3 Velvet Underrground Albums

I went to Chapel Hill today, found a candystoresque record shop, and got me 3 mint condish Velvets albums today.

I am so happy.

 

That's a beautiful story. Congrats on that. I'd like to have some Velvets on vinyl.

 

That's a story to tell your kids while you are having sex with a life-size Lou Reed doll.

 

Chapel Hill is...

I don't know. I've always felt strangely about Chapel Hill, NC, even when I was little. It has prolonged and stretched until my seventeenth year and I'm still not sure why.

Did you just go there to find records? Or was it like "HA! We shall take the city and set up command here, then on to Carrboro."

We have alot of family buried in Graham Memorial Cemetary, just down the road from there... and my third cousin lives in Durham and has beehives in Chapel Hill. In fact, he goes fishing in Kerr Lake almost every weekend.

 

congratulations! >jealous<

 

So that's a story I could tell them any minute of the day, any day of the week?

 

Exactly!

Even when you sleep.

 

vicious :H

i love VU

 

I know not of this band.

 

Then you MUST know of it... because it is indeed one of the best bands in the world.

Lou Reed is a God.

 

yes you do meg! you have to at least know lou reed. "walk on the wild side", "perfect day".

velvet undergrounds "venus in furs", "heroin", "white light/white heat", "rock n' roll". gotta know the VU!

 

Eh, they're fine, but they're so... one of those bands that people began listening to for the sake of listening to with the whole Classic Rock revival deal.

That annoys me much.

 

Seriously, do they?

I never thought that the VU was that popular in today's America, or revived as it is with the rest of classic rock.

I very very rarely meet other VU fans... probably know a good 20 at my college... but that's 20 out of a good batch of people.

 

I've never heard any call VU classic rock before. They are probably more well known now, then at any time in the past but fans of VU are still usually few and far between and probably most into drug/alternative/indie music rather then classic rock.

Vinyl rules!!!

Sonic Youth wrote a song about Chapel Hill called strangly enough "Chapel Hill", good song, imo

 

[QUOTE=BraveSirRubin]Seriously, do they?

I never thought that the VU was that popular in today's America, or revived as it is with the rest of classic rock.

I very very rarely meet other VU fans... probably know a good 20 at my college... but that's 20 out of a good batch of people. [/QUOTE]You probaably just haven't delved into it on a broader basis... They're still a lesser known band, but they sorta showed up on a more mainstream level with the whole Floyd/Zeppelin/Hendrix sorta deal. A lot of people know about the Grateful Dead now, but it never reached the sorta peak around here that the Floyd/Zep craze did, not sure about the West Coast.

I like them, but I never could get into them too deep, always was moreso just a Lou Reed fan, but they're too basic psych/straightahead acid rock for me. They have good music, but that's really all it is to me. Good music. I just prefer something with a little more texture, culture, and roots to it...

 

Right, I didn't say they were Classic Rockl, though I've heard people try to say that. They became one of those bands people picked up on the whole CR revival/retro trend that was going on. I mean, just look at how it's being discussed on the fora/the internet. How many folks on this forum alone really weren't into VU before that time period? But, if you think about it that way, it is Rock that is classic, no matter how much you try to sub-categorize all of that shit.

It's sorta like the whole Rasta deal... I mean, wtf... that just showed up overnight or something. It's like some guy flew over from Negril and went "Hey mon, I tink I smoke all dem babylon up..." then we decided to exploit him.

 

I won't argue about it, because I honestly don't care that much, but you seriously can't package the Velvets in with Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd (or their fans). First of all, Zeppelin and Floyd were amazingly famous and popular during their time, and the Velvets were nobody... people left their shows out of disgust. So Zeppelin and Floyd never went out of style... they never really needed a revival. They've been on the radio for about forty years, and I don't believe I've ever heard the Velvets, even on a classic rock station.

There were plenty of kids at my high school with Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin shirts, 'cause it was way kewl and such, but I'm totally confident that none of them listened to White Light/White Heat while driving to the football game.

 

A chick I knew back in Dallas, she worked at Hot Topic, and I remember her telling me they were getting a shipment of Velvets tshirts. I almost died. Of grief, naturally, and not the excitement she seemed to have whilst telling me this.

 

Yeah, that's like the time I saw a VU poster at a shop like that. That's when I realized all of that. It just gave me shivers.

 

Nah Pauly, I don't know those songs.