The Velvet Underground thread - Page 14

gmku · 05.09.2009, 09:32 PM

But it's just a damned reissue. Record companies are pissing me off these days.

joe11121 · 05.09.2009, 09:33 PM

Yeah. All albums here are really expensive, so I usually just go to the used record store.

automatic bzooty · 05.09.2009, 10:08 PM

I'd be ridiculously torn whether or not to peel the peel, tbh. Big decisions. Maybe it's a good thing my copy hasn't got that.

Sonic Youth 37 · 05.09.2009, 10:14 PM

NOT PEEL!!!

automatic bzooty · 05.09.2009, 10:17 PM

But Andy says peel.

Sonic Youth 37 · 05.09.2009, 10:26 PM

Andy also is dead. Probably because he peeled quickly.

gmku · 05.09.2009, 10:37 PM

So he died from baring his banana?

automatic bzooty · 05.09.2009, 10:39 PM

oh, true. he thought he was so edgy because he peeled quickly and didn't even bother to look! psh.

greedrex · 05.10.2009, 03:27 AM

huh i listened to WLWH for the first time yesterday. I was not impressed at all. weird.

mshawkin · 05.10.2009, 04:20 AM

I instantly loved WLWH the moment I heard it, which was less than two years ago. I'd say it is a perfect rock album, but it defies classification in my eyes. But that's just me.

The Earl Of Slander · 05.10.2009, 05:41 AM

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Originally Posted by greedrex

huh i listened to WLWH for the first time yesterday. I was not impressed at all. weird.

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Originally Posted by greedrex

huh i listened to WLWH for the first time yesterday. I was not impressed at all. weird.

White Light/White Heat was my first VU album, and I bought it very early in my interest in "out" music, aged only 15. I don't think I've ever hated an album more. Seriously, I just detested it. I remember just being so angry that I'd been duped by the hype into wasting money on 40 minutes of boring and unlistenably distorted garage rock with only one good track (Here She Comes Now) and one other that was half-way enjoyable (White Light/White Heat). I then thought maybe I should give it one more chance before I returned it to the store in exchange for something less horrible (and I never return albums), and I think I liked it even less.

However, I was working at home that week, and couldn’t go the shop until Monday, and something about it was just so horrible that I decided to spin it a couple more times. I just couldn’t believe that something this lacking in any merit could be loved by so many people. Third listen, I still didn’t like it, but I kind of dug on the riffage a little more and guessed I could sort of see the appeal, even though I didn’t get it at all. I’d also been listening to Neil Young’s electric records a lot in that period, so I think that helped draw some links. Based on that tiny kernel of enjoyment, I kept on putting it back on while I worked, determined to get the most out of it before I returned it, and slowly I surprised myself by coming to enjoy it a little more. About 5-6 listens in it really started to click for me, and after that I just kept on listening until I was completely taken over. I just couldn’t believe I hadn’t liked it before. It’s was deliciously blown out and beautiful and melancholy and arty and transcendent and many other things I couldn’t name at that point in my musical education.

It’s now pretty much my favourite record of all time (I flip-flop between WLWH, DDN and Blonde on Blonde), the record I have listened to the most, definitely my favourite VU, and probably the primary reason I’m in to most of the stuff I subsequently came to love, Sonic Youth included. I can’t possibly describe my love for it, or how much I owe to it terms of my musical understanding. Needless to say, I never returned it.

So I suppose the short version of that is: Persevere, it will reward you for it.

greedrex · 05.10.2009, 07:28 AM

^^ absolutely. I know. I will.

radarmaker · 05.10.2009, 07:39 AM

Get a copy of the mono version for the ultimate White Light experience. Best enjoyed through good headphones at ear-bleeding volume

05.10.2009, 09:16 AM

Anyone would like me to up the 'Reload -The Second Chapter' bootleg LP? It is all made up of Loaded outtakes, and in a few cases they are way better than the versions on the album, 'I Found a Reason' being one of them.

radarmaker · 05.10.2009, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop

Anyone would like me to up the 'Reload -The Second Chapter' bootleg LP? It is all made up of Loaded outtakes, and in a few cases they are way better than the versions on the album, 'I Found a Reason' being one of them.

That's all the stuff that's on disc 2 of the official Loaded: Fully Loaded Edition, right?

05.10.2009, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by radarmaker

That's all the stuff that's on disc 2 of the official Loaded: Fully Loaded Edition, right?

A few of the tracks are on the reissue of Loaded, but there a few that I'm sure are not. I don't have that version of the record, so I need to check.

The Earl Of Slander · 05.10.2009, 04:12 PM

"I Found a Reason" is definitely one of my favourite songs from Loaded (which is my least favourite Velvet's LP by a mile, a few tracks aside). Basically that, "Rock and Roll", "Sweet Jane" and "Oh Sweet Nothing" are what keeps me listening to that record. "I Found..." also makes fucking sweet post-sex music.

radarmaker · 06.09.2009, 01:37 PM

Just seen this posted elsewhere - a newly-surfaced 17-minute Warhol segment from a 1966 WNET TV show that includes slightly more Velvets than the short audio extract that can be found on bootlegs, and in better quality too

http://72.232.122.215/episode/show/744

Satan · 06.09.2009, 01:39 PM

i'm grooving like a motherfucker to foggy notion

radarmaker · 06.09.2009, 01:40 PM

Do it again.

05.09.2009, 09:32 PM	#261
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	But it's just a damned reissue. Record companies are pissing me off these days. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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05.09.2009, 09:33 PM	#262
joe11121 expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Brantford, Canada Posts: 1,843	Yeah. All albums here are really expensive, so I usually just go to the used record store.
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05.09.2009, 10:08 PM	#263
automatic bzooty invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2,859	I'd be ridiculously torn whether or not to peel the peel, tbh. Big decisions. Maybe it's a good thing my copy hasn't got that.
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05.09.2009, 10:14 PM	#264
Sonic Youth 37 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: if there is a bright spot in the universe, the farthest point from it Posts: 9,443	NOT PEEL!!! __________________ "One: Where's the fife? and Two: Gimme the fife."
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05.09.2009, 10:17 PM	#265
automatic bzooty invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2,859	But Andy says peel.
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05.09.2009, 10:26 PM	#266
Sonic Youth 37 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: if there is a bright spot in the universe, the farthest point from it Posts: 9,443	Andy also is dead. Probably because he peeled quickly. __________________ "One: Where's the fife? and Two: Gimme the fife."
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05.09.2009, 10:37 PM	#267
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	So he died from baring his banana? __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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05.09.2009, 10:39 PM	#268
automatic bzooty invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2,859	oh, true. he thought he was so edgy because he peeled quickly and didn't even bother to look! psh.
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05.10.2009, 03:27 AM	#269
greedrex invito al cielo Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: in yr fotobukit Posts: 6,588	huh i listened to WLWH for the first time yesterday. I was not impressed at all. weird. __________________ Greed Recordings bandcamp ~The Rex~, stalkin' yr shit since 2008.
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05.10.2009, 04:20 AM	#270
mshawkin empty page Join Date: May 2009 Location: Indiana Posts: 21	I instantly loved WLWH the moment I heard it, which was less than two years ago. I'd say it is a perfect rock album, but it defies classification in my eyes. But that's just me.
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05.10.2009, 07:28 AM	#272
greedrex invito al cielo Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: in yr fotobukit Posts: 6,588	^^ absolutely. I know. I will. __________________ Greed Recordings bandcamp ~The Rex~, stalkin' yr shit since 2008.
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05.10.2009, 07:39 AM	#273
radarmaker the end of the ugly Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,123	Get a copy of the mono version for the ultimate White Light experience. Best enjoyed through good headphones at ear-bleeding volume
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05.10.2009, 09:16 AM	#274
sarramkrop Posts: n/a	Anyone would like me to up the 'Reload -The Second Chapter' bootleg LP? It is all made up of Loaded outtakes, and in a few cases they are way better than the versions on the album, 'I Found a Reason' being one of them.
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05.10.2009, 04:12 PM	#277
The Earl Of Slander the end of the ugly Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1,156	"I Found a Reason" is definitely one of my favourite songs from Loaded (which is my least favourite Velvet's LP by a mile, a few tracks aside). Basically that, "Rock and Roll", "Sweet Jane" and "Oh Sweet Nothing" are what keeps me listening to that record. "I Found..." also makes fucking sweet post-sex music. __________________ The toothaches got worse, she dreamed of disembodied voices from whose malignance there was no appeal, the soft dusk of mirrors out of which something was about to walk, and empty rooms that waited for her. Your gynaecologist has no test for what she was pregnant with.
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06.09.2009, 01:37 PM	#278
radarmaker the end of the ugly Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,123	Just seen this posted elsewhere - a newly-surfaced 17-minute Warhol segment from a 1966 WNET TV show that includes slightly more Velvets than the short audio extract that can be found on bootlegs, and in better quality too http://72.232.122.215/episode/show/744
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06.09.2009, 01:39 PM	#279
Satan invito al cielo Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: noo yawk Posts: 6,331	i'm grooving like a motherfucker to foggy notion __________________ "I love meth." - batreleaser
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06.09.2009, 01:40 PM	#280
radarmaker the end of the ugly Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,123	Do it again.
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