LOU REED Metal Machine Music 1991 1st UK PRESS 2LP - MINT AUDIO
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LOU REED Metal Machine Music 1991 1st UK PRESS 2LP - MINT AUDIO

LOU REED
Metal Machine Music (The Amine β Ring)

SCARCE UK GREAT EXPECTATIONS (PIP DL 023) PRESSING (1991) OF LOU REED'S INFAMOUS "Metal Machine Music"
ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS RELEASES IN ROCK HISTORY
IN BARLEY PLAYED CONDITION AND DELIVERING MINT AUDIO THROUGHOUT
ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN THE USA BY RCA IN 1975 THIS IS ACTUALLY THE FIRST UK PRESSING
MATRIX: PIP DL 023 A1 / PIP DL 023 B1 / PIP DL 023 C1 / PIP DL 023 D1
As a radical departure from the rest of Reed's catalog, Metal Machine Music is generally considered to be either a joke, a grudging fulfilment of a contractual obligation, or an early example of noise music. Reed himself has said of the album "I was serious about it. I was also really, really stoned." In the album's liner notes he claimed to have invented heavy metal music and asserted that Metal Machine Music was the ultimate conclusion of that genre.
According to Reed (despite the original liner notes), the album entirely consists of guitar feedback played at different speeds. The two guitars were tuned in unusual ways and played with different reverb levels. He would then place the guitars in front of their amplifiers, and the feedback from the very large amps would vibrate the strings — the guitars were, effectively, playing themselves. He recorded the work on a four-track tape recorder in his New York apartment, mixing the four tracks for stereo. In its original form, each track occupied one side of an LP record and lasted exactly 16 minutes and 1 second, according to Reed although I have timed each side with a stopwatch and the lengths vary (see below)
A major influence on Reed's recording, and an important source for an understanding of Reed's seriousness with the album, was the mid-1960s drone music work of La Monte Young's Theater of Eternal Music (whose members included John Cale, Tony Conrad, Angus Maclise and Marian Zazeela). Both Cale and Maclise were also members of The Velvet Underground (Maclise left before the group began recording). The Theater of Eternal Music's discordant sustained notes and loud amplification had influenced Cale's subsequent contribution to the Velvet Underground in his use of both discordance and feedback. Recent releases of works by Cale and Conrad from the mid-sixties, such as Cale's Inside the Dream Syndicate series (The Dream Syndicate being the alternative name given by Cale and Conrad to their collective work with Young) testify to the influence this important mid-sixties experimental work had on Reed ten years later.
In an interview with rock journalist Lester Bangs, Reed claimed that he had intentionally placed sonic allusions to classical works such Beethoven's Eroica and Pastoral Symphonies in the distortion, and that he had attempted to have the album released on RCA's Red Seal classical label; however, it is not clear if he was being serious, though he has repeated the latter claim in a 2007 interview.

Side 1: Metal Machine Music (Part I)
Side 2: Metal Machine Music (Part I)
Side 3: Metal Machine Music (Part III)
Side 4: Metal Machine Music (Part IV)

LABELS: NEAR MINT
An immaculate set of labels with just one spindle trace on a couple of the sides
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
All four surfaces shine like new with nothing but in-vinyl pressing blemishes - harmless and from manufacture
VINYL Audio: MINT
This barely played set delivers perfect sound throughout with nothing to fault and I did listen to it all, all the way through
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
The single cover has some creasing to the extremities but is clean with sharp edges and spine where all text is clear and bold

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