Quickie review: Lou Reed and Metallica, “Lulu”

The Halloween release date is appropriate: Here, the ‘Frisco boys are pretending to be a metal-ized Velvet Underground.  Having tried everything across this record to filter “Heroin” through their ’80s thrash, their ’90s blues-based hard rock and their 2000’s attempt at a return-to-form, they clearly want to be the ’60s legends so, so badly.  But guess what?  Getting Reed to sing on your record doesn’t make your band VU mk. II. But that doesn’t stop…

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