Metal Machine Music
Studio album by Lou ReedWikipedia
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Oct 6, 2026
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Mark EllenHOST
Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music is generally considered to be so unlistenable that it's a kind of badge of honor if you manage to get all the way through it.
Mark EllenHOST
In fact, I think it's the most returned record in RCA history.
Mark EllenHOST
People bought it, and they demanded, angrily demanded a refund.
David HolzerGUEST
Yeah.
Mark EllenHOST
That's good.
Mark EllenHOST
Well, look, um, d- d- Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, I mean, y- you're a big Lou Reed fan.
Mark EllenHOST
We must make this quite clear, but you avoided, presumably because of the reaction at the time, you avoided listening to it for 42 years after it came out.
MikeHOST
so my number one.
MikeHOST
is Lou Reed, Metal Machine Music.
MikeHOST
I just think it's a great piece.
MikeHOST
No, it's not.
Pat WalshHOST
We've heard it.
Pat WalshHOST
I left off Lou Reed metal machine music.
Pat WalshHOST
It's just so incredibly annoying.
Pat WalshHOST
And not only that, I featured on a way earlier show along with Lou Reed and Metallica, which was just the most horrible collaboration you could possibly imagine, you know, other than maybe Chuck Berry and Yoko Ono.
Pat WalshHOST
Okay, right away.
Pat WalshHOST
And this is 39 minutes, 16 seconds long, this whole album.
Pat WalshHOST
Right away, this is exactly, in my opinion, like Lou Reed metal machine music.
Pat WalshHOST
If that's all that this does.
LarsonHOST
Steve wants to be challenged musically.
LarsonHOST
Listen to Metal Machine Music then.
SteveHOST
[laughs] I'm not, I don't wanna be that, that, uh-
LarsonHOST
How about some free jazz, huh?
The DudeHOST
But anyway, pretty much what I said before, this is a podcast where I review experimental music albums.
The DudeHOST
mainly in the noise genre and that being said today for my first episode we're just gonna rip the band-aid off and I'm going to be reviewing Merzbow's Pulse Demon now paul steven isn't an album to start with if you want to get into noise music but i chose to review it first since it's the quintessential album that encompasses what people mean when they talk about noise music and is essentially the most popular harsh noise album to equate that with like popular music genres harsh noise is essentially the death metal of noise music and the subgenres name pretty much explains the sound it's loud and abrasive noise and so is the whole album but obviously i'm going to go more in depth than that otherwise it would make for boring podcasts besides It would make for a bad review, despite how accurate it is just saying the album is, you know, loud and noisy, or any other, like, noise album.
The DudeHOST
It's like, yeah, it's loud, and it's noisy.
The DudeHOST
End of review! Like, that's, you know, I mean...
The DudeHOST
There's also, uh, he takes some influences from, like, uh, the S&M, uh, or BDSM culture that was emerging in Japan around that time period.
The DudeHOST
Um...
The DudeHOST
but, uh, specifically the album and artists that he was like really, really, uh, influenced by to start making noise music was, uh, Lou Reed with his release of, uh, metal machine music, which is probably the most famous noise album.
The DudeHOST
Well, probably, uh, Paul Steeman may have surpassed Metal Machine Music's notoriety.
Penn JilletteHOST
I'll go through them.
Penn JilletteHOST
Lou Reed, Metal Machine Music.
Penn JilletteHOST
The Monkees' second record, the Velvet Underground Banana record, Music to Strip By by Half Japanese, a Sun Ra bootleg, which all of them were, Meet the Residents, Martin Mullum, everyone I've ever loved.
Penn JilletteHOST
John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Two Virgins.
Chuck KlostermanGUEST
So all those Lou Reed solo records are now Velvet Underground records.
Chuck KlostermanGUEST
So like the members of the Velvet Underground are playing like on Metal Machine Music and stuff like that.
Chuck KlostermanGUEST
These things you have to kind of figure out and kind of re-describe.
Bob EthingtonHOST
Right, right.
Maureen JohnsonHOST
You know what? I am sort of surprised it's not...
Maureen JohnsonHOST
You know what I would've appreciated? Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.
Maureen JohnsonHOST
That's what I want him to be listening to.
Dan SinkerHOST
[laughs]
Maureen JohnsonHOST
And if you don't know what that is, I invite you, just plug that in, see, uh, what, Spotify or iTunes or whatever you use, and listen to a little bit of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music [laughs] because that is the sound that comes into my head when I see Trump.
Dan SinkerHOST
Yeah.
Dan SinkerHOST
That makes sense.
Ron LessardGUEST
Wow.
Ron LessardGUEST
They said that 2026... is the 50th anniversary of Lou Reed releasing Metal Machine Music.
Oscar BrummelHOST
Yeah.
Ron LessardGUEST
And that they decided they wanted to celebrate the 50th anniversary by releasing a series of compilation records, a series of double compilation records dedicated to Metal Machine Music.
Ron LessardGUEST
They've already released... volume one, and now they're actively working on volume two.
Ron LessardGUEST
And we would like to know if Emil Bolio would like to participate with a track on this compilation.
SteveHOST
Pete, you fucking guy.
SteveHOST
And then we're going to be opening back up with episode 98, Metal Machine Music.
SteveHOST
Episode 99, Saint Anger by Metallica.
SteveHOST
And episode 100, Lulu by Lou Reed and Metallica.