In what is sure to be one of the most talked-about alliances of the year, LOU REED & METALLICA's Lulu album will be released by Warner Bros. Records on November 1st in North America (October 31st elsewhere).

A deluxe version of Lulu will be released in a tube-shaped container (13cm x 1.24m), and will include a two-CD digipack package, a large 1.2m x 1.6m poster (with song lyrics), and three photographs by Anton Corbijn (50cm x 50.8cm).

The complete Lulu tracklisting is as follows:

'Brandenburg Gate' (4:19)

'The View' (5:17)

'Pumping Blood' (7:24)

'Mistress Dread' (6:52)

'Iced Honey' (4:36)

'Cheat On Me' (11:26)

'Frustration' (8:33)

'Little Dog' (8:01)

'Dragon' (11:08)

'Junior Dad' (19:28)

The lyrics for 'Little Dog' can be found below:

Little dog who can’t get in

Moaning at the bed side

Moaning from each limb

Little dog who can’t get in

Can only cry but

Can not swim

Pony legs, little trot

Little dog has to wait a lot

The bigger dog has got his spot

And elbowed him away

Listen to him barking

Listen to him call

Little dog don’t have much at all

A puny body and a tiny dick

A little dog can make you sick

If you got the money you can go to the top

The female dog don’t care what you got

As long as you can raise that

Little doggie face to a cold hearted pussy

You could have a taste

A taste of what the big dog got

A taste of what the big dog got

The little dog with the one hundred dollar spot

Can run his tongue over the hot in trot

Hot in trot

Run his tongue over the hot in trot

Money can do anything

Money can do anything

Money can do anything

Tell me what you want

My small dog, he want what I got

Wants to run his tongue over my hot spot

Pathetic little dog

Pathetic little dog

The little man follows his nose

Counts his fingers and his toes

He still got those

Pathetic little dog

Pathetic little dog

Following his nose

But it needs my money to buy

I’m an up while you’re a down

I am an up while you’re a down

The spring and the will follow me around

While you sniff your shit in the wind

Sniff your shit in the wind

Money can do anything

Money can do anything

Tell me what it is you want

Just tell me what it is you want

I’m an up while you’re a down

The spring and the will follow me around

Tell me what it is you want

Tell me what it is you want

You sniff your shit in the wind

Follow me around

Pathetic little dog

Pathetic little dog

Pathetic little dog

Back to Lulu

A new trailer is available below:

Lulu was co-produced by Reed, Metallica, Hal Willner who has produced albums for Reed, MARIANNE FAITHFUL, and LAURIE ANDERSON, among others and Greg Fidelman. Fidelman also mixed the record.

The idea for these two giants of modern music to work together was born after the 25th anniversary Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame concerts in New York City in October 2009. Metallica -singer/guitarist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Rob Trujillo - played with Reed on VELVET UNDERGROUND classics, 'Sweet Jane' and 'White Light/White Heat'.

"We knew from then that we were made for each other," Reed says.

After that triumphant performance, Reed suggested they all make a record together. At first they planned to record an album of Reed's older material, what Ulrich describes as "some of Lou's lost jewels - songs that he felt he'd like to give a second spin, and we could do whatever it is we do to some of those songs." That idea "hung in the air for a couple of months." Then, a week or two before that session was to begin, "Lou called up and said, 'Listen, I have this other idea.'"

That idea was to record a series of songs Reed had written for American avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson and German theater group the Berliner Ensemble's production of the Lulu Plays, which premiered in Aprilat theTheatre am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, founded by Bertolt Brecht. The songs are inspired by German expressionist Frank Wedekind's early 20th century plays Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box, and were a rewrite of Edgar Allan Poe's, The Raven, which emerged as a graphic novel on Fantagraphics Press.

"We were very interested in working with Lou," says Hetfield. "I had these giant question marks: What's it going to be like? What's going to happen? So it was great when he sent us the lyrics for the Lulu body of work. It was something we could sink our teeth into. I could take off my singer and lyricist hat and concentrate on the music part. These were very potent lyrics, with a soundscape behind them for atmosphere. Lars and I sat there with an acoustic and let this blank canvas take us where it needed to go. It was a great gift, to be asked to stamp 'tallica on it. And that's what we did."
"We had to bring Lulu to life in a sophisticated way, using rock," Reed says. "And the hardest power rock you could come up with would have to be Metallica. They live on that planet. We played together, and I knew it: dream come true. This is the best thing I ever did. And I did it with the best group I could possibly find. By definition, everybody involved was honest. This has come into the world pure. We pushed as far as we possibly could within the realms of reality."
"It's definitely not a Metallica album, or a Lou Reed album," adds Hammett. "It's something else. It's a new animal, a hybrid."

The collaboration recently posted the first complete Lulu song online. Check out 'The View' via YouTube below:

For more details visit Loureedmetallica.com.