So there’s an ambient tribute to a certain Lou Reed album I recently had a horrible vision of an audiophile edition of. Because of course there is. This news comes via Neil Gaiman on Bluesky, where he notes he used to play the original MMM while writing the Hell sections of Sandman. Because of course he did.
Tag: Lou Reed
I had a truly horrible idea…
Earlier this evening, for no discernible reason, I started having a vision of something truly horrendous.
An audiophile edition of Metal Machine Music.
On full 180g virgin vinyl, of course, with accompanying 24/176 download, and a blu-ray with a Steven Wilson 5.1 remix, to make sure that every fucking screech and noise is clearly audible.
I don’t know what line of thinking brought this on, but JESUS FUCK it was an idea and a half I kind of scared myself with. Cos you just KNOW some dickhead out there would buy it to test their sound system out, cos real audiophiles care about how music sounds on their equipment more than what the music actually is.
Anyway, I’ve now discovered I’m not the first person to have this terrible idea. Lou Reed himself beat me to it.
It’s not quite what I envisaged, but yeah, back in 2009 Lou oversaw a new vinyl plus DVD/blu-ray version of MMM, featuring not a Steven Wilson remix but the original quadraphonic mix from 1975 (with the stereo version being mixed down from that). I am somehow oddly relieved to find I wasn’t the first to have this idea, and also oddly worried that there was ever a quad mix in the first place. In any case, full marks for the “perfect holiday gift for your loved one” tagline, possibly the funniest thing Lou Reed was ever associated with…
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