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Spacemen 3 would be the only band that really gives off a strong VU vibe in terms of style but given that so many bands from so many different scenes cite VU as an influence in their early interviews (i.e. it’s not something they have retrospectively decided) - clearly different people were...

That set is amazing. The performances are spot on but I also love the murkiness of the tape recordings. The cleaner Matrix recordings (some of the exact same performances) just aren’t as enjoyable.

What I actually said was: GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT, MARLENE!

Actually I lie, it’s Nico’s Desertshore or Marble Index.

Absolutely. I have one of her LPs and it’s probably my favourite post-VU album by any of them.

I’m hoping it’s good, it doesn’t look like any unseen archive footage unfortunately but I really love Velvet Goldmine so have high hopes for Haynes doing VU justice. It’s on Apple TV though so I guess I’ll never find out.

I have never listened to Squeeze either. Or if I have, I’ve forgotten everything about it.

I’d say that all four are essential but White Light/White Heat is my favourite. The other two are much more under Lou Reed’s influence so are more song-orientated than art rock (or whatever you want to call WL/WH) and the songs are miles ahead of most of his solo output. It’s like he got all his...

'The Velvet Underground and Nico': 10 Things You Didn't Know

I'd love to but no. I say go for it, you'll regret it afterwards. Like I will.

Hmmmm.

Crazy talk.

His industrial approach to art makes a lot of sense when you consider the sleeve art.

"I Heard Her Call My Name" is an amazing track but noise music goes back to Luigi Russolo in the 1910s with his Art of Noises manifesto. His work fed into the New York avant garde scene which informed VU and was an influence on Reed's Metal Machine Music. Russolo wanted to free music from...

I like both, I also like super up-their-own-hole academic breakdowns of music as well. That's what I love about art and music, the endless ways of enjoying the same thing from different angles. There's music that I appreciate purely on a shallow "this rocks" level and music that I would never...

Hit the 10,000 character limit there, here's the rest of the post: It's funny seeing which tracks some of you would jettison, I'd have put money on the Nico tracks being unpopular but "Run Run Run"? What a rhythm and drive to the music, that guitar solo and the "fuck off" coolness of the whole...

Anyway, as you might have guessed from my previous posts, I love this album. I don't know if I suggested it (I might have suggested White Light/White Heat which I think is better than this) but I'm glad it showed up. This is one of those albums that gets heaps of praise thrown on it and the...

Why have an album club if we're not going to talk about the albums? Do we exclude all contextual information as being irrelevant?

Cale and Reed had a big falling out after White Light/White Heat so Cale left and was replaced by Doug Yule who was a big fan of Lou Reed so did pretty much what Reed told him to. VU then morphed from a noisy avant rock band to a more straightforward rock band. This wasn't necessarily a bad...