I totally agree with the massive consensus that this is a pinnacle of music history. This album had an immediate and profound impact on me, which I didn't expect after so many years of hearing about its mythical status and not being especially into the general circles of music it relates to. Finally I heard it and I think this or the USA album is the greatest 60s rock album. I'm totally killed by Nico's vocals. Destroyed. Helplessly in love. I mean, is there a better song in the history of the world than "All Tomorrow's Parties"? Magic.
The first VU I heard was Loaded, which didn't do much of anything for me and gave me a low opinion of Lou Reed to match the low opinions I'd heard expressed by many people. I wrote off VU as yet another overrated fashionable pop group for the idle pointless hipster crowd. But then I heard this album and the other early stuff and now I think he is a genius and I totally get into his singing and songwriting on the VU stuff. It was like "Now I get it. Now I understand what all these people are talking about. Now I'm one of them." Yes, that's an unsettling and profound experience to have. The whole history of rock music flashed before my mind's eye. Now I'm one of "them".
Hearing the acoustic versions of some of this stuff on the VU box set makes me even more convinced that Reed was the real deal, an authentic vessel of musical truth that rarely surfaces in the world. Have never heard any non-VU Lou Reed so far. I hear it sucks.
To me, "Sunday Morning" is the weakest track, but still an excellent song, and all the others are either great or in a category far beyond "great", a category of transcendental, ineffable perfection of unrepeatable convergences between sound and emotion.
I really like the scrapey, droney viola element. That's a kind of sound closer to the avant-garde music that's more comfortable and familiar for me.
>>65114456
>Sunday morning is the weakest track
its literally the best track
>>65114540
i find it hard to believe you even like the album if you actually think that
What a masterpiece this album is
>>65114568
Its a great album, and Sunday Morning is its best track, far better than White Light/White Heat
>>65114456
I didn't like it fag reeeeeeeeee
Cool album cover can I save it??? xDDD
The tracks with Nico on them that aren't called All Tomorrow's Parties are easily the best part of the album.
>>65114456
Lou Reed has some great solo albums: New York, Berlin, Transformer, and Songs for Drella.
However, my favorite song of his appears on one of his weaker albums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2532gJcCsA
venus in furs is best song
Fantastic album, I personally prefer White Light/White Heat though
>>65116358
But that's the best song on the album anon
>>65114568
I love the album as well, and Sunday Morning truly is the best track.
>>65114456
when it's all said and done, this album will still be heralded hundreds of years from now
>2 chord pop
>edgy, druggie lyrics
>focus on image rather than music
>has nico singing out of tune on multiple tracks
truly a masterpiece
>>65114456
>This album had an immediate and profound impact on me
What a pleb reason to call an album the pinnacle. You know that such a response can be achieved from even generic radio pop music. Good music is about what's beyond that initial base response in music.
>yfw I'm getting the tattoo from the cover of WH/WH
What do you think bros?
>>65118749
get out faggot
>>65119318
You should get it in a faintly darker color than your skin
John Cale was the genius behind TVU&N and WL/WH. After he left, The Velvets only made garbage like Loaded and the self-titled album.
>>65119370
Yeah I'm afraid if it's too clear it'll look too retarded and literally nobody will get it, though I guess I shouldn't care about that
>>65119368
typical TVU fan
>>65114568
Dude I like the avant-garde stuff as much as anyone, but Sunday Morning is absolute beauty. The instrumentation over the Viola drone.... I can't even describe that. And when the viola starts it's own melody twords the end, bliss. I don't even know why I'm focusing on certain aspects, the song is near flawless.
Sorry man, I just can't have you saying that about my favorite song and not say anything about it.
>>65114456
Good for you OP, but White Light/White Heat is still the far superior album and I think TVU&N is a tad bit overrated and overstated as one of the best albums of all time.
>>65119578
shut the fuck up montie
>>65119578
SWEETLY
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