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- Original Release Date: 20 May 1996
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| Play | 1. Sunday Morning | 2:56 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 2. I'm Waiting For The Man | 4:39 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 3. Femme Fatale | 2:38 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 4. Venus In Furs | 5:12 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 5. Run Run Run | 4:22 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 6. All Tomorrow's Parties | 6:00 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 7. Heroin | 7:12 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 8. There She Goes Again | 2:41 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 9. I'll Be Your Mirror | 2:14 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 10. Black Angel's Death Song | 3:11 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 11. European Son | 7:46 | £0.89 |
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
While many people believe this album to be the most influential album ever (it is by the way), they rarely concentrate their praise on anything else.
Granted, while it is hard to imagine Smashing Pumpkins, Jesus & Mary Chain, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Godspeed You Black Emporor!, My Bloody Valentine, (countless others) making the extraordinary albums they did without this album existing, it is also worth noting that this album is still ahead of the times.
35 years on, it still astonishes for its audacity, its experimentation with sound and its originality. Sunday Morning's hushed druggie fall out ambience, Waiting For The Man's pure rock 'n' roll innovation and stark imagery, Venus In Fur's hypnotic and off-kilter swirl of detuned guitars and viola, Heroin's distressing seven minute caustic attack on addiction, the nausea inducing musical headf**k of the closing European Son. It all adds up to an amazing listening experience. You hear the history of almost all alternative music in the 48 minutes and six seconds this album contains.
This deserves to be considered the starting point for anyone interested in alternative music, and anyone considering should stop considering and start purchasing!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The first album of many that I bought by Velvet Underground. I bought it for the song 'Sunday Morning' which continues to be one of my favourites, but 'I'm waiting for the man', 'venus in furs' and 'I'll be your mirror' are all strong contenders for the top spot now. This is very 60's, a little psycadelic and very unusual and colourful. A wonderful mix of themes for songs, 'I'll be your mirror' is stunning with incredibly moving lyrics, 'Venus in furs' is seductive and glamorous, 'Sunday morning' is charming and laid back, and 'I'm waiting for the man' is dangerous and sad. Also recommended, Lou Reed's solo works.
20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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The Velvet Underground were as important a band as the Beatles, simple as. This frazzled debut is not quite as atonishing as their undoubted masterpiece White Light/White Heat, but the sheer weight of songs as good as Sunday Morning and Venus In Furs really do knock you for six. The haunting vocals by Nico can be extremely good (All Tomorrows Parties), or can grate a little (I'll Be Your Mirror). But Lou and John steal the thunder on the album.
This is an album of moments; Cale plays piano on I'm Waiting For My Man, and still hasn't bettered it in his long winding solo career. Reed does his drunken hick impression on European Son (in both singing and playing). Morrison and Tucker are the pounding rhythm section that gives the album it's fire.
But the whole thing is eclipsed by the stark, scary and downright brilliant solo confession by Lou Reed, Heroin. The song will never, in my opinion, be beaten; it really did show McCartney how to tell one of those short stories he was so fond of in a 'pop' song (well, um...it's sort of pop...), showed Lennon how to explore the psychadelic soundscape, and invented, er, stoner rock.
The NME recently called them the "parallel universe Beatles", and this is certainly true. Had it not been for their highly contraversial nature of their songs, they would have been equally as big. But that's what makes them so special. As fame and money eluded them, Reed spiralled deeper into sonic experiment. What came next was the brightest and best chapter for the Velvet Underground, but not the last...
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