Metal Machine Music’s vinyl grooves contain 65 minutes and three seconds of dissonant noise, screaming in your ear like a hell’s-mouth chorus. There’s no discernible melody, very little progression, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Famously frightening and unpredictable: Lou Reed in London, 1982 - TPLP/Getty Images When you put on Lou Reed’s 1975 album Metal ...

There are generally two schools of thought on Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music—those who believe it’s a groundbreaking, arguably neo-classical exploration in the most extreme examples of noise as art, ...