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So there was Lou Reed and his favorite city, New York, and all this poetry coming out of his brain wasted on electroshock
Thousands of neurons devouring everything on their passage, and him who comes along at just the right time
Him shaped like a Rockstar, tormented face, of course, and sad, of course
And his big eyes like those of the skulls tagged on the walls of shady bars' loos
"New York, New York, New York", la messe est dite, no, not yet
Lou Reed sends everything packing with "MMM"
"MMM" ? Mmh, no, nothing joyful, sparkling, nothing like pop anymore, "M" like Metal, "M" like Machine, "M" like Music
It goes "Metal Machine Music"
It was time for us to hear something monstrous, it was time for us to hear something impossible, it was time for a noise even longer than a dry and rough sentence to hurt us
That's it, it was time to make a sacrifice so rock could become a failed religion with Lou Reed as a nerve-wracking totem as an idol
Feedback, distorsion, I imitate the sound of safinder gone as mad as a hatter
I'm not joking, New Yorkers are very serious people when it comes to poetry, especially Lou Reed who's still amongst all the flowers of evil, the most venomous one
Proof is : "Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girl child in the dark
Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart"
Ah right, it's beautiful, it's even very beautiful, but, but it's still more powerful and more avant-garde
Feedback, distorsion, onomatopeias ? Definitely not
Lou Reed says he knows all the frequencies of Metal Machine Music
Lou Reed says that in Metal Machine Music it's just guitars, guitars, guitars
Lou Reed says that whoever is capable of listening to Metal Machine Music until the fourth track is even more sick than him
Lou Reed says that Metal Machine Music is an album that's not made to be listened to because he didn't want to cofnine himself to a rythmic, or a loop, or a tone
64 minutes of epilepsy, not one more
OK it's not music but it's not art either, Lou Reed sends everything packing
"He's not doing very well", "It's suicide", no, he's punk, "What ?", punk, P-U-N-K :
A punk is someone who destroys everything because they're always angry
Even the doctor Bettelheim who tended at the time for autistic children who would devastate everything in his institute in Chicago, in a dark suffering tunnel, would have never imagined this
By the way, talking about kids, did you know that in 1973, which is 2 years before Metal Machine Music, Lou Reed and his producer locked up two kids in a studio to record their cries for a song of the Berlin album which was in preparation ?
"You're mother's gone, you'll never see her again"
If that's not punk...
"Strict stereo separation", he says
If that's not punk...
"Strict stereo separation, no panning", he says
If that's not punk...
"Strict stereo separation, no panning, no phasing", he says
If that's not punk...
"Strict stereo separation, no panning, no phasing, no", he says
If that's not punk...
White spots aimed at him on a huge black screen and then, nothing
It was a born performer, a furious animal who didn't have any hatred, we could see in his eyes electric arcs, and burning lights, he sang the chronicle of our very violent lives, he sang without singing, all these mini-suicides, which we don't dare to talk about
His name was Lou Reed