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	Music - MSN Encarta
		Most ancient Greek philosophers believed that listening to music based on certain of the modes in use at the time was beneficial to the development of a young person’s character, and warned that listening to music based on certain other modes would have harmful effects.
		The so-called music of the spheres was thought by Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras in the 6th century bc—and by later classical and medieval philosophers of the Western world—to be a perfectly harmonious music, inaudible on Earth, produced by the movement of the stars and planets.
		Music is pleasing to its loyal audiences who have learned to distinguish nuances of style and may be able to identify their favorite performers by sound.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568827/Music.html (2016 words)

	Ghost in the Machine
		Besides inventions such as the phonograph and the x-ray machine, scientific discoveries like Thomas Henderson's 1831 disclosure that the nearest star was twenty-four trillion miles away[12] and Charles Darwin's theory of evolution stripped the uniqueness away from the human race and repositioned the Earth within an ever-expanding universe.
		Musical recordings, after all, were available as early as 1878, and the first commercial musical recordings went on sale in the mid-to late 1880s.
		Edison's machines were bulky; they did not look as if they belonged in a household because they appeared not as a fixture in a living room but "as a sort of visitor, who was not expected to stay."[46] Likewise, the devices "were for the most part also recording machines, and this feature...
	www.hauntedink.com /ghost/ch1.html (5432 words)

	Encyclopedia: Metal Machine Music
		Metal Machine Music is generally considered to be either a joke, a begrudging fulfillment of a contractual obligation, or an early example of noise music.
		Whereas a painting is experienced visually, a symphony experienced audibly, a heavy metal band's "image" and the common theme that binds all their music is expressed in the artwork on the album, the set of the stage, the tone of the lyrics, in addition to the sound of the music.
		Ultimately, "pure" heavy metal would position itself at the periphery of pop culture, never quite at centre, and metal denizens contend that the move towards the centre was a commercialism that compromised both the artistic integrity of the form and the opportunity for messages to be taken seriously.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Metal-Machine-Music (1608 words)

	Smallmouth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music (Buddha) is far more talked about than heard: it's the 1975 double LP where Lou ditched songs altogether and let the feedback and electronic noise roll for 64 minutes (plus a locked groove that made it extend into infinity, or at least until you took the needle off).
		MMM has a reputation for being the harshest, loudest, scariest album ever, an unbearable blast of noise, a feedback fist in your face that leads with its middle finger, the climax of Mr.
		Worse still is the anti-Bangs school: music writers whose revulsion to excess leaves them blandly prosy, deeply skeptical of enthusiasts and enthusiasm, and positing "critical consensus" as a straw man for whatever they don't like, especially music that doesn't scan as verse-chorus-verse.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/00/11/09/SMALLMOUTH.html (532 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Metal Machine Music was recorded by running a number of effects pedals (distortion, tremolo, chorus) into several amplifiers placed in close proximity, which were also placed near a variety of electronics equipment.
		When Metal Machine Music finally comes to an end (which it wouldn’t on vinyl, as guaranteed by a special locking final groove that would cause the last several seconds to role on over and over again until you actually lifted the needle), you’ll be left sweating, and even further confused.
		But Metal Machine Music is an exception to that cliché, an album that is truly excruciatingly painful and almost numbing to listen to, but also oddly pleasant (for me anyways; at least enough so that I've played it repeatedly).
	www.epinions.com /content_92181401220 (2063 words)

	Titanium Exposé V 2.0 Metal Machine Music 7
		Metal Machine Music, which is dismissed as being worthless, responds by demanding to know why anything has any worth, it removes itself from the familiar pattern of influence and development, becoming just itself, becoming art, becoming more than itself.
		Metal Machine Music is perfect to write about because if one cannot take this vast, polluted, dirty soundscape and then create from it the explanation, the direction, the embodiment, and the example of Rock and Roll in which one believes, then what can one use for it.
		Metal Machine Music is perfect to write about because it is universal, because it can be used at the start to be bent to anyone's will, as a tool to extol the virtues of anything, of any philosophy, opinion, of any creation.
	www.geocities.com /whoisdavidmiller/titanium/mmr7.htm (1202 words)

	erasing clouds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Metal Machine Music was and still is a sixty-four minute relentless and unforgiving onslaught of brutal feedback and distortion in a constant state of flux.
		Musically there is no rhythm, no melody, no structure and "an avoidance of any type of atonality." Imagine if you will the sound of an overloaded adolescent guitar: prom drunk and abused, terrified and hysterically reeling around a live amplifier warehouse, then throw it all headfirst into a harvesting machine and you're halfway there.
		Metal Machine Music can be seen to represent the concentrated and undiluted embodiment of rock' n' roll, no watery experimental noodlings.
	www.erasingclouds.com /09mmm.html (457 words)

	Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (Gyrofrog review)
		The album was a two-record set titled Metal Machine Music and was met with much derision from the record-buying public, who went back to their respective record stores in droves and demanded refunds, claiming the album was "defective." About a year ago [1991], an English record company called Great Expectations re-released Metal Machine Music.
		Along with Igor Stravinsky's La Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), which caused a riot at its 1913 debut, Metal Machine Music is one of a handful of compositions to elicit an almost universally negative response from the public.
		When I bought Metal Machine Music, I knew there was a possibility that I wouldn't like it (but only because of what I had already read about it, which were, after all, simply opinions anyway).
	www.gyrofrog.com /mmm.php (1098 words)

	The Most Unlistenable Album Ever...Now on CD!
		But because of Metal Machine Music's uncompromising Wall of Noise, of course, there will be those who embrace it without question, drawing lines in the sand while beating their chests about artistic expression and integrity.
		Metal Machine Music removes the shackles of conventional rules that govern this antisocial expression; there's no choruses or hooks to get in the way of the angst.
		Metal Machine Music pounds and pounds and pounds away at you, but the greatest rock music does more than that, and it operates on different levels simultaneously to achieve its goals.
	www.thesimon.com /magazine/articles/old_issues/0126_the_most_unlistenable_album_evernow_cd.html (1162 words)

	Metal Machine Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Metal Machine Music was released on an unsuspecting public in the summer of 1975.
		His most laborious musical efforts were undervalued, and Reed had since resorted to pandering to his fans' perception of him as a drugged-out, trashy street punk.
		Perhaps with Metal Machine Music he was trying to create a serious work of art with which to redeem himself; although it has also been surmised that perhaps Lou was simply trying to thumb his nose at these pretentious musicians.
	www.inmyroom.org /writing/metalmachinemusic.html (1122 words)

	Metal Machine Music. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		mmm is like seagulls - sometimes they're beautiful, somnetimes they're bloody and mangled...think of it that way.
		MMM is virtually tailor-made for the consumption of the lysergic (or dextro), and has been cited as inspiration by countless numbers of people playing with the notion of psychedelic noise.
		MMM was maybe in part a riposte to John Cale - like, "look JC I can beat yr old pal LaMonte at his own game, ner ner" - Lou trying to fight against the 'commonly held view' that Cale was the experimentalist and Reed the pop hack.
	ilx.p3r.net /thread.php?msgid=1468299 (1151 words)

	Bagatellen: Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
		Lester Bangs, who is in my mind as much the creator of this music as Reed himself, so extensive and potent were his descriptions and defense of the record, used to call this the greatest rock and roll album ever made.
		The primary instrument by which this music is expressed isn't the guitar, with all its richness of modern cultural associations from Picasso and Wallace Stevens to Elvis and Hendrix.
		If Metal Machine Music is not quite a monument to indeterminacy, its a dance of passivity, a temporary surrender of consciousness to the medium, a surrender that increases exponentially the implications for future action.
	www.bagatellen.com /archives/reviews/000070.html (1053 words)

	Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		However, he took a sharp detour from his usual musical techniques when he created this noise masterpiece over the course of a couple of weeks in his New York loft.
		Metal Machine Music is a pure-guitar effort, but recorded with maximum feedback, and nothing in the way of a distinguishing riff, bridge, solo, or any other supposed aphorism associated with the rock 'n roll guitar.
		That is what Metal Machine Music is now, an historic magnum opus just finding its place in the annals of experimental music, a landmark album and a source of stimulus to many a future generation of musicians.
	www.urbanoutlaw.com /opinion/2001/1013.html (522 words)

	Metal machine music - The Boston Globe
		They wrote the music in a couple of weeks, performed it at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, and a career was...
		They wrote the music in a couple of weeks, performed it at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, and a career was born.
		One of the biggest things in Greek music is the vocal work, and it runs in her family.
	www.boston.com /ae/events/articles/2004/09/30/metal_machine_music (928 words)

	Jesse Jarnow's Frank and Earthy Blog: "metal machine music, part 1" - lou reed & godel, escher, bach
		In that regard, maybe MMM is less effective now that the easily-disruptable turntable has been supplanted by the quietly humming mp3 box.
		But its actual musical effect, delirious overload, is no different, and that is because the "Record Player X" in question isn't a record player at all, but the listener's brain.
		MMM still can't really be played, at least if the listener is trying to do anything else while listening to it -- like, say, writing a blog entry.
	www.wunderkammern27.com /2007/02/metal_machine_music_part_1_lou.html (373 words)

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		In his astute notes for the reissue, David Fricke rightly states, “To truly love Metal Machine Music, you have to learn to laugh with it.” Beyond any doubt, one has to be able to appreciate the humor in the blather and mock-scientific mumbo-jumbo of Reed’s liner notes, and the sheer over-the-top chutzpah of the endeavor.
		But, as loopy as it is, Metal Machine Music must also be considered in light of the serious experimental musics that Reed embraced as the bedrock for his work in the Velvet Underground.
		So, Metal Machine Music may be infuriating, perverse, excessive, and even potentially harmful to those subject to seizures, but it’s hardly worthless, and it’s due a fresh reconsideration.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/printme.php?eid=19729 (509 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		In its original format, Metal Machine Music contained four LP sides, each lasting 16:01 minutes, of howling, overloading frequency patterns clashing in phosphorescent clouds of noxious gas, all generated by the feedback loops that occur when two extremely amplified electric guitars are brought into close proximity with their speaker systems.
		In such a context, it is perhaps not so shocking that a contemporary music ensemble such as Zeitkratzer should attempt to reproduce Metal Machine Music in a live performance scored for amplified instruments.
		Impacting at a level partway between the gut and the synapses, Zeitkratzer’s Metal Machine Music is both a celebration of the noise aesthetic that has spawned some of the most extraordinary music of our time, from Varese to The Velvets, but also, pace Merzbow, its threnody, its death scream.
	www.loureed.org /news/mmm/mmm.html (464 words)

	Firecracker Magazine - Lou Reed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		MMM is a 2 record set, four sides of non-stop feedback/static/distortion noise.
		According to Reed, this album is complete heavy metal music influenced by 50's/60's avant-garde conceptual composers like John Cage and La Monte Young (who the Velvet Underground were some what involved with).
		Regardless of your view, Metal Machine Music has just been reissued on CD as a "limited edition" (limited in this case means they know they aren't gonna sell too many).
	users2.ev1.net /~dlimon/firecracker/firecracker10/greatest_lou.htm (295 words)

	Metal Machine Music
		Metal Machine Music is an hour's worth of the equivalent of a dentist's drill drilling into an infected tooth, a jack hammer riveting into your skull.
		A Lou Reed fanatic friend [0] copped Metal Machine Music (MMM) at the campus radio station ("WREK, 40 million milliwatts of pure distortion" [1]).
		It was always fun to see how long the record could go on repeating that last second or so of music (with this deep, bell-like "boooong" fadeout) before people noticed.
	www.rru.com /~meo/music/mmm (714 words)

	LYRICS Organized by Band and Artist Name (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Music - Howie Day was arrested for rowdy behavior last Wednesday (December 21) at Boston's Logan Airport, after allegedly mixing alcohol with a sleeping pill on a plane.
		Music - Grammy Award-winning singer R. Kelly was in a Cook County, Illinois, courtroom on Friday (December 16) for another pre-trial hearing in his ongoing child pornography case.
		The singer is facing 14 counts of child pornography for allegedly videotaping an encounter with an underage girl, but on Friday his attorneys introduced a motion to drop the charges because of the language of the indictment.
	www.kiwilyrics.com /Lou_Reed/Metal_Machine_Music (383 words)

	METAL MACHINE MUSIC: An Electronic Instrumental Composition - Lou Reed :: NetNewMusic :: New Music Now! The ...
		While most unfamiliar with concrete music, like any other genre, are probably going to claim the whole hour's worth sounds similar, a closer listen will reveal the excellent dynamics of the work; things shift in and out, tones are born and die, the structure collapses and is rebuilt, time and again.
		And if you do indeed find "Metal Machine Music" pleasurable and wish to pursue similar avenues of profoundly attractive white noise, most releases by Skullflower and Total (especially their albums on the Seattle-based label Majora) are uniquely gorgeous.
		Listening to "Metal Machine Music" is sublime in the most personal sense, for it incinerates all rational expectation and exposes the secret terror that this is how things really are.
	www.netnewmusic.net /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=530 (1400 words)

	blarney/rubble - Deathmatch!
		Listening to some brief snippets here, the music does seem a lot more conventional in the context of 2005 than it did when it came out (as a double album) in 1975, when I (and most of the marketplace) would have known Mr.
		Maiss' performances will be to MMM what Stockhausen's Helikopter-Streichquartett was to the helicopter — that primo non-sentient purveyor of metal machine music), which will influence the jury somewhat as the years go on, perhaps.
		Inversely, contemporary music often emphasizes subtleties such as tone color, room acoustics, harmonic intricacies, extreme ranges, and sparse voicings - all which are affected by lossy compression.
	www.livejournal.com /users/p1n90u1n/71512.html (544 words)

	METAL MACHINE MUSIC - LINER NOTES
		These are the liner notes for Metal Machine Music.
		Who had and still have basically, no music, be it verbal or instrumental to listen to.
		One of the peripheral effects typically distorted was what was to be known as heavy metal rock.
	www.angelfire.com /ks/mmbsts/mmm.html (470 words)

	City Pages - Metal Machine Music
		Metals recycling--otherwise known as "scrapping"--is the magic method by which one man's junk is transformed into another's cash.
		If the metal contains plastic, wood, or ferrous metals, the price downgrades to "breakage" class; the payola is nearly zip for this, and it's almost an embarrassment to be caught with it at the yard.
		Another real hazard for the team is irate property owners who don't understand the earth-saving nobility of "metals recovery." That being the case, the smart policy is to never scrap in the dark, never enter a fenced-off area, avoid humans at all costs, and, if you do encounter them, play dumb.
	www.citypages.com /databank/18/845/article3239.asp (1245 words)

	m a c h i n e . r e c o r d s
		metal.machine music collects 16 of the best tracks from the first two years of machine.
		'Machine Records is one of the newest labels in Cardiff.
		Perplexing all the same is the Metal.Machine Music compilation, vacillating between the ratty grunge of Shaun Robert, Ben Kolb's subdued flowmotions, Superimpozer's Air Liquide knockoffs, the near-acoustic drunken orbist funk of Fume Zombie, and a gaggle of other like-minded misanthropes.
	www.machine-records.com /cat/mr03004.html (501 words)

	Metal Machine Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Metal Machine Music is a double album vinyl record (now audio compact disc) by Lou Reed.
		The album was re-released by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and again by Buddha (record label) in 2000.
		It is generally considered to be either a joke, a begrudging fulfillment of a contractual obligation, or an early example of experimental noise rock.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Buddha-Records-albums/Metal-Machine-Music.html (163 words)

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