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| The Velvet Underground | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Velvet Underground
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
Buy New: $5.83
You Save: $4.15 (42%)
Buy New/Used from $4.12
Avg. Customer Rating:  (120 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3333
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 531252
UPC: 731453125223
EAN: 0731453125223
ASIN: B000002G7G
Release Date: May 7, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 A delicate album by the Velvets.... November 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My amazon friend Fin reminded me of this album, and I realised it's the most beautiful of the Velvet Underground's output. John Cale left the band rather acrimoniously after the White Light/White Heat sessions, and this album (with new guitarist Doug Yule, who I believe is underrated in the eyes of VU fans) came out. It's a very reflective, introspective album, which is kind of a surprise. But it's so gentle and beautiful. The opening song, Candy Says (about Candy Darling, a transvestite who used to hang out with Warhol and his crew), is really lovely. The rocker What Goes On is a bit of fluff, but it's great fluff. I love the endless rhythm guitar solo on it. I adore Pale Blue Eyes. The song Jesus is uplifting, and it wouldn't be too out of place at a church gathering. The Murder Mystery is not a particularly good song. Its concept is very good, but the execution was bad. Sterling Morrison and Lou Reed read two seperate stories at the same time to a slashing backing track (reminiscent of the White Light/White Heat album, especially The Gift). It just doesn't work here. But that song is forgotten about when you hear the wonderful, sweet After Hours. It's sung by Maureen Tucker, and although she doesn't have a great voice, it works wonderfully for this song. br /br /This CD is a different mix than appeared on the box set. The vocals are turned down, and the guitars are brought up. I actually prefer this mix to the "closet mix" that is on the box set. That emphasizes the vocals over the instruments. Both are good to listen to, but I just prefer this one. This is the Velvet's most delicate album.
A Quiet Album with Lots of Intensity November 1, 2007
The Velvet Underground formed in 1964. From 1964 to 1966, the group became inventive and managed to team up with artists like Andy Warhol and Mary Woronov and form the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. This led to touring around the country and eventually the fashioning of their debut album, The Velvet Underground Nico in 1967. In 1968, the group split from Andy Warhol, Nico and The Plastic Inevitable and released the album, White Light/White Heat. Both albums were innovative and intense for their time boasting from fairly quiet sounds to extremely loud ones. Then, Lou Reed and John Cale were butting heads with each other as far as decision making. It's hard when you have two musicians like these, (each of whom are bull-headed) working together. Neither one likes being told how to make his own music. The tensions between Lou and John were so intense that eventually, one of them has to leave. In this case, it was John. Later on in 1969, the group recruits a new musician, Doug Yule to play bass, organ, and do some vocals. Also, this led Lou to mellow out on this collection of songs. On the self-titled album, (also known as the Grey Album), the mood is quieter. This allows Lou to express more emotion. The song "What Goes On" boasts a moderate drum tempo by Mureen Tucker, an efficient organ background by Doug, a somewhat bag-pipe guitar solo by Sterling Morrison, and of course Lou's smooth guitar playing and lyrics. It is a definitive rocker. The same thing can be said about "Beginning to See the Light" which has great acoustic guitar sounds. The following songs are slow but not at all boring: "Candy Says", "Some Kinda Love", "Jesus", "Pale Blue Eyes", and "I'm Set Free". "The Murder Mystery" is the biggest surprise. Here you get to hear Lou and Sterling in wich their voices overlap each other. Then you hear Doug and Maureen sing lines back and forth. Plus, you hear an innovative use of the organ where Doug sometimes vibrates the keys. Towards the end, the song changes to repeated piano keys, while Lou and Sterling once again having their voices overlap one another. "That's the Story of My Life" is the shortest song of the album but is well-paced with all musicians blending all instruments together at a moderate tempo and a fairly soft tone. In the song "After Hours", you just have Lou playing guitar and Maureen singing for once. Her voice my not be up there with someone like Celine Dion, but it is adequate. I don't think Lou was expecting a pure and radiant singing voice from her. Throughout the album, you hear sounds which are reminicent of the doo-wop groups as well as artists like Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. But of course, Lou does not try to imitate them. He attempts to see how they apply to his lyrics. Moreover, the subject matter is anything but family entertainment. The song "Candy Says" I'm told tells about a man who does not enjoy his own gender and has a burning desire to be a woman. In "The Murder Mystery", you have all these descriptive and surreal lyrics depciting tha aftermath of a murder that took place. In the song, "After Hours", you have a not so fortunate person inside a bar just trying to make the best of things and wanting the front door shut until the day is done. Hopefully, the next day will be better. Once again, I think The Grey Album is where Lou Reed expresses his more tender side, but at the same time keeps the listener tuned in. Even though the album is quieter, it's still a masterpiece with lots of intensity. This intensity is evident without the benefit of extreme loudness and distortion so prevalent on the bands previous two albums. It's just too bad this album like the other Velvet albums, did not sell, even though I'm told that the critics back then praised it.
 High Quality Velvets October 10, 2007
High proportion of the tracks on eponymous Velvet Underground long-player cd are good ones. Worth buying for 'I'm Beginning to See The Light'. Even without Nico, the ballards are impressive with the male voices on the album. Check out the first bars of the album tracks on Amazon if you're familiar from 40 years ago with the group. You'll hear the tracks are good'uns. You might want to buy this 2nd time around. Best wishes, Andrew.
What Goes On? September 1, 2007
Why most people in the world have not heard the melancholy sounds of the Velvet Undergroud's self titled album is a mystery to me. Credited as the first punk-rock band, the Velvet Underground is one of the few bands that were willing to be avant-garde by mixing music with every other thing provocative, sweet and sad. The song Pale Blue Eyes, in my opinion, is one of the most beautiful, depressing and well crafted poems ever written. The twentieth-century author by the name of James Joyce once wrote that beauty consisted of three things: wholeness, harmony and radiance. The Velvet Underground's self titled album defines beauty.
The Velvet Underground August 30, 2007
The Velvet Underground *****br /br /br /Easly the best Velvet Underground album ever! This is what I think of first when I want to listen to the band. It is sutble and yet in your face at the same time. The album as a whole is very laid back musicaly and performance wise but as far as content and subject matter and theme, this is one in your face rock n' roll album. This is the first album since John Cale left the band but really despite what some people may say Lou Reed already had controle of the band on the second album White Light/White Heat. This is stunningly beatiful, and is to me the most important album and realy the best album of the 1960's. The nerve of Lou Reed never fails to amaze me. THe things he writes and sings about, the taboo and starical material was never before, during or since done better then by Reed himself.br /br /Cale was gone but so what. Forget his electric Veiola. Sterling Morrson suplies great guitar to the album and Doug Yule makes for a fine addition to the band as proven with his vocals to the opening track 'Candy Says.' Maureen Tucker also is a vital part to the album as her percussion it essential to most of the album.br /br /Songs like the beautiful 'Candy Says' 'What Goes On' 'Pale Blue Eyes' 'Jesus' and 'After Hours' are among the greatest things ever written by Lou Reed. They are so inspired and true that it is hard to say anything other then this is the band best album. 'Pale Blue Eyes' is just stunning and is nothing short of incredible every time your hear it. The guts it must have taken to release 'Jesus' must have been massive, but then again it is Reed so he does what he wants anyway. 'Some Kinda Love' is a hidden gem in the album, which is a shame because while this track is often overlooked it is truly one of the bands all time best songs.br /br /The Velvet Undergrounds third selftitled album is easly the bands best as previously mentioned. No other album by the band can compare. The wonderful thing about the band is that all four of their albums are different so that you really cannot compare a single one. Each new album had something special to offer to the cannon. For all fans of good honest music that is 100% true to itself then this album is the one for you, enjoy.
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