Sunday, February 26, 2006

The 3rd album by the Velvet Underground

Most people say that the Velvet Underground were a great band. I agree with most people. The velvets were amazing. It is possible to argue that they were better than the Beatles. Difficult, but possible. They created at least two truly great albums. The first album, The velvet underground and Nico is the popular classic. The Andy Warhol bannana cover is iconic and the music is everywhere. Songs live Heroin, Venus in Furs and I'm waiting for the man are an integral part of rock music history. But these songs do not tell the whole story of the band. The third album is, in my opinion, another classic.

The third album is untitled. The cover is a simple black and white photograph of a very young, very normal looking band. The decadance of the first two albums is not apparent. Can these fresh-faced young people really be the sleazy perverts who gave the world Venus in furs?

The music is gentler too. There is less distortion and more acoustic guitar. The songs seem to be more like traditional love songs. As Lou Reed is the writer, things aren't that straight forward but he is using different methods here. Songs like Jesus, Pale Blue Eyes and I'm set free are just beautiful. Classics.

I like this record a lot. You might like it too.

1 Comments:

Blogger DubCentral said...

Sorry

just stumbled onto you blogger... but I couldn't agree more about your choice of the third VU album... Classic - to right it is..

You were right I do like it to

Keep on Keeping On

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