- noise, drone
- 4 tracks
- RCA
Metal Machine Music is the fifth studio album by the American rock musician Lou Reed. It was released as a double album in July 1975 by RCA Records, but taken off the market three weeks later.
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Character
Open-ended, grave, character-led and formally daring.
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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- AllMusic1/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune1/4 ★
- Christgau's Record GuideC+
- Classic Rock5/10
- Disc3/4 ★
- MusicHound Rockwoof!
- Pitchfork8.7/10
- Record Collector1/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide1/5 ★
- Tom Hull – on the WebC
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Tracks
- AMetal Machine Music A-1
- BMetal Machine Music A-2
- CMetal Machine Music A-3
- DMetal Machine Music A-4
About the album
- Artist
- Lou Reed
- Label
- RCA
- Released
- 1975
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 8-Track Cartridge
- Country
- US
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