Nothing Song - The Velvet Underground

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Steve Sturgis

7 жыл бұрын

From "Caught Between the Twisted Stars" (bootleg box set)
Disc 2 - The Chic Mystique of Nothing Songs
Track 1

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@farisadam8380 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for Nothing

@whisperinghallelujahhatrac6181 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing is everything

@bramda8602 Жыл бұрын

V.U.meters work at 0db (popol..) Anyway Cats that look like cats sound like Stoogees (softer though) That for Lou Reed contempo reams....later in time Lobstertheramin Ma Snake -other time other place still V.U. meters move at 0dblike the Def fence lijn basketball(wave hand to turn the attacker blind)...(Sunday morning pack of cheaps+hot beer Saltan watch Lakers play with V.elvet soundtrk Got my point?)

@1656581 Жыл бұрын

The essence !!!

@ewantaylor483 2 жыл бұрын

Don't walk away in Silence !

@wildbill5670 2 жыл бұрын

Been a huge Velvet fan for over 50 years. The coolest band ever.

@redskies4530 Жыл бұрын

Hi I recommend a song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix

@busterhymen6377 Жыл бұрын

50 years for me, Started listening at 10, im 60 now.

@mavjimbo Ай бұрын

By far the coolest band ever

@paix7232 5 жыл бұрын

I can't listen to normal music the same way that I can listen to this Noting Song, it touches another area of my soul...

@nemmett9968 5 жыл бұрын

sempai_acdc okay dude

@clarkzion1169 3 жыл бұрын

you probably dont give a shit but if you guys are bored like me during the covid times you can watch pretty much all the new movies and series on InstaFlixxer. Have been binge watching with my brother for the last couple of days =)

@beckhamkeagan8983 3 жыл бұрын

@Clark Zion Yup, been watching on Instaflixxer for years myself :D

@michaelmcdonald8452 3 жыл бұрын

Paix what does that even mean? what “different way” do you listen to this song?

@miavangijsegem5814 2 жыл бұрын

haha!x

@ingridhaney4395 2 жыл бұрын

SINCE A LONG TIME I LOVE VELVET UNDERGROUN D, AND NOW I FOUND SOME NEW STUFF, WHICH IS GREAT FOR THE SOUL TO LISTEN TO

@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 2 жыл бұрын

This isn't new.

@zzzwy777 2 жыл бұрын

Literally early velvet underground(check out their demoes) is classical(ie baroque/medieval/renaissance),mininalistic-primitive,ancient and traditional folk type music using electric guitars ,bass and drums that's why their music sounds so timeless and touching as well as a little touch of experimetal textures and sounds . Amen.

@ewantaylor483 2 жыл бұрын

Is the early stuff not just folky , Dylan-esque until it got Caled ?

@redskies4530 Жыл бұрын

Hi I recommend a song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix

@II-xl7lj Жыл бұрын

@@ewantaylor483 nope. Don't spread your stupldlty to other people

@robertloader9826 Жыл бұрын

@@ewantaylor483 Not that kind of folky. More like older, ancient pagan trance music.

@user-qm6wc2ek9y Жыл бұрын

@@ewantaylor483 he means traditional folk as he was referring to hundreds or even thousands of years ago Dylan may sound "old" to you But he is hardly old enough to be "traditional "😂

@henrylombardozzi8254 3 жыл бұрын

The best band ever I can just lay back and drift way listening to them pure mind ectacy

@johnmoore9681 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this, I’ve never heard it before and I’ve been hooked on Lou Reed and the Velvets for over 40 years.

@ricardm100 2 жыл бұрын

Me too, my friend · 35 years with the Velvet and I had never heard this song

@jamesscanlon5969 2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@svendmalchau2112 Жыл бұрын

For me its about 45 years😜

@Riatzi 3 жыл бұрын

For me, a deeply spiritual and emotional journey.

@garyriley20 3 жыл бұрын

a lovely quiet version of sister ray. Love it.

@richardwolter2368 4 жыл бұрын

I think this is the thirteenths time I catch myself, listening to this tune since my unexpected discovery about five months ago and it led me to more treasures from this period before Lou left the Velvet Underground.

@duckface524 4 жыл бұрын

Before Cale left*

@kennewton6626 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Never heard this one before. I would like to go back in time, just so I could have a look at how dilated were the (eye) pupils of each member of the audience. There were probably only 30 +/- in attendance.

@plrndl 8 ай бұрын

There are sometimes when only the Velvet Underground will do.

@NickRowsell Жыл бұрын

Everything they did seems so effortless …

@ratsontherails 3 ай бұрын

Drugs

@mokozu2291 6 жыл бұрын

thank you thank you thank you for this great NOTHING SONG

@billlloyd4029 5 жыл бұрын

think Nothing of it

@kenkovar2647 2 жыл бұрын

a song aint something til it's nothing!

@janjacobs8260 2 жыл бұрын

Ya Ya , and THANK YOU!

@DoyleAndrewCarson 2 жыл бұрын

Well, they were the house band for warhol’ Factory. This sounds like they had the electric viola doing a drone carrier wave. So cool

@je7647 3 жыл бұрын

beautiful raga piece

@kenkovar2647 2 жыл бұрын

ain' it???

@NomadFoyle Жыл бұрын

This song has a cadence and rhythm very similar to the early days of Dead Can Dance. Excellent.!!!

@julianciahaconsulting8663 5 жыл бұрын

brilliant absolutely brilliant!

@mathiasgunther6209 7 ай бұрын

düster und magisch

@kamalmanzukie 2 жыл бұрын

i haven't heard this in well over 10 years

@gerritjohannssen4734 3 жыл бұрын

So ein schöner Song ,Thx a lot

@Fortwentt 4 жыл бұрын

listening to this i am able to think. i had a few beers. but just got over some really bad pain. still got a twinge. thought i might die from the pain, thought i had cancer or something. i dont know what tyhe hell it is. but better now. this is really cool trance music i dig and am grateful for. Lori play this please. before I die.

@devinkhoury4490 4 жыл бұрын

i hope lori pulls through

@mateoito8266 Жыл бұрын

there is another 60s band who had this sound, super similar even because they have been admittedly inspired by the VU , that is parson sound from sweden, most underrated euro impro band imo. thank me later.

@zeniafotiadis5298 3 жыл бұрын

was and still top! thanks!!!!!

@declankirwan1337 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds pretty good after a few whiskeys as well. Over 60yrs old and beats the crap outta anything nowadays. Jim Morrison must've been influenced also as The End sounds a little similar.

@Fortwentt 4 жыл бұрын

omg 62 in 1 day from now and i like it too. it does beat the shit out of anything these days.

@ceef8688 3 жыл бұрын

@@Fortwentt yall may be 62, and you may be right, but you gotta check out some cool stuff from nowadays too. It's just different because the VU vein was hit, perfected, and blown by the 80s. But check out Pilgrimage by Om and Nightly Trembling by Six organs of Admittance. I think especially that one, and most 6 Organs stuff, will hit this nerve for you.

@ceef8688 3 жыл бұрын

also the current works of SWANS on bandcamp, if you want to go nuts swans.bandcamp.com

@JesusGomez-ob2qt Жыл бұрын

The Doors were a huge influence on the Velvet Underground. Nico had an affair with Jim and Warhol had a crush on him! He hung out at the factory sometimes and wrote people are strange about them

@seandeoro7995 Жыл бұрын

The Doors were not an influence on the Velvet Underground except for some of their orgsn playing in 1968/69

@robertofrattini5736 7 жыл бұрын

amazing ,thanks for posting.

@alondathomas293 6 жыл бұрын

Never heard this----alws liked weird experimental stuff from the '60's,lol.

@user-kv9gg9kh6f 4 ай бұрын

First there was Lou and the Velvet - than the Universe - many thanks Lou and The Velvet !

@udogoger7345 2 жыл бұрын

Wow!

@alienalajna Жыл бұрын

I can't make out what Nico is singing, but around 1980 I heard on WBAI a performance by Allen Ginsberg who sang "The Nothing Song". Something between comedy and existential pessimism à la Samuel Beckett. He sang "Monday nothing, Tuesday nothing, Wednesday also nothing, Friday and Saturday much more nothing, Sunday also nothing". First in English, then in Spanish, then perhaps Yiddish. But in each language the melody - a minor-key lament - somehow took on the character of the language, as if it were the culture of origin of the song. I don't recall if he was backed up by the Velvets. Perhaps he also played his squeezebox. I haven't been able to find it. Sound familiar to anybody? Can anybody help me out?

@dubkebab6307 Жыл бұрын

Try "Carpe Diem" by the Fugs

@dubkebab6307 Жыл бұрын

oh,actually I meant 'nothing' by the Fugs. ahem.

@alienalajna Жыл бұрын

@@dubkebab6307 That's it, dubkebab. Looking briefly at the lyrics I see no credit for Ginsberg as a/the writer, but it sure has his fingerprints on it! Going back to the politics of a generation before the Fugs - that is, A.G. Many thanks! I will listen ASAP.

@alienalajna Жыл бұрын

I've just listened via KZfaq, and for all I know it could very well be a Fugs original composition. But seemed just right for Allen Ginsberg to cover it, or do guest vocals with the band. Is there a Fugs or Ginsberg scholar in the house to give us the straight dope on this burning question? Such fun.

@theotherlindsayrickman 2 жыл бұрын

YESSSSSSS

@jamesflowers874 5 жыл бұрын

COLUMBUS OHIO NOVEMBER 4th 1966

@user-qm6wc2ek9y Жыл бұрын

All great music played around the day I was born❤

@joecolchic1620 Жыл бұрын

this and ocean are something else no?

@mahammaduli9820 3 жыл бұрын

ihear "atmosphere" by joy division (posthum-hit)

@emmanueldartigues1341 3 жыл бұрын

"In silence"... ;)

@Dianica 2 жыл бұрын

same

@JAFHRH3GR 2 жыл бұрын

If anyone was alive, the lawyers would be fed. Atmosphere my 2nd favourite song; All Tomorrow's Parties my 1st.

@nataliezementbeisser1492 3 жыл бұрын

the audience at the end is totally shocked

@plophlegm 2 жыл бұрын

it's actually EVERYTHING song

@reaganwiles_art Жыл бұрын

Another one to fall asleep to, after "Time To Melt" by LARD

@jimrader5299 4 жыл бұрын

riff may be derived from Charlie haden's bass solo on ornette's 'ramblin'. unsconsciouly, that is.

@iamdamosuzuki_ 3 жыл бұрын

Lou Reed was heavily influenced by Ornette Coleman's music so that's a very real possibility.

@vomeinsamenmadchensophie 5 жыл бұрын

🖤🦇🖤

@_artorical_ Жыл бұрын

There’s no VU without JC. Nico should’ve been inducted with the Velvets into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

@deanarberman2985 9 ай бұрын

dude she died like 10 years before they got inducted

@Luiz-pt2bf 5 ай бұрын

Lou solo le tenía miedo a su madre

@guneetlehl8098 Жыл бұрын

Cale at his best

@lilli5232 2 жыл бұрын

oooh....

@beatlehelter 2 жыл бұрын

Me recuerda mucho a lo que hace Yo la tengo! :o

@dizierjeanclaude9453 3 жыл бұрын

meditation music that give peace

@hangedman8250 2 жыл бұрын

a piece

@klaus-peterwoyke2989 Жыл бұрын

Schamanistic music

@rossturcotte419 3 жыл бұрын

🌈

@sodiumlights 3 жыл бұрын

Question; what music is playing in the background in the lou reed doc rock and roll heart @ 5mins25 & @1hr 5mins55sec? i`ve asked this question for years and no-one has ever been able to answer...please...please...

@robertmiller532 3 жыл бұрын

Where can i listen to it ?

@sodiumlights 3 жыл бұрын

@@robertmiller532 on the doc Rock n Roll Heart. Sadly it's not on KZfaq anymore but you can faintly hear it in this...kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e6emnqej0LvKn6M.html

@espirituneutro9696 3 жыл бұрын

bump

@robertmiller532 3 жыл бұрын

@@sodiumlights I know a lot about VU music but not too much about Lou Reeed as a solist, and that music in the background doesnt sound like VU so i bet it is from Lou Reed working with some other guys post VU

@sodiumlights 3 жыл бұрын

@@robertmiller532 I thought it might even be from the time rocker score...but no. I've been asking folk for years about this, to no avail:(

@TiagoVarjao-uh3vc Ай бұрын

It was a pleasure then…

@kenkovar2647 2 жыл бұрын

Lou's OBE to India i guess!

@annafontana7446 3 жыл бұрын

Who cried when Lou died?

@emmanueldartigues1341 3 жыл бұрын

I knew it was the beginning of the end

@rodhen2357 2 жыл бұрын

@@emmanueldartigues1341 personne car personne ne le pense mort.

@nadasadhana 5 ай бұрын

yes

@richardcrudgington9663 2 жыл бұрын

Grate Mon xlent

@richardcrudgington9663 2 жыл бұрын

GME

@richardcrudgington9663 2 жыл бұрын

Riffing Mo Tucker greatest

@richardcrudgington9663 2 жыл бұрын

Tis fun

@federicoconte7027 2 жыл бұрын

lyrics pls!!

@ewantaylor483 2 жыл бұрын

Buttercup Song now please

@mannystech4776 5 жыл бұрын

If your're not listing to this song high af, you are not listing to it right.

@jacketmeyer4534 4 жыл бұрын

High on life

@EknahZnark 4 жыл бұрын

it´s also good when your not high... but it´s really another thing when you're on acid... taking drugs and listening to music is the ONLY thing that matters...

@iamdamosuzuki_ 3 жыл бұрын

I'm listening ing to it right now totally shitfaced. Does that count?.

@jinoziniosti5633 Жыл бұрын

you havent heard Train Round the Bend until you slow it down a few ticks

@douglasarthur2673 Жыл бұрын

I frequently list when lost in music; I also oscillate wildly at times. 😊

@alienalajna Жыл бұрын

It may have been at CBGB.

@cescorosa61 2 жыл бұрын

Who sings, Nico?

@alshaw3882 2 жыл бұрын

Middlefield afar in hindsight foreshadow now moments

@alshaw3882 2 жыл бұрын

Bequester

@harryknackers7892 2 жыл бұрын

It would be great if there were a point to this, or to Warhol's life in general.

@biffDipstick 2 жыл бұрын

Why?

@harryknackers7892 2 жыл бұрын

@@biffDipstick Didn't you used to think it was all going somewhere?

@biffDipstick 2 жыл бұрын

@@harryknackers7892 no. The song title says it all.

@harryknackers7892 2 жыл бұрын

@@biffDipstick Warhol's life says it all.

@silversnail1413 4 ай бұрын

You're right. Warhol's life would have been infinitely more meaningful if he had access to KZfaq and could waste his time criticizing people like the great harryknackers7892 instead of leaving an indelible mark on the American pop culture landscape. Truly a missed opportunity.