ITT: The worst moment of great artists' careers
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the fact that this collab actually happened still makes me laugh
i tink it's the best
>Not when he did the gay voice
that guitar tone gave me cancer
Bowie agreed with you.
how did this collaboration even happen
First time Paul ever sounded really weak and tired.
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Paul's had worse points in his career than this. This is a really good performance, even if his vocals are a little off.
I'd say he's at his worst when he takes part in naff charity singles or when he tries to be "down with the kids" by collaborating with a then pop star, like that track he did with Kanye and Rihanna.
He barelly did anything in that Rihana and Kayne song. And I think he knows he has nothing to prove anymore, I don't think he does it to look cool.
Not a low point even though the song sucked.
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I actually kind of like Metal Machine Music.
Even if you don't, it was very influential on a lot of even better noise music, or just artists that used feedback like Sonic Youth. It was cool at least, wheras the Metallica thing was just embarassing.
this album here
I think that Sonic Youth were more influenced by The Velvet Underground than by the Metal Music Machine LP.
He can't rap and he sure as hell can't play.
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Thurston Moore says it's one of his favourite albums
Anyone can link that Bowie forum where he posted himself, kidding Never Let Me Down?
Ok. I learned something
That happened?
Found it
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ironic considering that someone died during limp bizkit's set.
He urged his fans to "take copies back for a refund"
No doubt from brain pain.
pleb
Metal Machine Music is great - even anyone who doesn't like noise/drone stuff like that should realize it's influence by now
Lou released a lot of questionable things and terrible tracks that are just plain awful - OPs Metallica video is almost average if you look at all of Lou's output from 1979 onwards
>1979 onwards
Blue Mask
Legendary Hearts
New Sensations
New York
Magic and Loss
Ecstasy
Animal Serenade
Lulu
clarifying my position just in case:
New York is legitimately good, Magic and Loss OK
Blue Mask has some great tracks - the title track is in the running for his best solo track, but a very mediocre album
rest are all more or less garbage compared to Lou's earlier stuff with very few redeeming things
...and Songs for 'Drella is great
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oops, forgot to list that one
Take out the latin and electronic shit and that would be a better tune
Actually pretty kekworthy. I'm sure David knew what he was doing (I hope so anyway).
he's pointing at lou redd...
and just look how he turned out
Lou Reed - The Original Wrapper seems like a much lower point
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yeah, I was going to post some terrible ones to this post , this horrible thing being one, but decided against it because there's worse and I didn't feel like combing those albums for really embarrassing tracks to go with obvious gems like that
here's another embarrassing 80's Lou video that might as well be a parody
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That's not Original Wrapper.
this thread is now about posting objectively terrible things Lou Reed has released
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There is nothing redeeming about I Wanna Be Black - no layers of irony are enough for this shitty music, terrible lyrics and Lou's "singing"
also maybe the shittiest guitar solo ever released
nothing about this track is even decent
Seems like a stab at that top 20 mtv audience every aging 40-something pop-rock artist tried in the 1980s
Honestly, If Lou never met John Cale, would we have ever heard of him? I mean, his lyrics were pretty great in The Velvet Underground, but Cale's use of droning with feedback really made them stick out. Lou's solo career was mostly terrible, except at the beginning with help from Bowie.
sure, but if you consider what Lou Reed is today known for and represented in his career earlier it just feels so disappointing and that was what the thread was about
but since this sort of stuff is fun, please post any similar examples that you can think of!
shit taste detected
>shoot 20 feet of jism too and fuck up jews
c'mon, that's pure gold!
Cale also kept Lou's writing in check
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i hate that i have to post this
poor gener :( really glad thing are okay now
The better single from New Sensations packed with more 80s cheese and the same actress forming some kind of narrative or something.
Also the guitar riff that Lou stole from Robert Quine
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yeah, I used to be a pretty big Lou Reed fan when I first found out the best things he'd been involved with, but in retrospect he doesn't seem like that great a character himself, but he certainly got actively involved in great things
John Cale was certainly the greatest musical visionary in the Velvet Underground and that band did him good to distill some of that crazy creativeness into a digestible package
Cale's personal drone/experimental recordings of the 60's were far ahead of their time - dude was laying down the cornerstones of experimental rock to come 15 year later, but without the Velvet Underground no one would have heard of them and the Velvet's stuff is a good introduction to noisy musical self expression in general. Check this one recorded a year before VU & Nico fore example- sounds very modern to me, such an obvious precursor to Sonic Youth in the 80's for example:
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in this one you can almost forget that Lou Reed is involved - Robert Quine is one of the best parts of this Reed period so one generic riff like that is small potatoes in terms of Reed's benefit from having someone good in his band
wow this makes me want to commit suicide
fuck Lou
John Cale's career has had it's low points, but I can't find anything that would be downright embarrassing as most of 80's Lou shit is
Honestly, if any artist didn't find themselves in the right situations would we have ever heard of them?
as if a faggot like Thurston would say anything except that
any artist needs to be in the right circumstances, but there are great artists who shape the world around them and Lou Reed just seems blatantly fortunate in his journey to becoming a legendary character
his saving grace is that he was ahead of his time and unique and still pushing himself to be a performer and star so there's that, but in the end he's really only memorable for the attitude and themes he brought to the table than general artistic ability
not that that is a bad thing - we're so far in development that attitude and themes and being representative of the coming times is probably the most important trait a new star can have, so all respect to Lou as establishing the importance of a unique new star appearing
(and he released a lot of shit when his career was already established and nothing excuses that or takes away from his importance)
>I think he died when he heard my version of 'Heartbreak Hotel'.
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Not exactly the original but still wtf
To be fair, they only went along with it because they thought it was hilarious, which if you don't take it seriously it is.
That's not Calling All Stations
Worst song on the album desu.
The rest is much better
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Thurston's opinion has always been shit
Which is irrelevant to the point that I was making that it was very influential on Sonic Youth
Fucking historic
Got any more Bowie shitposts?
>lou reed
>all of it
Oh yean, you got Cale on one of of his totally useless moments.
I was looking for this useless shit in his discography - he's hidden it OK.
haha, that's just a shit moment!
exactly what I was hoping for
yeah - this is exactly like John being just jealous of Lou
What a fucking shit show - he has nothing to win here, the same as randomly championining Brian Wilson - why would anyone care?
>Kanye
>with a then pop star
'no'
>great artists
no u
Literally sounds like a Seinfeld music.
Don't really care for the song but the music video is pretty cool in a creepy way.