THE VELVET UNDERGROUND- Venus In Furs (Live MCMXCIII).mp4

[@skullykapsavage1343]

The creepiest most coolest & most interesting song i ever heard in a movie

[@1972finnegan]

Masterpiece!!! My Velvet's favorite song!

[@Ignirium]

Same, i only like this version. I heard it on Rage many years ago and it's the same video, as soon as i heard it i felt immersed in the melody, i just sat there transfixed until the song was over. I still feel like that.

[@questionblock8949]

@@Ignirium haha same i remember seeing it on Rage a long time ago 😄

[@DrChopp69]

Totally a masterpiece.

[@vivnoname]

@@Ignirium Me too, this version has the little extra guitar bits added to the chorus. For some reason I absolutely love those bits. Wish I could buy the video.

[@Ignirium]

@@vivnoname Thanks for the reply, I'm going to listen to it again

[@АлексейКузнецов-с8б]

Lou Reed undisputed founder of the alternative rock !!!

[@ForARide]

No. Lou Reed & John Cale! Cale was the musical genius behind their sound. He was never credited properly for his musical contribution on TVU&N and WL/WH. It should have been lyrics: Lou Reed music: Lou Reed & John Cale.

[@questionblock8949]

In 1999 or 2000 when i was about 15, my music project was on the Velvet Underground. I played Here She Comes Now. The music teacher had never heard of Velvet Underground lol but i got an A so all was well 😄

[@My-name-is-MUD]

A Severin is the most beautiful form of boy. He is kind. He is gentle, yet he is strong. He is not afraid to love which only makes someone love him more. He has no value, but you give him your heart because he earns it. "I'd never seen a Severin before, hes perfect and I love him!"

[@nastiaandrej]

the Severin the band refers to is the protagonist of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's "Venus in Fur"

[@lynnehuff9659]

@@nastiaandrej I didn't know either things.

[@InvisibleGirl80]

Severin is indeed a good boy 🖤

[@bakionigeri6414]

@@InvisibleGirl80 see i love all these. i thought severin meant 2 definitions: "serious" or " a state of unrequited lust"??? note: i maybe waaay off, but that's what my ol search came up with 🤔

[@InvisibleGirl80]

@@bakionigeri6414 Severin is the perfect submissive. BDSM is mostly about trust and give yourself completely than anything else.

[@seanod7157]

Love both versions, favor this one. So dark and sexy, sinister, slightly menacing but still sexy. This song hits a part of me few other artworks have. Wow.

[@herbieadasa1038]

This is my ist bought album of velvet underground. I was 17 at that time '93. RIP Lou

[@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG]

@Herbie Adasa Mine, too, except it was in '67...

[@karlfortuin5794]

Who's watching during the pandemic & these amazing guys deserve to be in the early stages of grunge they played the way for acts like verve nevanna courtney Cobain etc endless you guys still have it 🎙🎹🎸📽📺

[@violinistoftaupo]

Oh my lord, Lou Reed on vocals and John Cale on rock viola.

[@sydfloydism4146]

And Sterling Morrison on bass

[@opcja9829]

@@sydfloydism4146 and Mauren Tucker on drums

[@phydia72]

Bellissimo.. Grande respiro...

[@bakionigeri6414]

so many versions and i love em all

[@vivnoname]

Great version. Thank you.

[@shockingbluefanandynirvana7364]

I love this band this is my favorite song of them,and their best

[@timcrawford7306]

I don't feel they get the credit they deserve. Velvet Underground has influenced not bands but art and yet their almost unknown to most people. Definitely one one the top five greatest bands of all time

[@jordanhays9042]

They’re good but they’re not top five good man come on stones Floyd zeppelin Skynyrd Alice In Chains rush don’t get my wrong they’re def underrated and rock but they aren’t what these bands are

[@knell-zh7do]

Many people may not know them but I assure you the people who do have them in their top 10 at least

[@adminmanager443]

@@knell-zh7do why is anyone ranking art like sports teams

[@knell-zh7do]

@@adminmanager443 it's not ranking it's just personal opinion. in reality, no art is "better" than another form of art

[@mariamonicasosavasquez9006]

Me encanta cómo suena en vivo.. Different colors made of tears, qué frase!

[@joeledwardgunscristinoponc983]

Exacto

[@nicholas70paul]

Lou had such a soulful voice, v cool :)

[@Litjlien]

It's like 50 years since his songs were "prime-time"-songs, so give him a break on his performances in front of the cameras... Anyways, he was the man, and he decided how to do his songs.

[@LEOFLOYD1225]

:( Todavía no lo puedo creer...Buen viaje querido Lou Reed!!

[@danmang923]

The applause says it all.

[@winnentoe100]

F-A--N-T-A-S-T-I-C-!

[@t.c.bramblett617]

It's the best horrible music I've ever heard.

[@elaineroderick1920]

As dark as it was all those years ago . Whiplash, whips and .all those dark secrets you keep locked up. Shinny shony

[@Dermacrosis]

Definitely a Le Femme song, and that is a compliment.

[@noice.1]

excellent!!!!

[@ratmfan008]

Thats amazing!!

[@sydfloydism4146]

Sterling Morrison on bass! RIP Nico,Sterling,lou

[@craigg5410]

I would pay to unhear this version.

[@craigg5410]

I sort of regret this comment. He's a beautiful man. He could sing it anyway he wishes and I would melt.

[@vuvietdung1996]

sterling and the bass :p i remember he hate play bass but love the song

[@otterman445]

Very true to the original and very live...RIP Lou Reed

[@desmomanu748s]

RIP Lou REED ! I Love You !!!!

[@tamersertoglu3496]

not many liked the original when it first came out. not many likes this version now. but it's still great. just for the contreversy.. lou is great

[@tamersertoglu3496]

john and sterling and moe as well. . they're all great.. I appreciate

[@tamersertoglu3496]

just goes to show how many people who complain here about how wrong the song is sung, actually never loved the song but the hype around it

[@chrisnewman7281]

It sounds like his singing a different melody

[@drinkdrownsoda]

The live music sounds great but Lou puts zero effort in the vocals. He sounds bored, like he doesn't want to be there

[@laoblum8813]

+newdawnfades He is tired, he is weary, he could sleep for a thousand years, so what do you expect? If you need lively music you better look somewhere or for someone else. :)

[@draconisdracon]

+newdawnfades I saw Low Reed in concert shortly before this and the whole concert was like this, he just didn't have the delivery anymore - don't know if was his age , the drugs or what.

[@giorgoskatsafaros3995]

+newdawnfades Ooo my my! He invented bored vocals you sould know btw!

[@TheA13000]

+newdawnfades Probably because rather than in the studio version here lou had to keep on tempo with the guitar. That's why he sounds "weird" and "bored".

[@ForARide]

Need to watch John Cale´s version of this song. JC is the true Maestro of Venus In Furs!

[@MED0]

This version is better than the original one.

[@johnsonne7818]

The voice is not better

[@MED0]

yeah, the chorus get kinda messy in this one, but the instrumentals sounds like heaven

[@lovewalruss]

this is he VU song which really sets them apart

[@PacoCCepas]

still great

[@rodrigofernande1116]

Rock n roll life eeeeeeeee

[@Heycarlaa]

Lou Reed doesn't look like Homer Simpson, he's look like God ?

[@persephone9373]

Lords of Salem......

[@Daneh97]

can someone please tab this performance? I have been trying to put different slightly incorrect tabs together, and obviously just learning by ear as well, but I want to play it the way it's played here, more than any other way. Hope someone sees this. thanks

[@WilliamZeebub]

The original punks

[@stevesmith-mi8pc]

highly trained musicians - you dont see that today

[@shobhitbhatnagar729]

yaaaaaaaa

[@chikorion]

venus de las pieles

[@comradesentournjr3696]

A lot of y'all seem surprised by this performance.. Lou Reed was notorious for this, he would sing his own songs differently on a pretty regular basis (usually the changes are significantly worse than the way he sings on actual studio releases imo, the reason I'm guessing is because he was not a highly-skilled / technical vocalist).

[@darenwu8266]

I would argue his vocal ability since he delivered powerful vocals in recordings like Rock and Roll. The main reason he does live drastically different, I believe, is that he was one of the many musicians who finds recreating studio version boring and somewhat repels it deliberately.

[@comradesentournjr3696]

@@darenwu8266 that's one way to look at it but i personally think youre giving him too much credit, lol.

[@wangson]

@@darenwu8266 Like the Dead. They never played the same song the same way twice...Jerry once said they weren't good enough to do so! Ha!! Jerry was a humble man!

[@ForARide]

​@@darenwu8266Reed got that of Cale. While playing with LaMonte Young, their concept was to never repeat a track the same way. Cale's numerous takes of different versions of the songs he has performed live are mind blowong. Cale is easily one of the most versatile musicians to ever have walked this planet.

[@riccardocondorelli2220]

Lou Reed: great composer and singer but worst live performer ever

[@conrado5859]

He’s just messing with the audience. I believe he’s the one who said that you should never play a song the same twice.

[@mr.anonymous5501]

@@conrado5859He might have tried play it off as, just messing, but really he was physically and mentally incapable of putting on a good performance consistently in youth, and at all as he aged.

[@ForARide]

@@conrado5859 No, that concept of not playing a song the same twice comes from John Cale and not Lou Reed. Cale has been doing this ever since he left The Dream Syndicate and carried that concept into The Velvets. Here are two playlist where Cale permenatly rearranges the songs: I´m Waiting For The Man; kzbin.info/aero/PLNINWcxxj9hHREhUH6k-p2MZgk5Ld17AO and Venus In Furs; kzbin.info/aero/PLNINWcxxj9hF3oSTgvKJUABFBgw8qFJW3

[@johnpseudonymsmith]

Went slightly crazy with the tags, lol, but cool video. Thanks.

[@robf1970]

Shiny shiny SHINY bootsofleather

[@Primalseizure]

best version since the original, imo

[@wrdshmn]

I think you lost sight of the fact that it was in part his cadence that made this song so hypnotic. And the notes in the melody? Oof.

[@kedgwell]

So this is a reunion ("redux") from 1993? That's many years removed from the original energy of the 1960s. Even in the 60s, the Velvets had a deliberate lack of affect, which was a new thing then. It's not new now, and they could have put some more spirit into this redux/redo/reunion performance.

[@hollywoodjay09]

Sucks. This song is epic and deserves more effort. Hear how excited the crowd was? Then this is the effort. Sounds like a sedated Johnny Cash ripoff

[@kedrick3526]

Yeah, I completely agree, this song on the record is so epic. It sounds like lou doesn't even lile the song here

[@crankystinkleton4284]

I like it. The original sounds like a naive young guy coming to terms with ideas beyond him. This sounds like an old, tired hedonist recounting times long past. Given that Lou was in middle age by this point, I suspect that's precisely the case.

[@KristofskiKabuki]

@@crankystinkleton4284 If you didn't listen to the words you'd think it was some old country song.

[@danielkroha5440]

Lou thinks he's a jazz singer. He's not.

[@johnsluggett1822]

They changed the guitar parts, removing the exquisitely dissonant notes in the riff in the original. Horrifying bland-out. Morrison was so disenchanted with the reunion shows he went to his grave refusing to listen to or watch the videos.

[@metalfreak4677]

I like this version better than the original but I wish he would fucking sing it like the original but keep the beat as it is in this.

[@shobhitbhatnagar729]

This album is not a Velvet underground& Nico as it shown in the end . This is Live MCMXCIII. yaa Venus in furs is the song from that Album.

[@elaineroderick1920]

You had to have lived in those days to get it

[@ultrahevybeat]

Am i the only one around here that thinks that this live verson is utter crap the singing done by lue is terrible the thing about the studio verson is just that his voice is chillingly good and awesome but here he hardly puts any soul into it i hate this but i love thr original

[@BludgerAus]

I agree

[@duchampselavy]

I have seen the show back then in Hamburg. Reed was a full disappointment. Each song sounded the same, without any difference in his "singing". Morrison and his contributio to the sound was the true revelation. Cale as good as always.

[@ScagAteHer]

That's kinda what I thought at first. Then I really got into the lyrics and watched this video high and not I'm super into it. It's not so much shitty as it is just soulful and natural but I can see why you think that. Plus it still has that atmosphere that I love.

[@ScagAteHer]

ScagAteHer and now I'm super into it* opps didn't proofread.

[@adamgw187]

I like it better than the original, just to be controversial.

[@GoriBeringeifan332]

I worship VU, but this version... Lou sounds like he just wants to be done with the song so he can go home and pass out on the kitchen floor.

[@sergi0YT]

RIP Lou

[@harodrone]

I think he sang different but still love it!

[@soulbrother5435]

При первом просмотре бесило, что Рид поет как будто рэп читает. А потом эта манера пения даже нравиться начала

[@laoblum8813]

+DENIS Shishckariov В этом случае, как и во многих других случаях у него, такая манера соответствует содержанию песни.

[@paulchartier9407]

shut up

[@DM-ul5yc]

Стоит отметить что в 60-е вокал у него был вполне неплох. К сожалению многие (почти все) утрачивают голос с годами.

[@danijel42]

Allahova

[@ciano417]

amazing version....good bye lou

[@SpaceGuitar69]

R.I.P LOU REED.

[@infectiousdisease1842]

Love the band, love Lou Reed, love the song,..hate it live...please don't start with the hateful mean comments....I just dislike this live ..studio is by far superior.

[@AguirreFurorediDio1]

This song is really ipnotic and one of the best of this band. But the way Lou Reed is singing here is a ruin.

[@AbhishekGupta-bu9qw]

In the original there wont be a moment like 1:40+ in this song

[@88feji]

The original studio version is unique on its own but here it sounds like they are trying to make it sound like other conventional songs .. sad...

[@vivnoname]

During the verses sorry, after shiny bits of leather.

[@landrat5217]

This would be great without Reed's terrible singing.

[@pauentraoukusraga]

Só para almas.

[@bobross8569]

lou wasn't better just more stoned.

[@LamiaceaeMW]

Yikes, the singing it terrible! The Smashing Pumpkins do a really nice live version of it too, but it also is a bit noisy as a live recording. Shame, such a great song.

[@claudiogallucci563]

I love this sing buy really dont like the way lou reed sings it john cale version u can find on youtube is soooo much better the john voice in laterv years sings great maybe lou reed cant sing it like 1967 ????

[@Jef-sj6zc]

Is Lou forgotten how he has to sing the right melodie ? And that goes for all his old songs : worthless !!!

[@karlozols816]

The ugliest coolest guitar in the world! Um... Lou's...

[@vitorleonardo85]

Não ficou legal...

[@RodolfoUBRS]

overrated band

[@organicbbq2219]

🤡

[@vivnoname]

My very favourite bit, after the guitar flourishes after the verse, is his almost perceptible head nod near the end. I know I sound pedantic, but when I saw Lou Reed live in Melbourne many decades ago, I was very disappointed with him keeping his back to the audience for most of the concert. I was very young and was turned off him for many years. This performance is what I would have liked to see. He’s still non committal but there’s those moments when he just gets into it and I love that. A very talented man. 🥰❤️