I love this band; like a throw back to the Fall and Velvet Underground amongst others

FYI here's the list if you haven't already seen it ...

1 Wilco - Foxtrot
2 Neil Young - Harvest
3 Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
4 Radiohead - In Rainbows
5 Pink Floyd - The Wall
6 Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks
7 The Velvet Underground & Nico
8 The Ramones
9 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds -The Boatman's Call
10 Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
11 Jay Z - Blueprint
12 Nilson –Schmilsson
13 George Harrison - All Thing Must Pass
14 Paul Mccartney - Mccartney II
15 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
16 Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
17 Paul Simon – Paul Simon
18 Beck – Sea Change
19 Elliot Smith - Figure 8
20 Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
21 The Clash - London Calling
22 Backstreet Boys - Millenium
23 Ringo Starr - Beaucoups of Blues
24 Patti Smith – Horses
25 Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
26 Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
27 Tom Petty – Damn The Torpedoes
28 Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
29 Michael Jackson - Thriller
30 The Smiths - This Charming Man
31 Tom Waits – Rain Dogs
32 Morrissey, The Best of
33 U2 - The Best
34 David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
35 Kalle Mattson - Avalanche

I bought this 45 rpm in 1980, back when they still sold 45's. First 45 I ever bought was "In the Year 2525" in 1969, last one I bought was the Stones "Undercover of the Night" in 1984. Since you asked.

This was Bowie's last great album. They went rapidly downhill after this one. I saw him on the Serious Moonlight tour, it was a great show but then I read this lame BS where he said he was "surprised" by the commercial success of "Let's Dance" and when he looked out into the vast stadiums of ticket buyers he wondered how many of them had actually heard a Velvet Underground song. Ya can't have it both ways, putting out a dance record for the MTV crowd and then wishing you were at a backstreet club.

Fuck true metal? It's mostly a joke, dude, not a sense of entitlement. You want to read entitlement and serious judgement in my comments? By all means, chaotic fool, use it as a platform for your Internet social gain. But I'm speaking from the perspective of someone with years of knowledge passing it down. I cited songs which Metallica wrote and played which are hard and fast, raw and powerful, exuding the youthful energy of their best albums, which are for some reason blacklisted and instead we hear the songs that the recording industry WANT you to hear because they're marketable. The songs I listed are awesome and considered by some to be the real gift Metallica left us with, like Van Halen's first 4 albums.

I bestowed a gift, and you saw me being high and mighty for my gain? Sounds like YOU have some problems to deal with.

I dont only listen to metal. I played sax, guitar, bass, and drums, but now mostly play percussion -- I like hitting things. I was in a rolling Stones and velvet underground cover band, played some gospel folks stuff for a while. I provided my perspective on metal because I thought it beneficial. For the music obsessed, hearing something over and over on the radio for the remainder of your life, when there is better material from the band and the idea of popularity as some sort of higher value than the subtleties you pick up on when you have standards, it's all very silly to read. You are a jerk and now I'm sad.

Thanks. Gift horse doesn't like staring contests.

One of my new favorite bands. Sound like The Fall, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Pavement, and a few others mixed together.

I have access to heroin every single day. I sniffed it once or twice (in dust form) in a controlled environment (band practice): I'm sure it's a whole other ballgame to inject it but I'm not really into the whole I can't concentrate, nodding thing. No thanks. Therefore I am proof that if you use it once or twice you won't become addicted to it and that if it is readily available that I'd even use it. I was more interested in the Velvet Underground aspect of it - but I was more than happy to going back to drinking bourbon, wine and every once or twice a year shrooms after that shit.

i still love andy no matter what all of you assholes think... no Andy... no VELVET UNDERGROUND... and by now you know my love for them.

I shall now resume filming you sleep.

Lou Reed-Heroin-Live

Don't think this is the Velvet Underground

SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Gone-The Oohlas

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Buffy Theme-The Breeders

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Come On-Tean and Sara

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Paperback Writer- The Beatles

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Sugar, Sugar- The Archies

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
She Smiled Sweetly-The Rollin Stones

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
You've got to Hide Your Love Away-The Beatles

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Bang On-The Breeders (ewwwww.....)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
I Will Survive

WHAT IS 2+2?
Gone for Good-The Shins

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
The First- Tegan and Sara

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Energy- The Apples in Stereo

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Broken Face-Pixies

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
The Celibate Life- The Shins

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Shuffle Your Feet-Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Here No More- The Breeders

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Hi-Ho Silver Lining- Jeff Beck

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Sweet Caroline- Neil Diamond

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk- Rufus Wainwright

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Walk It Off- The Breeders

WHATS THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Do You Love Me Now- The Breeders

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Here Comes the Sun- The Beatles

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Walking With a Ghost- Tegan and Sara

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Heroin- The Velvet Underground

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
I Don't Do Crowds-Camera Obscura

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Hoverin'- The Breeders

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Venus in Furs- The Velvet Underground

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Divine Hammer- The Breeders

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Small Parts- The Oohlas

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Girl on the Wing- The Shins

yo i'll let you finish, all i'm saying is that the velvet underground made one of the best videos of all time, OF ALL TIME

1. Ever Present Past-Paul McCartney
2. You Can Call Me Al-Paul Simon
3. Debaser-Pixies
4. Jailhouse-Sublime
5. Oh My Golly-Pixies
6. Femme Fatale-Velvet Underground
7. Those to Come-Shins
8. Love Spreads-Stone Roses
9. Son of Three-Breeders
10.No Aloha-Breeders

>> ^gwiz665:
"made popular by Nico of Velvet Underground" wtf? I didn't even know that version existed. Jackson Browne's own is my favorite.


yeah, it was made popular through its use in a movie.. The Royal Tenenbaums I think? But same here, I like the original version best. TMOE did a pretty good job here though.

"made popular by Nico of Velvet Underground" wtf? I didn't even know that version existed. Jackson Browne's own is my favorite.

hey! lets have a music in history thread inspired by how terrible this was
ill start:
after museful consideration i have to say that i agree with homer simpsons assertion that rock attained perfection in 1974 and anything that i can think of is either 1)directly and obviously influenced by something from this era or 2) influenced by something influenced from this era
in 1974 you have: lou reed and the velvet underground, the ny dolls, the kinks, stevie wonder, jackson 5, the rolling stones, frank zappa, patti smith, aretha franklin, david bowie, eric clapton, rod stewart, led zepplin, johnny cash, paul simon, neil young, bob dylan, and the waning days of the beatles... sure really really good things came before, but 74 seems like the perfect blending point of old and new. where the forces that were powerhouses and founding fathers of rock n roll met and mingled with the new wave and poof...

your turn go!

Came up as the fifth response for me...

http://www.videosift.com/search?q=Velvet+underground

oh well, no foul. We all dupe. Thanks for discarding.

In reply to this comment by MrConrads:
Yeah never saw it. Doesnt come up when I do a regular search too. A couple pages of other Velvet U. stuff comes up but not that one. Am I doing something wrong possbily?

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Really? Lemme check my tags. Should have popped up at the submit page...Yeah, should have shown. Weird. Oh well.

In reply to this comment by MrConrads:
Crud! thanks for letting me know schmawy and sorry bout that. Man... I at least feel like I do a good search before posting... Never came up. My bad

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Great pick. Unfortunately I thought so, too...

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Velvet-Underground-Documentary-1986