Your Top 5 Velvet Underground Songs and Why?  

*Venus in Furs - love the electric violin, wicked lyrics and the seedy tune
*All tomorrows parties - even Nick Cave must have loved this as I think he did a cover
*Sunday morning - pretty tune contrasted with Nico's guttural voice
*Femme Fetale - pretty with Nico's other type of voice
*Heroin - such a great beginning and speeds up and slows down

gee, there's five already, so many others...... Rock and Roll, White Light/White heat....(and I didn't mention sweet jane!)

most of the Velvet Underground and Nico, The Gift,
slightly off topic -
this bloke who had an opinions column in the local paper when I was growing up made a casual referance (while suggesting that he could post himself instead ) to what happened to poor old Waldo Jeffries, as if he/it was real , The first time I heard the song, this was years later on bbc Radio 3, Late Junction I think, I was following the story and suddenly thought..."this sounds a bit like that person/story they mentioned.. oh this is wtf they were talking about omg".

Definitly not Sister Ray - heard a dutch or german radio station's avent-guarde show playing different versions of it back to back late one night - was listening on head phones and fell a sleep during one, woke up sudennly during what I think was part of the guitar amp version (f-ing terrifying anyway) and they were still "sucking on a ding-dong"