Lulu
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Lulu is a collaborative album between the rock guitarist Lou Reed and Metallica. The album will be released on October 31, 2011 worldwide, and one day later on November 1 in North America.
The conception of the collaboration project began in 2009 when both Metallica and Lou Reed performed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th Anniversary Concert. After that performance, the two entities began "kicking around the idea of making a record together," but didn't start working together until two years later. In February 2011, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett announced that in May 2011 the group would start working on something that's "not 100 percent a Metallica record. It's a recording project, let's put it that way." The secret project was publicly revealed to be a collaboration with Lou Reed once the recording of the album had been completed in June 2011.
Reed had composed a collection of songs for a play called Lulu — a theatrical production of various stories originally written by the German playwright Frank Wedekind. Reed instead shared the demos of these songs with the members of Metallica to help bring the "piece to the next level," and the group provided "significant arrangement contributions" to the material. David Fricke of Rolling Stone heard at least two of the songs from the project in June 2011 — "Pumping Blood" and "Mistress Dread" — and described their sound as a "raging union of [Reed's] 1973 noir classic, Berlin, and Metallica's '86 crusher, Master of Puppets."
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Recording
Lulu was recorded in the HQ in April and May 2011 and produced by Lou Reed, Metallica, Hal Willner, and Greg Fidelman.
Tracklist
- Brandenburg Gate (4:19)
- The View (5:17)
- Pumping Blood (7:24)
- Mistrees Dread (6:52)
- Iced Honey (4:36)
- Cheat On Me (11:26)
- Frustration (8:33)
- Little Dog (8:01)
- Dragon (11:08)
- Junior Dad (19:28)
Previews
The first single, "The View", was published on SoundCloud.com: "The View" at SoundCloud.com
Sleeve notes
Lou Reed: Guitars, Continuum, Vocals
James Hetfield: Guitars, Vocals
Lars Ulrich: Drums
Kirk Hammett: Guitars
Robert Trujillo: Bass
Produced by Lou Reed, Metallica, Hal Willner & Greg Fidelman
Recorded by Greg Fidelman & Mike Gillies
Additional engineering by Jim Monti, Dan Monti, Sara Lyn Killion & Kent Matcke
Mixed by Greg Fidelman
Assisted by Geoff Neal
Recorded April 2011 – June 2011 at HQ in San Rafael, CA
Mixed at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, CA
Mix Coordination by Lindsay Chase
Mastered by Vlado Meller at Masterdisk NYC
Wax Mannequin (about 1900) and other objects: Collection of Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge, Berlin
Additional Musicians:
Sarth Calhoun - Electronics
Jenny Scheinman - Violin, Viola & String Arrangements
Megan Gould - Violin
Ron Lawrence - Viola
Marika Hughes - Cello
Ulrich Maas - Cello on "Little Dog" and "Frustration"
Rob Wasserman - Stand Up Electric Bass on "Junior Dad"
Jessica Troy - Viola on "Junior Dad"
All Songs by Lou Reed & Metallica
All Lyrics by Lou Reed
All Songs © 2011 Lou Reed Music (BMI)/Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)
© 2011 Sister Ray Enterprises Inc/We’re Only In It For The Music
News articles
External links
Metallica Albums
Kill 'Em All (1993) · Ride The Lightning (1984) · Master Of Puppets (1986)
...And Justice For All (1988) · Metallica (1991) · Load (1996)
ReLoad (1997) · Garage Inc. (1998) · S&M (1999)
St. Anger (2003) · Death Magnetic (2008)
