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    Posted: November 28 2005 at 20:46
White Light/White Heat is a phenomenal album and Lou Reed is a great talent.  Cool band.
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I love 3 out of the 4 original Velvet Underground albums ... White Light/White Heat is the one I don't like that much, funnily enough ... I even prefer a lot of stuff on VU and one track on Another View to most of the tracks on that one  ...

 
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Points: 2747 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2005 at 02:36

i love

"sunday morning"

"fame fatale"

"heroine"
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Points: 19945 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2005 at 08:03
Originally posted by R o V e R R o V e R wrote:

i love

"sunday morning"

"fame fatale"

"heroine"

I think you mean "Heroin". This song is badly sung, the drumming is all over the place, the keyboard plays one chord all the way through and the violin screeches like a banshee at the end. One of the greatest songs ever - I love it.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by R o V e R R o V e R wrote:

i love

"sunday morning"

"fame fatale"

"heroine"

I think you mean "Heroin". This song is badly sung, the drumming is all over the place, the keyboard plays one chord all the way through and the violin screeches like a banshee at the end. One of the greatest songs ever - I love it.

It's a viola, not a violin. No quibbles about the magnificence of the Velvets, though. One man whose life I envy (in some ways) is Sterling Morrison - he played guitar in one of the coolest rock groups of all time in the 60s, became a university lecturer in Literature in the 70s and then became a tugboat captain in his later years. Sadly he died comparatively early (either 59 or 60) but I think you could say that he lead a full life.
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Points: 521 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 30 2005 at 09:48
I love the first three albums - all countercultural classics. Shame they
went commercial with "Loaded" and "Squeeze". NICO's solo work is
stunning, though.
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I dont really know this band, but sounds good...

Heroin was dedicated to Jim Morrison , its all that i know

 

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White Light/White Heat is a great album, but with horrible production.

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Points: 7456 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 04 2005 at 13:02

I love the first 4 albums.
Check out John Cale's early solo albums especially
Paris 1919.It is fantastic and sounds like no other album before or since.

Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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One of my fav bands ever.
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Points: 3047 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2005 at 19:46
White Light/White Heat is a great album

that band took a serious hit without cale, their only real musician
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Points: 336 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2005 at 17:12
The velvets rule...I like Cale's solo career too...Great songwriter and performer...
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