Sunday morning, praise the dawning

european son sucks

>>71532947
love that song, do people hate it?

>>71532938
I've been revisiting There She Goes Again weekly. I'm a sucker for Lou's pop songs.

>>71532938
I can acknowledge the influence it has. I can acknowledge how important it was. I can acknowledge why it is an essential and considered one of the best.

But fuck me, I just think it's boring. I'm sure for the time it was in it sounded different or groundbreaking, but I have a really hard time enjoying this. I also think they were all self-absorbed assholes so that might be affecting my opinion.

The tracks where lou reed is doing the gay voice are the best tracks

Prove me wrong, protip: you can't

>>71533834
I'll be your mirror

>>71532947
agreed

Good shit. Not flawless, but certainly good. Most people who hate it are trying too hard.

I really hate Heroin and European Son. But I love every other song. Femme Fatale especially. What a wonderful song.

Out of the 4200+ albums I've heard, it's still in the Top 10

>>71534843
wow, 4200+ is pretty specific, do you know for a fact that you've listened to at least that many?

>>71534843
post your top 10 i'm curious

>>71532938
always though it was sunday morning brings the dawn in

>>71534823
whats wrong with heroin?

>>71534937
Maybe he has 4200 in his library and has heard them all you dunce.

>>71534993
Goes on way too long and the sound becomes grating near the end.

I've always wondered, is the banana really a sticker?

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>>71535002
>sound becomes grating near the end

special snowflake wants soothing ocean music

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>>71535032

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>>71535032
On the original vinyl yeah. Not on the cd. This is it without the sticker.

>>71535092
>>71535110
inside is pink :)

i'll be your mirror
reflect what you are

alot of the buzz around this album was the andy warhol involvement and album cover


what artist would generate the most buzz for a band by giving them an album cover today?

>>71535335

>andy warhol
>artist

don't go there.

>>71535335
Banksy by far

>>71535357
Probably true

>>71535357
that's genius

>make a hardline commie album
>get banksy to cover it
>sell millions from that alone

>>71532938
It remains one of the greatest albums ever made

>>71533681
Please listen to the remaster. I listened to the original version and I had the same opinion. The band sounded like they could barely play their instruments, and while that may not be so far away from the truth, I couldn't for the life of me appreciate the album.

i think it is bad

>>71535002
>Goes on way too long and the sound becomes grating near the end.
Given that their intention was to make the song feel like taking heroin, it only makes sense that it sounds that way.

>>71532947
Fuck you! That's one of the best songs on there.
Actually just get rid off all the Nico shit (EXCEPT All Tomorrow's Parties) and the album would be perfect.

>>71532994
Anybody who hates European Son has no right calling themselves a VU fan!

>>71535357
The blur album think tank didnt get shitvwhen banksy's art was on the cover

>>71532938
I've tried listening to this album but the songs just seem bland
nothing is catchy about it

>>71536340
>nothing is catchy about it
Well, they weren't a pop band, so, why would you expect catchy songs on a noise rock album? Femme Fatale could be called catchy in some regard.

>>71536340
>Sunday Morning
>Waiting For My Man
>Run Run Run
>There She Goes Again

Really? Nothing catchy about these songs? Are you even trying or is this just bait?

>>71536395
downloaded it again just now
tbf it was three or four years ago I tried it

>>71536322
Well nobody wants to buy spoiled art do they

>>71535349
ARt Is SuBjEcTiVe~

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>>71536340
>bland
Have you ever heard another rock album?

>>71536472
>paintings of soup cans
>art

>>71532947
what is this meme
it's one of the best from the album

>>71536481
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgubG-MOPT4

proper rock music. enough said.

>>71535335

Nobody fucking bought it at the time though.

It's really only gained its prestige in the years after its release, so its only fair to attribute that to the quality of the music.

>>71536505
They were prints, but that doesn't change anything. It's still art to someone

>>71534823
Femme Fatale is the weakest song on the album and the only one I've ever found that was improved by a 10/10 cover (see: Big Star)

>>71536615
Nah, it's the best, senpai.

The Nico songs are the worst on the album. She shouldn't have even been on it but Andy Warhol insisted despite the band not wanting her.

>>71536706
How? Don't you think that her voice is unique to say the least? She didn't sound like every female vocalist today; somewhere in the realm of pseudo black soul divas. As far as vocal delivery is concerned, she was a far better vocalist than Lou Reed could ever hope to be. And he even admitted that he couldn't sing.

>>71536706
I would've told Andy to fuck off

>>71536706
You're a mad man. The combo is top notch. Fuck outta here.

>>71536706
And yet The Marble Index and Desertshore are two of the best Velvet Underground family albums

That said, her songs are some of the worst but only because they are the shortest and have the tamest lyrics...that said, All Tomorrow's Parties is one of the best songs on the album, but not for the vocals

>>71536725
Listen to Desertshore. It's haunting, cold, distant, desolate and reassuring and beautiful at the same time. Not many vocalists are able to achieve that.

>>71532947
>this is what normies actually believe

>>71535150
;)

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>>71536261

>get rid of I'll Be Your Mirror

>>71536706
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>>71536706
So, are you actually going to respond to anyone or did you just do it for the (You)'s?

>>71536775
I'll Be Your Mirror is the worst song on the album by far

>>71537072
>tfw I'd probably agree but for some reason it's the one that I have lyrics from tattooed on me

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Ba na na

>>71536706
That's why White Light/White Heat is better
It was all the things TVU+N pretended to do but it actually committed
And there was no Nico

>>71537828
>That's why White Light/White Heat is better
how to spot a /mu/babby

i bet you enjoy the music of phil elverum, slint and swans

>>71537877
>defending Nico
>putting down the superior album
WHAT A CLAHN

>>71535349
I love to make fun of the liberal arts as much as any self respecting person. That being said I was forced to take a few art classes and I had good teachers who gave me perspective on art and why certain artists were able to gain notoriety.

Warhols art and his significance wasnt due to a cultural spazz out of retardation, but rather the context of his generation and what space he was putting that art out into.

Its easy to look at his work in 2017 and think its retarded. But there was much more too it. I'm not arguing he was some extremely talented person, but he was unique, and the work he put out during that era was very unique. Maybe 50 years later it looks simple and bland, but it wasnt back than

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Who /birthdayboy/ here?

>>71538058
happy birthday anon

when i first started getting into music, i really loved this album, but now it's like "eh it's alright i guess"
probably my second favorite by the velvets

>>71532947
it's underrated

>>71533834
other than all tomorrow's parties, i agree

>>71535092
he actually did it

>>71536354
>noise rock album
no

>>71536615
i love sister lovers, but this opinion is bad

>>71537072
how can one man be so wrong

>>71537828
unironically their worst album

>>71538212
Thank you anon

>>71532938
man
Listening to Sunday Morning and it feels like eating some delicious sugary banana ice cream.

Does anyone get this calm feeling when listening to that track too?

>>71538246
>Noise rock album
>No
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the_velvet_underground_nico/the_velvet_underground_and_nico_f1/
Art Rock,Experimental Rock
Proto-Punk,Noise Rock,Psychedelic Rock,Garage Rock

>>71538316
that's a secondary
i'm not gonna deny that it was influential to noise rock, but it was not noise rock itself

>>71537828
>White Light/White Heat is trash
ftfy

>>71538337
>It is, but it's not
Let's not get carried away.

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Happy 50th anniversary, The VU & Nico

>all your music heroes will die in your lifetime
Does anyone feel the pain watching that John Cale modern music video for If You Were Still Around, like realizing not only did he outlive all those people but by quite a significant margin

Just him and Maureen left

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>debut with the greatest album of all time
>can never replicate the success
I find it odd that the Velvets have such a great reputation while Lou Reed is a meme when his solo career had way more gems than the Velvets

>>71537877
no reason not to

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>>71539456
lmao if u say so bucko

>>71539515
and why not? i'm not the person you originally responded to if it makes you less antagonistic

>>71532938
Best album created in the 1960s

>>71539627
Not even the best 60s album that's /mu/-core.

>>71532938
I don't care too much about it except for Venus In Furs, which I think is fantastic

But I recognize the album's influence

>>71533681
It's unironically catchy forward thinking pop music, unlike WLWH

If you see it as that the record becomes a lot of fun

>>71538672
D O U G
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>>71539627
Imo it's better than ITCOTCK if that's what you're referring to

>>71538753
>Squeeze higher than Loaded
delet this

>>71539720
Literally who

>>71532938
This album sure aged like a banana.

>>71533681
I felt the exact same way for a long time. I decided to relisten for the 50th aniversary. I've been listening to it nonstop since.

>>71538022
This. It's not anything special now, but its really interesting in concept, like 4 33.

>>71538753
White Light/White Heat is the best album kys

>>71532938
10/10

>>71540159
>he fell for the WL/WH meme
I bet you think Sister Ray is the best rock song ever, kek

>>71537877

>>71540159
>SUCKING ON A DING DONG

in top 3 favorite albums for me

>>71536615
I love femme fatale but big star is fucking amazing so I can't complain

Nico is good
I'll be your mirror is beautiful and Femme Fatale is pretty neat.
Also, did you guys noticed that they used balloons in The Black Angel's Death Song?

Wow, 50 years later and it still sucks ass.

>>71536615
i think the biggest pleb filter in music is disliking Nico's tracks

>>71538753
>Giving Self Titled only 4 stars
>Giving Loaded 1 star
>Giving VU 1.5 stars
>Giving White Light/White Heat only 3.5 stars

>>71541704
agreed

lists for anyone who wants to dig into 60s counter-culture music..
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Musfra/1966-album-release-timeline-turn-on
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Musfra/1967-album-release-timeline-tune-in
VU is even more amazing in context.

1. Heroin
2. Venus In Furs
3. Black Angel's Death Song
4. All Tomorrow's Parties
5. European Son
6. Sunday Morning
7. Femme Fatale
8. I'll Be Your Mirror
9. There She Goes Again
10. Run Run Run
11. I'm Waiting for the Man

And IWFTM is still like a 7/10. Also never understood the hate for Femme Fatale.

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sunday morning, praise Kek

>>71535357
That already happened

>>71543213
Mmm yup

>>71536261
I'll Be Your Mirror is the best track by far though.