Anyone here like Velvet Underground?

[Asterix]

I just got "Loaded" and "The Velvet Underground with Nico" ... I am listening to the first song on "Loaded" - "Who Loves the Sun?"

 

[USER NAME:]

Is that the one with the cover art done by Andy Warhol? Maybe a picture of a banana or something?

 

[bln]

Great band, but resist the temptation to listen to "Heroin" at full volume. Actually, you should really see that doctor before listening to any music, but you know that already.

 

[Dorfmeister]

Brilliant Stuff. Music doesn't get much better.

I also like Nico's "Chelsea Girl" which was made not long after she left the Velvets. It has some great tracks done with Jackson Browne of all people.

 

[catachresis]

Yes, yes. . . there are more radical Velvets albums (VU & Nico, White Light-White Heat) and more influential albums (VU & Nico, White Light-White Heat) and even nicer sounding Velvets albums (like The Velvet Underground), but I have reached the conclusion that Loaded is my favourite. As my friend Brian Wilson once told me (not THE Brian Wilson but THE OTHER Brian Wilson), "Loaded is about how your life is saved by rock and roll."

You gots to have "Sweet Jane" and "Rock and Roll", just like you must read Hamlet and watch The Godfather and know Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band off by heart, because they're canonical and what use was it for your Granddaddy to fight the hun for Western Civilisation if you don't eat four daily servings of the fruits of democracy every day.

And this is true.

However, Loaded contains one of my top twenty-five songs, and you know if you're a music-head, choosing every one of those absolute top twenty-five is an act of profound veneration. I love Country-rock and Loaded has one of the best Country-rock songs ever written. "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" is piercingly melodic, gritty, gripping and -- even for Lou Reed -- uncannily well-written. Every time I see one of those Nashville neo-Country types acting the fool, like anybody gives a cr@p about their galvanised country-pop, I think of "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" and I get a little peace.

'Cause the song is about transvestites down-and-out on the streets of New York City. And those ten-gallon-toppered, Cherokee-driving eejits still can write anything that beats it.

 

[dknightd]

try Lou reed - rock and roll animal

 

[jpr703]

Love 'em--they were a tried and true rock and roll band.

 

[boodi]

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Originally Posted by Asterix I just got "Loaded" and "The Velvet Underground with Nico" ... I am listening to the first song on "Loaded" - "Who Loves the Sun?"

I can tell you thet you've landed right into some of the greatest '70 stuff , trust my words .

 

[boodi]

The velvet undergroung & Nico is one of my favorite masterpiece for 70' rock&roll

'70 , heart of all the rock that's come after

 

[rextrade]

The Velvete Underground are one of my favorite bands of all time. They've managed to stay with me and stay fresh throughout my life.

 

[markl]

Once you get all the Velvets catalog, you'll need to start exploring Lou Reed's(and John Cale's for that matter) solo career, it only gets darker, angrier, dirtier, and more misanthropic from there. "Loaded" is the pop-iest of their stuff, though, not necessarily representative of the whole catalog.

 

[DarkAngel]

Actually I like the bands they influenced more than VU themselves.......

For instance in 1990's first few Dandy Warhols, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Verve albums I find more satisfying overall.

 

[dknightd]

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Originally Posted by boodi The velvet undergroung & Nico is one of my favorite masterpiece for 70' rock&roll

FWIW The Velvet Underground & Nico was 1967. I was shocked when my daughter came home with it. Great album. But, more than twice as old as she is. Don't know where she got her good taste in music. If I'd known she was interested I could have ripped it from my old LP...

 

[recstar24]

Just picked up Velvet Underground and Nico like 2days ago, pretty bada** to say the least

 

[boodi]

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Originally Posted by dknightd FWIW The Velvet Underground & Nico was 1967. I was shocked when my daughter came home with it. Great album. But, more than twice as old as she is. Don't know where she got her good taste in music. If I'd known she was interested I could have ripped it from my old LP...

i know it , anyhow i catalogue it generally speaking among '70 and not '60 , and atop of them (with Hendrix , Led Zeppelin , Jetro Tull ..and all of them , I quite confide you understand who i refer to )