A couple of days ago Rick Beato and the Professor of Rock were chatting about music and how critics often dislike music that regular people (like them) adore. And the Prof. said people in a hundred years will still be listening to Journey but not The Velvet Underground. I think this is quite silly. Perhaps people will not listen to both. But I am sure that the music of The Velvet Underground will still be studied.
I have to say that I couldn't agree with the Prof less!. VU&N is a seminal album that will endure for as long as music is consumed. Nothing against Journey or their output but this one album is far more important than Journey's discography IMO
I have to say that I couldn't agree with the Prof less!. VU&N is a seminal album that will endure for as long as music is consumed. Nothing against Journey or their output but this one album is far more important than Journey's discography IMO
THE John Cale track. I find The distorted viola rather disturbing, which I’m assuming was the intention. The track doesn’t grab me though. It’s basically an OK track on a great album
On first hearing this I found it hard to get my head around this. I still struggle with the track, cannot put my figure on why, but I think that it’s a good track, just not as good as many others on the album.
I like chaos and left field music but this is a little too chaotic and unhinged for me.
So that's the last track. Just the overall comments to post before next weeks listening session. Going to be interesting to see where the discussion goes
Please post any other comments if you wish. happy to hear from you
This is a hard album for me to review as it’s so iconic and influential that I find it hard to put into words how ground-breaking it was on release. I might end up using other people’s words to eloquently portray my feelings.
Even by today’s standards this is an “out there” / left field / art rock album so what must the reception have been in the late 1960’s? It’s a daring album with a “I don’t really care whether we sell any albums we are just going to do what we do” attitude. If that was the idea, it succeeded as it was a commercial flop on release. The fact that psychedelic music, for example, Hendrix and Cream were in vogue at the time also couldn’t have helped. Having said that it is one of the most important albums in rock and pop music
The album has an infectious groove that I love. The sound would have been very unconventional at the time and even today, you don’t here much like this around and it’s going to polarise opinion which is a good thing. I hadn’t appreciated until recently that the bulk of the album was recorded over a four-day period, Astonishing.
“The Observer placed it at No. 1 in their list of the "50 Albums That Changed Music" It has been characterized as the original art-rock record, influencing many subgenres of rock and alternative music, including punk, garage rock, krautrock, post-punk, post-rock, noise rock, shoegaze, gothic rock, art punk, and indie rock”
I thought that I’d include a few snippets from reviews at the time for context
"haunting" vocals of Nico and the "powerful" lyrics of the band, calling it a collection of "sophisticated folk-rock" and a "left-fielder which could click in a big way."
"a full-fledged attack on the ears and on the brain"
“'Sunday Morning' has a definite psychedelic hit sound. 'Run Run Run' still is another Underground gem gaining ground."
“not Commercial with a capital 'C' but an experience in sound." (I really like that one!)
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