The Velvet Underground & Nico (In 4 Minutes)

[@thekoala038]

I AM TIRED I AM WEARY I COULD SLEEP FOR A THOUSANDS YEARS A THOUSANDS DREAM THAT WOULD AWAKE ME

[@jeremywu222]

shoegaze-a-best incredible

[@naut6606]

banana is the safeword

[@placeholderband19]

Have you heard the demo of the song? I can't listen to the original now

[@PicklePyro]

I wish that I was born a thousand years ago

[@douglaspantz]

different colors made of tears

[@theguywiththewatch]

I'm not a junkie, but this album absolutely captivates me.

[@mileslcsmusic]

Jamie McKelvy So you have to be a junkie to enjoy the velvets?

[@mercurialmagictrees]

that's cool it captivates me too I picked up a mono reissue record , a 1968 copy and a 1999 English CD of the album I'm not a junkie either... well not yet 😥😂

[@pacificdream5152]

You don't have to be one to enjoy their music, plus their music just gives a perception into drugs. The band is neutral.

[@kirby711]

any one with a brain loves velvet underground nothing to do with your drug use please

[@strawberryfields253]

me neither, and i still love them to death

[@SEGAClownboss]

If you've done one, now you gotta do all four of them. Each of the Velvet Underground albums has a great story behind them.

[@TheTestingGrounds]

SEGAclownboss....four? Don't forget Live 1969.

[@benkennedy1216]

And squeeze!! (Just kidding)

[@aymericlemartelot978]

VU is their lost album And is as good as the others 4 imo

[@williamberry2351]

@@aymericlemartelot978 Stephanie Says is a top 5 Lou Reed/VU song

[@nedisahonkey]

This album made me a junkie. 11/10 would die again.

[@pariah_carey]

same tbqh (this and junkie by william s burroughs)

[@gustavhagerstrom7557]

I enjoy shooting speed to White Light/White Heat. And do Opiods to Venus In Furs, Heroin

[@Deathfromabove5]

Lou Reed never actually was a junkie. He only dabbled with heroin in college. He was heavy into shooting speed and drinking liquor though.

[@sgt.pepper5794]

@@Deathfromabove5 Nice profile pic. I have a Pornography shirt.

[@zwiseone31]

@@Deathfromabove5 "he never was a junkie, he just did junkie drugs and wrote about them all the time" come on now

[@blackopsfan03]

I have the LP and peel the banana every so often lmao

[@ffwlpe]

Jean Baron peel slowly

[@floorjazzrecordings6647]

It always falls off on my shelf, so I've spent more time trying to get the banana back on lmao

[@hickorymccay2994]

@@ffwlpe and see

[@finnjeffrey572]

My banana fell off

[@blakehopper6971]

What’s behind the banana

[@nikokaapa]

Without a doubt one of the most influential albums of the past 100 years.

[@moosemoss2645]

Niko Kääpä 13.8 Billion years!

[@meow-zg2fk]

Typo: the most influential album

[@quentinsummers2531]

I dont think albums have been around that long

[@nickn2794]

Draevon May that's not what he was saying, smartass. Musically it influenced every single indie/underground band on the planet.

[@doydivision3984]

Fax

[@charliesunday1099]

Sunday morning, and I'm fallin....

[@idealistmoon]

one of the best albums of that decade and so influential, love listening to Nico

[@sayammontesreyes2393]

please, literally one of the best albums of all time, not just that decade.

[@ryanamaro7592]

there will never be another like them

[@anthonym8205]

Ryan Amaro I don't think there can another like them.

[@cobeyc.b5946]

There are always gonna be others.

[@TheTestingGrounds]

Cobey.....ok, so in the last 51 years there have been others? I don't think so. We're not talking great bands in general, but bands who released something this revolutionary.

[@AllIsWellaus]

Thankfully not. It's so overrated.

[@prometheus5405]

@@AllIsWellaus what albums you love?

[@meow-zg2fk]

I still think European Son is critically underrated

[@Keegan_Lafonde_Music]

Phenomenal noise rock

[@4scended498]

THEY WERE GONNA LEAVE SUNDAY MORNING OFF?!?!

[@zakharrison1244]

It was gonna be released separately as a single

[@amalgamaxx]

I was in America visiting from UK for a month and I was completely broke my mum sent me 100 bucks which I promptly spent on a velvet underground box set didn't regret it for a nanosecond

[@versnellingspookie]

max ruggles but how did you eat then?

[@mikeexits]

@@versnellingspookie Probably fasted

[@exiles_dot_tv]

@@versnellingspookie Found a generous person to hang out with.

[@BowChickaWow]

@@mikeexitsheroin cravings helped

[@joenicholls461]

One of the few albums that actually lives up to its massive hype. This and White Light/ White Heat are the apex of Counter culture rock for me, utterly inspired music

[@clc-gl4jn]

One of the greatest albums ever created. Discovered it nearly 10 years ago at 15

[@Pluralofvinylisvinyls]

11 years ago

[@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music]

Along with heroin?

[@Agostoic]

Some Cocteau Twins would be appreciated.

[@pete2derp]

you guys should do a very influential classic, that too few people know about, next. like "slanted and enchanted" or "pink flag".

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

also nickelback and tha limp biskit

[@JammastaJ23]

Crooked Rain!

[@willturner8039]

pete pete pink flag is a shout

[@thekalifornian4244]

Wow, the album is gonna be 50 years old!!!

[@cartercartercartercar]

Best rock album of all time

[@GoatDust]

white light/white heat now

[@alfredodefalco8745]

pixies - doolittle plzzzzz

[@pete2derp]

that would be awesome.

[@calebcrittenden]

yes

[@benwellman7300]

Alfredo or surfer rosa

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

the breeders>>>pixies

[@grantmckenzie9956]

+Ecléctico Iconoclasta that's an opinion, whereas the great bands that have been influenced and the impression that the Pixies had on music is a fact. Even if you like the Breeders more, the pixies are a more important band based on their influence and fan base.

[@ThinWhiteLuke]

I liked the video it was very informative. Yet, you didn’t actually talk about any of the songs or the meanings behind them. What about the instrumentation and the inspiration behind it? This album contributed to so many genres/styles of future music, yet you mainly focused on the marketing, low sales and how it didn’t chart well. I understand these things are relevant but I think a lot of people care about the stories behind Lou Reeds voice. For example, if you listen to David Bowie talk about this album. He says it’s like a Polaroid picture of what NYC was like in the 60s, at least for the outcasts and junkies who could identify so much with people like Reed and Bowie. Still I enjoyed the video.

[@GoatDust]

venus in furs kills me

[@ForARide]

This is the typical superficial review of the Velvets, naming Lou and Nico but not the other band members John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Moe Tucker. They were far more important towards the sound of the Velvets, with their musical input instead of Nico, who in this case was just a "guest singer". Moe Tucker was the first female drummer in Rock, bringing in a somewhat primitive and tribal beat to the band, previously unheard of before. John Cale on the other hand was the real musical genius behind their groundbreaking sound, implementing avantgarde and classical elements such as the drone into Rock music. Reed fooled almost everybody, believing that VU was entirely all about him.

[@colton5858]

I think their 1969 album The Velvet Underground was their best work by far.

[@adamfitz22]

same

[@alexandernikevich9744]

It's tied with white light/white heat as my fav.. It's definitely their best batch of songs, but their experimentation and noise of wl/wh is the most visceral music of the 60s..

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

I don't

[@rhandyrhoads12]

No way

[@patrickokane7219]

Colton Ridiculous! It's a good album, sure, but that's like saying "Changes" is the best song Black Sabbath ever recorded.

[@Goatchild90]

The most influential albums of all time!

[@anacosta6181]

Hands down the best album of all time

[@user-pz4um9hi1j]

It’s up there, I wouldn’t put it at best album

[@fuxlux8101]

fr

[@Latexpunk]

Favorite band iconic album

[@curly_wyn]

That 2002 buyer was, I have no doubt, Julian Casablancas.

[@Alekzandur]

only $25,000???

[@milesjolly6173]

Well, that banana certainly had its 15 minutes of fame.

[@paddyrick]

i like this album.

[@nedisahonkey]

Never knew nico was in la dolce vita. Nico is definitely underrated.

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

she also had a child with Alain Delon

[@danielbrown8556]

she was also a white supremacist

[@versnellingspookie]

Daniel Brown so what

[@Pixielly]

Daniel Brown Really?? That is super disappointing

[@danielbrown8556]

Yeah she once glassed a mixed-race woman whilst saying 'I hate black people' and she often said pretty unsavoury things about jews

[@TheEpicImpaler]

Masterpiece.

[@gregoreisenhorn4993]

Nice but you forgot to mention how Lou Reeds very much disliked Nico and how Edie Sedgwick was tormented by Andy Warhol

[@safona374]

can you tell me more about it?

[@Notmyrealname69420]

I miss crushing and snorting lines of dilaudid to all tomorrow's parties and feeling the rush by the middle of heroin

[@guapanmessi4470]

This album... this band.. fuckin epic

[@Amiratora777]

My favorite forever, hell yeah

[@TeleNikon]

1:44 brilliant photo of Nico by Lisa Law

[@TheWolfSaidPoofy]

Do one on Scott Walker!

[@jbchervin]

SW 3

[@pinkyunddasbrain]

Incredible how they were able to capture the sounds of garbage in a dumpster onto vinyl.

[@BenCDaugherty]

So I’m assuming that you don’t get on with this band.

[@SuperWush]

Worked at smart n final from 2009-2013. During that time, I remember seeing Andy Warhol's famous pop art piece on the 20 pack of Perrier mineral water. Always wondered how they let them do that lol i mean for shit sake, first thing when i saw that was "Heroin."

[@martinantonio2002]

"Andy Warhol was the only credited producer on the album, despite doing little of the work expected of the position" HE CREATED ONE OF THE FUCKING BEST ALBUM COVERS EVER. As if The Velvet Underground needed an active producer. They just needed the funds, the creative force was there. For fuck's sake.

[@djstarsign]

Reed was on record saying that Andy didn’t do anything, but that his presence allowed them the freedom to make the record they wanted without any interference. So he was a major factor in them realizing their vision.

[@blastofo]

The album encapsulates all the provocative, hedonistic, and subversive elements that were happening in warhols factory. If they had a traditional producer, the album probably would have sounded like another beatles/stones/dylan rip.

[@rooctherooc2418]

Creating cool album art isn’t the produces job

[@3goals4bonzai]

sister ray.

[@ALastStraw]

Is not on this album

[@PROJECT1LEsprayz]

Love - forever changes 🙏

[@stevenl3265]

Great Album to do acid to

[@sheldonscott4037]

WhatEver_ Name_Works I did back in 1978/79 in the navy barracks tripping on some good "clean" acid.

[@destrokes1534]

r/idodrugs

[@MantisUmbrella]

i believe warhol made lou reed write femme fatale for nico not taxi wanting her to do vocals for every song on the album also forced nico on the underground which is why she didn't appear in any of their work after they fired warhol as the producer

[@emmyhirstwood6105]

Amazing.

[@JimRitchieBhoy]

Lou says Femme Fatale was written for Nico after Andy Warhol said we need a femme fatale.

[@fordhouse8b]

One of my all time faves.

[@joseferrer3738]

0:22 that nun wants to eat lou

[@RealAsaMitaka]

There will never be another album

[@renzoandre2158]

Do Daft Punk Discovery

[@mybloodythanksgiving3040]

This album makes me wanna do hernoin

[@jugjugette5188]

That's because you are a dickwad.

[@groovyanchovy9544]

still sounds cool now ! real punk, real rock

[@jeffreyg4626]

I agree!

[@TheOnlyGimmeturben]

would you do this for Astral Weeks?

[@AllenSentinery]

This album was intense but it's a fun listen.

[@thecinematicmind]

A Piece of Music History.

[@yassiec5294]

shiny shiny, shiny boots of leather....

[@johnsradios484]

Great album !

[@Jamy820]

What take of there she goes again is that at the end at 4:20??

[@nvxe]

The one on the acetate disc. It is sung by Nico and she forgets the lyrics.

[@buckaroo1949]

So, how valuable is my Emerson torso LP? I have had it since it came out.

[@harrys2000]

Can I have it

[@glueball9511]

feel embarassed for ever having read pfork. things have seriously gone down hill after being bought up by conde naste (vanity fair, cosmo, gq etc). the old lists are still a treasure trove for curiously minded listener tho

[@Genesisdoes87]

My boys

[@mitchellhughes5180]

The guy doing the voiceover sounds like such a dork

[@johnlangley6449]

Successful sales equals killer of artists 😮

[@jairocastillo5364]

do arcade fire - funeral

[@giorgimerabishvili8194]

Thanks!

[@adrianmanzo8904]

grandioso! espectacular!

[@SRamosX]

This video focuses exclusively on the commercial side of the story

[@Lsiahaan]

There was a time...

[@EddyTeetree]

Sooooo Fuckin Cooool even being on poo-tube can’t diminish it!

[@ZachJenkins]

Not bad company with Freak Out one spot behind 3:52

[@thepuppethead1188]

2:47 i as very lucky to get to see one of those giant bananas in the flesh :)

[@lamper2]

THAT NORMAN DOLPH ACETATE IS AN EASY DOWNLOAD

[@G12GilbertProduction]

False band "The Mans from Mars" is have created a fundament of Velvet earlier than Lou & Andy tantieme.

[@cameronvillarrealLp]

Shiny shiny, shiny boots of leather

[@adamcharge1]

What was that recording outtake at the end of the video

[@coreiwilson3282]

seems like everything was working against this album

[@lymntria]

Tame impala lonerism next

[@DJSTOEK]

💘

[@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631]

Wrong it was Paul morissey that signed the band and dug nico

[@badfairy9554]

Nico was a bad,bad girl.

[@broscastefano]

La dolce vita with "T" not vida.

[@rangers94ism]

So some soup artist guy paints a banana for a go nowhere obscure band and I am supposed to like it? Why? I actually saw a KZbin title that said, "The Untold Truth about the Velvet Underground". I am thinking, are you kidding me? Ant truth about them is untold. With these guys it's pick a truth any truth. Lol. How is this band considered among the top 32 bands of all time? Because right now I have your basic garage band over them.

[@nikokaapa]

This comment is either bait or stupidity. Who knows?

[@Britton_Thompson]

I can't recall his name rightaway, but a rock journalist once explained Velvet Underground perfectly. I saved the quote because I thought it was apt: "Velvet Underground is the most hipster band of all time because they were the first band that it was cool to like....... but never actually listen to. There's only a handful of gems in their entire catalog: Candy Says, Waiting For the Man, Heroin, and Sweet Jane. But most of their themes are little more than repetitive drivel, ill-advised methodology, and Nico can't sing. Sorry; not sorry. VU has only achieved some bastardized version of 'iconic' status now-- many years after the fact --because they were the first band to eschew the music industry's traditional business model, and instead opted for more experimentation as opposed to improving upon a signature sound..... or just improving, period. Fortunately, they spared us the same fate that other 1960s and 1970s bands almost always undertake when they experience a posthumous surge in album sales long after their heyday: the predictable reunion tours. If you've ever been puzzled as to why the Velvet Underground has somehow found a way to endure today despite being anything but a success during their active working years, here's your answer. VU's legacy is one of breaking the rules to become influential despite sucking."

[@BlueSky...]

Would have been great if you actually focused on the music

[@yassiec5294]

who else gets so excited when one of their songs is used in a movie/ tv show?

[@basedsouljah]

Haha the video is 4:33 long GET IT CUZ JOHN CAGE

[@user-pz4um9hi1j]

H y u c k

[@jbchervin]

Recorded entirely in 1 day? ....I get that they were speed freaks but c'mon man.

[@rorycowieson5924]

He said between 1 and 4 days...

[@Wherethegoodstuffgoes]

BANANAS

[@OerythiaDeQuatrefages]

I'm tired of those experts like blokes narrative voices; as if in the matter of pop or rocks, guys with any white USamerican accents would knows better,… It's such a femme (fatale) inspired album by the way.

[@mateogonzalez4904]

Who tf are u

[@rakawa7093]

why'd Nico have to be so horrible

[@ELCNUmorFnaMehT]

rakawa She was a pretty disgusting individual.

[@blackopsfan03]

rakawa how?

[@rakawa7093]

Jean Baron racist

[@40paschal]

go away

[@_ab7a]

She did nothing wrong

[@doydivision3984]

Honestly, some of the songs on this album were really unlistenable to me. Other than that I thought the album was ok

[@pinkertoncity]

Nikos voice is the worst thing i have heard. Right on the same level as yoko and wing.

[@blakehopper6971]

Ya I’m not a huge fan of hers to be honest but the album is still great

[@sudevsen]

VU and WLWH are better albums

[@Ctopkis]

Yeah, probably.

[@jonathanoneill8011]

Jose Rodriguez Agreed! They are all great! "The Gift" haunted my adolescence.

[@Aubry92]

WLWH > VU&N > VU imo

[@ronronn3148]

Never understood this album probably never will

[@MulletKid]

Man this kind of pretty good record sure birthed a lot of hipster nonsense

[@nedisahonkey]

Kevin Rachman LOL Beck was not the first hipster. Are you fucking trolling? There were hipsters in the 40s and 50s

[@nedisahonkey]

Kevin Rachman [hip-ster] noun, Slang. 1.a usually young person who is trendy,stylish, or progressive in an unconventionalway; someone who is hip. 2.a person, especially during the 1950s and1960s, characterized by a particularly strongsense of alienation from most establishedsocial activities and relationships; a beatnikor hippie. noun, Slang. 3 aperformer or admirer of jazz, especiallyswing; a hepcat. Origin of hipster: 1935-40, Americanism; hip+ ster www.dictionary.com/browse/hipster

[@nedisahonkey]

Kevin Rachman Just because you only heard of a term relatively recentently doesn't mean it hasn't been around for many more decades or centuries than you imagined possible

[@jonathanoneill8011]

Ned Gold Yeah, that's true, but I feel as though the term was used to denote an entirely different thing than it is today (just a glance at the definition you posted says so). Prior to the year 2000, I would agree that it refers to a beatnik or anyone belonging to any sort of counter culture. Today it's acquired a sense of practiced irony, nothing about it seems genuine. Any nod to something in the past is BECAUSE it was counter cultural or simply as a joke. That's just my view, though. Cheers!

[@discusobscurum2194]

Dude, he meant the modern usage of hipster.

[@sidoniemoreau6179]

First