The Underground Band That Changed Rock And Roll Forever │ The Velvet Underground
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- Welcome to my video essay about the most IMPORTANT underground band in music history, The Velvet Underground and Nico. Lou Reed and the rest of the band managed to change music forever and pioneer genres like punk, goth, shoegaze, dreampop and more with their 4 studio albums. This is their history.
0:00 Intro
0:40 Lou Reed and John Cale
4:35 The Forming of The Band
8:43 The Velvet Underground and Nico
11:50 White Light/White Heat
14:15 The Velvet Underground (Gray Album)
18:20 Loaded
20:44 Outro
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When I first heard "The Velvet Underground and Nico" in 1967 I couldn't make heads or tails of it. I got into Lou Reed as a solo artist in the early 1970's thanks to his David Bowie connection and in 1974 I bought a used copy of that first album and it quickly became one of my favorites. At the same store I bought a copy of Michael Leigh's book "The Velvet Underground," about alternative sexualities, that was where Lou Reed got the band's name (and later I read an interview with him in which he said that Leigh's daughter came up to him after a gig and introduced herself). But there was another 1960's band whose music was just as dark as the Velvet Underground's and DID reach commercial success: The Doors.
For me, it was the other way around. I got into The Velvet and then Lou Reed and I ended up being a fan of both. Also I should probably make a video on The Doors too becuase I love them.
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Venus in Furs was the first Velvet Underground song I heard. On a car advert in Britain during the 80's. That was it for me. I was hooked and loved the band from there.
I’d give my life to see them in concert
sameee
Criminally underrated video
thank you thank you
@@Krysiss When you mentioned the bit about hippies I thought it was funny that certain members of the VU hated them so much because I had read a 1969 editorial in an Oklahoman newspaper by an older farmer and he probably would have thought that they were all hippies, as he considered anybody with hair longer than a typical 1930’s haircut (that includes Lou & the others) completely strange and a “drug-addled peacenik”. Idk just funny to think about.
@@antlerbraum2881 Yea I was suprised too because VU got high all day so you wouldn't think that they'd hate hippies that much but turns out they did. Deserved tho because most hippies just pretend to be good as an aesthetic, most of them are rich a**holes.
@@Krysiss I think you’re conflating the hippie movement post-60’s with the one during the 60’s. The hippie movement born out of Haight-Ashbury and Greenwich Village circa 1966 was often born out of former Civil Rights organizers that had become adrift from groups like SNCC and gathered in enclaves. They were “good” I guess because they had been working towards actual peace movements in Vietnam and at home. Of course in San Fran in particular the counterculture started becoming separated from the political culture over time. I think the hippies were the same as punks and metal heads in that most of them were just young people who gravitated towards countercultural movements. Though I don’t doubt that a lot of the people who self-identify as hippies today are elitist and probably do come from money, but those people don’t really exist very often thankfully, at least not here in America.
Wow!! Keep up the great videos
(Ive never been first to comment on a video before)
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Hey I want to congratulate you on your videos xxx
thnxx
@@Krysiss you need to do a video on the kooks xx
Do a vid on the Flat Duo Jets, they're a fascinating band that usually gets described as psychobilly or hard-core americana thanks to an old documentary on them. You mentioned how you don't like a ton of classic rock but enjoy punk and the velvet's take on old school rock'n'roll. I wholeheartedly reccomend even just giving a few of their songs a listen or watching some interviews on UA-cam like from Two Headed Cow or Athens, GA. Ton of their albums are hard to find sadly I'm not really sure what's the deal with that. Loved this one man
I checked them out and they actually sound pretty nice. I'll look more into them because they seem interesting.
So underground, they were on a major label...
I've seen this argument a lot but they obviously just got signed because of Andy. If they were mainstream they'd sell more records lol.
Underground in so much as the music was anti establishment
The Mothers of Invention were on the same label, are they mainstream as well now?
I hate adamantisaurus but cool video
what?
I hate him more probably idk who he is
How were they an underground band? Just cause its in the name??
They never made it big when they were active?
@Krysiss ...what? If Andy Warhol doing your album covering isn't "making it big" than idk what is. He was one of the most famous people during that time....
@Krysiss there are pictures of Nico with some of the most mainstream celebrities... they absolutely were not an "underground band". Maybe in the very beginning, but what band isn't?
@@ofangelsflipz they got big after they were active? They were friends with Andy and he got them signed but at the end of the day they barely sold any records. Making it big means selling records, being actually famous you know?
Noobs
ikrr, skill issue
Nico was the best part of the Velvet Underground and the only reason they were signed and recorded. You failed to mention that Lou Reed was a notorious abuser of women.Believe all women right? You failed to mention that Lou also said he hated N words like Donna Summers to a journalist.
The so called respectful host referred to the trans woman as a man?
Nico was definitely not the best part of The Velvet but sure. Also I never claimed Lou was a good person, I think you need to chill out a little bit.
@@Krysiss If you support artists like Lou Reed and call them talented and genius that are also misogynist and racist does that mean you support misogyny and racism? Why are you so misogynistic and racist?🤔
@@Krysiss People that live in glass houses….