12 Most Hated Hard Rock Albums (From Great Bands)
1. Lulu - Metallica/Lou Reed
From their beginnings, Metallica always felt like a band who never made the same record twice. While everything under the band's umbrella could be seen as metal, their experimentation with other genres gave them a bit of an eclectic musical character. On the other hand, things can get bit ugly when the risk is too daring.
After jamming with him at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the band decided their next project would be a joint effort working with former Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed. Instead of having some idealized mix of glam rock and metal, what fans were met with was an album filled with spoken word musings while Metallica's riffs thundered in the background.
Though it was certainly a valiant effort to meld these genres, both fanbases seemed oddly put off by this pairing, with Metallica fans not willing to hear Reed's ramblings and Reed fans not caring for the punch behind the instrumentation.
Almost immediately afterwards, the record has go on to become an endless meme for metalheads to point and laugh at as Metallica's "artsy" album. Even if the album holds up many years down the line, Lulu wasn't safe from the fans' final word.