping Blood (7:24)
Mistress Dread (6:52)
Iced Honey (4:36) -- charlie h
Cheat On Me (11:26) -- Mark G
Frustration (8:33)
Little Dog (8:01) -- upper mississippi sh@kedown
Dragon (11:08)
Junior Dad (19:28)

I'm almost tempted to claim Junior Dad and do it as some extended drone thing!

I'm wavering on volunteering for Junior Dad, it'll be the "experimental" track though, not dissimilar to the track Lars' dad wasn't keen on in Some Kind Of Monster.

In fact, count me in for Junior Dad.

Done. Survive.

what the actual deadline? "Before October 31" is a little nebulous

mistress dread!

Let's say October 10th for now. Personally I'd aim for earlier, who knows when this thing will leak.

Assuming sarahel's post was a claim:

Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- tylerw
The View (5:17) -- polyphonic
Pumping Blood (7:24)
Mistress Dread (6:52) -- sarahel
Iced Honey (4:36) -- charlie h
Cheat On Me (11:26) -- Mark G
Frustration (8:33)
Little Dog (8:01) -- upper mississippi sh@kedown
Dragon (11:08)
Junior Dad (19:28) -- Matt #2

I wanna do "Dragon"

Done. "Frustration" and "Pumping Blood" to go -- as Elvis Telecom brought up the whole idea in the first place I say he has to have one of those.

it was indeed: not sure whether "mistress dread" will be something that sounds vaguely like dub reggae or something that sounds vaguely like an italian horror movie soundtrack

I'm in for "Frustration"

I'm down for "Pumping Blood".

Annnnnnnd done:

Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- tylerw
The View (5:17) -- polyphonic
Pumping Blood (7:24) -- Pleasant Plains
Mistress Dread (6:52) -- sarahel
Iced Honey (4:36) -- charlie h
Cheat On Me (11:26) -- Mark G
Frustration (8:33) -- Elvis Telecom
Little Dog (8:01) -- upper mississippi sh@kedown
Dragon (11:08) -- DJP
Junior Dad (19:28) -- Matt #2

if this will help anyone, it is a bad instrumental cover of metallica's version of whiskey in the jar-roooo that can be repurposed:
http://www.mediafire.com/?9ur8ph6u34aktuf

I've got the first track that frees up when someone gets "too busy" to do this.

thinking about sampling Lars' hawaiian shirt rant from the Some Kind of Monster dvd extras

Noted re: n/a as backup.

Okay rules as such, since I love herding cats or something:

* Deadline is October 10th at absolute latest, earlier if possible; just send it as an attachment to my e-mail, mp3 or FLAC or whatever.

* Per some dude's note above, songs must be exactly the same length as the real thing

* Otherwise, you know the drill

We also need an exact album title, cover art and figuring out the best way to host and share this (SoundCloud, presumably?)

could you ilx webmail that e-mail?

Oh lord, it's no secret -- ned at kuci dot org

put me down as second backup I guess

Anticipating this more than the real thing TBH.

So fucking psyched for LITTLE DOG

Let's just hope Lars and Lou won't sue your asses...

Should I listen to the older version of Junior Dad that's up on youtube or just wing it? y/n

Don't. It wouldn't be a proper pre-cover if you did.

You should use the lyrics though.

album of the year

i'm very pumped about how "iced honey" is turning out so far.

Saw this too late :-/

Put me down as back-up if anyone else can't make it!

Almost sounds like we could do an entire second version of this!

deluxe edition? bonus choose-yr-own song titles!

imo for some of the longer tracks you could probably just take the contributions of 2 posters and edit them together (as incongruously as possible, of course)

Psyched for this!

i'd say it's within the realms of reality for people to do different versions of the same song. as long as as everyone is honest by definition.

If we want to do a companion version let's go to town. And why not? LULUse Your Confusion I and II.

it should be like that Junkie XL album with the AM and PM discs

Damn straight!

Life's a Riot with LULU vs LULU

Well there's no reason not to do this so:

LULU II

Brandenburg Gate (4:19)
The View (5:17)
Pumping Blood (7:24)
Mistress Dread (6:52)
Iced Honey (4:36)
Cheat On Me (11:26)
Frustration (8:33)
Little Dog (8:01)
Dragon (11:08)
Junior Dad (19:28)

n/a, uh oh I'm having a fantasy, Sean Carruthers and La Bateau Ivre were all down, for starters.

I'll take "Iced Honey" for lulu2

And it's yours. Anyone else?

Pumping Blood plz

I'm probably gonna regret this but I'll do "Junior Dad" unless anyone else really really wants it.

Regret nothing.

LULU II

Brandenburg Gate (4:19)
The View (5:17)
Pumping Blood (7:24) -- n/a
Mistress Dread (6:52)
Iced Honey (4:36) -- da croupier
Cheat On Me (11:26)
Frustration (8:33)
Little Dog (8:01)
Dragon (11:08)
Junior Dad (19:28) -- Sean Carruthers

LULUse Your ILULUsssions I & II, if every song on the record was "Don't Cry".

dibs on "Mistress Dread"

I'm in for "The View"

I'm been practicing my hetfield voice in my head, just fyi

Hahah

LULU II

Brandenburg Gate (4:19)
The View (5:17) -- uh oh I'm having a fantasy
Pumping Blood (7:24) -- n/a
Mistress Dread (6:52) -- crüt
Iced Honey (4:36) -- da croupier
Cheat On Me (11:26)
Frustration (8:33)
Little Dog (8:01)
Dragon (11:08)
Junior Dad (19:28) -- Sean Carruthers

Quick note that La Bateau Ivre needs one of these. Otherwise the remaining four are for whoever wants 'em.

I'd like to claim 'Frustration'.

i would like to offer riffs and backing tracks to 'Dragon' but if someone wants to eat the whole 'Dragon' that's cool, too.

LULU II

Brandenburg Gate (4:19)
The View (5:17) -- uh oh I'm having a fantasy
Pumping Blood (7:24) -- n/a
Mistress Dread (6:52) -- crüt
Iced Honey (4:36) -- da croupier
Cheat On Me (11:26)
Frustration (8:33) -- snoball
Little Dog (8:01)
Dragon (11:08) -- Philip Nunez (and others?)
Junior Dad (19:28) -- Sean Carruthers

\(^_^)/

yay!!!

I'll take Brandenburg Gate!

Okay, that's "Cheat on Me" and "Little Dog" left to claim...

wow, at this rate there'll need to be a LULU III

LULULU

i hope one of these precovers includes some LULULATING.

Hoping gr80 will turn up for some Honolulululu tbh

LULULU I got some apples

someone's got to include the lu lu lu part of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPG3zSgm_Qo

"Little Dog" PLZ N TX

hey where is the thread for when ilx did the u2 album?

let's release the U2 album before U2 releases the U2 album

LULU II

Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- Le Bateau Ivre
The View (5:17) -- uh oh I'm having a fantasy
Pumping Blood (7:24) -- n/a
Mistress Dread (6:52) -- crüt
Iced Honey (4:36) -- da croupier
Cheat On Me (11:26)
Frustration (8:33) -- snoball
Little Dog (8:01) -- Confounded
Dragon (11:08) -- Philip Nunez (and others?)
Junior Dad (19:28) -- Sean Carruthers

Okay that leaves "Cheat on Me"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRFaReJhpwg

Great, we'll sign those guys up.

I can't beat that

haha that guys channel is a work of art

hahaha dude is so IRE. i love him.

"Little Dog" PLZ N TX

― Confounded, Friday, September 9, 2011 7:12 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark

plz n texas

oh! I'll take "Cheat On Me" since Mistress Dread was already claimed.

oh wait never mind I see what's happened here

I am Mistress Dread on II?

what other albums has ILM precovered?
this is a great idea.

Just the U2 one, (link above)

geez these songs are long - otherwise I might give a stab at one

Not much of a lyricist (at least for anything faintly resembling Lou Reed or Metallica style) so would need someone who just wants to write lyrics to ilxmail them to me, after which I'll set them to music and submit. Any frustrated lyricists out there?

I really need to learn GarageBand or something

BTW is there a working link to the U2 precover? I need ideas!

hey, just found out about this ! so is there a song left ? cheat on me ?

That's the one, and it's yours!

picked the wrong day to be at Saturday training apparently

consider me interested in the trilogy

Noted, if we go that far. So overall listing for the two:

LULU I

Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- tylerw
The View (5:17) -- polyphonic
Pumping Blood (7:24) -- Pleasant Plains
Mistress Dread (6:52) -- sarahel
Iced Honey (4:36) -- charlie h
Cheat On Me (11:26) -- Mark G
Frustration (8:33) -- Elvis Telecom
Little Dog (8:01) -- upper mississippi sh@kedown
Dragon (11:08) -- DJP
Junior Dad (19:28) -- Matt #2

LULU II

LULU II

Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- Le Bateau Ivre
The View (5:17) -- uh oh I'm having a fantasy
Pumping Blood (7:24) -- n/a
Mistress Dread (6:52) -- crüt
Iced Honey (4:36) -- da croupier
Cheat On Me (11:26) -- AlXTC from Paris
Frustration (8:33) -- snoball
Little Dog (8:01) -- Confounded
Dragon (11:08) -- Philip Nunez (and others?)
Junior Dad (19:28) -- Sean Carruthers

October 10 deadline etc. as noted.

Getting started on this tonight. So glad Torben's not sitting behind me. He would not be pleased.

great ! so no other rules beside the timing thing (which is gonna be a pain in the ass... good luck to the "junior dad" ones !), right ?

Dearest Neddily: please check your inbox.

Received and thanks!

October 10 deadline etc. as noted.

I doubt I'm going to make this deadline, the longest track I ever did was 8 mins.

Can I stand aside now for someone to take this spot?

Fair nuff! M bison, you still interested?

maybe others would disagree, but the time thing should not be a deterrent...i mean we're talking about a new planetary system. what does time even mean now, u know?

also you could just loop the song until it hits the time limit

maybe others would disagree, but the time thing should not be a deterrent...i mean we're talking about a new planetary system. what does time even mean now, u know?

Mine is 7:24. I'm going to remember this quote as I'm putting it together.

I'm expecting this comp to sound mostly like Metallica Machine Music when it's all said and done.

Segue into Sister Ray, repeat riff to fade

Sister Ray / Enter Sandman mash-up

Wondering where I can find a Welshman in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Segue into Sister Ray, repeat riff to fade
i think lou had this posted on the studio wall during the lulu sessions.
i assume loutallica also started with the track times and went from there. obviously Junior Dad has to be 19:28 -- not a second longer or shorter!!!

haha i knew when i suggested the track time thing that a) people would totally latch onto that idea and that b) there'd be a lot of upsides and downsides to it for the people actually making the tracks

yes I am interested, which track is it?

Cheat On Me (11:26) -- Mark G m bison

sob.

Nah, I'm just being practical.

The U2 one I came to too late, and I did have a reasonable idea for a new "boots" song.

This one, I don't, and I doubt I have a window to do something not-awful in time.

Looking forward to everyone's contribs tho.

haha fucking 11 min, I'm down

this time thing is a pain but I guess that's what makes the thing fun !
I have an idea but it's around 8min. I have to find something for the 3min left !

how about some sobbing

really close to approaching irl friends to play some shit on this for me, but I don't want to explain anything

Hah, it's probably pretty hard to sustain interest over 19 and a half minutes, I suspect. I have this sneaking suspicion that few are going to be that into mine to begin with (I went the ambient noise/drone route after all) but I suspect even fewer are still going to be listening by the end of it.

It's ironic, one of the recent ILX comps was 77 seconds, max per track...

xpost -- I listened to it all the way through! And rather liked it.

You flatterer you!

19mins of drone >>>>> 19mins of loutallica probably

>>> 19 minutes of Sting's Lutetallica

getting going on my brandenburg gate this afternoon. so epic.

I can't wait to start hearing all this.

so I've worked on my demo today. it's gonna take a LOT more work to finish this track but I'm pretty excited so far. just hope I'll finish on time... and I make it to the 11.26min (without...cheating too much) !

I need to bow out of this. Someone please take over "The View" for me.

I'd be up for taking it off your hands.. Unless there's some waiting list or something... Was gutted i missed the signups the first time round..

I suspect as we'll get closer to the deadline and people realize they have 2 days to make a 20min track, there will be a lot "why did I get into this !?".

Jack-Battery Pack: all good, thanks for stepping up! Here's the revised list:

LULU I

Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- tylerw
The View (5:17) -- Jack Battery-Pack
Pumping Blood (7:24) -- Pleasant Plains
Mistress Dread (6:52) -- sarahel
Iced Honey (4:36) -- charlie h
Cheat On Me (11:26) -- m bison
Frustration (8:33) -- Elvis Telecom
Little Dog (8:01) -- upper mississippi sh@kedown
Dragon (11:08) -- DJP
Junior Dad (19:28) -- Matt #2

LULU II

Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- Le Bateau Ivre
The View (5:17) -- uh oh I'm having a fantasy
Pumping Blood (7:24) -- n/a
Mistress Dread (6:52) -- crüt
Iced Honey (4:36) -- da croupier
Cheat On Me (11:26) -- AlXTC from Paris
Frustration (8:33) -- snoball
Little Dog (8:01) -- Confounded
Dragon (11:08) -- Philip Nunez (and others?)
Junior Dad (19:28) -- Sean Carruthers

DO NOT BLOW THIS, PEOPLE.
I mean, Loutallica had a deadline too! And they made the album of the year. The album of the decade.

And hey, if Sean could be the first one in and he had one of the 20 minute tracks...

I could hand in mine now but it would be very, very boring

BTW Garageband aficionados? If you've dragged out a loop for like 11 minutes in order to establish a foundation for your song, is there an easy way to cut the loop off say 2 min or do you have to drag the loop back in? Oh, maybe I can drop another loop on top of the one I want to truncate?

Are you keeping the 1 and 2 to those names, or are you compiling "first one in for the designated track" gets onto disc 1?

I'm keeping them as is unless I experience some amazing revelation when I listen to them all straight through. But hey, this is the kind of project that everyone's welcome to make their own tracklisting.

in my head I'm calling them "LU" and "LULU"

sometimes it's "LULU" and "LULULULU"

planning on doing some serious work this weekend

Of course, there are three discs in this set.

Dan - drag your playhead to the point you want the loop to end, select the loop in the timeline and then hit Command T. That should split it in two, and you can highlight the section you don't want and delete it.

And if you want it to drop out, then come back in, just do the playhead reposition/Cmd-T trick twice to slice it twice, and then delete the section in the middle.

Does that invoke the "Split" menu command? Because I tried and that and all it did was delete the loop up to that point in the timeline. (I am trying to split right at the loop border, could that be why it's not doing what I want it to do? Like, it would work if I was chopping up a loop but because I'm trying to end a loop cycle I'm confusing the application?)

Hm, that's odd, let me look into that.

Maybe my Garageband is just buggy and awful

Damn.. this is a really great idea.

Is this the first time ILX has done pre-covers?

Wait... obviously it's not, since I just bothered to re-read the initial post.

oh no the streaming link to the U2 album appears to be dead

does anyone have this handy

No, Dan, your Garageband is doing the same thing as mine - I guess I'd never split something I'd manually looped before (I often just doing the cut-and-paste method so I can haul things out in blocks). I just tried that and it left the first instance, and then deleted almost everything up to the playhead but not quite...that's not how I would have expected it to react. So uh, yeah, I guess the answer is to roll it back or replace it with cut and paste versions of instance one, instead of using the auto-loop, if you want fine control over where the loops start and stop.

If I drop another loop on top of the one there, that should truncate it though right? I might just do that and then delete the new loop </lazy>

yup. there's something beautiful (and crazy) in making 2 volumes of an album with such long songs...
I don't think I'll even listen to the real loutallica album, actually... (for the U2 one, I haven't listened to the album and never heard the original song I precovered to this day !).

er that should be "I guess I'd never split something I'd use the auto-loop feature on before..." but I think you get the idea.

xp And yeah, that might do the trick!

For the sake of parity shouldn't you be leaking 30s of the two versions of The View? Bet they prolly sound less unfinished that the original.

if anyone drops out, i volunteer for understudy

alright, i'm going to send mine along shortly. doesn't sound remotely like lou reed or metallica except for a very subtle nod to "for whom the bell tolls" right at the end. but i made up the lyrics as i went along, and i think hetfield and lars would be fairly proud of me for that.

Got it, thanks!

I honestly don't know where I'm going to record what I have so far because wherever I am someone is going to be able to hear the ridiculous things I'm gonna be screaming

whatever it'll hopefully sound better than the neighbors do when they scream at their children

It's why Lou and Metallica had to create a whole new planetary system tbh

lmao u guys, totally missed the u2 vers, frickin awesome

think i've more or less completed the music for my contribution -- need to figure out the vocal element. but right now, musically, the track is really expressing my ~feelings~ about loutallica. the joy, the fear, everything in between you know?

i know.

mine doesn't have anything to do with lou or metallica. well there's one arrangement thing that's lou related but that's all !

I keep reading the title "The View" as "the vee u" as in metallica really want to be the velvets for just one album.. Hopefully that will come across in my contribution (but i doubt it..)

Really hope the neighbors don't come knocking after this scream I'm about to scream #loutallica

That made for a surprising start for sure.

:)

Loutallica is all about surprising starts!!

submitted my track.

ty the croot

looking forward to these dueling lulus.

It'll be a vision, folks.

Here's the running 'what's done' list:

LULU I

Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- tylerw
The View (5:17) -- Jack Battery-Pack
Pumping Blood (7:24) -- Pleasant Plains
Mistress Dread (6:52) -- sarahel
* Iced Honey (4:36) -- charlie h
Cheat On Me (11:26) -- m bison
Frustration (8:33) -- Elvis Telecom
Little Dog (8:01) -- upper mississippi sh@kedown
Dragon (11:08) -- DJP
Junior Dad (19:28) -- Matt #2

LULU II

Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- Le Bateau Ivre
The View (5:17) -- uh oh I'm having a fantasy
Pumping Blood (7:24) -- n/a
* Mistress Dread (6:52) -- crüt
Iced Honey (4:36) -- da croupier
Cheat On Me (11:26) -- AlXTC from Paris
Frustration (8:33) -- snoball
* Little Dog (8:01) -- Confounded
Dragon (11:08) -- Philip Nunez (and others?)
* Junior Dad (19:28) -- Sean Carruthers

The stars are the done tracks, right?

Yup.

Junior Dad is coming soon! Sounds more like Hawkwind feat. Tony Conrad so far tbh, not a large Metallica influence really. Should get it finished by next week. My fingers hurt now.

oof, i'm still 30 seconds short of the preordained track length. ummm, guitar solo?

Now or never.

[channeling inner Kirk Hammett]

[don't pretend that you don't have an inner Kirk Hammett]

Kirk Hammet has an inner tylerw.

scary!

Been at little dog all day! Written recorded and mixed in a day is the goal. Music is done, breaking for supper and gonna track vocals later tonight....been super fun

Haha nice.

Finished around 11:30, this is actually a collaboration with my friend chris who is a long time ilm lurker and who is, believe it or not, perhaps even more hyped up about loutallica than anyone on the thread

been working on mine, dunno if i like where it's going but i'm gonna keep pushing and focus on making it weirder.

I've kinda got you in the back of my mind as I'm pumping out this blood, n/a.

n/a remember to push it as far as you can within the realms of reality

thanks to your encouragement, i just recorded 7 minutes and 24 seconds of totally incompetent slap bass. i have a blister.

Slap bass came into this world pure

Last night I was super excited about how little dog turned out. We'll see how it sounds in the cold light of monday morning

working on my contribution this afternoon... having lots of fun.

Haven't played guitar on anything for 15 years... and adding bass, viola and vocals - none of which I have ever done before..

despite my best efforts, it's sounding a bit more more like Neu than metallica or lou reed.. hoping to polish it off in the next couple of days..

I will be entering the gates of mix hell tomorrow...

damn this album is gonna be a gift

it will be the root

Been working on mine too today (which was tough since it was a wonderful sunny sunday in Paris). quite like the result so far. I have the basic track recorded now and most lyrics done. still a lot of bits to do as well as all the vocals but I'm pretty confident it will be done on time, now (just one day ago, I still had big doubts I could make it) !
I plan to have everything recorded/arranged by next week-end, then I'll have a week to mix before the dead line.
yay !

Do we have someone on cover/artwork and else ?

No and we need that done!

Slap bass came into this world pure
--the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

here is dragon for anyone to add hetfield-y vox to.

http://www.mediafire.com/?knqzd6k1nqw5a0a

How's this for a first try?

http://i51.tinypic.com/qqpg5f.jpg

That's pretty nice, but I already found one on the internet:

http://www.vinylsolution.com/images/products/135470.jpg

Damn, can't beat that.

"The least best photo of Lulu" !

Someone should register www.iamthetable.com for this thing already

We need two covers anyway, for "use your ilulusions" I and II !

Would it be too easy to make one in a yellow/orange color scheme, and the other in purple/blue?

my "mistress dread" cover has a hawaiian theme! i hope gr80 appreciates it.

Ned,

Just sent "Little Dog" your way! remixed the goddamn thing like 3 times and finally had to say good enough...pretty pleased with it i think, who knows?

one thing i learned:

8 minutes is a fucking long time for a song.

Got it and thanks!

8 minutes is a fucking long time for a song.
yeah, mine is only 4:19, and it seems long. props to those who do the full junior dad.

haha yeah no doubt i thought of the jr dad volunteers several times while doing this, yikes

"The Full Junior Dad" sounds like it might be something gross.

yeah, big respect for the jr dads !
my 11.26 is such a challenge already... it's gonna take many tricks to achieve that !

long songs should go the rhythm & sound route, not the don mclean route, if i can make a suggestion

the don mclean route

Stop giving us ideas.

"Drove my Chevy to the levee for which I actively despised…"

They called him Little Dog
back in his little town
near Branson, Missouri,
before he hit the big town
NYC
NYC

x 23 verses

oh no

hey ladies wanna see the full junior dad?

Has this leaked yet??? :D

i think ned is guarding these tracks 24-7 until street date. no sleep til Lulu!

ned had the lawnmower man guarding this album

were these tracks supposed to be secret? (whoops!)

Under lock and key, etc. Philip, don't worry, you always indicated you needed someone to finish off your track! (So, any volunteers?)

btw i haven't recorded anything for a while and am pleased to report i've now progressed from the post final mix "this is AWESOME!!" phase to the day-after-the-final mix "oh my god what have i done?" phase...

You have created wonder.

btw i haven't recorded anything for a while and am pleased to report i've now progressed from the post final mix "this is AWESOME!!" phase to the day-after-the-final mix "oh my god what have i done?" phase...

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, September 27, 2011 11:13 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

can't wait to be here

yeah i'm still trying to figure out the vocals for mine. kind of have ambitious ideas, but doubting that i can actually pull it off.

ahah, yeah, I'm a bit there too. I like the idea in my head but suspect the result will be far from that.
also, so classic : "this is AWESOME!!" phase to the day-after-the-final mix "oh my god what have i done?" phase

imo you can't make a LULU until you cry (or make James Hetfield cry)

i think i've succeeded in making lars sound like jamie stewart from xiuxiu

vocals on mine are going to be so embarrassing!
just going to go with it.

Yeah, it didn't stop Lou, now did it?

ha ha i recorded some improvised lou reed-style vocals on mine and was promptly so embarrassed that i immediately buried them in the mix (note that i did not actually delete them though).

i've been tinkering with mine but i think it's done, i'll probably send it in tonight.

i've very excited for this jawn

Man, that's a great idea for a record-store record-release party: best Lou improvisation imitation.

yeah, the beginning of mine features a horrible, improv'd lou impression.

my whole thing is basically vocal impressions because I don't know how to play instruments

altho there will be music because I found an old keyboard I don't know how to play

what are we going to do with this? just have it as a .zip file? or can ned put it on bandcamp or something?

i figured yousendit?

I'm planning on something like Soundcloud and/or Bandcamp, because hey, why not? (Thinking about how to also get the word out via FB embeds and all too.) So basically the more involvement from people who have worked with all that before, the better.

my street team is mobilized

gonna tweet this like there's no tomorrow.

Okay knowing what the real lyrics to "Dragon" are now I am awaiting DJP's track with bated breath.

Also, Philip's having created the other one for anyone to sing over is truly a golden opportunity.

ok just sent mine in! really pushed it as far as i could.

spoken like a true root

"The View." wait really? this sounds like Lou Reed channelling Michael Stipe or something.

That's me on the table.
That's me with hair - out - growing from my shoulders...

just emailed you ned

the table is the table, what is your opinion on James Hetfield's claim that he is the table

i think a table is the table might be too close to this issue to be objective

been waiting for that joke all week tbh

^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwEZRPkAAu8

Okay, thanks for the various new submissions, we are now at:

LULU I

* Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- tylerw
The View (5:17) -- Jack Battery-Pack
Pumping Blood (7:24) -- Pleasant Plains
Mistress Dread (6:52) -- sarahel
* Iced Honey (4:36) -- charlie h
Cheat On Me (11:26) -- m bison
Frustration (8:33) -- Elvis Telecom
* Little Dog (8:01) -- upper mississippi sh@kedown
Dragon (11:08) -- DJP
Junior Dad (19:28) -- Matt #2

LULU II

Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- Le Bateau Ivre
The View (5:17) -- uh oh I'm having a fantasy
* Pumping Blood (7:24) -- n/a
* Mistress Dread (6:52) -- crüt
Iced Honey (4:36) -- da croupier
Cheat On Me (11:26) -- AlXTC from Paris
Frustration (8:33) -- snoball
* Little Dog (8:01) -- Confounded
Dragon (11:08) -- Philip Nunez (and others?)
* Junior Dad (19:28) -- Sean Carruthers

And Matt #2's "Junior Dad" is in so the two big ones are done and dusted. Ten days to go until the deadline!

Oh man, I am listening to Phil's "Dragon" and doing my drunken best to perform matching vocals. If I come up w/ an inspiring result I'll send it along. Anything less would be unworthy.

My version of "The View" is on it's way to Ned..

Can't wait to hear the whole thing..

Managed to avoid listening to the leaked version of the song, so i've no idea how the real thing really sounds (and i'm not sure I want to).

it is the root

it is the bump

A week to go!

Track sent!

Thanks!

yay finally get to get back to work on this

no clue how I'm gonna get something interesting in on time, but we will see

there are these old people, a bunch of older men and women living in a house, who own a bunch of parrots in my gf's neighborhood by the train tracks, they're the only white people who own a house in the neighborhood, pretty much, other than one other family I think. They're super scary all meth'd out and shit, beautiful parrots, but they're really nice to me when they talk to me, sweet on the whole, because I "remind them of kriss angel" ??? and sometimes when I park my car near their place, because it's usually one of the only spots open, they're playing power metal or speed metal or something, a lotta double bass, I think it's their own original shit, it's really good. I just, I just don't know how to approach them about this, I feel like I need them.

crazy fucking girlfriend's neighbors

Ned, had to go through mediafire. I hope you get it.

Got it and downloaded it!

The girls are at Disneyland this week, so I had a surprise guest in the studio with me.

haha awesome

Almost finished mine ! Only some vocals left to record, add some arrangements and make the final mix. I don't know what to think of the result right now but it will be ready on time !

Very cool -- okay, we're up to here now:

LULU I

* Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- tylerw
* The View (5:17) -- Jack Battery-Pack
* Pumping Blood (7:24) -- Pleasant Plains
Mistress Dread (6:52) -- sarahel
* Iced Honey (4:36) -- charlie h
Cheat On Me (11:26) -- m bison
Frustration (8:33) -- Elvis Telecom
* Little Dog (8:01) -- upper mississippi sh@kedown
Dragon (11:08) -- DJP
* Junior Dad (19:28) -- Matt #2

LULU II

Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- Le Bateau Ivre
The View (5:17) -- uh oh I'm having a fantasy
* Pumping Blood (7:24) -- n/a
* Mistress Dread (6:52) -- crüt
* Iced Honey (4:36) -- da croupier
Cheat On Me (11:26) -- AlXTC from Paris
* Frustration (8:33) -- snoball
* Little Dog (8:01) -- Confounded
Dragon (11:08) -- Philip Nunez (and others?)
* Junior Dad (19:28) -- Sean Carruthers

Upthread Simon H. said he was trying out vocals for Philip Nunez's piece but I don't know how that turned out...

Love that both Junior Dads are already finished.

Meantime -- album art. Anyone want to go for it?

Also, what DID we decide on for the name? Use Your IlLULUsion?

LULUNA

re: "Dragon," I definitely recorded a few (entire!) takes of the lyrics with a couple different approaches, but I can't say I was satisfied with the results.

Meantime -- album art. Anyone want to go for it?

http://i51.tinypic.com/qqpg5f.jpg

Everything can be easily changed, but I'd love some feedback!

can you put wallogina.jpg in the eyes of one of the dolls?

i think archcarrier's cover is awesome!

http://i54.tinypic.com/103eo0x.jpg

(please do not actually use that)

lolll

Am liking ArchCarrier's effort. Can you whip up two versions for 1 and 2?

http://dollforum.com/forum/download/file.php?id=17067

i like archcarriers

Proposal for Volume 2:

http://i52.tinypic.com/zmdw5j.jpg

Win. Add in 'volume 1' and 'volume 2' respectively and I think we're good.

Oh and send me large file size versions etc. Thanks!

Can you change the color of "Lulu" on one of them to blue and instead of "vol 1" and "vol 2" we can call them "red" and "blue"?

Also use your own blood for the title please, thnx.

also create a new planetary system in photoshop thx

this is weird (and totally coincidental i swear) but my two year old and lulu seem to have the same hairdresser
http://seattlefarmette.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/4th-july-sprinkler-party-067_thumb.jpg?w=520&h=354

can you make that a magic eye?

xpost.

or is it?

I guess color swap loses the blood connection

can't do anything with the "ILX presents" part without getting garish

maybe one blood spatter after one logo and two after the other?

Hahah I like that idea.

lol @ "i miss lu"

Maybe someone with more Photoshop skills can have a go with this:
http://waxidermy.com/images/lulu.JPG

crut's is my favorite.

Have lou /metallica released a cover ? On the u2 pre-covert project it was a variation of the real cover. But it doesn't have to be that way this time around, of course ! Like the cover propositions so far. I have to confess I like the idea of a parallel with use your illusiopns, though !

yes they have and the covers upthread are sort of a takeoff on it

http://www.gibson.com/Files/aaFeaturesImages2011/lulu.jpg

Another Vote for ArchCarrier's

I'm sticking with the ArchCarrier covers myself, no reason why not to!

If you haven't specified otherwise in your submission the artist name for your tracks will be your ILX handle.

Did a full listen through to everything I've received so far last night -- this one's already an amazing treat.

Can we Photoshop Lou'd face on to each Metallica member?

Lou's

(God, thank God they didn't call this album LOU'D)

Lou'd Conduct

Ned, I'll send you the hi-res versions right away (and thanks everyone for the nice feedback), but here's a little thingy I made earlier:

http://i55.tinypic.com/9fo68n.jpg

Hahah hey if you want to do the appropriate Vol. 2 of that one I think we're set!

http://i51.tinypic.com/217rqt.jpg

Win. Any objections?

(BTW, if anyone knows how to do a better job on the color replacement of the second one, please let me know!)

ha ha, nice

II looks really creepy in that color setting, like the doll has actually necrotized

Will the final result be available "through" this thread? It'll rule, fo sho...

Only now I see dutch fellow LBI is doing Brandenburg Gate! Man, can't wait to hear that one. I'm imagining haunting droney stuff

Will the final result be available "through" this thread?

And more locations besides.

Way to pile the pressure on Willem... ;-) Thanks!

i'm about 2/3 done. Instead of my ilx name, I want mine to be credit to Ars Lulrich

wow, ArchCarrier this is brilliant ! loving it !

Okay folks, four days to go!

c'mon y'all the marketing is already in motion a delay at this point is going to really hurt our first week soundscan numbers!!!!

YA DAM RIGHT

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmg916ovVF1qelad0o1_250.jpg

done and done and sent

Thanks, got it! No worries about the file size, I've got a high speed connection -- should be done here in a couple of minutes.

yo I have the necessary material all recorded and shit, but the only day I can finish all this up is sunday, so i'm gonna send it in on the 9th, just a heads up

Deadline is still October 10th, no?

yah, just wanted to give a heads

That's cool. I've the flu so will probably be last minute

(not to worry though I *will* turn in something)

Mine is half done. If necessary, I will turn it in half-done and release a "remix" later.

Ned, when is the official street date for these two compilations?

Probably already been leaked on an obscure blog site...

i've had it since monday

it sucks btw

So you're the guy.

Street date as such -- well, this weekend I figure I'll start working on some sort of Soundcloud/Bandcamp set up using ArchCarrier's art, then as soon as I get the final tracks in and everything properly tagged for downloading it's off to the races.

mine's done, just need to mix it down to two tracks and send it.

#amped

And we're here...

LULU I

* Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- tylerw
* The View (5:17) -- Jack Battery-Pack
* Pumping Blood (7:24) -- Pleasant Plains
Mistress Dread (6:52) -- sarahel
* Iced Honey (4:36) -- charlie h
* Cheat On Me (11:26) -- m bison
Frustration (8:33) -- Elvis Telecom
* Little Dog (8:01) -- upper mississippi sh@kedown
Dragon (11:08) -- DJP
* Junior Dad (19:28) -- Matt #2

LULU II

Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- Le Bateau Ivre
The View (5:17) -- uh oh I'm having a fantasy
* Pumping Blood (7:24) -- n/a
* Mistress Dread (6:52) -- crüt
* Iced Honey (4:36) -- da croupier
Cheat On Me (11:26) -- AlXTC from Paris
* Frustration (8:33) -- snoball
* Little Dog (8:01) -- Confounded
Dragon (11:08) -- Philip Nunez (and others?)
* Junior Dad (19:28) -- Sean Carruthers

Philip, if nobody adds vocals for your track I'll just use it as is.

or alternatively get ilx to write the lyrics for ned to go over it.

I mean, if we're going for a deadpan kind of street style, I don't know why we don't have Ned on every one of these.

So, once we have a dragon, we have at least one full set..

Mine will be sent today ! only some minor mixing left to do.

^^ same here!

sent !

Sent it in! Please let me know if you received it in order Ned.

Both received and thanks!

Okay, hosting question now -- Bandcamp doesn't use mp3s (fair enough) but the total amount of music goes over the free Soundcloud limit of two hours by some distance, and while normally I'd happily sign up for their Lite account to get more, this month is pretty strapped for me in terms of funds. Any thoughts?

people could send in uncompressed tracks (WAV or AIFs) so we can use bandcamp; however, these could be pretty cumbersome for the long songs.

alternately, you could put the password on here and people could upload their own tracks to bandcamp

You could also just zip the two albums and make them available on Rapidshare, Mediafire, Megaupload or any other host.

Yeah, thinking I might have to go that latter route.

Ned, have you checked out reverb nation? Kinda tackier version of bamdcamo, but might work....

I like having both volumes on rapidshare either way but a streaming option would be nice

Can't you upload the two volumes to Soundcloud using two different accounts?

could I be listed as "Therapist Sweater"?

If the challenge of writing new lyrics is what's keeping people from adding vocals to Dragon,
if you take a listen,
http://www.mediafire.com/?knqzd6k1nqw5a0a
you'll find out that it's no challenge at all.

Also, if streaming is the issue, how about uploading the album to youtube?

xpost -- I was actually thinking about just that approach!

youtube, youtube, youtube

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Anyway, here's the press release:

--

It's not surprising, but what is surprising? Indeed, what is surprise? What is? What isn't?

The future is in regard to the past, the present is of the moment, that which is of now. And now is not now yet, but now will yet be, and the now is of that moment so anticipated that when the now is achieved, it will have already been. A moment before the moment occurring, yet in that moment, which is and is not.

LULU, the great work. Within a realm that is real, a reality, and yet beyond those limits. Something yet nothing, for nothing is real, it is nothing to get crunk about. It is everything, and so, the response.

But not the response, the presponse.

Rock (and yet, why just rock?) is ingested here, pre-chewed, unrealized, reified. Its potency defies fertility, not defines it, for limitation is not of this essence.

The words, they were unknown, yet they barked, a canine grace in a feline aperture of a rodential body of an insectoid dream. The acoustic stared at the multiple. Hello, acoustic, we did not see you sitting there.

THE VOICE!

Inscribed onto a genetic code of fragmented realization, a UPC of marketing that which can't for it was and isn't and will be. We had to laugh.

It mirrored, it was one, then two, a dual strand, a single fusion, a unique gathering, a shattering of elements, a ten a twenty a nothing an infinity.

Our morality was a modernity, a ship not steered but flung into the heavens as by an outraged god, turned into a constellation of dark matter. A rough beast, belching towards Cleveland.

ILX Pre-Covers LULU.

Between bot and objection. Slime is the mire in which we turn. Cannot the wisdom of confusion bake your dome?

--D. Not-Icke-Not-Fricke

I love you.

\(^_^)/

:)

Also our own J3ff T has indicated he's up for doing the "Dragon" vocals for Philip's track so we're good there!

best press release ever

Has this thing leaked yet?

youtube, youtube, youtube

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― ima.tumblr.com (@imsothin) (m bison), Sunday, October 9, 2011 8:05 AM (3 hours ago)

this is very u+k

video titles should have "LOU REED & METALLICA - LULU - LEAKED TRACK" in them

YESSSSSS

RARE BOOTLEG

UNREELEASED LULU TRACK FT DRAKE AND YO YO MA

JAPAN ONLY RELEASE (LOU REED SINGING IN PERFECT JAPANESE)

also use the real cover art

or alternate between the real cover art and the ILX cover art but make it so the thumbnail is the real cover art

we need to comment spam, occupy lulu, get all purple prose on this

"if you listen to this song backward you can hear James hetfield claim allegiance to the illuminati END THE FED RIP CLIFF BURTON"

A STAGGERING WORK OF LATE ONSET ALZHEIMER'S INFLUECNED GENIUS LOU REEED IS OUR NEW JOBS

haven't been more committed to an idea in my life tbh

done and sent!

Thanks!

fuckin....don't make me be the last to turn this shit in

because my track is The View, should I make a 10 sec leak of my song right now

Okay we're in home stretch mode here, four to go:

LULU I

* Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- tylerw
* The View (5:17) -- Jack Battery-Pack
* Pumping Blood (7:24) -- Pleasant Plains
* Mistress Dread (6:52) -- sarahel
* Iced Honey (4:36) -- charlie h
* Cheat On Me (11:26) -- m bison
Frustration (8:33) -- Elvis Telecom
* Little Dog (8:01) -- upper mississippi sh@kedown
Dragon (11:08) -- DJP
* Junior Dad (19:28) -- Matt #2

LULU II

* Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- Le Bateau Ivre
The View (5:17) -- uh oh I'm having a fantasy
* Pumping Blood (7:24) -- n/a
* Mistress Dread (6:52) -- crüt
* Iced Honey (4:36) -- da croupier
* Cheat On Me (11:26) -- AlXTC from Paris
* Frustration (8:33) -- snoball
* Little Dog (8:01) -- Confounded
Dragon (11:08) -- Philip Nunez (and others?)
* Junior Dad (19:28) -- Sean Carruthers

Ned, have you listened to all songs that have been sent in now? Or are you waiting to enjoy it in full on ~release day~?

I did a test run of what I had the other day -- it's pretty classic. About to do the same with what I now have added to it all!

Should also add that tylerw's cut is incredibly classic and intentionally perfect as an opening number to this whole thing.

Mine is coming together, I will send it tomorrow.

I have not decided yet if I will have vocals on it or not, leaning towards "not"

The one guy on here who can actually ~sing~ and we get "not".

Just for fun, I recorded myself talk-singing over Philip's track and it is one of the worst things I've ever done in my life.

Okay Therapist Sweater and J3ff T.'s track is downloading now so it's three to go. (Hey, Elvis T, if you're keeping track of the thread, please check in...)

the length on mine is 5:16 instead of 5:17 but I'm gonna send it in anyways

nm I felt bad and made it 5:17

nm it stayed 5:16, fuck this, liveblog over

Haha all good.

yo how do I send it to you

ned at kuci dot org -- use mediafire or whatever if the file size is too large for whatever reason.

Got it, thanks! Elvis T has confirmed he'll have his track in late tomorrow so we're almost there!

Okay, reconfirming credits, so if you want your artist name to be something else, now's the time!

--

LULU I

* Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- tylerw
* The View (5:17) -- Jack Battery-Pack
* Pumping Blood (7:24) -- Pleasant Plains
* Mistress Dread (6:52) -- Ars Lulrich
* Iced Honey (4:36) -- charlie h
* Cheat On Me (11:26) -- Matthew Mathieu
Frustration (8:33) -- Elvis Telecom
* Little Dog (8:01) -- upper mississippi sh@kedown (I misplaced your credit info, plz resend!)
Dragon (11:08) -- DJP
* Junior Dad (19:28) -- Matt #2

LULU II

* Brandenburg Gate (4:19) -- Le Bateau Ivre
* The View (5:17) -- uh oh I'm having a fantasy
* Pumping Blood (7:24) -- n/a
* Mistress Dread (6:52) -- Fügügüffü
* Iced Honey (4:36) -- da croupier
* Cheat On Me (11:26) -- AlXTC from Paris
* Frustration (8:33) -- snoball
* Little Dog (8:01) -- Confounded
* Dragon (11:08) -- Therapist Sweater/J3ff T.
* Junior Dad (19:28) -- Sean Carruthers

ned please confirm you will meet my list of demands when it comes to youtube posting criteria

Hey, once the tracks are out in the wild if people want to add them to YouTube that's their business...

g80 just be in charge of all the youtubes, yer demands are kind of what needs to be done

do the artists want credit on the youtubes or can it be 100% internet hijinx

straight jinx 4 me

label versions of The View and anything else that gets leaked as uncut or studio versions or something

the jinxiest

LOU REED & METALLICA - THE VIEW (UNRELEASED SKRILLEX DUBSTEP REMIX)

straight jinx 4 me

Malkmus/Tool project is next month.

Nefermind, those are the jicks.

RIP THIS, RIP CLIFF

DRAGON (STUDIO DEMO)

Hey Ned if I'm not too late my band name is Virgin Killer for this one

Still confirming my late Monday turn-in time.

Great, LULU II is complete and LULU I is only 1 track away from it then !
btw, Ned, just "AlXTC" will do for my name.

exciting all this !

Psyched for the PreLou'd

I have to say I'm especially curious to hear the two junior dads !

you know what the youtubes mean, right?

youtube doubler.

Ned.. if it's not too late, i'd like my cover under the band name 'Gypsy Chips'..

I've had this name in my head for years, and this is the perfect place for it..

does that website yooooouuuuuuuuuutuuuuuuuuubeeeeeeeeee.com still work?

lol thanks for the kind words upthread ned. i felt a great deal of responsibility for recording the opening track of vol. 1. i spent at least 2 hours on it. but in some ways i feel like my whole life was preparation.

also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lch3Fb4atb4&feature=player_embedded

There's actually two tracks left to come in, Elvis's and DJP's. If all goes well we should have these up and out for the world by tomorrow...

Also, all name changes noted! Add in any others if people want!

can mine be Lou Reed and Metallica, if possible

Rue Lede and the Meatallicas

someone tell me why Garageband doesn't have a sample of a crowd screaming in it

grr

google search sound effects mp3s you can find stuff online then import an mp3 of crowd noise

UMS, I need a double-check on the credits for your track!

do you still have my email? just send me what you have and i'll double check!

Found it! Had gotten lost in the archives -- thanks!

don't forget guest vocals from Dot, my terrier, that was in a different email

^^^ FUCK YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!

someone tell me why Garageband doesn't have a sample of a crowd screaming in it

Try freesound.org for sound effects - I know for sure that there's a whole bunch of specifically recorded crowd FX on there.

I got "get tube" to download audio from YouTube. Not perfect, but handy.

audiohijack is also good for that.

SENT

Received!

you guys need to make a new monday night football theme next

I seriously was going to sing the monday night football theme in a shitty lou reed voice over and over as my song

Are you ready for some LULU

lol

so do we have everything ?

I am more than ready

Pumped for this incoming science!

I am waiting on Elvis T.'s entry!

I hope he's growling into a laptop somewhere, trying to get it just right.

I hear Rick Rubin shaved his beard after hearing it

Elvis ! Elvis ! Elvis !
stop the... frustration !

By Rubin's beard, Elvis!

Come on Elvis, two Lulus can't be wrong !

Maybe he's slain by his own creation.

Okay, I need to head off to work here so pretty much everyone will need to wait on tomorrow morning Pacific Time for this to be unleashed. When you're showing the world dual planetary systems you can't leave out one of the Jupiters.

I hope he hasn't left the building...

You'd think he'd be fairly easy to get ahold of.

in retrospect, going for an eleven minute song was a terrible idea

You tested the realms of your reality and survived.

Had mine been any longer, I would've just dropped the "Dancing In the Street" video into the middle of it and walked out of the room.

Which makes me think… I'm going to be disappointed if these "Junior Dads" don't have Rick Astley somewhere around the 16:52 mark.

I feel like I touched almost every loop available in Garageband

I didn't actually use them all, but I touched most of them

ahah, loving the idea of a "bad music video" intermede !

I'm not seriously expecting anyone to listen to all 19.28 of my "Junior Dad", so don't feel guilty or anything about bailing out.

I didn't actually use them all, but I touched most of them

iltmi board descrip?

I will listen to both junior dads. entirely. back to back.

One of the more enjoyable things about all this is listening to the various strategies, from sensible to utterly egregious (not a complaint), people had to stretch out their songs to the proper length.

I'm looking forward to that the most, too. ESPECIALLY after being one of the people who had to go through it.

yeah, the fact that the title and timing had to be identical to the model was a challenge + the deadline.
There's this idea that sometimes, having an external constraint can lead to more creativity than being free to do whatever you want.
really true for me. and it was lots of fun too !

yeah, the fact that the title and timing had to be identical to the model was a challenge + the deadline.

Yes. For some reason I thought Brandenburg Gate was supposed to be 4.39 long, instead of 4.19. The song was completely done when I found this out, while adding the tags... Then I had to re-do it and 'find' the 20 seconds that were surplus somewhere. I even had fun doing that though!

confession: my "brandenburg gate" is four or five seconds longer than the Loutaliica version. may god forgive me.

I KILL YOU

haha the last 20 minutes of my editing process was figuring out how to make Garageband spit out the song at 11:08 instead of 11:09

I sweated over it to make it exactly 4.19. Even checked in two diff mp3 players if they displayed the correct length :)

xp HA!

may ned forgive me.

he will forgive you with guns

Was real tempted to go the "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" route in getting to my assigned time.

Dan: use Audacity.

btw thank you everyone for suggestions on finding screaming samples, esp. TechYes since I ended up pulling several things off of freesound.org

I will investigate Audacity; I finally resolved my Garageband problem via the solution I knew would work but didn't want to do (creating a cycle loop of the whole song and exporting that) because for whatever reason (lol aging eyes) I couldn't find the end-of-song marker.

My 'Frustration' is 3 seconds longer than the original, as otherwise the last syllable of the vocal is mysteriously cut off.

My 'Frustration' is 3 seconds longer than the original, as otherwise the last syllable of the vocal is myst

What's a few seconds when we're talking about music that will live on for centuries?

Every song is a century! Every second an eternity!

So you've already heard it then?

I don't know how you dudes did 10+ mins songs, I padded my song like crazy and it was only 5 mins

haha all will be revealed once this actually comes out

my song is more of an "audio movie"

So you've already heard it then?

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

No mahnnn, I felt the cosmic vibrations when working on my song.

ahahah. yeah, I guess we all had to use some tricks to get to the result !

I'm not seriously expecting anyone to listen to all 19.28 of my "Junior Dad", so don't feel guilty or anything about bailing out.

― |III|||II|||I|I||| (Matt #2), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 14:04 (6 hours ago)

Hah, the same goes for anyone listening to my Junior Dad!

think it goes w/o saying that both volumes should always be listened to in their entirety in one sitting.

Simultaneously.

definitely want to hear crut's mistress dread.

Hey Sean, you wanted the track to be under your name or not?

think it goes w/o saying that both volumes should always be listened to in their entirety in one sitting.

― tylerw, Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:34 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Simultaneously.

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:35 PM Bookmark

http://teamcoco.com/video/jon-dore-rory-scovel-same-time

if these all end up on Youtube I'm going to use the doubler at least once on all of these

Elvis T's better be the best of the 20, for as much as I'm paying to hear th -- oh wait, nm.

I don't know how you dudes did 10+ mins songs, I padded my song like crazy and it was only 5 mins

Would love this to be the opening line to a Loutallica interview.

Ned: I'm cool with my name appearing as is.

Thanks!

oh man i hadn't even realized that the simultaneous play would be possible with the identical tracklisting. i think that should be the official version: both versions of each song at the same time, panned hard left and right.

...and for people with three ears we could release the version with the actual Loutallica in the third channel.

xp 'STRICT STEREO SEPARATION' as Lou would call it.

surely by this point it's possible via noise-canceling tricks etc to engineer it such that panning hard left gives you one album, center gives you another, and hard right gives you the third

ahah, metal music machine is muzak to this !

Elvis Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

wha-what ? still no news from Elvis ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUavFsfbFv8

(sorry)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fxESDF0Oso

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRGxJqLI1AE

i heard a rumor that the delay is to get Lou Reed to read the statscock on the track verify

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA2BjakmejM

DONE!

Uploading 8 minute motorik epic now and notifying Mr. Raggett

Thanks for your patience everyone. Today got kinda fucked up, but it's all good.

\(^o^)/

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljvdc5TbkZ1qejrqso1_500.jpg

L-r: Curator Ned Raggett, Elvis Telecom, a happy Lou Reed.

yay ! congratulations !
we've done it !

next stop: billboard magazine

Next stop: the cover of Rolling Stone! Congratulations everyone!

What, the Suzi Quatro song? How long is that one?

The track has been received.

The uploading is almost complete.

The great work...is nigh.

En route to work. More in about an hour.

http://webspace.webring.com/people/vm/mutmainaa/dua1/dua_hands.jpg

http://bettergeekthannever.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/ce3kpoints.jpg?w=472&h=198

moar like

http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/NatSci102/images/extinct1.jpg

ahah, pictures for the booklet ?

we could also have a "thank yous/inspiration" list. let's be PROFESSIONALS !

MENTAL

List of equipment (real or otherwise) for the booklet?

Credits on the Lulu website has Lou contributing "Guitars, Continuum, Vocals".

"Guitars, Continuum, Vocals".

I count six superflous letters in the middle of one of these words.

and at some point we'll have to talk about the videos for the singles...

I will be using this as a storyboard for my video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T2doG1XmR4w

dragon turkey

Credits on the Lulu website has Lou contributing "Guitars, Continuum, Vocals".
As in Space Time Continuum?

And now.

The realms of reality are well and truly breached.

Or something.

"It's something else. It's a new animal, a hybrid. Nobody in our world...has ever done anything like this."

ILX Pre-Covers LULU I

1. Brandenburg Gate -- tylerw
2. The View -- Gypsy Chips
3. Pumping Blood -- Pleasant Plains
4. Mistress Dread -- Ars Lulrich
5. Iced Honey -- charlie h
6. Cheat On Me -- Matthew Mathieu
7. Frustration -- Blue Weather Ghosts
8. Little Dog -- Matt H3lg3son & Chris B3singer feat. Dottie
9. Dragon -- HI DERE
10. Junior Dad -- Virgin Killer

Mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/?90z3w0ic284sw9i

SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/ilxprecoverslului/sets/ilx-pre-covers-lulu-i

ILX Pre-Covers LULU II

1. Brandenburg Gate -- Le Bateau Ivre
2. The View -- Theoretically Lou Reed and Metallica
3. Pumping Blood -- n/a
4. Mistress Dread -- Fügügüffü
5. Iced Honey -- da croupier
6. Cheat On Me -- AlXTC
7. Frustration -- snoball
8. Little Dog -- Confounded
9. Dragon -- Therapist Sweater/J3ff T.
10. Junior Dad -- Sean Carruthers

Mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/?mtn5dp56w5cht7d

SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/ilxprecoversluluii/sets/ilx-pre-covers-lulu-ii

hell yeah

\o_O/

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MdPYlbQuyAw/TVxFrmYHxCI/AAAAAAAAAEY/Avm1VGI8OAU/s1600/092609_its_alive.gif

oh shit tylerw you magnificent bastard. deeply in awe <3

hurrah !
I can't listen to all this now but can't wait !

Yeah Tylerw knew just how to start this whole thing off.

That intro is the best thing I've heard all year. So brilliant!

lol

Should also say that Sean's contribution is properly titled, but of course, "Junior Dad (Metallica Machine Music)"

Gypsy Chips rocks so hard, just terrific

OTM. Love the drum sound and the vocal effects!

yeah gypsy chips is great!

I would have taken the day off work if I'd known.

hahah this is amazing already

yeah! gypsy chips sounding awesome. this album rules!

PP <333333333333333333333333333333333333

Man this album fucking rules guys!

HE'S PUMPIN' BLOOD!

Gypsy Chips reminds me of A Frames a bit.

Laughing so hard at the kid's reactions in the background of 'Pumping Blood'.

Dear mother, dear father... it gets better every minute.

this is making my entire day

Yeah, I cannot fucking believe how insanely good this all is!

Ars Lulrich's is mind-blowing too, like an acid trip. Loutallica's Revolution #9!

Seriously, how do we spread this as wide as possible? Who can give Jann a call? Who IMs Ryan?

I am not getting any work done today

also for shame, we should be locking down an exclusive with SPIN

two songs in and this is really great so far! tyler singing quotes from lou is the greatest

Charlie filled his "Iced Honey" assignment perfectly.

PP you are a genius, holy shit

gypsy chips is rockin it

Charlie W. channeling Scott W.? Fucking great.

Sorry, Charlie H.

pump pump pump pump

The Lars sample on "Mistress Dread" is priceless.

oh my god

I am passing into another dimension

I kiss you Charlie H.

you guys are all awesome

pleasant plain's pumping blood kind reminds me of a garage rock negativland
the sample of the "i would press delete" quote is the best

blue weather ghosts is great!

worth the wait.

This is fantastic.

Waiting patiently for you all to get to the first "Little Dog"...

it really is good!
iced honey is awesome.

^^YES! Shoegazey Galaxie500 x Spiritualized... man, my mind is blown

xxxxp

man I should stop reading this thread, I am now fearing spoilers

argh, I wish I could listen to this NOW (but I'm at the office and I don't think LULUs are SFW !)?

Who was Blue Weather Ghosts again? Awes

BWG = Elvis Telecom!

Little Dog OTM

I'm at the office and I don't think LULUs are SFW
Quit. Now. Start listening. NOW.

Ok who's sending this to P4K for a review ppl

BEST NEW MUSIC

10.0tm

I can't believe how well it works as an album. The sequencing is just great.

Little Dog <3

yeah, the flow so far is great!

matthew mathieu's tim hecker-ish cheat on me is both disturbing and relaxing.

Yeah, "Cheat on Me" is hitting all my buttons.

Ned, would/could you start a new thread for this 'release'?

Only, the links have already disappeared into the 'click here ' abyss...

I love how honest these songs are. Great stuff!

xpost -- or I could do this!

ILX Pre-Covers LULU I

1. Brandenburg Gate -- tylerw
2. The View -- Gypsy Chips
3. Pumping Blood -- Pleasant Plains
4. Mistress Dread -- Ars Lulrich
5. Iced Honey -- charlie h
6. Cheat On Me -- Matthew Mathieu
7. Frustration -- Blue Weather Ghosts
8. Little Dog -- Matt H3lg3son & Chris B3singer feat. Dottie
9. Dragon -- HI DERE
10. Junior Dad -- Virgin Killer

Mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/?90z3w0ic284sw9i

SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/ilxprecoverslului/sets/ilx-pre-covers-lulu-i

ILX Pre-Covers LULU II

1. Brandenburg Gate -- Le Bateau Ivre
2. The View -- Theoretically Lou Reed and Metallica
3. Pumping Blood -- n/a
4. Mistress Dread -- Fügügüffü
5. Iced Honey -- da croupier
6. Cheat On Me -- AlXTC
7. Frustration -- snoball
8. Little Dog -- Confounded
9. Dragon -- Therapist Sweater/J3ff T.
10. Junior Dad -- Sean Carruthers

Mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/?mtn5dp56w5cht7d

SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/ilxprecoversluluii/sets/ilx-pre-covers-lulu-ii

true.

:D

psyched

I suggest editing the initial thread post to include the links

YOU BEAUTIFUL BASTARDS

xpost -- That would make too much sense and be thoughtful. Give me a couple of seconds here.

Just lost my shit at the "bridge" on "Little Dog".

yeah, a new thread with the Lulu I & II, the artwork, etc, would be better for those who might not want to have all the behind the curtain / making of first, no ?

I guess we had a new thread for No Line On The Horizon, didn't we.

Threw in a basic edit for now. Also am updating the ILX Compilation thread. Hold on!

The Matthew Mathieu track is great - very 'Sinking of the Titanic'. The Wreck of the Lulusitania.

great Ned ! so this thread would be the one for those who worked on the project with practical aspects etc and the other one would be all for the Art !

My only complaint with "Dragon" is that it's not 22:16.

Okay here's the 'official' thread:

ILX Pre-Covers LULU I and II -- When The Realms of Loutallica's Reality Were Breached

omg @ "Little Dog"

little dog so good. so epic.

Just lost my shit at the "bridge" on "Little Dog".

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, October 12, 2011 10:43 AM (12 minutes ago)

^^^

^^^

Seems we're all listening to pretty much the same track at the same time.

^^^ xp

Yeah Dottie's the guest star of stars on this thing.

6. Cheat On Me -- AlXTC

I think I'm in love... Wow, gorgeous, amazing...

AIXTC, are you a recording artist, or in a band? Would buy, sheesh, j'adore

I was gonna say, I heard that one and was all "Okay, dreamy country-folk-pop and then a T. Rex break, what the hell, brilliant."

Exactly! And such a beautiful voice

thx everyone

btw all the non-dog vocals on "little dog" are by my friend chris who has posted like 5 times on ilm but is a long-time lurker

he did all the lyrics/vox, i did all the music

he is the lead singer of the band STNNNG, you can listen to a song here:

http://modern-radio.com/audio.php