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I don't see how you can love their s/t and hate Loaded, they're essentially two parts of the same album.


Has anyone actually listened to that album?
 
I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Ocean" (the longer version, from the box set, with John Cale playing, not the Loaded version). I think that's VU's greatest song and quite perfect. On the candidate list for greatest song ever.

My top five VU songs:

1. Ocean
2. Candy Says
3. Sunday Morning
4. Venus In Furs
5. Pale Blue Eyes
 
Nico's voice is appropriate only for certain situations. I only like her when she is on a Velvet Underground record, or if she's singing a song Jackson Browne wrote for her(These Days and The Fairest Of The Seasons)

YouTube - These Days
YouTube - NICO - The Fairest Of The Seasons

For instance, this song: YouTube - Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties wouldn't be the same without her voice.

But as a group, god I love them. Heroin is one of the greatest songs ever. Even though it isn't the whole song, this is probably the coolest youtube video I've seen: YouTube - "Heroin," by The Velvet Underground
 
Personally I don't really see any legitimate reason for Bowie to cite the Velvets as an influence in the first place. He used to do "White Light/White Heat" at live shows in the '70s but as regarRAB his own material I don't hear ANY influence at all.
 
If you want to know what so great about them smoke a bowl or blunt (if that is your thing) and play the album through a good sound system and play the album from beginning to end and tell me there isn't something magical about it.
 
Due to the subject matter. :rolleyes:
Try singing along to 'The Black Angel's Death Song' to the tune of 'Walking on Sunshine' by Katrina and the Waves, for example.
I don't know if you've noticed but the guitars in that VU song are down tuned a whole step too.
 
There doesn't appear to be so many threaRAB about The Velvet Underground (aka one of the most influential and innovative banRAB of the 20th century!) or maybe I'm just durab and can't find them.
Anyway, just wondering if there are any velvet fans out there!! Then this would be some sort of discussion/appreciation thread. Actually even if you hate them, tell me! I wanna hear opinions (and possibly argue about them lol)
 
1. Sunday Morning
2. Heroin
3. I Heard Her Call My Name
4. Stephanie Says
5. Venus In Furs
6. White Light/White Heat
7. Here She Comes Now
8. Femme Fatale
9. Waiting For My Man
10.Sweet Jane

Love 'em
 
I'm not sure; I think that a stripped down sound would involve little more than a vocal and acoustic guitar...after all, Sister Ray has the organ and the distortion.

My problem with WL/WH is that there's some filler (Lady Godiva, Here She Comes Now) and it seems too self-consciously experimental. On the debut, everything sounded relatively natural. On WL/WH, it sounRAB like they were just trying to confuse people and piss them off.
 
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