I AM TIRED I AM WEARY I COULD SLEEP FOR A THOUSANDS YEARS A THOUSANDS DREAM THAT WOULD AWAKE ME
@jeremywu2224 жыл бұрын
shoegaze-a-best incredible
@naut66064 жыл бұрын
banana is the safeword
@placeholderband193 жыл бұрын
Have you heard the demo of the song? I can't listen to the original now
@PicklePyro8 ай бұрын
I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
@douglaspantz5 ай бұрын
different colors made of tears
@theguywiththewatch7 жыл бұрын
I'm not a junkie, but this album absolutely captivates me.
@mileslcsmusic6 жыл бұрын
Jamie McKelvy So you have to be a junkie to enjoy the velvets?
@mercurialmagictrees6 жыл бұрын
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 😥😂
@pacificdream51524 жыл бұрын
You don't have to be one to enjoy their music, plus their music just gives a perception into drugs. The band is neutral.
@kirby7112 жыл бұрын
any one with a brain loves velvet underground nothing to do with your drug use please
@strawberryfields253 Жыл бұрын
me neither, and i still love them to death
@SEGAClownboss7 жыл бұрын
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.
@TheTestingGrounds6 жыл бұрын
SEGAclownboss....four? Don't forget Live 1969.
@benkennedy12164 жыл бұрын
And squeeze!! (Just kidding)
@aymericlemartelot9784 жыл бұрын
VU is their lost album And is as good as the others 4 imo
@williamberry23513 жыл бұрын
@@aymericlemartelot978 Stephanie Says is a top 5 Lou Reed/VU song
@nikokaapa7 жыл бұрын
Without a doubt one of the most influential albums of the past 100 years.
@moosemoss26457 жыл бұрын
Niko Kääpä 13.8 Billion years!
@meow-zg2fk6 жыл бұрын
Typo: the most influential album
@quentinsummers25315 жыл бұрын
I dont think albums have been around that long
@nickn27945 жыл бұрын
Draevon May that's not what he was saying, smartass. Musically it influenced every single indie/underground band on the planet.
@doydivision39845 жыл бұрын
Fax
@nedisahonkey7 жыл бұрын
This album made me a junkie. 11/10 would die again.
@pariah_carey7 жыл бұрын
same tbqh (this and junkie by william s burroughs)
@gustavhagerstrom75576 жыл бұрын
I enjoy shooting speed to White Light/White Heat. And do Opiods to Venus In Furs, Heroin
@Deathfromabove55 жыл бұрын
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.pepper57944 жыл бұрын
@@Deathfromabove5 Nice profile pic. I have a Pornography shirt.
@zwiseone313 жыл бұрын
@@Deathfromabove5 "he never was a junkie, he just did junkie drugs and wrote about them all the time" come on now
@blackopsfan037 жыл бұрын
I have the LP and peel the banana every so often lmao
@ffwlpe7 жыл бұрын
Jean Baron peel slowly
@floorjazzrecordings66476 жыл бұрын
It always falls off on my shelf, so I've spent more time trying to get the banana back on lmao
@hickorymccay29944 жыл бұрын
@@ffwlpe and see
@finnjeffrey5724 жыл бұрын
My banana fell off
@blakehopper69714 жыл бұрын
What’s behind the banana
@charliesunday10997 жыл бұрын
Sunday morning, and I'm fallin....
@meow-zg2fk6 жыл бұрын
I still think European Son is critically underrated
@Keegan_Lafonde_Music3 ай бұрын
Phenomenal noise rock
@ryanamaro75927 жыл бұрын
there will never be another like them
@anthonym82057 жыл бұрын
Ryan Amaro I don't think there can another like them.
@cobeyc.b59466 жыл бұрын
There are always gonna be others.
@TheTestingGrounds6 жыл бұрын
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.
@AllIsWellaus5 жыл бұрын
Thankfully not. It's so overrated.
@prometheus54054 жыл бұрын
@@AllIsWellaus what albums you love?
@idealistmoon7 жыл бұрын
one of the best albums of that decade and so influential, love listening to Nico
@sayammontesreyes23933 жыл бұрын
please, literally one of the best albums of all time, not just that decade.
@4scended4985 жыл бұрын
THEY WERE GONNA LEAVE SUNDAY MORNING OFF?!?!
@zakharrison12444 жыл бұрын
It was gonna be released separately as a single
@thekalifornian42447 жыл бұрын
Wow, the album is gonna be 50 years old!!!
@amalgamaxx7 жыл бұрын
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
@versnellingspookie7 жыл бұрын
max ruggles but how did you eat then?
@mikeexits5 жыл бұрын
@@versnellingspookie Probably fasted
@exiles_dot_tv5 жыл бұрын
@@versnellingspookie Found a generous person to hang out with.
@BowChickaWow6 ай бұрын
@@mikeexitsheroin cravings helped
@clc-gl4jn3 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest albums ever created. Discovered it nearly 10 years ago at 15
@Pluralofvinylisvinyls Жыл бұрын
11 years ago
@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music Жыл бұрын
Along with heroin?
@Agostoic7 жыл бұрын
Some Cocteau Twins would be appreciated.
@pete2derp7 жыл бұрын
you guys should do a very influential classic, that too few people know about, next. like "slanted and enchanted" or "pink flag".
@EclecticoIconoclasta7 жыл бұрын
also nickelback and tha limp biskit
@JammastaJ236 жыл бұрын
Crooked Rain!
@willturner80395 жыл бұрын
pete pete pink flag is a shout
@GoatDust7 жыл бұрын
white light/white heat now
@cartercartercartercar7 жыл бұрын
Best rock album of all time
@GoatDust7 жыл бұрын
venus in furs kills me
@joenicholls4616 жыл бұрын
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
@colton58587 жыл бұрын
I think their 1969 album The Velvet Underground was their best work by far.
@adamfitz227 жыл бұрын
same
@alexandernikevich97447 жыл бұрын
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..
@luismarioguerrerosanchez47477 жыл бұрын
I don't
@rhandyrhoads127 жыл бұрын
No way
@patrickokane72197 жыл бұрын
Colton Ridiculous! It's a good album, sure, but that's like saying "Changes" is the best song Black Sabbath ever recorded.
@alfredodefalco87457 жыл бұрын
pixies - doolittle plzzzzz
@pete2derp7 жыл бұрын
that would be awesome.
@calebcrittenden7 жыл бұрын
yes
@benwellman73007 жыл бұрын
Alfredo or surfer rosa
@EclecticoIconoclasta7 жыл бұрын
the breeders>>>pixies
@grantmckenzie99567 жыл бұрын
+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.
@Alekzandur7 жыл бұрын
only $25,000???
@anacosta61816 жыл бұрын
Hands down the best album of all time
@user-pz4um9hi1j4 жыл бұрын
It’s up there, I wouldn’t put it at best album
@fuxlux8101 Жыл бұрын
fr
@curly_wyn2 жыл бұрын
That 2002 buyer was, I have no doubt, Julian Casablancas.
@Latexpunk7 жыл бұрын
Favorite band iconic album
@Goatchild907 жыл бұрын
The most influential albums of all time!
@milesjolly61735 жыл бұрын
Well, that banana certainly had its 15 minutes of fame.
@nedisahonkey7 жыл бұрын
Never knew nico was in la dolce vita. Nico is definitely underrated.
@EclecticoIconoclasta7 жыл бұрын
she also had a child with Alain Delon
@danielbrown85567 жыл бұрын
she was also a white supremacist
@versnellingspookie7 жыл бұрын
Daniel Brown so what
@Pixielly7 жыл бұрын
Daniel Brown Really?? That is super disappointing
@danielbrown85567 жыл бұрын
Yeah she once glassed a mixed-race woman whilst saying 'I hate black people' and she often said pretty unsavoury things about jews
@Notmyrealname694205 жыл бұрын
I miss crushing and snorting lines of dilaudid to all tomorrow's parties and feeling the rush by the middle of heroin
@martinantonio20026 жыл бұрын
"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.
@djstarsign3 жыл бұрын
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.
@blastofo2 жыл бұрын
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.
@rooctherooc24182 жыл бұрын
Creating cool album art isn’t the produces job
@gregoreisenhorn49935 жыл бұрын
Nice but you forgot to mention how Lou Reeds very much disliked Nico and how Edie Sedgwick was tormented by Andy Warhol
@safona3743 жыл бұрын
can you tell me more about it?
@ForARide4 жыл бұрын
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.
@pinkyunddasbrain Жыл бұрын
Incredible how they were able to capture the sounds of garbage in a dumpster onto vinyl.
@BenCDaugherty Жыл бұрын
So I’m assuming that you don’t get on with this band.
@MantisUmbrella7 жыл бұрын
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
@TeleNikon3 жыл бұрын
1:44 brilliant photo of Nico by Lisa Law
@3goals4bonzai7 жыл бұрын
sister ray.
@ALastStraw5 жыл бұрын
Is not on this album
@JimRitchieBhoy7 жыл бұрын
Lou says Femme Fatale was written for Nico after Andy Warhol said we need a femme fatale.
@untitleduser101013 жыл бұрын
i like this album.
@SleepBeforeYouThink3 жыл бұрын
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.
@TheEpicImpaler7 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece.
@stevenl32657 жыл бұрын
Great Album to do acid to
@sheldonscott40377 жыл бұрын
WhatEver_ Name_Works I did back in 1978/79 in the navy barracks tripping on some good "clean" acid.
@destrokes15345 жыл бұрын
r/idodrugs
@emmyhirstwood61056 жыл бұрын
Amazing.
@Jamy8207 жыл бұрын
What take of there she goes again is that at the end at 4:20??
@nvxe6 жыл бұрын
The one on the acetate disc. It is sung by Nico and she forgets the lyrics.
@joedoe7832 ай бұрын
I think only Marquee Moon rivals it as a debut.
@guapanmessi44704 жыл бұрын
This album... this band.. fuckin epic
@Amiratora7777 жыл бұрын
My favorite forever, hell yeah
@TheWolfSaidPoofy7 жыл бұрын
Do one on Scott Walker!
@jbchervin7 жыл бұрын
SW 3
@buckaroo1949 Жыл бұрын
So, how valuable is my Emerson torso LP? I have had it since it came out.
@harrys20002 ай бұрын
Can I have it
@SuperWush7 жыл бұрын
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."
@PROJECT1LEsprayz7 жыл бұрын
Love - forever changes 🙏
@RealAsaMitaka Жыл бұрын
There will never be another album
@TheOnlyGimmeturben6 жыл бұрын
would you do this for Astral Weeks?
@joseferrer37387 жыл бұрын
0:22 that nun wants to eat lou
@fordhouse8b7 жыл бұрын
One of my all time faves.
@mybloodythanksgiving30405 жыл бұрын
This album makes me wanna do hernoin
@jugjugette51884 жыл бұрын
That's because you are a dickwad.
@renzoandre21587 жыл бұрын
Do Daft Punk Discovery
@SRamosX7 жыл бұрын
This video focuses exclusively on the commercial side of the story
@mitchellhughes51803 жыл бұрын
The guy doing the voiceover sounds like such a dork
@groovyanchovy95444 жыл бұрын
still sounds cool now ! real punk, real rock
@adamcharge16 жыл бұрын
What was that recording outtake at the end of the video
@AllenSentinery7 ай бұрын
This album was intense but it's a fun listen.
@jairocastillo53647 жыл бұрын
do arcade fire - funeral
@jeffreyg46265 жыл бұрын
I agree!
@giorgimerabishvili81947 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@adrianmanzo89047 жыл бұрын
grandioso! espectacular!
@yassiec52944 жыл бұрын
shiny shiny, shiny boots of leather....
@ZachJenkins4 жыл бұрын
Not bad company with Freak Out one spot behind 3:52
@johnsradios4847 жыл бұрын
Great album !
@thecinematicmind4 жыл бұрын
A Piece of Music History.
@lamper27 жыл бұрын
THAT NORMAN DOLPH ACETATE IS AN EASY DOWNLOAD
@Genesisdoes875 жыл бұрын
My boys
@thepuppethead11886 жыл бұрын
2:47 i as very lucky to get to see one of those giant bananas in the flesh :)
@glueball95113 жыл бұрын
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
@johnlangley64495 ай бұрын
Successful sales equals killer of artists 😮
@coreiwilson32827 жыл бұрын
seems like everything was working against this album
@G12GilbertProduction7 жыл бұрын
False band "The Mans from Mars" is have created a fundament of Velvet earlier than Lou & Andy tantieme.
@Lsiahaan7 жыл бұрын
There was a time...
@DJSTOEK4 жыл бұрын
💘
@cameronvillarrealLp4 жыл бұрын
Shiny shiny, shiny boots of leather
@EddyTeetree3 жыл бұрын
Sooooo Fuckin Cooool even being on poo-tube can’t diminish it!
@yassiec52944 жыл бұрын
who else gets so excited when one of their songs is used in a movie/ tv show?
@lymntria7 жыл бұрын
Tame impala lonerism next
@kikeheebchinkjigaboo66317 жыл бұрын
Wrong it was Paul morissey that signed the band and dug nico
@broscastefano7 жыл бұрын
La dolce vita with "T" not vida.
@badfairy95546 жыл бұрын
Nico was a bad,bad girl.
@basedsouljah6 жыл бұрын
Haha the video is 4:33 long GET IT CUZ JOHN CAGE
@user-pz4um9hi1j4 жыл бұрын
H y u c k
@jbchervin7 жыл бұрын
Recorded entirely in 1 day? ....I get that they were speed freaks but c'mon man.
@rorycowieson59247 жыл бұрын
He said between 1 and 4 days...
@BlueSky...7 жыл бұрын
Would have been great if you actually focused on the music
@rangers94ism2 жыл бұрын
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.
@nikokaapa2 жыл бұрын
This comment is either bait or stupidity. Who knows?
@Britton_Thompson5 жыл бұрын
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."
@Wherethegoodstuffgoes2 жыл бұрын
BANANAS
@OerythiaDeQuatrefages3 жыл бұрын
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.
@rakawa70937 жыл бұрын
why'd Nico have to be so horrible
@ELCNUmorFnaMehT7 жыл бұрын
rakawa She was a pretty disgusting individual.
@blackopsfan037 жыл бұрын
rakawa how?
@rakawa70937 жыл бұрын
Jean Baron racist
@40paschal7 жыл бұрын
go away
@_ab7a7 жыл бұрын
She did nothing wrong
@mateogonzalez4904 Жыл бұрын
Who tf are u
@ronronn31486 жыл бұрын
Never understood this album probably never will
@pinkertoncity6 жыл бұрын
Nikos voice is the worst thing i have heard. Right on the same level as yoko and wing.
@blakehopper69714 жыл бұрын
Ya I’m not a huge fan of hers to be honest but the album is still great
@doydivision39845 жыл бұрын
Honestly, some of the songs on this album were really unlistenable to me. Other than that I thought the album was ok
@sudevsen7 жыл бұрын
VU and WLWH are better albums
@Ctopkis7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, probably.
@jonathanoneill80117 жыл бұрын
Jose Rodriguez Agreed! They are all great! "The Gift" haunted my adolescence.