METAL MACHINE MUSIC POLL

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tbh I've always wondered how much thought or intentionality Reed put into the recording/composing and never really settled on a satisfying answer. He always went back and forth between representing it as a carefully considered piece of New Music vs saying it was a joke or kissoff to RCA that he didnt give a shit about. I guess both could be true. Sometimes the fact that he never really explored this kind of thing again (on record anyway) has made me suspicious, but on the other hand, once youve done MMM, how much farther can you go?

Lulu, obv ;)

Didn’t Lee Ranaldo identify quickly some random portion of this record in an Invisible Jukebox?

to be fair, that's pretty easy to do! the overall palette is fairly consistent

Pretty cool that these fundamental questions about the album still persist after this many years.

well its more can you go oh yeah that's about 1/3 through side 2 not oh yeah that's from MMM innit

Pretty cool that these fundamental questions about the album still persist after this many years.

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I think Lou had a genuine appreciation for the sounds he heard coming out of his amplifiers, and also an appreciation for the absurdity of putting a double album of it out on RCA records in 1975. He was also having management difficulties with Dennis Katz, and probably enjoyed the taste of career suicide that the record release brought.

Hudson River Meditations, although I haven't heard the whole thing, is kind of a sequel to this record.

I'll decide which side is the best after listening to one per night, in a state of relaxed concentration, the same way it was created.

Reed v. Bangs was the Fischer v. Spassky of the rock press’ golden era, two masters in their respective fields matching each other move-for-move.

well its more can you go oh yeah that's about 1/3 through side 2 not oh yeah that's from MMM innit

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if that's what Ranaldo did, then \m/ respect

He did!

we should get him to tell us what part was used for the anthology!

Fuck Lester Bangs.

Why? I think those Lou pieces are great.

When Lou died I played MMM straight through about 3 times, it was a beautiful transcendence.

Lester was Lou's Loyal Opposition.

Lester was vile about Rachel and Lou never forgave him for it.

Oh, forgot about that.

Or as Lou put it, "He's fat, he has a moustache and I wouldn't shit in his nose".

I don’t recall what he wrote about Rachel, either; but I can imagine it being uncool.

it was

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Side C, for the bit where it sounds like a piano, over Side D's bit where it sounds like trumpets.

The extreme stereo separation made me think of Warhol's Chelsea Girls, where you have two different screens at either end of the room, showing different scenes. The total psychological effect also reminded me of Burroughs' cut-up books, where pushing though the experience changes the way your brain is working.

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THREE FOUR ONE TWO!

Thank god, I always skip side 2

It's the "incidental detail" of the set.

It leaves you with the "rule of three" anyway.

One time I listened to this at half speed and reversed, which seemed to reveal that at least some of the material recorded had been sped up and reversed for the album. And also it sounded like an Eno ambient album. Recommended.

Oh dude, of course someone has posted a video of exactly this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5at9lvXQ8jI

Doesn't sound quite as much like an Eno ambient album as I remembered, lol.