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Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed

Metal Machine Music

Release Date: 7/3/1996

Recording Date: 1/1975

Tracks: 4

Length: 01:04:11 Hrs

Label: BMG Ariola

Type: CD

Genre/Styles:
Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Synthesizer, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Experimental, Sound Effects, United States of America, Proto-Punk, Noise-Rock, Experimental Rock, Classical, Conceptual Art

Album Tracks (4)

Song Title
Length
1.
Metal Machine Music, Pt. 1
16:10
2.
Metal Machine Music, Pt. 2
15:53
3.
Metal Machine Music, Pt. 3
16:13
4.
Metal Machine Music, Pt. 4
15:55

What the Critics Say

On this CD re-issue of the original 1975 RCA records disc, we hear an unrelenting, seeringly beautiful electro-acoustic composition for electric guitar and an array of "consumer-priced" sound-processing devices and amplifiers used by most bands of the mid-70's...inspired by La Monte Young's Dream Music installations, this one-time spontaneous production of Reed's pre-dated a great deal of rock-sound inspired new music (Branca, Chatham etc.) ...feedback and a lot of the Keith Richards-effect (maximum volume through small speakers) which lends a feeling of infinite universal and atomic surface compression permeating everything ..."Passion-realism was the key" is the significant line from the otherwise rather posed liner notes...sudden silences leave the listener floating. ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Rovi

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