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''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB1cEyy0fKs Metal Machine Music: *The Amine β Ring]]'', better known as simply ''Metal Machine Music'', is the fifth studio album by Music/LouReed, released in 1975. Released on the heels of the slick, popular ''Sally Can't Dance'', the album is [[NewSoundAlbum a sharp left turn in style]], instead being two [=LPs=] of modulated guitar feedback without any structure or form beyond variances in the audio's mixing speed. Intentionally designed to be as impenetrable as possible, Reed described the album as the culmination of HeavyMetal, which he claimed to invent.
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''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB1cEyy0fKs Metal Machine Music: *The Amine β Ring]]'', better known as simply ''Metal Machine Music'', is the fifth studio album by Music/LouReed, released in 1975.1975 through Creator/RCARecords. Released on the heels of the slick, popular ''Sally Can't Dance'', the album is [[NewSoundAlbum a sharp left turn in style]], instead being two [=LPs=] of modulated guitar feedback without any structure or form beyond variances in the audio's mixing speed. Intentionally designed to be as impenetrable as possible, Reed described the album as the culmination of HeavyMetal, which he claimed to invent.
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''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB1cEyy0fKsMetal com/watch?v=PB1cEyy0fKs Metal Machine Music: *The Amine β Ring]]'', better known as simply ''Metal Machine Music'', is the fifth studio album by Music/LouReed, released in 1975. Released on the heels of the slick, popular ''Sally Can't Dance'', the album is [[NewSoundAlbum a sharp left turn in style]], instead being two [=LPs=] of modulated guitar feedback without any structure or form beyond variances in the audio's mixing speed. Intentionally designed to be as impenetrable as possible, Reed described the album as the culmination of HeavyMetal, which he claimed to invent.
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[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB1cEyy0fKs''Metal Machine Music: *The Amine β Ring'']], better known as simply ''Metal Machine Music'', is the fifth studio album by Music/LouReed, released in 1975. Released on the heels of the slick, popular ''Sally Can't Dance'', the album is [[NewSoundAlbum a sharp left turn in style]], instead being two [=LPs=] of modulated guitar feedback without any structure or form beyond variances in the audio's mixing speed. Intentionally designed to be as impenetrable as possible, Reed described the album as the culmination of HeavyMetal, which he claimed to invent.
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''Metal Machine Music: *The Amine β Ring'', better known as simply ''Metal Machine Music'', is the fifth studio album by Music/LouReed, released in 1975. Released on the heels of the slick, popular ''Sally Can't Dance'', the album is [[NewSoundAlbum a sharp left turn in style]], instead being two [=LPs=] of modulated guitar feedback without any structure or form beyond variances in the audio's mixing speed. Intentionally designed to be as impenetrable as possible, Reed described the album as the culmination of HeavyMetal, which he claimed to invent.
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* {{Minimalism}}: If you want to be generous and say Reed was doing this album as a completely serious work, it fits into this category, since it consists of an hour of noise. Via his longtime collaborator Music/JohnCale, Reed had an arm's length connection to serious AvantGardeMusic figures like La Monte Young, Terry Riley and Tony Conrad, and you can call ''Metal Machine Music'' an attempt to take their approach to music UpToEleven. Reed even gives Young a ShoutOut in the liner notes. Conrad's notorious 1965 short film ''The Flicker'' (which is just all-white and all-black film frames silently alternating for a half-hour) was also reportedly an influence.
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* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Technically, this album has the dubious honor of being the only 70's album to earn an 11.
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->''"Most of you won’t like this, and I don’t blame you at all. It’s not meant for you."''
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''Metal Machine Music: *The Amine β Ring'', better known as simply ''Metal Machine Music'', is the fifth studio album by Music/LouReed, released in 1975. It is a... rather notorious album.
[[MainstreamObscurity Despite its infamy, the amount of people who actually listened to it, let alone from beginning to end, is practically nil]].
Why?
Well, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise this double album features over an hour of nothing but modulated guitar feedback and other effects]].
Released on the heels of the slick, popular ''Sally Can't Dance'', [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible nobody quite knew what to make of this record]] at the time. Was this meant to be taken seriously? A joke? A deliberate attempt [[SpringtimeForHitler to commit commercial suicide?]] [[TakeThatAudience A raised middle finger to the audience]]? [[TakeThatCritics Against the critics]]? Or [[Creator/RCARecords Lou's record company]] for having to fulfill his [[ContractualObligationProject contractual obligation]] to release a new album? [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Or a masterpiece]]? All Mr. Reed had to say about it was, "I was completely serious. I was also completely stoned."
Whatever it was, it sure as hell wasn't a success. It bombed completely, got atrocious reviews and a lot of buyers brought their copy of the album back to the store. It's generally seen as his worst record.
Despite all that, ''Metal Machine Music'' [[BileFascination did manage to sell over 100,000 copies]], and Reed himself earned some respect for having the audacity to release such an anti-commercial album. Later on, the record was even VindicatedByHistory as a progenitor to the genres of {{industrial}}, {{noise rock}}, and drone. In 2002, Reed performed the album live in collaboration with the avant-garde classical ensemble Zeitkratzer and formed a band named the Metal Machine Trio as a NoiseRock project.
Whether you like it or not, it's surely a NewSoundAlbum unlike any other and it has to be heard to be believed.
[[MainstreamObscurity Despite its infamy, the amount of people who actually listened to it, let alone from beginning to end, is practically nil]].
Why?
Well, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise this double album features over an hour of nothing but modulated guitar feedback and other effects]].
Released on the heels of the slick, popular ''Sally Can't Dance'', [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible nobody quite knew what to make of this record]] at the time. Was this meant to be taken seriously? A joke? A deliberate attempt [[SpringtimeForHitler to commit commercial suicide?]] [[TakeThatAudience A raised middle finger to the audience]]? [[TakeThatCritics Against the critics]]? Or [[Creator/RCARecords Lou's record company]] for having to fulfill his [[ContractualObligationProject contractual obligation]] to release a new album? [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Or a masterpiece]]? All Mr. Reed had to say about it was, "I was completely serious. I was also completely stoned."
Whatever it was, it sure as hell wasn't a success. It bombed completely, got atrocious reviews and a lot of buyers brought their copy of the album back to the store. It's generally seen as his worst record.
Despite all that, ''Metal Machine Music'' [[BileFascination did manage to sell over 100,000 copies]], and Reed himself earned some respect for having the audacity to release such an anti-commercial album. Later on, the record was even VindicatedByHistory as a progenitor to the genres of {{industrial}}, {{noise rock}}, and drone. In 2002, Reed performed the album live in collaboration with the avant-garde classical ensemble Zeitkratzer and formed a band named the Metal Machine Trio as a NoiseRock project.
Whether you like it or not, it's surely a NewSoundAlbum unlike any other and it has to be heard to be believed.
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''Metal Machine Music: *The Amine β Ring'', better known as simply ''Metal Machine Music'', is the fifth studio album by Music/LouReed, released in 1975. It is a... rather notorious album.
[[MainstreamObscurity Despite its infamy, the amount of people who actually listened to it, let alone from beginning to end, is practically nil]].
Why?
Well, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise this double album features over an hour of nothing but modulated guitar feedback and other effects]].
Released on the heels of the slick, popular ''Sally Can't Dance'', [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible nobody quite knew what to make of this record]] at the time. Was this meant to be taken seriously? A joke? A deliberate attempt [[SpringtimeForHitler to commit commercial suicide?]] [[TakeThatAudience A raised middle finger to the audience]]? [[TakeThatCritics Against the critics]]? Or [[Creator/RCARecords Lou's record company]] for having to fulfill his [[ContractualObligationProject contractual obligation]] to release a new album? [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Or a masterpiece]]? All Mr. Reed had to say about it was, "I was completely serious. I was also completely stoned."
Whatever it was, it sure as hell wasn't a success. It bombed completely, got atrocious reviews and a lot of buyers brought their copy ofthe album back to is [[NewSoundAlbum a sharp left turn in style]], instead being two [=LPs=] of modulated guitar feedback without any structure or form beyond variances in the store. It's generally seen audio's mixing speed. Intentionally designed to be as impenetrable as possible, Reed described the album as the culmination of HeavyMetal, which he claimed to invent.
Reed wouldn't revisit the style again in the studio, returning to hisworst record.
Despite all that,signature brand of art rock on later albums. He would, however, return to experimental work near the end of his career, with the {{ambient}} album ''Hudson River Wind Meditations'' in 2003 and his Music/{{Metallica}} collaboration ''Lulu'' in 2011.
In the years since its release, ''Metal Machine Music''[[BileFascination did manage to sell over 100,000 copies]], and Reed himself earned some respect for having the audacity to release such an anti-commercial album. Later on, the record was even VindicatedByHistory has been described as a progenitor to the genres of {{industrial}}, {{noise rock}}, and drone. In 2002, Reed performed the album live in collaboration with the avant-garde classical ensemble Zeitkratzer and formed a band named the Metal Machine Trio as a NoiseRock project.
Whether you like it or not, it's surely a NewSoundAlbum unlike any other and it has to be heard to be believed.
project.
[[MainstreamObscurity Despite its infamy, the amount of people who actually listened to it, let alone from beginning to end, is practically nil]].
Why?
Well, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise this double album features over an hour of nothing but modulated guitar feedback and other effects]].
Whatever it was, it sure as hell wasn't a success. It bombed completely, got atrocious reviews and a lot of buyers brought their copy of
Reed wouldn't revisit the style again in the studio, returning to his
Despite all that,
In the years since its release, ''Metal Machine Music''
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''Metal Machine Music: *The Amine β Ring'', better known as simply ''Metal Machine Music'', is the fifth studio album by Music/LouReed, released in 1975. It is a... rather notorious album. [[MainstreamObscurity Despite its infamy, the amount of people who actually listened to it, left alone from beginning to end, is practically nil]]. Why? Well, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise this double album features over an hour of nothing but modulated guitar feedback and other effects]].
Released on the heels of the slick, popular ''Sally Can't Dance'', [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible nobody quite knew what to make of this record]] at the time. Was this meant to be taken seriously? A joke? A deliberate attempt [[SpringtimeForHitler to commit commercial suicide?]] [[TakeThatAudience A raised middle finger to the audience]]? [[TakeThatCritics Against the critics]]? Or [[Creator/RCARecords Lou's record company]] for having to fulfill his [[ContractualObligationProject contractual obligation]] to release a new album? [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Or a masterpiece]]? All Mr. Reed had to say about it was that "I was completely serious. I was also completely stoned".
Released on the heels of the slick, popular ''Sally Can't Dance'', [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible nobody quite knew what to make of this record]] at the time. Was this meant to be taken seriously? A joke? A deliberate attempt [[SpringtimeForHitler to commit commercial suicide?]] [[TakeThatAudience A raised middle finger to the audience]]? [[TakeThatCritics Against the critics]]? Or [[Creator/RCARecords Lou's record company]] for having to fulfill his [[ContractualObligationProject contractual obligation]] to release a new album? [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Or a masterpiece]]? All Mr. Reed had to say about it was that "I was completely serious. I was also completely stoned".
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''Metal Machine Music: *The Amine β Ring'', better known as simply ''Metal Machine Music'', is the fifth studio album by Music/LouReed, released in 1975. It is a... rather notorious album. album.
[[MainstreamObscurity Despite its infamy, the amount of people who actually listened to it, left alone from beginning to end, is practicallynil]]. Why? nil]].
Why?
Well, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise this double album features over an hour of nothing but modulated guitar feedback and othereffects]].
effects]].
Released on the heels of the slick, popular ''Sally Can't Dance'', [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible nobody quite knew what to make of this record]] at the time. Was this meant to be taken seriously? A joke? A deliberate attempt [[SpringtimeForHitler to commit commercial suicide?]] [[TakeThatAudience A raised middle finger to the audience]]? [[TakeThatCritics Against the critics]]? Or [[Creator/RCARecords Lou's record company]] for having to fulfill his [[ContractualObligationProject contractual obligation]] to release a new album? [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Or a masterpiece]]? All Mr. Reed had to say about itwas that was, "I was completely serious. I was also completely stoned".
stoned."
[[MainstreamObscurity Despite its infamy, the amount of people who actually listened to it, left alone from beginning to end, is practically
Why?
Well, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise this double album features over an hour of nothing but modulated guitar feedback and other
Released on the heels of the slick, popular ''Sally Can't Dance'', [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible nobody quite knew what to make of this record]] at the time. Was this meant to be taken seriously? A joke? A deliberate attempt [[SpringtimeForHitler to commit commercial suicide?]] [[TakeThatAudience A raised middle finger to the audience]]? [[TakeThatCritics Against the critics]]? Or [[Creator/RCARecords Lou's record company]] for having to fulfill his [[ContractualObligationProject contractual obligation]] to release a new album? [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Or a masterpiece]]? All Mr. Reed had to say about it
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''Metal Machine Music'' Music: *The Amine β Ring'', better known as simply ''Metal Machine Music'', is the fifth studio album by Music/LouReed, released in 1975. It is a... rather notorious album. [[MainstreamObscurity Despite its infamy, the amount of people who actually listened to it, left alone from beginning to end, is practically nil]]. Why? Well, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise this double album features over an hour of nothing but modulated guitar feedback and other effects]].
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* TakeThatCritics: It has been interpreted as a way to force critics to listen to four record sides of incomprehensible noise.
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noise. However, at least one critic at the time, Lester Bangs, praised the album, touting it in a series of not-completely-serious ''Creem'' magazine essays.
* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: A rather monotonous drone atthat.that, though it ''does'' change keys (for lack of a better term) over the course of the album.
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Released shortly after the slick, popular ''Sally Can't Dance'', [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible nobody quite knew what to make of this record]] at the time. Was this meant to be taken seriously? A joke? A deliberate attempt [[SpringtimeForHitler to commit commercial suicide?]] [[TakeThatAudience A raised middle finger to the audience]]? [[TakeThatCritics Against the critics]]? Or [[Creator/RCARecords Lou's record company]] for having to fulfill his [[ContractualObligationProject contractual obligation]] to release a new album? [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Or a masterpiece]]? All Mr. Reed had to say about it was that "I was completely serious. I was also completely stoned".
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Released shortly after on the heels of the slick, popular ''Sally Can't Dance'', [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible nobody quite knew what to make of this record]] at the time. Was this meant to be taken seriously? A joke? A deliberate attempt [[SpringtimeForHitler to commit commercial suicide?]] [[TakeThatAudience A raised middle finger to the audience]]? [[TakeThatCritics Against the critics]]? Or [[Creator/RCARecords Lou's record company]] for having to fulfill his [[ContractualObligationProject contractual obligation]] to release a new album? [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Or a masterpiece]]? All Mr. Reed had to say about it was that "I was completely serious. I was also completely stoned".
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* {{Minimalism}}: If you want to be generous and say Reed was doing this album as a completely serious work, it fits into this category, since it consists of an hour of noise. Via his longtime collaborator Music/JohnCale, Reed had an arm's length connection to serious AvantGardeMusic figures like La Monte Young and Terry Riley, and you can call ''Metal Machine Music'' an attempt to take their approach to music UpToEleven. Reed even gives Young a ShoutOut in the liner notes.
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Back then, [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible nobody quite knew what to make of this record]]. Was this meant to be taken seriously? A joke? A deliberate attempt [[SpringtimeForHitler to commit commercial suicide?]] [[TakeThatAudience A raised middle finger to the audience]]? [[TakeThatCritics Against the critics]]? Or [[Creator/RCARecords Lou's record company]] for having to fulfill his [[ContractualObligationProject contractual obligation]] to release a new album? [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Or a masterpiece]]? All Mr. Reed had to say about it was that "I was completely serious. I was also completely stoned".
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* CoversAlwaysLie: When you see Reed in his CoolShades and black vest on the cover you'd expect this album to be a heavy rock record where he at least does some singing.
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[[caption-width-right:350: [[AudienceAlienatingPremise A double record set full with guitar feedback droning noise?]] Yeah, [[DeadpanSnarker [[SarcasmMode that'll sell!]] ]]
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''Metal Machine Music'' is the fifth studio album by Music/LouReed, released in 1975. It is a... [[{{Understatement}} rather notorious album]]. [[MainstreamObscurity Despite its infamy, the amount of people who actually listened to it, left alone from beginning to end, is practically nil]]. Why? Well, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise this double album features over an hour of nothing but modulated guitar feedback and other effects]].
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''Metal Machine Music'' is the fifth studio album by Music/LouReed, released in 1975. It is a... [[{{Understatement}} rather notorious album]].album. [[MainstreamObscurity Despite its infamy, the amount of people who actually listened to it, left alone from beginning to end, is practically nil]]. Why? Well, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise this double album features over an hour of nothing but modulated guitar feedback and other effects]].
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* MohsScaleOfRockandMetalHardness: Technically, this album has the dubious honor of being the only 70's album to earn an 11.
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* MohsScaleOfRockandMetalHardness: MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Technically, this album has the dubious honor of being the only 70's album to earn an 11.
