Metal Machine Music (studio album) by Lou Reed
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Metal Machine Music is ranked 10th best out of 37 albums by Lou Reed on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Lou Reed is Transformer which is ranked number 137 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 11,138.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 56 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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02/01/2024 06:39 | M4thSoad3r | 249 | 85/100 | |
01/26/2024 05:08 | JPin8497 | 862 | 70/100 | |
09/03/2023 10:49 | Stevo796 | 1,100 | 73/100 | |
06/05/2023 09:51 | TroutMaskGreg | 1,394 | 69/100 | |
04/11/2023 13:14 | Ben | 192 | 91/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 46.4/100, a mean average of 45.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 45.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 30.4.
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Sounds like telephone interference mixed with dial-up internet. 10/10.
This album is brilliant. Some day I will write a dissertation justifying my stance, but for now all I'll say is this: anyone could have done this, but Lou Reed was the only one with the guts to actually make it happen.
Not as bad as its reputation would suggest, but I would only recommend it for Lou Reed completionists.
I give it 60 points of 100 because i found it not so bad not easy to listen but ok. For me it is often the same frequency but there are some outriders so it is not the worst but it is very experimental and a kind oft art. I would not buy it but when you want to listen to avantgarde music this is you way.
I don’t believe this belongs in Lou’s top ten but I understand it’s going to get attention. This is strictly instrumental and experimental not a traditional release by any means. I own this on vinyl because I am a completist. I was unable to get all the way through my first listen and not sure when I will give it another spin. The album cover is really cool and the liner notes are hilarious. You have been warned.
This platter is a nifty lil toe tapper. Just right to enjoy with a glass of mineral water (with honey) in a warm bath.
The reaction to this album shows how little rock critics know. Dismissed at the time as unlistenable noise released to get out of a record contract, this is serious electronic music, and anyone who knows the greatest classical composers of the 2nd half of the 20thC - Stockhausen, Xenakis, Cage - would instantly recognise it as such. This album is not at that level, but it is at least equal to Zappa's best serious Art Music. It's up there with Tago Mago, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Venetian Snares and Nurse With Wound as serious art music.
Absolutely awful, if there is something to get, i don't get it
There is definitely some order in this chaos. The kind of order you find on Aphex Twin’s jungle tracks. This is not just all random, I’m sure. It is - however - very repetitive. And that would be kinda okay for mmm pt. 1, but there are no particularly different patterns to find on the rest of the erm... compositions. All in all, this is an interesting experiment, but he could have tried to make it somehow enjoyable to listen to. That would’ve been a legendary work of art. But this sounds a bit lazy and is only good for releasing some stress... if you’re okay with the migraine that it replaces.
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