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| Poll: BETVUA (Best ever The Velvet Underground album)? |
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| The Velvet Underground and Nico |
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58% |
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| White Light/White Heat |
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19% |
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| The Velvet Underground |
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19% |
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| Loaded |
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3% |
[1] |
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| Total Votes : 31 |
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Facetious
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Location: Somewhere you've never been 
- #1
- Posted: 01/03/2012 16:29
- Post subject: Best/Favourite Velvet Underground album?
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(Heck, I keep posting these polls, but never mind  )
So which is it? The Great and Awesome Debut, The Great and Awesome Second Album, The Great and Awesome Third Album, or The Great and Awesome Fourth Album? (Let's just ignore "Squeeze" for a moment, huh? It's not a real VU album, anyway.  )
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Jimmy Dread
Old skool like Happy Shopper
Location: 555 Dub Street 
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- #2
- Posted: 01/03/2012 16:35
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That's a toughie...
Personally speaking I'm not a big fan of Loaded. VU (3rd) and WLWH are corkers, but for sheer songcraft, the so-shit-it's-good 'production' values and being the archetype for 100s of leather clad freaks over the years (as well as the Nico factor) 'Banana' shades it. Just.
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Hayden
Location: Vietnam 
- #3
- Posted: 01/03/2012 16:41
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Ah. What a nice looking list 
Velvet Underground & Nico (100/100) wins it for me
After that, it'd go
Loaded (90/100)
Velvet Underground (90/100)
White Light/ White Hear (90/100)
Squeeze (30/100)
And if 'VU' counts, it'd be after White Light with 80/100.
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RFNAPLES
Level 8
Gender: Male
Age: 76
Location: Durham, NC, USA 
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Location: Paris, France 
- #5
- Posted: 01/03/2012 16:51
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I voted for White Light/White Heat. The Velvet Underground & Nico is flawless, but I keep coming back to "Sister Ray" so often that I think its mere presence on a record makes it a gem. The third album is very good, Loaded's at least good. For Velvet fans, as Hayden pointed out, the VU compilation is also a must-have.
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cartoken
The Seer
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Location: Paris
- #6
- Posted: 01/03/2012 20:53
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I voted for the obvious choice but I almost love loaded as much.
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Location: Paris, France
- #7
- Posted: 01/03/2012 21:01
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| cartoken wrote: | | I voted for the obvious choice |
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mooseboy101
Gender: Male
Location: Geneva 
- #8
- Posted: 01/03/2012 23:06
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| cartoken wrote: | | I voted for the obvious choice |
Me too, I mean nothing can really beat White Light/White Heat, am I right?
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monosyllables
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Location: St. Louis, MO
- #9
- Posted: 01/03/2012 23:18
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Just had to give it to WL/WH--THOSE SOLOS OH GOD
And thank you for not soiling the list of options with that abortion of an album which shall not be named. But it's Squeeze. That I'm talking about.
Squeeze sucks.
Hard.
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Mr. Shankly
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Location: Auburn, Washington
- #10
- Posted: 01/04/2012 00:17
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Are VU and Another View not considered proper Velvet Underground albums? I think you can make an argument that VU is, because a lot of those tracks were intended for a lost album. Anyway, I like the quieter, more mellow side of the band best, so my fav is the third self-titled album.
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