The Velvet Underground & Nico - Self-Titled (FIRST REACTION)
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best tracks: Sunday Morning, Femme Fatale, Heroin, There She Goes Again, I'll Be Your Mirror
worst tracks: Venus In Furs
FIRST REACTION SCORE
7.4/10
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skip to about halfway through the vid if you want to skip all my negativity lol
have you listened to Swans? do it if youre up for a challenge
Some Sebadoh track tracks from the 90s sound just like this Velvet record
Nice pfp. Probably my favorite album alongside the vu and Nico â@@user-ex7yq6xq9s
easily a 10 for me and completely bonkers that it was released in the sixties for its extremity and darkness, venus in furs is also probably my favorite track here but i get it lol tied with the track heroin actually, the storytelling and how the instrumentation interacts and enhances it is genius, as i'm typing this i haven't got to that part of the video yet (edit: ayy 10/10 track ur damn right it is)
Skipping through Venus in Furs is actually unbelievable.
Criminal, you meant to say criminal, in a federal level.
its boring
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@@mogwaibalenciaga i have changed my mind ok
He didnât skip through any song idiot. Obviously he edits the video otherwise the video would be over an hour long and it would probably get taken down for copyright.
Shut it, kid!
I love your honesty, even when I disagree. That moment where it finally âclicksâ for you was awesome. Please do more Velvet reactions, highly recommend Loaded
Don't encourage mediocrity
I think you'd enjoy their third album (it's self-titled), it's certainly my favourite of theirs and one of my all-time favourite albums in general. Beautiful, subtle songs that are closer to Sunday morning than I'm waiting for the man.
greatest album ever made, bar none. such a tender, loving, empathic epic. like what earthbound is for video games, its edgier aspects get far too much focus compared to the omnipresent spirituality
sunday morning is an antidote to nihilism (church invocation), plus he makes good on the promise of "someone around you will call" when nico enters with her background vocals later on. add in heroin, which is about lou coming to terms and admitting these addictions will never replace something truly substantial such as faith. but something inside him is making it difficult for him to accept it into his heart, hence the final stanza where he goes from "thank god" to "thank your god". the entire song he's admitting that he just doesn't know, which is a beautiful statement of humility which gives the sense that someday he may come into faith, because at least he will admit that he does not have the answers.
all tomorrow's parties is unlistenable in stereo, go for mono
venus in furs being about a dominatrix and abuse in relationships both wanted and unwanted I'd say the abrasive tone is "earned" as you say hehe
glad you found out about the banana trick good reaction
You don't get Lou.
i love this album. so many memories. my ex introduced me to the band and we used to listen sunday morning on sundays
This is basically my whole original reaction like 40 years ago lol. Also, the sounds on the last song were John Cale dragging a metal chair around the studio floor XD
Awesome video i really enjoyed it. I feel like velvet underground and nico is a weird quirky good album that has some songs that work for me and some which don't tbh and most people i have shown it to agree..
The Velvet Underground invented indie rock! Consider that it was recorded in 1966, indie bands followed their format for decades.
DUUUUUDE you gotta listen to all of their albums now
Sunday Morning was a nice little sweet intro preparing you for the darkness to follow...
This album is almost too influential to appreciate. It basically created the offshoot of rock that would become punk and indie.
heeeerooooooin
I'm Waiting For The Man, Heroin, and European Son are the ones for me. Such a great album.
maybe you will find more appeal directly in their second self-titled album :)
Thumbnail made me laugh within .2 seconds
repetitive and boring is how addiction is. (from a recovering person)
For another classic review Iâd recommend Peter Gabriel. Youâve checked out Genesis before but Iâd recommend Gabrielâs solo work, particularly either Peter Gabriel III, IV, or So. Amazing production on all of those albums. Mixes of art rock / pop, African influences, and even verging on industrial. My pick would be Peter Gabriel IV but you canât go wrong with the others.
Sold a 1,000 copies---inspired 10,000 Bands...
If you like Nirvana, they covered one Velvet song (Here she comes now)
This album mixed in with Dylan; edith piaf, and other Lou Reed goes great with red christmas lights at a beach patio party serving sangria and sugar cookies. Also biting fingernails gives you worms down in the balloon knot
Nah, it goes well in NY winter, bad part of town with a cigarrete in your mouth.
old people will not care no one cared about this when it came out so you're safe from that lol it'll be people more your age to like 30s who will be mad about it if anything about the criticisms. i severely disagree with them so far but its all chill and maybe it'd grow on you. peel slowly and see
Venus In Furs as the worst track is a death sentence to you!
I really didn't like this album the first couple of listens now I love it
its probably hard to fully comprehend the velvet underground without having experienced a heroin habit. its really tied together in a similar way to stoner music. you need to be high (or remember the sensation) to relate to it.
Classic album. Looking at your score I can already tell Iâm not gonna agree with you a lot lol. But this should still be a great reaction anyways
Can you do Beck Sea change please
NICO is great. Especially Drama of Exile (1st version), The End, Chelsea Girl & Marble Index. Lou Reed was a big asshole but wrote shockingly dark lyrics. Hippies over hype Velvet Underground but they inspired punks, R.E.M. and a lot of alternative bands. You van see why they never sold albums in the
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
I get your first reaction to The Velvet Underground. I can only listen the ones with Nico's vocals.
I recommend you checking her albums 'Desertshore' which it can be very dark-folk. Then you can get into 'The Marble Index' which is more experimental.
Please listen to loaded and the self titled album from them, they are the best.
Please do a Human League - Dare album
I would definitely recommend Nico's solo albums for difficult, challenging listens.
Especially The Marble Index, which she wrote herself. Very cold, VERY nightmarish sounding, very unnerving, yet there is this beauty within its frigid wasteland.
Nico singlehandedly influenced the entire Goth movement with that record. She was such a polarizing woman in music - she was born with stunning beauty as shown in her 1960s photographs, but she hated that she was beautiful and dyed her hair blood red, began wearing only black and started writing her own music- arguably the first goth girl.
She influenced every alternative female songwriter who followed and pioneered a style of music that has never been replicated.
Her lp trilogy The Marble Index, Desertshore and The End were all produced and arrsnged by John Cale. Apart from Nico's harmonium, Cale composed and played all instruments on the first two lp's. He is the creator of all those sinister and menacing soundscapes. He lernt those experimental techniques working with Avantgarde luminaries John Cage, Iannis Xenskis and LaMonte Young. Togethrr Nico AND John Cale laid the foundations for Postpunk and Goth.
I found you a while ago but was so flabbergasted that you called âLorelaiâ from the 2nd fleet foxes album mid, that I stopped watching you for a while. I feel like Iâm finally ready to forgive you
I was old neeeeeews to you theeeen
You should talk more during the listen but overdub it. this way you can have both quiet listening and commentary. Reason is dmca rules, you need to talk over the song and point to the spotify (or other store/site/app) because copyright hates channels like yours.
if you want some more profoundly weird, extremely experimental music, check out Scott Walkerâs âBish Boschâ and Xiu Xiuâs âGirl With Basket of Fruit.â thereâs a good chance you wonât like either, but they kind of changed how i listen to music
At least dont use the fonts that BradTaste uses man, god damn...
I love your reactions, you make me hopeful on the new generation one minute and then genocidal the next. Really, really, really genocidal.
You come off like a child in over is head.
Maybe don't listen to a new album when you're in a bad mood? Lol
A very Influential album, but I am with you, it is certainly not my favorite. You can respect music without liking it.
For example, I understand how Influential Aphex Twin is on electronic and ambient music, but I never go out of my way to listen to them.
Aphex twin is just one guy, but okay.
Please listen to more music. Please talk less and listen more.
You get a pass