The Velvet Underground

The Velvet Underground

A community portal about The Velvet Underground with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Velvet Underground was an American rock band first active from 1965 to 1973. Its best-known alumni are Lou Reed and John Cale.

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Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico "All Tomorrow's Parties" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo . Scott's Tip Of The Day: I lost interest in Beck awhile ago. I enjoyed his albums less and less. A lot of it just started to sound the same. His belief in Scientology didn't really impress me much either. But now that he has introduced a newly designed website, he's upped the ante. Beck and his friends rerecorded all of the tracks on the Velvet Underground's debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico . This could have easily been a disaster, but turned out to be quite enjoyable. Above ... Read Full Story
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As you well know, Beck’s got all sorts of fun things going on at the new beck.com , including interviews with Tom Waits , acoustic versions of Modern Guilt songs , and perhaps most excellently his Record Club, which pulls together colleagues and Giovanni Ribisis to cover full classic albums and post the spoils via video embeds. The present project is The Velvet Underground & Nico , from which we’ve heard quite a few . According to P4K , the next album they’ll tackle will be the 1969 LP Oar by Skip Spence. But before we get there, there’s still more VU & Nico ... Read Full Story
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MUSIC NEWS - As we reported , Beck and friends are covering The Velvet Underground & Nico album. We have the opening track, SUNDAY MORNING (below). Beck now has revealed the other disc the group is considereding for its' first release; Sex Packets by Digital Underground . Beck said, "For this first edition, after lengthy deliberation and coming close to covering Digital Underground 's Sex Packets , all present voted in favor of the 'other' Underground 's The Velvet Underground And Nico . Participants included this time around are Nigel Godrich , Joey Waronker , Brian Lebarton , Bram Inscore , Yo , Giovanni ... Read Full Story
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The Velvet Underground: 'Venus in Furs' live January 1966 Video: The Velvet Underground filmed on 16mm by Jonas Mekas at the Annual Dinner of the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry, Delmonico's Hotel, New York City, January 13, 1966. The Velvet Underground: ‘Venus in Furs’ live January 1966 Related Product: The Great Artists The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara Najee Plays Songs from the Key of Life: A Tribute to Stevie Wonder Let's Meet Famous Artists A+ Mini Projector: Goes from 21-80", weighs 3lbs, 7x4x2.5" dimensions, 50,000 bulb life! Read Full Story
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Now, here’s a book that delivers what it promises. White Light/White Heat is truly a day-by-day accounting of the band that was part of the root system for everything from glam to grunge. The funny thing is, if everyone who claimed (and still claims) to have been influenced by the Velvet Underground bought an album, their record sales would’ve been three times greater than they were … but no matter. The Velvets were too cool for this world and...  
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Lou Reed may be a rock legend, the founding member of the Velvet Underground, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a man ...  
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By Chad Radford When Lester Bangs, Lenny Kaye and every other half-cocked rock critic on the planet has weighed in on the Velvet Underground, what's left to discuss? Not much. That's why Chicago Sun-Times pop critic Jim DeRogatis lets the pictures do the talking in this friggin' gorgeous collection of photos, fliers and album art that captures the Velvets in all of their glorious vanity. A brusque 1975 interview with...  
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The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967, CD)Vince Gill - High Lonesome Sound (1996, CD)Voivod - Nothingface (1989, CD)Wall of Voodoo- Seven Days in Sammystown (1985, LP)- Happy Planet (1987, LP)Warren Zevon- Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School (1980, cassette)- A Quiet Normal Life, The Best of (1986, dupe cassette)- Genius, The Best of (2002, CD)The Velvet Underground album was for my own musical education, since it is one of those milestone records...  
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The Velvet Underground were one of the first art bands.  They were an integral part of Andy Warhol’s Factory, and he designed the cover to their first album, which featured a peelable banana.  They inspired generations on punk and alt groups with their simple, aggressive and freeform approach to music and truly paved the way [...]  
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