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You are here: Home / Music / You’re a naughty one, saucy Jack

You’re a naughty one, saucy Jack

by DougJ|  November 1, 20114:48 pm| 95 Comments

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Simple lines intertwining…life imitates art:

It’s already been called the worst album of all time, this unholy union of Lou Reed and Metallica, the multi-headed hydra of unpleasantness known colloquially, though not fondly, as Loutallica.

They’ve united to present an 85-minute misery delivery system called “Lulu,” loosely based on a series of German expressionist plays that chronicled the adventures of a prostitute-turned-slave murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Two words.

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  1. 1.

    Yevgraf

    November 1, 2011 at 4:51 pm

    Good god, that looks awful. Its being savaged on Amazon.

  2. 2.

    handy

    November 1, 2011 at 4:53 pm

    Ummm…why?

  3. 3.

    cleek

    November 1, 2011 at 4:53 pm

    A/V Club has a nice line in their review:

    For the most part, Lulu is barely listenable. Leading up to “Junior Dad” are nine tracks — two of them topping 11 minutes — that feature Reed bleating like a dementia-stricken uncle over his nephews’ numbskull garage band.

  4. 4.

    Punchy

    November 1, 2011 at 4:54 pm

    Lou Reed’s still alive?

  5. 5.

    handy

    November 1, 2011 at 4:54 pm

    And this is from somebody who can even tolerate the mid-80’s Lou incarnation (anyone else dig “My Red Joystick?”)

  6. 6.

    joeyess

    November 1, 2011 at 4:55 pm

    Two Words.

    Spinal Tap.

    I can’t wait until Tbogg gets his demonic-conservative-ridicule-machine hands on this.

  7. 7.

    DougJ

    November 1, 2011 at 4:57 pm

    @Punchy:

    What does Sully think about Lou Reed? (Actually, I am curious.)

  8. 8.

    trollhattan

    November 1, 2011 at 4:58 pm

    Heh, y’all need to bone up on your Lou Reed discography.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Machine_Music

    Also, too, we have a Brit-made combination toilet paper and magazine holder, brandname “Loo Read.”

  9. 9.

    DougJ

    November 1, 2011 at 4:58 pm

    @joeyess:

    Those are not the two words.

    You people don’t know this movie as well as you should.

  10. 10.

    Cris (without an H)

    November 1, 2011 at 4:58 pm

    Two words.

    “Learn to fuckin type.”

  11. 11.

    different-church-lady

    November 1, 2011 at 4:58 pm

    Maybe he finally wanted to try to out-do Metal Machine Music.

  12. 12.

    Rita R.

    November 1, 2011 at 4:58 pm

    Spinal Tap on point again, even 30 years ahead of time.

    Maybe this is all an elaborate, ST-themed parody by Metallica/Reed a la Joaquin Phoenix’s faux filmed foray into rap.

  13. 13.

    Legalize

    November 1, 2011 at 5:00 pm

    I admit to rooting for this thing to work out …. Until my bother showed me a YouTube clip of the two of them drowning “Sweet Jane” in a mop bucket. At which point I started rooting for injuries.

  14. 14.

    Hunter Gathers

    November 1, 2011 at 5:00 pm

    I wonder if they envy themselves.

    The two words?

    ‘Shit Sandwich’

  15. 15.

    HumboldtBlue

    November 1, 2011 at 5:00 pm

    Considering Metallica sucks ass and Lou Reed is as washed up as a Bachmann volunteer in New Hampshire, the only question left is — will Nickleback be joining them for the premiere?

  16. 16.

    kindness

    November 1, 2011 at 5:00 pm

    Rolling Stone had a really good article on the band/combination and said the music was good. I was looking forward to hearing it.

    I would say it sucks to be such haters, but look where I am.

  17. 17.

    Martin

    November 1, 2011 at 5:01 pm

    this unholy union of Lou Reed and Metallica, the multi-headed hydra of unpleasantness known colloquially, though not fondly, as Loutallica.

    So, WaPo thinks this random hodgepodge of content sucks, but thinks that any Republican random hodgepodge of tax and spending policy that is guaranteed to bankrupt the country is bold and courageous?

    Why should anyone give WaPo any credibility on any issue when they are so thoroughly full of shit at least half the time? (and which half, we can never tell)

  18. 18.

    handy

    November 1, 2011 at 5:01 pm

    @trollhattan:

    That’s your counter? “Hey everybody stop being so hard on Lou he’s made shite music before!”

  19. 19.

    S. cerevisiae

    November 1, 2011 at 5:02 pm

    Oh lord that is too weird. Even some prime bud would not make that sound good.

  20. 20.

    joeyess

    November 1, 2011 at 5:04 pm

    Oh. My. Word.

    I listened to about 30 seconds of each track and all I could think of was that my Metallica hired my dad to sing for them.

    BTW, Dad’s been deceased for a year now.

    Yep. It’s that bad.

  21. 21.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    November 1, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    Panini di merda.

    Fweesh, even I knew that.

  22. 22.

    DougJ

    November 1, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    @kindness:

    I’m not a hater at all, I love Lou. I just find any music based on Jack the Ripper funny after Spinal Tap.

  23. 23.

    kindness

    November 1, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    In all honesty though I have come to like Metallica over the years. Symphony & Metallica is great (the one they did with the San Francisco Symphony at The Berkeley Community Theater) and I generally like Lou, but I understand not everyone does.

  24. 24.

    Suffern ACE

    November 1, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    I actually coulda’ sworn that I read an obituary for Reed a few years ago, so this is a bit of a shock to me.

  25. 25.

    Legalize

    November 1, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    “Shit sandwich.”

    You’re welcome.

  26. 26.

    trollhattan

    November 1, 2011 at 5:07 pm

    @handy:

    Bringing up MMM is defending him? Not on my planet.

  27. 27.

    R-Jud

    November 1, 2011 at 5:07 pm

    @Punchy: Technically.

  28. 28.

    Tony J

    November 1, 2011 at 5:08 pm

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Lou Reed is a Bachmann volunteer?

    Lou fricking Reed?

    I do not have the math to express how many levels that feels wrong on.

  29. 29.

    The Moar You Know

    November 1, 2011 at 5:08 pm

    Looks like the Mayans were dead on right with the timing.

  30. 30.

    Comrade Mary

    November 1, 2011 at 5:10 pm

    Chiming in on MMM. If you have never read Lester Bangs’ review, you should read it now.

    It has been suggested that in my annual regress report to the stockholders, published here last month, I neglected in all five thousand words to ever once mention why Metal Machine Music is a good album. So here, especially in light of Coney Island Baby, are the reasons:
    __
    If you ever thought feedback was the best thing that ever happened to the guitar, well, Lou just got rid of the guitars.
    __
    I realize that any idiot with the equipment could have made this album, including me, you or Lou. That’s one of the main reasons I like it so much. As with the Godz and Tangerine Dream, not only does it bring you closer to the artist, but someday, god willing, I may get to do my own Metal Machine Music. It’s all folk music, anyway.
    __
    When you wake up in the morning with the worst hangover of your life, Metal Machine Music is the best medicine. Because when you first arise you’re probably so fucked (i.e., still drunk) that is doesn’t even really hurt yet (not like it’s going to), so you should put this album on immediately, not only to clear all the crap out of your head, but to prepare you for what’s in store the rest of the day.
    __
    Speaking of clearing out crap, I once had this friend who would say, “I take acid at least every two months & JUST BLOW ALL THE BAD SHIT OUTA MY BRAIN!” So I say the same thing about MMM. Except I take it about once a day, like vitamins. …

    Eno has an app or two. Very relaxing. But we meed the MMM app for the iPhone as well. Just imagine launching it in a crowded subway car.

    (Yes, that last link goes to an excerpt on YouTube. I warn you because I love you.)

  31. 31.

    joeyess

    November 1, 2011 at 5:11 pm

    @DougJ: What? Did you want me to state the obvious?

    Okay.

    Shit. Sandwich.

    I beg your pardon, but I’ve watched that movie at least 100 times. I know the reference was alluding to shit sandwich regarding Tap’s last record “shark sandwich”. But listening to the streaming mp3’s it is painfully obvious that this is the proverbial example of “life imitates art”.

  32. 32.

    kindness

    November 1, 2011 at 5:11 pm

    @DougJ: And I was being tongue in cheek there. The BJ community can get surly but you gots to have thick skin to play here.

    When Metallica was new, I had already been through my metal phase. Same with AC/DC, friends of mine loved them, I could have cared less. But over time I’ve come to see some beauty & joy in it. And I loved grunge when it came through….What can I say?

  33. 33.

    BGinCHI

    November 1, 2011 at 5:11 pm

    Two words:

    Plastics.

  34. 34.

    Comrade Mary

    November 1, 2011 at 5:12 pm

    Two words.

  35. 35.

    Catsy

    November 1, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    Late to the party, won’t repeat all the obligatory Spinal Tap references. But HOLY FUCK, that is some weapons-grade fertilizer. I hopped over to Youtube and found a handful of song samples, and they are not kidding–this is outright unlistenable even if you like Metallica.

    There are a few tracks I might put on as background music if they were instrumentals, but the “vocals” from Reed and Hetfield are just unendurable. I used to write electronic music way back when in the Demoscene, and this sounds like an old S3M or IT music file with seamless loops of guitar riff samples and bad homemade vocal WAVs overlaid on top. Except with higher production values.

  36. 36.

    handy

    November 1, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Ahh so not so much a “counter” as a “known to run off the rails completely every decade or three.” I can dig it.

  37. 37.

    joeyess

    November 1, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    @HumboldtBlue:

    will Nickleback be joining them for the premiere?

    ha ha ha ha ha…… yes, and Scott Stapp will join in for the encore.

  38. 38.

    celtidragonchick

    November 1, 2011 at 5:15 pm

    @joeyess:

    I just tried to listen to the track “pumping blood” and I was ready to slit my own wrists after 30 seconds.

    Jesus.

  39. 39.

    Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937

    November 1, 2011 at 5:16 pm

    Hitler didn’t like it either

  40. 40.

    Marc

    November 1, 2011 at 5:17 pm

    @HumboldtBlue:

    I think you’re confusing different members of the Velvet Underground. Maureen (Moe Tucker) is a Tea Party loon in Georgia; I’ve never seen any evidence that Lou Reed is. He’s married to Laurie Anderson and I don’t think New Hampshire has anything to do with it.

  41. 41.

    The Moar You Know

    November 1, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    One “Amazon Verified Purchase” review.

    That person liked it.

    I’m going to hold off jumping into this pile-on.

  42. 42.

    joeyess

    November 1, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    @celtidragonchick: ha ha ha…. that’s my dad!

  43. 43.

    Bruce S

    November 1, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    There are some albums/films/books that one is thankful were made because without them we wouldn’t have had the pleasure of reading the consummately entertaining bad reviews. (Ebert has done some of the best. Garrison Keillor’s New York Times book review of Bernard Henri-Levi’s American travelogue was in the top ranks as well.)

  44. 44.

    burnspbesq

    November 1, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    The good thing about living in our current electronic environment is that no one will buy this based solely on the reputations of the musicians involved and be bitterly disappointed. That was the real problem with “Metal Machine Music.” People were expecting “Transformer Part Deux.”

    And all you Lou Reed haters can just suck on this.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4VuHHqIBqI&feature=fvst

  45. 45.

    joeyess

    November 1, 2011 at 5:19 pm

    @The Moar You Know: please, go listen to the streaming mp3s. You won’t have to buy it to find out you hate it.

    Trust me.

  46. 46.

    Catsy

    November 1, 2011 at 5:19 pm

    AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH.

    The View
    Pumping Blood

    The Internets can be cruel, but this steaming three-coiler deserves every bit of the invective directed at it. It’s really impossible to appreciate just how bad these songs are without hearing them.

    At least some Spinal Tap songs are fun to listen to!

  47. 47.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    November 1, 2011 at 5:20 pm

    It’s actually better than the new Dennis Miller/David Mamet album.

    Now, I don’t want to rant here, ladies and gentlemen, but Hollywood is so liberal that even when they drive on the right it’s on the left.

    On the left.

    That’s right.

    You say, they drive on the left.

    On the left, that’s what I’m saying.

    You mean…

    Yes.

    On the left, is what you…

    I mean that, yes, the left.

  48. 48.

    handy

    November 1, 2011 at 5:21 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    Not hating on Lou. Hells no. But I gotta say I like this guy’s Sweet Jane better.

  49. 49.

    DougJ

    November 1, 2011 at 5:23 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    I do like the original better. Can’t believe I haven’t used “Jack he is a banker” as a post title yet.

  50. 50.

    DougJ

    November 1, 2011 at 5:24 pm

    I mentioned that Mo Tucker had become a teahadist, right?

  51. 51.

    hansmoleman

    November 1, 2011 at 5:24 pm

    I’ve actually listened to the entire thing. It’s every bit as bad as it’s made out to be.

    Also, another two words: Kotex jukebox.

    Ugh.

  52. 52.

    Catsy

    November 1, 2011 at 5:24 pm

    @The Moar You Know: Seriously. Go to Youtube. Follow the links I added to my last comment. Hear for yourself. It really is that bad.

  53. 53.

    cmorenc

    November 1, 2011 at 5:26 pm

    One of the truly great things about having Satellite radio and iTunes and Pandora for my musical entertainment is…

    I NEVER have to be subjected to the dilemma of being subjected to crap like this being frequently played on all the rock radio stations on the FM dial, and having to constantly twiddle back and forth to avoid it. Fortunately, at the moment I also don’t have any friends with the sort of terrible music taste that I have to put up with listening to crap like that as the price of riding with them in their car, or visiting their house.

  54. 54.

    Marc

    November 1, 2011 at 5:27 pm

    Lou did Metal Machine Music, for heavens sake. I’m just curious if it is worse than that, because by all accounts that was the worst album ever released by a major artist. see

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Machine_Music

    Rolling Stone called it “the tubular groaning of a galactic refrigerator” and as displeasing to experience as “a night in a bus terminal.”

    Another review called it “”a two-disc set consisting of nothing more than ear-wrecking electronic sludge, guaranteed to clear any room of humans in record time.”

    Or “four sides of unlistenable oscillator noise”

    Or “an interminable collection of mechanical bleeps and burps”

    He has a high bar to clear to make it his worst album, let alone the worst by anyone at any time. (Shatner is calling…)

  55. 55.

    Marc

    November 1, 2011 at 5:28 pm

    @DougJ:

    Someone above confused Mo with Lou.

  56. 56.

    redshirt

    November 1, 2011 at 5:31 pm

    “Where’d they print that?! They can’t print that!”

  57. 57.

    burnspbesq

    November 1, 2011 at 5:34 pm

    And now for something completely different.

    Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Aoife O’Donovan.

    If you like this kind of thing, you probably will play this about 100 times in a row.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvw0vbewH_Q

  58. 58.

    The Moar You Know

    November 1, 2011 at 5:38 pm

    @joeyess:
    @Catsy:

    Eh. Maybe it’s from a twenty-year career as a musician, but I’ve heard way worse. Based on what I’ve heard, I’d give it three stars and get on with my life.

  59. 59.

    Marc

    November 1, 2011 at 5:38 pm

    Another great MMM review:

    http://www.rocknroll.net/loureed/articles/mmmbangs.html

  60. 60.

    kth

    November 1, 2011 at 5:40 pm

    Lou Reed is a national treasure, but Pavarotti was his shark tank and that was some time ago.

  61. 61.

    Amir Khalid

    November 1, 2011 at 5:41 pm

    The reviews sound so harsh, I’m actually tempted to buy it …

  62. 62.

    AnotherBruce

    November 1, 2011 at 5:41 pm

    @Comrade Mary: Most of my life I’ve been warned about MMM. Now that I’ve heard some of it, I like it. There must be something wrong with me.

  63. 63.

    trollhattan

    November 1, 2011 at 5:45 pm

    @handy:

    Yup, this. (I’m infamous amongst a select few for once having spun several minutes of each MMM side on the radio. Not the whole thing because I valued my life too much.)

  64. 64.

    Uriel

    November 1, 2011 at 5:56 pm

    @HumboldtBlue:

    You should be ashamed you were even able to conceive of something like that, let alone committing it to the written word.

    Your mind must be a truly terrible place.

  65. 65.

    CaptainFwiffo

    November 1, 2011 at 5:56 pm

    I jumped into the middle of a random track on Youtube and I actually couldn’t last 10 seconds. I can’t recommend anyone subject themselves to this. At all. Don’t even take a taste. It’s something you just can’t take back.

    You couldn’t do something this bad on purpose. I can hardly describe it, but I’ll try. Imagine letting a three-year-old go to town with a pot and a wooden spoon, then have his emo teenage older brother read his very worst angsty poetry. Now add in the ten worst genocides in human history.

    The Youtube comments capture it best:

    This sure was hard to masturbate too.

    Wisdom.

  66. 66.

    PanAmerican

    November 1, 2011 at 5:56 pm

    Klosterman takes a sledge to it:

    Yet there’s still something vital about Lulu that needs to be remembered, even as you rip it off MediaFire and immediately forget the name of every single track: This was the dream…..As a rule, we’re always supposed to applaud the collapse of the record industry. We are supposed to feel good about the democratization of music and the limitless palette upon which artists can now operate. But that collapse is why Lulu exists.

  67. 67.

    Lev

    November 1, 2011 at 5:56 pm

    I like quite a bit of Lou Reed, but little of his music since parting ways with Robert Quine has interested me, aside from the song New Sensations and a few things off New York.

  68. 68.

    Lev

    November 1, 2011 at 5:59 pm

    @DougJ: That actually depresses me a little bit. It’s impossible to imagine those Velvets records without her drums.

  69. 69.

    srv

    November 1, 2011 at 6:09 pm

    You people didn’t get Lou then, you don’t get him now.

  70. 70.

    Protothad

    November 1, 2011 at 6:12 pm

    Rather than Loutallica, I would recommend Beatallica: http://www.beatallica.org/

    Talented and funny. Disclaimer: These guys are friends of mine… but they really are good.

  71. 71.

    Joel

    November 1, 2011 at 6:16 pm

    It’s certainly a phenomenon in all walks of life.

    What do you mean?

    Well, at one point, you’ve got it, then you lose it. And it’s gone forever. All walks of life. Georgie Best, for example, had it, lost it. Or David Bowie or Lou Reed.

    Lou Reed. Some of his solo stuff’s not bad.

    No, it’s not bad, but it’s not great either, is it? And in your heart you kind of know that although it sounds all right… it’s actually just shite.

  72. 72.

    Roy G.

    November 1, 2011 at 6:42 pm

    “Do me a favor. Just kick my ass, okay? Kick this ass for a man, that’s all. Kick my ass. Enjoy. Come on. I’m not asking, I’m telling with this. Kick my ass.”
    .

  73. 73.

    Joel

    November 1, 2011 at 6:48 pm

    That Klosterman article linked above taught me that there’s a supergroup called “SuperHeavy”. Mick Jagger is involved. I guess he didn’t learn from his ill-fated collaboration with Peter Tosh.

  74. 74.

    EconWatcher

    November 1, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    As a college student, I listened to “New York” more than any other album, over and over again. I was also extremely unsuccessful in the dating scene. I don’t know if these two facts are related.

  75. 75.

    lacp

    November 1, 2011 at 6:57 pm

    I’m actually curious enough to give this puppy a listen – I like Lou Reed (Metallica not so much) and I saw a terrific production of Alban Berg’s Lulu many years ago.

  76. 76.

    Joel

    November 1, 2011 at 7:03 pm

    @PanAmerican: I’d like to add, that as much as i liked Klosterman’s article, I disagree with his thesis.

    Old bands made crappy albums throughout history. The radio-controlled days did not preclude old guys from making crappy music. I mean, when was the last good U2 album? The press barrage insisting that “How to dismantle an atomic bomb” was a great album failed to cover the fact that it was actually a crappy album. The clip from Trainspotting that I cited was filmed in 1995, and the book was written in 1993.

  77. 77.

    forked tongue

    November 1, 2011 at 7:08 pm

    I listened to it. I don’t like metal, and the music Metallica makes isn’t to my taste at all. The songs were a mess. The lyrics made me want to puke and Lou’s voice is horrible. I kinda liked it.

  78. 78.

    DougJ

    November 1, 2011 at 7:38 pm

    @EconWatcher:

    We are truly kindred spirits, my friend.

  79. 79.

    RossInDetroit

    November 1, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    The last Lou Reed album I listened to very much was Magic and Loss. I think it’s really great.
    I do like some terrible music. …Trail of Dead is awful but fun. The Black Angels sound like a herd of brontosaurus in an artillery barrage but in a good way.
    But the few samples of the Loutallica monstrosity that I listened to are too rough even for my tough skin. How could they even stand to MAKE that mess?

  80. 80.

    Mnemosyne

    November 1, 2011 at 7:57 pm

    Uh, that reviewer realizes that Lulu was not an actual Jack the Ripper victim, right? The GW Pabst films are probably the best-known version in the US since they starred Louise Brooks and her iconic haircut.

  81. 81.

    Amir Khalid

    November 1, 2011 at 8:08 pm

    @RossInDetroit: Liked Magic and Loss too. it’s the only Lou Reed album I’ve ever heard. (You can blame the local distribution arms of the major labels. if it doesn’t do well in the US, you damn well won’t see it out here.)

  82. 82.

    gbear

    November 1, 2011 at 8:11 pm

    @srv: Hi, Lou. Sorry about the new album…

  83. 83.

    OmerosPeanut

    November 1, 2011 at 8:30 pm

    Is there now something lower than Nickelback and Creed?

  84. 84.

    DougJ

    November 1, 2011 at 9:37 pm

    @OmerosPeanut:

    No.

  85. 85.

    redshirt

    November 1, 2011 at 9:50 pm

    @EconWatcher: “New York” is a pretty good album. I was just thinking the other day its probably got the only anti-Kurt Waldheim song in existence. Brainy!

  86. 86.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    November 1, 2011 at 11:25 pm

    I haven’t listend to this thing, at all, but some of the comments reminded me of a passage in a Roger Ebert review of a Roman Polanski movie:

    There’s probably a level of competence beneath which bad directors cannot fall. No matter how dreary their imaginations, how stupid their material, how inept their actors, how illiterate their scripts, they’ve got to come up with something that can at least be advertised as a motion picture, released and forgotten.
    __
    But a talented director is another matter. If he’s made several good films, chances are that sooner or later someone will give him the money to make a supremely bad one.

  87. 87.

    JGabriel

    November 1, 2011 at 11:49 pm

    @Suffern ACE:

    I actually coulda’ sworn that I read an obituary for Reed a few years ago …

    That wasn’t an obituary, it was the wedding notice for Lou Reed‘s marriage to Laurie Anderson. They got married in 2008.

    .

  88. 88.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    November 1, 2011 at 11:51 pm

    @JGabriel: Years ago, I worked in a book store where Laurie Anderson did a book signing. Reed came along, and laid on his back on the floor behind the desk where Anderson did the signing.

  89. 89.

    JGabriel

    November 1, 2011 at 11:58 pm

    I like Metal Machine Music.

    .

  90. 90.

    JGabriel

    November 2, 2011 at 12:00 am

    @The prophet Nostradumbass:

    Reed came along, and laid on his back on the floor behind the desk where Anderson did the signing.

    Probably had back pain. Dude’s almost 70.

    .

  91. 91.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    November 2, 2011 at 1:12 am

    @JGabriel: This was back in around 1994 or so.

  92. 92.

    Paul in KY

    November 2, 2011 at 10:43 am

    @kindness: I read the same article. They must be buddies with Jann.

  93. 93.

    Paul in KY

    November 2, 2011 at 10:45 am

    @kindness: AC/DC is much better than Metallica (IMO).

  94. 94.

    Paul in KY

    November 2, 2011 at 10:51 am

    @Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937: Appreciate the link!

  95. 95.

    Paul in KY

    November 2, 2011 at 10:53 am

    @Marc: If it is worse than ‘Trout Mask Replica’, then it is pretty fricking bad.

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