" No - one but no one sounded like the Velvets" Bullshit. They sound like any undistinguished amateur band learning to play their instruments. But let someone tell you that they are a "legend," and you fall for it.

@@jnagarya519 No one " Told me " - if you can be bothered to read me properly . I discovered them . Perhaps you should listen to some more commercial " pop " by " professionals " with nice , catchy tunes , that won't tax you too much . Check the rest of the comments ; All by people who understand and , and enjoy the band - who included 1 classically - trained musician ( Cale ) and the rest -highly experienced players of all styles , who simply wanted to explore how drone music , might fuse with western " Rock/Pop " music , and instead of dull lyrics , actually experiment with honest lyrics about real people . With respect , if you don't like this music - go elsewhere . There's very little worth in being negative .

@@markpearson4693 did you get to see The Teardrop Explodes, etc back in those days ? Liverpool must have been mindblowing, with so many incredible bands. Cheers.

@@jnagarya519 your a idiot without them you probably wouldn't be listening to half of what you hear today

@@markpearson4693 I was going to tell him what douche he is, but you put it so much more eloquently. Nicely done 👍

Actually it took place on January 13, 1966 not the 8th. But close enough! ;)

Oh bullshit. Rock became so splintered that every two-bit band claimed to have invented yet another "genre". It's all about labels -- self-promotion and marketing. What had always been called "ballads," which is a form, not a "genre," was suddenly marketed as the fake "genre" of "soft rock". Loud and aggressive "Kinks," primarily because of their "You Really Got Me," spawned informal discussion among fans of the label "hard rock" -- which would be, of course, "alternative" to the later "soft rock". Then the informal label "hard rock" evolved into the alleged "genre" "heavy metal". It is, as said, bullshit. Take a lesson: "The Beatles" simply made music. Then, two (and three?) generations later "fans" begin trying to pigeonhole their music into separate "genres" -- with labels invented AFTER they broke up. That practice is pseudo-intellectual hogwash.

@@jnagarya519 ahh now I get this guy. Another one who thinks the Beatles invented music 😂

@@jnagarya519 Take a lesson: the Beatles didn’t do anything nearly as groundbreaking or interesting as The Velvets. Your opinions are bullshit, along with this entire discussion since it’s all arbitrary and subjective anyway 😂 I only felt compelled to respond since you’re so quick to call bullshit on everyone else’s subjective opinions.

@@thefamilydog3278 No, jackass, and that is not what I said. It IS the fact that "The Beatles" opened the door for all that followed. EVERYONE thereafter ADMITS being influenced them. And what British bands would we have heard of if NOT for "The Beatles" breaking through into the US market?

@@thefamilydog3278 "the Beatles didn’t do anything nearly as groundbreaking or interesting as The Velvets." I agree that "The Beatles" avoided being monotonous and turgid and "freak-fringe' for the sake of being "freak fringe". "The Velvet Underground" were exclusive in who they viewed as their tiny, elite, audience -- they were contemptuous of anyone outside their tiny "in"-group. They were about SNOBBERY, and heroin was their ultimate sign of the ultimate in "hip" -- and being anti-social. They wallowed in dregs like Bukowski and Burroughs. And yet another ignoramus who can't critically evaluate "art" therefore insists that the actual objective piece of 'art" is actually subjective, therefore . . . doesn't exist. And would insist that a piece of "art" is "art" simply because someone sez so.

Not the beatles

Julek Julek. what was that, haha

Whaooo a ghost?

Lol... was recorded on tape so that was probably a tid bit of what was recorded on the tape prior to this VU tape.

Exactly. Like a drone. Purely tribal. No Line6 pedals, phasers or portable 8 track. Only distortion and reel to reel.

You say that as if it's a bad thing

@@kelechi_77 I suppose it is non-disturbing while one is nodding out on heroin. It's stunning how "fans" ignore context. "The Velvet Underground" was one of the spawn of fringe-freak-show Andy Warhol's "pop art" "movement". It was/is a "movement" populated by all sorts of phonies and poseurs.

@@jnagarya519 yeah because I enjoyed this on heroin when I'm 16 years old

@@kelechi_77 You don't know a whole lot about heroin or its reach. Kurt Cobain became a heroin addict because the stupid thought it was "cool". He ended up committing suicide. But I guess the death of others is a joke for you. Don't take anything seriously regardless the reality that it is deadly serious.