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	Velvet Underground Album Reviews
		Ultimately, however, what you think of this album largely depends on what you think of the 17+ minute “Sister Ray.” The centerpiece of the bands stage shows, equally loved and loathed, the song’s crunching chords and foot stomping groove are sure to please many, but Cale’s upbeat organ also dominates at times.
		The tone of the album is similar to their third album but is more rocking and commercial overall, with a heretofore unprecedented optimism.
		That they delivered such a great out-of-character album anyway was in many ways as definitive a stamp of their greatness as Velvet Underground & Nico, and though Loaded offers none of the innovations of that classic album, odds are that you'll enjoy much of it more.
	geocities.com /sfloman/velvetunderground.html (1110 words)

	The Velvet Underground - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although never commercially successful, The Velvet Underground remain one of the most influential bands of their time: a famous remark, often attributed to Brian Eno, is that while only a few thousand people bought a Velvet Underground record upon their initial release, almost every single one of them was inspired to start a band.
		The Velvet Underground were one of the first rock music groups to experiment heavily with the form by incorporating avant-garde influences.
		The Velvet Underground was recorded in late 1968, and released in March of 1969.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Velvet_Underground (3566 words)

	Gold (Velvet Underground album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The album is a regular best-of compilation, drawing from the band's three albums, two outtake compilation and live album on Polydor sub-labels (Verve, M·G·M and Mercury).
		It is notable for including four live tracks (previously available on 1969: The Velvet Underground Live), which most other compilations shied away from, but is unbalanced by the absence of Loaded tracks.
		Gold does include two Nico solo tracks, co-written and played by Velvet Underground band members Lou Reed, John Cale and/or Sterling Morrison, taken from her 1967 debut album for Polydor, Chelsea Girl.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gold_(Velvet_Underground_album) (384 words)

	Velvet Underground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, today, their album 'The Velvet Underground and Nico' which was their debut, is generally accepted by many rock critics as one of the most influential albums ever made, and the beginnings of modern rock music as we know it today.
		The Velvets had been playing there when a twenty-one year old art groupie, Barbara Rubin (for whom the Velvets had played for in front of some of her underground films), heard that Warhol was interested in finding a band to work with.
		The Velvet Underground's part in all of this, was to provide the music whilst two dancers acted out their songs and a film played behind them.
	www.ready-steady-go.org.uk /velvet.html (3280 words)

	Velvet Underground Album Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ultimately, however, what you think of this album largely depends on what you think of the 17+ minute “Sister Ray.” The centerpiece of the bands stage shows, equally loved and loathed, the song’s crunching chords and foot stomping groove are sure to please many, but Cale’s upbeat organ also dominates at times.
		The tone of the album is similar to their third album but is more rocking and commercial overall, with a heretofore unprecedented optimism.
		That they delivered such a great out-of-character album anyway was in many ways as definitive a stamp of their greatness as Velvet Underground & Nico, and though Loaded offers none of the innovations of that classic album, odds are that you'll enjoy much of it more.
	www.geocities.com /sfloman/velvetunderground.html (1110 words)

	Rarebird's Velvet Underground Reviews
		Reed quit the band shortly after that album was recorded, and most people consider that to have been the end of the Velvet Underground.
		The credits for the Velvet Underground Squeeze LP note that all songs were written by Doug Yule, and that the record was "produced and arranged by the Velvets".
		The Velvets were in their unofficial death throes at this point, but you wouldn't know it from the enthusiastic performances contained here.
	home.att.net /~rarebird9/vus.html (1774 words)

	GET LOADED WITH THE VELVET UNDERGROUND'S LOST CLASSIC. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The album itself is a much more quiet exploration of rock music than the all-out battle that White Light/White Heat was, and it would be a mistake to label the softness of the album to the departure of John Cale.
		But anyway, what led to the album being deemed lost is that the VU had grown increasingly dissatisfied with their treatment by their label.
		It indicates not only what might have been, but also proves the tenacity of the Velvet Underground in a time when no one outside of their prescribed circle was listening anymore, but they knew they were too important to be lost, and it was alright.
	www.blacktable.com /smith040624.htm (1601 words)

	ipedia.com: The Velvet Underground Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)">3 The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
		The album showcased their stylistic range, veering from the pounding attacks of "I'm Waiting For The Man" and "Run Run Run," the droning "Venus In Furs" and "Heroin" to the quiet "Femme Fatale" and the tender "I'll Be Your Mirror".
		Indeed, most of his solo career's more succesful hits were reworked old Velvet Underground tracks, released for the first time in their original version on VU, Another View, and later on Peel Slowly and See and.
	www.ipedia.com /the_velvet_underground.html (1394 words)

	The Velvet Underground in New York, New York in the Velvet Underground \| PopMatters Music Feature
		The key to understanding the Velvet Underground is to look past all the preconceptions and prejudices surrounding their legacy, both in terms of them as representatives of the evils of New York City as well as mere appendages of Andy Warhol's Factory crowd, and approaching the music on its own terms.
		Before the Velvet Underground had achieved one iota of success, Reed writes in that unpublished 1966 essay about "the vast and vacuous, over-wrought concrete cardboard executive jungle of the East Coast" which acts as a glorious "stimulus for accomplishment".
		The most forceful refutation of the litany of negative reactions to the music and attitude of the Velvet Underground is that this drama on the city streets does not resolve on the terror-stricken note of "Heroin" but rather on the wildly ecstatic and joyous note of "Rock 'n' Roll".
	popmatters.com /music/features/020207-velvetunderground.html (2564 words)

	Boston Rock Storybook - Joe Harvard "The Velvet Underground and Nico"
		My first book, The Velvet Underground and Nico, based on the Velvet Underground's groundbreaking debut LP, was released by Continuum Publishing in May, 2004 as part of it's critically acclaimed 33-1/3 Series; a sampling of reviewers comments is included below.
		the lifeblood of Joe Harvard’s approach to The Velvet Underground and Nico...
		To them, a perfect album is a rarity that blossoms from many labors, both on the part of the musician and the listener.
	www.rockinboston.com /jhbook1.html (1511 words)

	Velvet Underground
		He has been with The Velvet Underground since the dawn of history and hopefully will continue in that capacity forever.
		And basically all the songs on the first albums are longish though there are a few short ones.
		I remember the photo he used of the EPI and Velvet Underground in The Medium is the Massage.
	www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Lobby/6998/sterl69.html (4507 words)

	Velvet Underground Albums & Lyrics @ SongLyricsLibrary.com
		The mid-to-late '60s was an era of explosive growth and experimentation in rock, but the Velvets' innovations â” which blended the energy of rock with the sonic adventurism of the avant-garde, and introduced a new degree of social realism and sexual kinkiness into rock lyrics â” were too abrasive for the mainstream to handle.
		The Velvets' music was too important to languish in obscurity, though; their cult only grew larger and larger in the years following their demise, and continues to mushroom today.
		Historians often hail the group for their incalculable influence upon the punk and new wave of subsequent years, and while the Velvets were undoubtedly a key touchstone of the movements, to focus upon these elements of their vision is to only get part of the story.
	velvetunderground.songlyricslibrary.com (1840 words)

	Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico Japan CD ALBUM (333261)
		Known as a culture for elaborate and excessive packaging, their approach to the CD album is no exception.
		In recent years we have seen the obi-strip occasionally replaced with a sleeve sticker, no less attractive and equally unique to the Japanese pressing.
		Japanese CD albums often benefit from extra music and new video-style content, to further entice the Japanese public to buy their native release and not an import.
	www.eil.com /shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=333261 (734 words)

	The Velvet Underground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Velvets had quickly knuckled bown to the joys and routines of being a working rock & roll band - albeit one that toured irregularly and received virtually no airplay, even on the so-called "progressive," free-form rock stations that were popping up along the FM band.
		There were periodic sightings in Los Angeles and occasional visits to San Prancisco where the Velvets had the distinction of being a lifetime entry on promoter Bill Graham's shit list (they'd had the effrontery to leave the stage of the Fillmore with their guitars leaning against the amps, feeding back at peak volume).
		According to Morrison, the Velvet stayed at the Chateau Marmont in L.A. during the sessions for the third album.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~ehansen/VU/vu.html (2377 words)

	The Velvet Underground
		Lots of people claim they love the Velvet Underground, but don't know shit about the band; other people say they hate the Velvet Underground, but end up admitting they had their value, too (just look at Prindle's page of VU reviews and tell me he didn't get messed up on there).
		A clear example of how much this album is overrated is how all the critics who used to praise Lou Reed's solo albums suddenly turn their backs on him and say that all of these outtakes are superior to the later versions on Lou's solo albums.
		The album's not finished, and that is a bad thing: turns out that the Velvets did depend on the arrangements and production after all, no matter how people like to emphasize the rawness and 'purity' of their sound.
	starling.rinet.ru /music/velvets.htm (7070 words)

	bobchaos.com: Velvet Underground Squeeze
		The story of the Velvet Underground is a well-documented one from their 1965 inception to the departure of original leader Lou Reed in 1970.Although not commercially successful during their eight-year career, the band included several very significant members over their history and left behind five classic studio albums.
		This band was popular in their native Boston and although they sadly didn't record, is important to the Velvets story as three members of this band went on to serve in the Velvet Underground.
		For the final Velvet Underground sessions, held in the UK during the summer of 1972, the VU were only Doug Yule and Ian Paice, on loan from prog-metal's legendary Deep Purple.
	bobchaos.com /squeeze/squeeze1.html (736 words)

	Velvet Underground
		For the Velvets the aesthete-punk stance was a way of surviving in a world that was out to kill you; the point was not to glorify the punk, or even to say fuck you to the world, but to be honest about the strategies people adopt in a desperate situation.
		Their first two albums were released on Verve, a jazz label that had no idea what to do with them and so did nothing; for the third they moved to Verve’s parent label, MGM, whose big acts at the time included Herman’s Hermits and The Cowsills.
		That said, The Velvet Underground and Nico (the latter being a Warhol-recommended "chanteuse" who departed after the album was released to pursue an even more quixotic solo career) does function as a kind of "map of their music" (to paraphrase The Doors’ description of their own debut LP).
	www.virginiamusicflash.com /velvet.htm (2905 words)

	MusicMoz - Bands and Artists: V: Velvet Underground, The: Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The VU Meter: The Legacy of the Velvet Underground - An appreciation of the band by Charles Olver.
		The Velvet Underground Discussion Forum - Dedicated to all news, views and querys on one of the greatest rock'n'roll bands to grace planet Earth.
		Velvet Underground Appreciation Society - Official website of the longtime publishers of the What Goes On fanzine; offers a wide variety of Velvets recordings and memorabilia for sale.
	musicmoz.org /Bands_and_Artists/V/Velvet_Underground,_The/Links (477 words)

	Amazon.ca: Velvet Underground (Rm): Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Their second album, White Light/White Heat, was a complete hundred and eighty degree turn from what they did on their debut, Velvet Underground And Nico, and with the third release the band does another complete turn with their sound.
		The Velvet Underground is a damn fine classic pop-rock act, and they demonstrate it beautifully on their self-titled third album.
		It's lucky that the Velvets got to release this one album in the final year of the 1960's (it happened to be the greatest period in music history).
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002G7G (970 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Velvet Underground [Original recording remastered]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Without the sonic terrorism of The Velvet Underground and Nico and White Light/White Heat or the ill-conceived commercial concessions that marred Loaded, the album's songs are free to stand on their own merit.
		After the unfortunate departure of John Cale, the Velvet Underground had a musical revamp -- their third album, "The Velvet Underground" is smoother and less gritty.
		This is an album of subtlety and simplicity but at the same time none of the melodies are predictable or boring.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002G7G (1318 words)

	The Fan Site Directory :: V :: The Velvet Underground Websites
		The VU Meter: The Legacy of the Velvet Underground
		Velvets tribute site with an introduction to the music, a bio, quotes, concert reports, photos and more.
		The Velvet Underground from the mind and fingers of a new generation.
	www.fansitedirectory.com /v/the_velvet_underground.html (351 words)

	The 'Great Lost Velvet Underground Album'
		Between May and October 1969, The Velvet Underground went many times at Record Plant Studio in NYC with engineer Gary Kellgren and amassed a number of tracks for a fourth Verve/MGM album, an album that was never released, even if a catalog number was reserved by MGM: SE-4641.
		These songs began to turn up in rough form on bootlegs in the mid-seventies, and were finally presented officially in remastered form in the mid-eighties on the collections of previously unreleased recordings VU and Another View.
		However it can be restored by extracting and compiling the tracks from the various sources which offers material from the 1969 MGM studio sessions.
	olivier.landemaine.free.fr /vu/lostalbum/lostalbum.html (365 words)

	Adrian's Album Reviews : The Velvet Underground
		Warhol's sponsoring of The Velvet Underground may have got them a certain amount of press and opened some doors for them, but in wider circles they were perceived as puppets of his, and not taken too seriously as a result.
		The album opens with 'Sunday Morning', Nico was to have sung it, but in the event the final version doesn't feature her.
		An album that's grown in stature over the years, grown and grown to now be an acknowledged and important part of the classic rock canon.
	www.adriandenning.co.uk /velvet.html (3950 words)

	The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground - album reviews, lyrics and info - 1967 year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is from one of my 3 favorite bands of all time, and is their best album.
		The bad effects of drugs, people who are living on the edge, the desperation of life, all these subjects unheard of at that time are considered on this album.
		an album of true poetry dedictated to a generation who thought it cool to use hard drugs recreationally, when indeed it was cool if ever, to do so.
	www.murashev.com /dmdl/disk.php?id=476 (223 words)

	Velvet Underground: Album by Album (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		From 1965 to 1970, the Velvet Underground recorded four studio albums - The Velvet Underground and Nico, White Light/White Heat, The Velvet Underground and Loaded - none of which cracked the Top 100.
		But during those five hard-fought, hard-luck years, the Velvets changed rock & roll in spectacular and fundamental ways.
		This page is a chronology of The Velvet Underground's amazing work and the lives of the members.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~ehansen/VU/index2.html (191 words)

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