Editing Metal Machine Music (section)

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Metal Machine Music
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Lou Reed]]
| cover      = Metal_machine_music.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = July 1975
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Noise music|Noise]], [[Avant-garde music|Avant-Garde]]
| length     = 64:11
| label      = [[RCA Victor]]
| producer   = Lou Reed
| prev_title = [[Lou Reed Live]]
| prev_year  = 1975
| next_title = [[Coney Island Baby]]
| next_year  = 1975
| misc       = {{external music video|{{YouTube|5w02O-XdsXE|Audio}}|header=no}}
}}
'''''Metal Machine Music''''' (subtitled '''''*The Amine β Ring''''') is the fifth [[studio album]] by American [[rock music]]ian [[Lou Reed]]. It was recorded on a three-speed [[Uher (brand)|Uher machine]] and was mastered/engineered by [[Bob Ludwig]].<ref>[[Alan Licht]], ''Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020'', [[Blank Forms]] Edition, ''Interview with Lou Reed'', p. 163</ref> It was released as a double album in July 1975 by [[RCA Records]], but taken off the market three weeks later.<ref>[[Alan Licht]], ''Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020'', [[Blank Forms]] Edition, ''Interview with Lou Reed'', p. 163</ref> A radical departure from the rest of his catalog, ''Metal Machine Music'' features no songs or recognizably structured compositions, eschewing [[melody]] and [[rhythm]] for modulated [[feedback]] and [[noise music]] guitar effects, mixed at varying speeds by Reed. Also in 1975, RCA released a [[Quadrophonic]] version of the ''Metal Machine Music'' recording that was produced by playing it back both forward and backward, and by flipping the tape over.<ref>[[Alan Licht]], ''Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020'', [[Blank Forms]] Edition, ''Interview with Lou Reed'', p. 164</ref>

The album cost Reed his reputation in the [[music industry]] and has generally been [[List of music considered the worst|panned by critics]] since its release. Simultaneously, it opened the door for some of his later, more [[experimental music|experimental]] material. In 2008, Reed, [[Ulrich Krieger]], and [[Sarth Calhoun]] collaborated to tour playing [[free improvisation]] inspired by the album as [[Metal Machine Trio]]. In 2011, Reed released a remastered version of ''Metal Machine Music.''<ref name="tourremaster">{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63J47O20100420 |title=Lou Reed is back with experimental music of 1970s |work=Reuters |date=April 20, 2010 |access-date=April 20, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.themortonreport.com/entertainment/music/lou-reed-reissues-newly-remastered-metal-machine-music/|title=Lou Reed Reissues Newly Remastered Metal Machine Music|last=Rowe|first=Matt|date=2011-06-08|website=The Morton Report|language=en|access-date=2019-11-30}}</ref>