Much advance word of Lou Reed and Metallica's excursion has been one of bewilderment and dismissal. It may well be, though, that in the fullness of time this is an album that is given the praise it deserves.

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One must reconcile with the absurd fact that Lulu exists before realizing how genuinely brilliant it is--when it's working.

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You're unlikely to play this record at your next soirée but the breadth and ambition is to be applauded.

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Ultimately, Lulu is a brave experiment for both Reed and Metallica, but it's one that falters as often as it succeeds.

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Lulu is a remarkable collaboration between Lou Reed & Metallica.

It’s the sheer sense of unrestrained folly throughout that makes Lulu feel like an important album

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Things can get ponderous once Metallica start impatiently stomping, but often they turn Reed's pretensions into something muscular.

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The good news: This clash of the ornery titans, inspired by a bleak German theater piece about a doomed dancer-turned-prostitute, isn't nearly as alienating as Reed's 1975 noise experiment Metal Machine Music.

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Lou Reed & Metallica should be commended for so bravely attempting to meld their very different musical approaches on their new collaborative album ‘Lulu.’

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Lulu may be the ultimate Goth album: steeped in art-house self-regard, mired in the vilest extremes of perversion and misery, barked out with as little human warmth as its practitioners can muster and its leaden tortures drawn out to unbearable lengths, it takes the notion of being "drawn to the dark side" to the nth degree.

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Lulu ultimately smacks of a botched experiment that both parties were just too proud to abort

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An album of songs based on the taboo-busting fin-de-siecle plays of Frank Wedekind that opens with a lyric in which the female protagonist offers to "cut my legs and tits off" clearly isn't intended to be a barrel of laughs.

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Twenty minutes into listening to Lulu and my eyes have glazed over.

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Lulu is a complete failure on every tangible and intangible level of its existence.

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Though “Lulu” (Warner Bros.), their first studio collaboration, is a work that invites derision, an album that wallows in a tarpit of ugliness, anybody who has followed the careers of its makers shouldn’t be too surprised.

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Metallica have made an admirable effort in alienating their huge fan base since the release of 1996’s Load.

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May be the most disappointing album in a decade

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Not only is Lulu the worst thing any of the players have been involved in, it's quite possibly a candidate for one of the worst albums ever made

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