what? you haven't played them simultaneously? That's where it's at. Infinite variations, once in a lifetime harmonic convergences... no need to ever buy another record.
Agharta and Pangaea are spectacular I listen to them all the time for decades now. Metal Machine Music is sarcastic, I love everything about Lou including that message but I don't need to listen to it to appreciate it.
I love love love Miles's electric period. Can't get enough of In a Silent Way, On the Corner, Get Up With It, and Big Fun. But Agharta just doesn't do it for me, it's too murky, too overstuffed, too stompy/skronky. Like how when you mix all the paint colors together it doesn't become extra colorful, it just turns into a mess. I suppose all the shitty imitators that have come after it (with their tasteless combinations of jazz-funk noodling and hard rock style drumming) retroactively poisoned the album.
Metal Machine Music wasn't an artistic statement, it was a fuck-you to Lou Reed's record label because he wanted to get out of his recording contract.
Please wait...
and remember to be decent to everyone all of the time.
Plus Miles just make Lou sound good.
I loved and miss Lou.
Metal Machine Music wasn't an artistic statement, it was a fuck-you to Lou Reed's record label because he wanted to get out of his recording contract.