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myLot reputation of 97/100. umart13 (472)   ranked 1 out of 1 in the velvet underground 4 years ago

I can barely believe that the Velvets are not being discussed on MyLot.com
I think its time we changed that as they are the band whose influence is to be seen more than any other band on todays pop/rock music scene.
Would anybody like to give us a start with their 5 favorite Velvet songs and any reason you like for picking them?
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tags:  velvet underground, best songs, nico, songs, venus in furs
 
1. myLot reputation of 95/100. vegegirl (371)   4 years ago

*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!)



myLot reputation of 97/100. umart13 (472)   ranked 1 out of 1 in the velvet underground  4 years ago

Hi Vevegirl, what a perfect list. It's actually impossible to restrict the number to five, isn't it? I loved it when you added Sweet Jane at the end. Rock and Roll and Sweet Jane are definitely the best they did at the end. I would definitely have Sunday Morning, All Tomorrow's Parties and Femme Fatale. There are two others I would like to add to the 5 plus list, which I really like: "Jesus" and "Pale Blue Eyes".
See you. Umart

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2. myLot reputation of 84/100. jend80 (1666)   4 years ago

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 shocked, 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"blinkshocked



myLot reputation of 84/100. jend80 (1666)  1 year ago

three years later and I'm listening to cd 1 of The Velvet Underground - Gold right now, hearing Sister Ray (white/light white/heat version) for the first time since and it's suddenly making total sense.


myLot reputation of 84/100. jend80 (1666)  1 year ago

well right until it gets faster & noiser about 9 minutes in before slowing right down - sounding like background atmospherics from a Satanic horror and being attacked by static/feedback shocked

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