The Very Best Of The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

the album....NEXT! and After Hours is Mo Tucker's moment of glory, squeaking her way through a sad and sweet little number. So there it is, an album by The Velvet Underground with a higher listenable/unlistenable tosh ratio than some others. Shame John Cale is not around to wind up Lou Reed, but great that John Cale's not around to art things up too much....it's your choice I like it, but I have to be in the mood. Sometimes I reach for White Light White Heat or Loaded instead. Special bonus with this album- Sterling Morrison's tash, Lou Reed looking about 12 and the dodgy footwear on the cover artwork... Oh if you were looking for comparisons to ...

White Light White Heat - The Velvet Underground

This album is a masterpiece and it is waiting to be rediscovered. It is noisy and totally punk rock. Yet it was made in 1968. The Velvet Underground are one of the greatest and most influential bands ever. Lou Reed and John Cale are perhaps the greatest musicians and songwriters ever. I adore this band because not many people have actually heard them. I was having a debate with a university pal recently and he was arguing that the Beatles were the most influential band ever. I tried to explain that whilst the Beatles may have been influential to Brit Pop music like Oasis, The Velvet's influenced most genres and created Punk Rock and alternative rock. The ...

White Light White Heat - The Velvet Underground

them the pleasures that lie out there, somewhere a million miles to the East. After releasing a bizarre, but fundamentally orthodox debut album with German songstress Nico, The Velvet Underground came back, stripped of the beautiful model, with their masterpiece in 1969. Gone were the neat riffs and hummable melodies and all delusions and pretensions of selling records as the honed down band just went for the jugular, a very different beat. This music was for committing suicide rather than dancing to and in the Velvets’ alternative universe, it all made shocking, brilliant sense… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Grim, chopped ...