the velvet underground

the velvet underground - sister ray

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michele corrado

10 жыл бұрын

from 'white heat/white light', 1968.

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@moneycore2423 5 жыл бұрын

I've listened to hundreds of punk and noise albums and Sister Ray is still the craziest song I have ever heard. Why? I think because the song gyrates between cohesion and chaos like seven different times in 17 minutes. This is like a Formula 1 driver going 225 miles an hour, losing control of his car 7 times, not crashing and still winning the race.

@goldenorchid833 3 жыл бұрын

really like your opinion my friend👍

@patrickpower3750 3 жыл бұрын

I think. Because it was the. First

@jasonwade8774 3 жыл бұрын

After listening I feel this had to be a one or two take song when they recorded it

@samskid8913 3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonwade8774 one take

@jasonwade8774 3 жыл бұрын

Makes sense. I wish more bands would do more live one take songs. I watched a documentary here on KZfaq about the velvets and it covered every album they did. I’ll try and find a link

@BlueSky... 5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like they've been playing it 12 hours straight the moment it starts.

@guest_informant 4 жыл бұрын

@@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX Futuronic - Motorik kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNSJfquqmJesdWQ.html 10 years old

@literallyanythingelse 4 жыл бұрын

@@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX i think original commenter was talking less about composition than about groove and feel

@saturnjr9136 4 жыл бұрын

Guest Informant it sucks mate

@jetboy_ 3 жыл бұрын

lmaoooo well put, cheers! 🥃

@iloveweezer69 3 жыл бұрын

sounds like they’ve been playing for years, like some unmovable force

@dustyratchet9044 3 жыл бұрын

Favorite story I’ve heard about this song (supposedly true). In the studio, the recording engineer set up the mics, hit record, then left the building, saying, “they’re paying me to record this shit, not to listen to it.”

@timothyholly1289 Жыл бұрын

Wow I hope that's true

@lagilbert67 Жыл бұрын

Close but wrong. You heard the story of Tom Wilson...the engineer in the studio on their first record. He didn't want to hear "Eurpeaon Son".

@lotharroberts5978 Жыл бұрын

@@lagilbert67 I'm afraid you're wrong. See my comment above.

@colinwilson4609 Жыл бұрын

@@lotharroberts5978 Everybody's talking at me. Can't hear a word they're saying. Only the echoes in my mind.

@shabbawank Жыл бұрын

I read that they decided to do 1 take and whatever happened was going on the record regardless. A masterpiece was born

@joban2333 8 жыл бұрын

People always complaining about how long Sister Ray is and I just say it's not long enough

@user-bi1jr4bh2y 8 жыл бұрын

!!!! так и есть песенка цепляющая

@caradonnelly8776 8 жыл бұрын

whip it on me, jim! whip it on me, jim! whip it on me, jim! whip it on me, jim!

@nationradical 7 жыл бұрын

DAMN YOU MARK PRINDLE

@pomtiogablue 7 жыл бұрын

...fuck 'em and yes

@motherbrain86 7 жыл бұрын

I've done that one many times while working at my cleaning job

@marcocaloi8599 2 жыл бұрын

Being a very insecure person, this is one of the few songs played on my earphones that has made me walk around people without feeling their eyes on me.

@abanana2561 2 жыл бұрын

Doug and Sally inside

@flannigan7956 2 жыл бұрын

Their turd eyes can wolf on a fat pecker

@flannigan7956 2 жыл бұрын

Specifically not worried about the jim jims

@clc-gl4jn 2 жыл бұрын

Was it cause you couldn't hit it sideways? All jokes aside I agree. It's like the first time a song that gave off the "I don't give a shit" type of mentality

@Ceaseless_Watcher 2 жыл бұрын

This and "little black rocks in the sun" by add n to x make me walk around like the King of rage.

@tamaradjurkovic5042 5 жыл бұрын

They invented Post-Punk and Noise Rock before Punk ever existed

@tempseques 4 жыл бұрын

!!!

@GregoryWonderwheel 3 жыл бұрын

LOL! They were working with Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band to invent punk before punk was punk.

@reebes54 3 жыл бұрын

They're just proto everything

@eddietasker9110 3 жыл бұрын

@@GregoryWonderwheel as much as I like captain beefheart, they weren't even close as important to punk as the Velvets. In regards to avant guard Music obviously they were unbelievably important and left an impact, but personally I actually think they impacted hard rock more than punk.

@ThePowerpointMaster 2 жыл бұрын

@@eddietasker9110 So many post-punk/new wave bands of the 70s list Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band as a huge influence

@major7thsmcgee973 7 жыл бұрын

I like the bit where they play the chord G.

@jan_Travis 5 жыл бұрын

GG GG GG GG FC

@omnirath 4 жыл бұрын

Iamman i upload 5 times a day for 6 months thx for the tab even if dropping my bass on the floor could do it too xD

@georgebethos7890 4 жыл бұрын

Major 7ths McGee 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💊💊💊💊💊💊💊

@youmabbagmamaa7172 4 жыл бұрын

@@omnirath 6

@youmabbagmamaa7172 4 жыл бұрын

@@omnirath t

@joem.8555 5 жыл бұрын

I've heard a lot of ridiculously filthy/heavy punk, hardcore, noise, and sludge music and it's insane how this song STILL holds a candle in how acerbic and nasty it is. VU were onto something big.

@zackzallie8735 Жыл бұрын

How fitting that your pfp is The Money Store and you commented how chaotic and hardcore this music was, while this made a gateway to Death Grips as well.

@derekstitt7215 8 ай бұрын

They were on to it. The rest of the world had to catch up to them. Way ahead of their time 🖤😎

@grahamchapple3552 3 ай бұрын

white light is about drugs

@lntimidatingxbl5857 7 жыл бұрын

You're not a rock band until you've jammed to this in somebody's garage.

@WillyJunior 10 ай бұрын

I'm confused. So you have this playing in the background while you and your band plays on top of it?

@grahamchapple3552 3 ай бұрын

i bet the neighbours were pissd off f em

@nnslg 7 жыл бұрын

If you listen closely, you can hear the birth of Sonic Youth.

@egomyself2774 5 жыл бұрын

Good point

@kiqharada1877 5 жыл бұрын

and the punk rock too

@omnirath 5 жыл бұрын

Punk rock Pantera Pentagram Doom metal Grunge And plenty of other !

@sh230968 5 жыл бұрын

I can even guess there was a big bang some time in the past.

@clash4ever 5 жыл бұрын

Especially "Hot Wire My Heart"

@julianleil7847 3 жыл бұрын

Moe Tucker should be considered one of the best drummers in Rock music

@UKAlanR 2 жыл бұрын

Influence that wouldn't really become apparent until the early punk era

@donaldkoszowski3789 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, absolutely, and not one drum fill!##

@johnseabron 2 жыл бұрын

I used to see her at church every Sunday morning - front row wearing sun glasses. Deep south GA. What a world we live in.

@cardfansencore387 Жыл бұрын

She is considered one of the best drummers ever.

@galesito1733 Жыл бұрын

It's a shame that you can barely hear her on some of their songs.

@juniorfco 4 жыл бұрын

Hedonist, dirty, street, underworld, decay, doom, masterpiece of noise and improvisation.

@grahamchapple3552 3 ай бұрын

yes and ves not radio very commercial there is a market for dirty decay doom etc

@hillarykildepstein3196 2 жыл бұрын

ONE OF THE GOOD THINGS TO COME OUT OF THE OPIUM TRADE.

@fishhead7536 3 ай бұрын

Realest comment here

@grahamchapple3552 3 ай бұрын

could be pharmacutical speed and a dash of smack

@Walexo45 3 ай бұрын

Ok, I laughed irl. Thank you.

@samuelward1148 5 жыл бұрын

I love when the organ's speaker literally blows out at 8:18. Love you John Cale.

@CarlDidur 3 жыл бұрын

I hear the organ still cooking along. He switches to Irmin Schmidt style karate noise.... Cale is the best. And Mo and Sterling

@ForARide 3 жыл бұрын

@@CarlDidur agree with you, but this was recorded before any Can release, so Irmin Schmidt was influenced by the Welsh Wizard.

@shawntoh 6 жыл бұрын

Hard to believe this recording is FIFTY years old. It sounds just as fresh, scary, compelling, and gruesome in a beautiful, pug ugly way! Peace.

@dillongstaff5625 3 жыл бұрын

It's a recording so it will always sound like this.

@grahamchapple3552 3 ай бұрын

we hate 70 s discshtt

@TheGoodManJoe 9 жыл бұрын

This is the fucking Guernica of rock and roll

@RazorD101 8 жыл бұрын

+TheGoodManJoe AWESOME COMMENT!

@pdg887 8 жыл бұрын

+TheGoodManJoe Well put!

@dja5766 8 жыл бұрын

+TheGoodManJoe i came here intending to say something like this, but you said it best already

@bamangwatoes 6 жыл бұрын

I've loved this song, and the Velvets, since I first heard it in1973 aged 14. Never been able to sum up Sister Ray in words. You just did, brilliantly.

@hippojuice23 3 жыл бұрын

Best statement!

@billmay7364 Жыл бұрын

This is Controlled Chaos . Noisy and Dirty . Love it. It Grooves. Like Sister Ray Says.

@sambackhouse 10 жыл бұрын

✮✮✮✮✮ One of the most important songs of the '60's.

@fabriziociavoni5190 10 жыл бұрын

Of the rock history.

@JDeissreVIEWSFROMHELL 9 жыл бұрын

Of ever.

@dennislockhart7678 4 жыл бұрын

"Sister Ray" (supposedly Ray Davies) and "It's All Too Much" tell you everything you need to know about the Sixties.

@ForARide 4 жыл бұрын

@@dennislockhart7678 first time I hear that about Ray Davies, but hey no complaints, I simply love The Kinks.

@guywholovesmusic4611 2 жыл бұрын

To this day you can hear tons of groups being influenced by the whole album, specifically Sister Ray, I mean listen to the first stooges album, that album’s guitar solos and sound is similar to the VU, even Bowie was influenced by them

@joeyrider 3 жыл бұрын

Uncanny how it soothes my nerves every single time

@wtfnoreesespieces 9 жыл бұрын

Look I'm only gonna say this once about 10-15 different VU songs...this is the greatest song ever made

@ralucagymnast 9 жыл бұрын

Haha im exactly the same lol. If I was FORCED to pick a favourite, I will still say the "Live in 1969" version of What Goes On is my personal favourite song of all time. This is a very close second. Oh wait....Some Kinda Love (the "closet" mix, not that weird echoey one), The Gift, Pale Blue Eyes, Venus In Furs, Run Run Run, All tomorrows Parties, Heroin.....God its too difficult lol.

@TheBestCommenterEVER 6 жыл бұрын

Fuckin' A goddamn right

@davidtrupp9289 6 жыл бұрын

Couldn't of said it any better

@jimhinkley8983 3 жыл бұрын

@@ralucagymnast yes what goes on has the best rhthym guitar from Uncle Lou, every time I hear it I want to try and learn guitar again. Sister Ray is more of a sprawling behemoth - a bit messier but almost orchestral...

@grahamchapple3552 3 ай бұрын

maybe texas n y album yes yes what goes on for minutes and cale on the carnival keyboards i still think transformer still is very much one of my favourites velvets sunday morming

@mike196212 8 жыл бұрын

The comparison is quite valid. The Beatles sold a zillion records and are still seen as gods(and I like them too). VU were largely ignored and reviled(Dylan had no use for the Factory crowd)---part of a true counterculture telling the hippies there'd be a price to pay eventually,that drugs could actually KILL you,that all the peace and love would not last. Reality. They predictably didn't sell many records but were decades ahead of their time. George Harrison,ironically,got it and admitted to being influenced by VU(the feedback) when he penned ''IT'S ALL TOO MUCH.'' Punk and new wave,you can argue,sprouted up here. ROLLING STONE declared ''THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO'' to be ''maybe the most prophetic album of all time.'' These two bands were revolutionary,but I still think VU had a greater influence. The DIY thing. Democratic. Brian Eno famously stated that everyone who bought the first VU album went out and formed a band----whether they could play or not. The possibilities were endless.

@homeyman1917 8 жыл бұрын

Ok I mean everything you said is true enough and stuff I've already read abt a hundred times, but I don't see what it has to do with the comparison I'm talking about. Abt how people are constantly saying one is better than the other... Sound wise I wouldn't say they're in the same category whatsoever so the comparisons still make zero sense

@hippiecheezburger5457 4 жыл бұрын

No that is why VU are one of the most influential rock groups of all time

@lotharroberts5978 3 жыл бұрын

Dylan loved The Factory crowd.

@zarrowthehorse 2 жыл бұрын

This song sucks

@sir.public Жыл бұрын

@@lotharroberts5978 Since when? he sold an Andy Warhol painting for a couch

@chewbaccapannekoek7803 3 жыл бұрын

I’m calling it. I am now 19 years old. For nearly 5 years, Child In Time by Deep Purple has been my all-time favorite song. This has just beaten it. I love this song so damn much. I’ve been listening to it nearly every day for the past couple of months. Even though it’s 17 minutes and 30 seconds. I love this song so freaking much. My new favorite song of all time. Sister Ray by The Velvet Underground.

@jacobcormier5532 2 жыл бұрын

Those are both fantastic songs! 😃

@andrewg.. 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing better than being young and discovering this shit for the first time, I'm jealous but welcome

@decrox13 Жыл бұрын

Child in Time? Lol, the song with the stupid noodly guitar solo set to Bombay Calling by It's A Beautiful Day?

@horizonsfluidline Жыл бұрын

I don't know how you can even mention the two in the same sentence let alone compare them?

@chewbaccapannekoek7803 Жыл бұрын

@@horizonsfluidline because they're my two favorite songs. They're totally different songs of course, the one is a musical masterpiece with every instrument on fire and the other is a noisy mess that still works out amazingly. But they are two of my favorites, even though they're totally different.

@jimmypage2138 9 жыл бұрын

love that guitar riff in the beginning

@waldornprime5567 Жыл бұрын

i love how there's no intro, this song just begins

@grahamchapple3552 3 ай бұрын

i just heard the end full stop

@lamestudiosinc418 5 жыл бұрын

Very few bands even come close to being as influential as the VU. These guys invented alternative rock in general.

@pabloisusi6097 3 жыл бұрын

Love, The Stooges and The Doors too. ;) Love them all

@simplypodly 2 жыл бұрын

This song in particular invented punk

@Sortalucid1628 10 жыл бұрын

The story of this recording just adds to the lore. At the time the VU obviously didn't have a lot of $ for studio time. Towards the end of a session, the guy running the recording booth had grown slowly more upset at the music as the hour passed. He was ready to walk out. The band told him to turn everything up to 100% and leave which he did. What we hear now is one take at the end of the recording hour. Quite different than the produced, over produced, and produced some more music of today. Not saying all music should be made this way but this song remains a masterpiece. I understand some don't get it but I'm happy so many do.

@ralucagymnast 9 жыл бұрын

Wow, fab story!! Absolutely spot on, you couldnt "produce" a song like this today; it seems it came to be as an accident almost, it could never be replicated in any way shape or form, even if Lou was still alive. Thats what makes it even greater, it really was a "one off", never to be repeated. There really are not enough superlatives to describe this.

@luminousmystery1208 9 жыл бұрын

I think a lot of it sounds improvised, and all the better for it. A producer would probably have reined in a lot of the 'madness', but it is that which makes it so unique and devastating.

@Syfoll 5 жыл бұрын

Actually the guy simply left, saying that he doesn't have to listen to "this". He pressed record and they played. The thing is, they agreed to leave any mistake they might make or stuff like that. That's the beauty. 1 take.

@destroyernoah 5 жыл бұрын

Tom Wilson was his name. Even when he didn't like the music he could see the importance of the people he signed, kinda like when he signed The Mothers of Invention after walking in on a club performance and mistook them for a blues band after hearing Trouble Every Day. He learned to like the music and pretty much let Frank control everything he wanted to do. He also worked with Bob Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel, etc. Pretty cool guy.

@ECHtoplasm 4 жыл бұрын

@@luminousmystery1208 It is mostly improvised. The studio version was done in a single take, and future live performances are radically different than this version.

@Alan649 3 жыл бұрын

Greatest song in rock history.

@alessandrobertanelli9452 6 ай бұрын

agree

@RaifLisko 7 жыл бұрын

The sound of the guitars, the organ, the outlandish lyrics. All absolutely incredible. I could groove to this for an eternity

@comradethoth9629 7 жыл бұрын

Aplasmabanana I have been listening to it nearly every night for 5 years now, and I'm not even close to tired of it. My hearing is pretty bad though 😎😎😎

@RazorD101 7 жыл бұрын

I have been listening to it regularly for years. Still love it.

@ludrixte1938 6 жыл бұрын

Given the length of it you probably will be ;)

@Frankmt215 6 жыл бұрын

"Too busy sucking on a ding dong!!" An outlandish lyric for sure but still cryptic enough compared to today's outright lyrics where they would have said "too busy sucking on a dick!" haha

@krisscanlon1265 6 жыл бұрын

I'm never too sure if they knew they were making crude music IE punk rock or are they really trying to sound like the Association? It's almost as though they got a time machine travel to 1979 and then came back it's that good then again you can do fantastic things on psychedelic drugs. The velvets much beloved by many.

@WillWileyOfficial 6 жыл бұрын

saddest point in this song is just when you think it won't ever end it ends

@anuragdeshpande6101 2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@galesito1733 Жыл бұрын

and then you play it again.

@almishti Жыл бұрын

it's the only flaw

@grahamchapple3552 3 ай бұрын

if this was played in elevators or supermarkets at xmas different world no shoplifting no cash just a riot

@paisenpaisen 3 жыл бұрын

it sounds like they’ve been playing this since the beginning of time, like some primordial beings

@michaelreynolds6498 3 жыл бұрын

It is musics Vulture peak!

@hexonatapeloop Жыл бұрын

Urban swamp rock

@camermacerat 6 жыл бұрын

Great Moe Tucker

@l.salisbury1253 7 жыл бұрын

"Road runner- road runner- goin' 1000 miles an hour... with the radio on!"

@l.salisbury1253 7 жыл бұрын

"Am unlimited supply- EMI- and there is no reason why- EMI- I tell you it was all a frame- EMI- they only did it 'cause of fame-EMI!"

@hopscotchoblivion7564 7 жыл бұрын

DAFT PUNK IS PLAYING AT MY HOUSE, MY HOUSE

@N0wave333 4 жыл бұрын

L. Salisbury “i fall in love with modern world”

@grahamchapple3552 3 ай бұрын

@robotubetwob 11 ай бұрын

Greatest, most epic opening of any rock 'n roll song ever.

@sh230968 2 жыл бұрын

I am serious. This is the most soothing music ever IMHO. I find no chaos. Just simple flow of melodies and vocals. A little unconventional, yes. Good thing is the duration of it. Could have been 23 minutes but let's not be too greedy.

@luminousmystery1208 9 жыл бұрын

I have to listen to this through earphones cos it blisters the paint on my walls

@argentorangeok6224 7 жыл бұрын

56 people couldn't hit it sideways.

@benakanecrophile2878 4 жыл бұрын

Make that 49 people

@Frankmt215 3 жыл бұрын

They must not have had the time time! xD

@anarchofilms 3 жыл бұрын

Pussies....

@EzeICE 3 жыл бұрын

@@anarchofilms just like Sister Ray said smdh

@ForARide 2 жыл бұрын

Recorded in 1968, it is simply mind blowing the sounds John Cale got out of that organ. One of the most ferocious and intense performance of an organ in Rock history.

@kelechi_77 2 жыл бұрын

December 1967 actually!

@simplypodly Жыл бұрын

Jerry harrison of the talking heads basically used this song as his template for his organ work with The Modern Lovers in the early 70s

@lotharroberts5978 Жыл бұрын

Recorded in November 1967.

@LucyOLastic Жыл бұрын

If you want to hear more of that organ, listen to John Cale's "Sun Blindness Music" recorded around the same time.

@almishti Жыл бұрын

and to think this was not long before Inna Gadda Da Vidda came out, and that became a no. 1 hit. There is no justice in the world.

@Genesisdoes87 5 жыл бұрын

If you listen closely, you can hear the invention of the entire genre of Punk

@julyccg117 3 жыл бұрын

the ultimate rock and roll masterpiece.

@estebansteverincon7117 10 жыл бұрын

This song isn't long enough

@dilzappa 5 жыл бұрын

There are 3 live versions of this song on The Velvet underground's "The Quine Tapes" 3 CD box set - each lasting much longer than the studio version.

@slowpoke5042 5 жыл бұрын

If they don’t have John Cale it’s not this good.

@ForARide 4 жыл бұрын

@@slowpoke5042 yeah, that organ he's torturing is such a killer.

@GregoryWonderwheel 3 жыл бұрын

LOL!

@andrewcroker5780 3 жыл бұрын

You funny

@Olhado256 6 жыл бұрын

While the world was in 1968, these guys were in 2068.

@kingamoeboid3887 6 жыл бұрын

Earl Lemongrab true

@Aman-ft1vp 5 жыл бұрын

While the world will be in 2068 I shall be in 1968...

@kevincampbell5785 5 жыл бұрын

Sounds right.

@xxjoeyladxx 5 жыл бұрын

Well, 1977 at least.

@franciscorodriguezbarrient247 3 жыл бұрын

Actually, the album was recorded the year before, 1967...

@drackoarchy 9 жыл бұрын

I used to get drunk and go to the high school listening to this song, good memories

@mauricegoldner44 6 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful and filthy song. Badass groove!! In the keyboard playing and the main riff I can hear what would later be "roadrunner".

@pomtiogablue 6 жыл бұрын

..possibly the best song ever recorded..but that's just my opinion..man

@MrAdicubbin 5 жыл бұрын

Yep. There is none better. I've listened. I love loads of great stuff but this is truely rock and roll at its absolute peak. May a god strike me down if it be otherwise. Can you imagine my great aunts when this gets played at my funeral? It's a shame I'll be dead really.

@simonhowles3646 4 жыл бұрын

nobody fucks with the jesus

@projectnoel 4 жыл бұрын

And done in a single take.

@jef6080 4 жыл бұрын

Miguel Torres and Piero Scaruffi’s one

@dennislockhart7678 4 жыл бұрын

The engineer--this was Verve Records, mostly a jazz label--couldn't take it. He just told them to tell him when it was over and then he left. But the producer was Tom Wilson, a black jazz guy...who also did Dylan.

@thebetbetunderground9548 8 жыл бұрын

At 8:42, kicks off the filthiest, most wicked, most twisted riff I have heard and will ever hear.

@comradethoth9629 8 жыл бұрын

You've walked down the Velvet hole my friend.

@marky1312 4 жыл бұрын

John Cale

@sukie584 4 жыл бұрын

@@marky1312Lou Reed.

@antoninsvgcp4497 4 жыл бұрын

8:53 What’s that riff sounding like. I like it

@kevlavis8736 3 жыл бұрын

Haha way to limit yourself, but then you are a Nick Cave fan 😋

@Frankmt215 6 жыл бұрын

What Lou Reed himself said about this song..."‘Sister Ray’ was done as a joke - no, not as a joke, but it has eight characters in it and this guy gets killed and nobody does anything. It was built around this story that I wrote about this scene of total debauchery and decay. I like to think of ‘Sister Ray’ as a transvestite smack dealer. The situation is a bunch of drag queens taking some sailors home with them, shooting up on smack and having this orgy when the police appear."

@anarchofilms 3 жыл бұрын

Read Last Exit to Brooklyn, that is where this comes from...

@julianleil7847 3 жыл бұрын

It's simply great poetry!

@drex23100 2 жыл бұрын

Those smack shooting TVs do know how to party.

@mindmy609 2 жыл бұрын

Haha what a surreal scene

@joekidger3960 10 жыл бұрын

This song is 17:27 of pure chaos. love it

@Alex-ud6zr 6 жыл бұрын

this... is not chaos, its rather ordered

@j1r3hpv 6 жыл бұрын

one of the best songs ever made

@aggelikitriantafyllou2226 9 жыл бұрын

The moment that you begin to love this even though you couldnt stand it at all

@aggelikitriantafyllou2226 9 жыл бұрын

Im a girl but yes thats exactly how i feel about the velvets and mostly i was listening to their other stuff ( i cant stand the european son eventhough i tried)

@aggelikitriantafyllou2226 9 жыл бұрын

These things take time !!!

@natetheguitarkid 8 жыл бұрын

+Anthony Procek European son is just a shitty track. Probably their second worst song. I would suggest everyone who hasnt listen to VU live 1969, they were a kickass live band as well.

@aggelikitriantafyllou2226 8 жыл бұрын

The truth is that Sister Ray is not a song for every hour

@giovannialtavilla6069 8 жыл бұрын

exactly like the firsts shoots of heroin

@sarahspringham9635 7 жыл бұрын

Best track ever - miss you Lou

@AutomaticSelector 10 жыл бұрын

The best onslaught of sound ever to grace vinyl -- without a doubt. I can't imagine ever getting tired of hearing this. It's what four geniuses at work sound like.

@elvispresley718 9 жыл бұрын

incredible shit!!

@gudrunrosenfeldt8284 2 жыл бұрын

It is what four heroin addicts at work sound like.

@leefrancis6536 2 жыл бұрын

I can remember a friend of mine played this on the way to school and it was still playing when we got home from school

@astral2151 3 жыл бұрын

If we ever date i am playing this song in its entirety, and if you comment about it negatively we are breaking up that very moment.

@Ihavenoname0 Жыл бұрын

A bullet would be dodged for sure.

@OldMusicOnVinyl1 10 жыл бұрын

I could listen to this all day.

@sh230968 3 жыл бұрын

I do listen to it every day for entire day.

@johnross2924 Жыл бұрын

It nearly takes all day 😁

@milesbyt 3 жыл бұрын

This song is everything I didn't know I needed.

@juanespinosa1259 2 жыл бұрын

Sister Ray is still the proto punk piece that gets my pieces going. I do like the Stooges and the Ramones but this piece is quasi the thing that got things going. It reminds you how this things were started. They had rehearsed for a full year to record their first record. Then came the recordings for the black album. By then they wouldn't talk to each other and being on amfetamines didn't help, They hated each others guts, and it shows on the record, they tried to overplay each other. Too bad that they didn't know they were an unbelievable rock band. Revered unto this day,

@PKVarianceArts 2 жыл бұрын

this is a seizure inside an episode inside a psychotic break - it makes me so happy

@WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms 2 жыл бұрын

Velvet Underground Songs: *OHHHH YEAH YOU KNOW I LOVE MY GIRL* >Sex Noises _15 Minutes Guitar Riff based on obscure French Art Theory you've never heard of_

@taylordiclemente5163 3 жыл бұрын

There is more than one song on this album about someone's head getting drilled.

@Mistertbones 10 жыл бұрын

Seventeen minutes and twenty six seconds of pure rock and roll awesomeness!

@mike9klf 6 жыл бұрын

I remember that very first day i bought this in 68. Had to special order it in Huntington West Virginia! Yes Phillip Page...It DID change my Life!

@Sound8VisionVibe 5 жыл бұрын

Michael O'Shea McGoldrick ayyyyyy fellow Huntungton native! Good taste! What a great story!

@chrish3510 8 жыл бұрын

Still remember seeing Mike Watt and the Secondmen play this song live like ten years back. Awesome cover.

@socallymike 10 жыл бұрын

this is the nastiest VU song- thanks Michelle... hadn't been in NYC since the late 80s, of all things I was there for his passing... a memorial of pictures and flowers at the Chelsea Hotel

@bloodorange6713 8 жыл бұрын

When in New York, you must listen to this song.

@krisscanlon1265 6 жыл бұрын

I know recorded at the record plant Hollywood yet the the velvets always were there black leather

@l.salisbury1253 6 жыл бұрын

And "Blitzkreig bop", "Chineese Rocks"...

@ARONKING1 4 жыл бұрын

In New York you must milly rock

@e.fontanot3809 Жыл бұрын

@@l.salisbury1253 chinese rock was in London i think

@MorningView4 Жыл бұрын

VU, Hendrix, & Bowie when I’m in NYC

@mikesaunders4694 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve had a crappy day at work....this is really clearing my mind.....true genius.

@stevenelson5103 5 жыл бұрын

Dancing to "Sister Ray" at The Boston Tea Party... the ultimate rock 'n' roll experience.

@methylmermanatgmail 4 жыл бұрын

This song always gives me a headache and that's what I love about it.

@icampos89 10 жыл бұрын

Quinnessential dance track to the apocalypse.

@MrAdicubbin 5 жыл бұрын

Perfect. Rock and roll will see us right to the very end

@keithstockman268 4 жыл бұрын

Prophetic and poetic. You got the vibe right there.

@sodatube 4 жыл бұрын

Now in this pandemic ... More than ever ! Velvets U is still current 😎

@65TossTrap 2 жыл бұрын

The most amazing rock song ever committed to vinyl.

@grahamchapple3552 Жыл бұрын

did not get a lot of airplay too busy sucking on my ding dong the lyrics are shit but the general cacophony of noise...they should play this in shopping centres at xmas

@ForARide 6 жыл бұрын

John Cale on organ is such a belter - pure dominance I say!

@ebaylistentomusic 6 жыл бұрын

When I was 12 I got invited over to the pad of some hard core dopers to smoke a little weed and they were playing this. 1968 or so, shit was crazy back then in some very different ways...

@agentoranges 6 жыл бұрын

Chaos manifested in the form of a song. What a trip.

@radiomindchatter7994 4 жыл бұрын

This influenced Faust no doubt

@joekidger3960 10 жыл бұрын

exhausted every time I finish listening to it

@Nazzz65 10 жыл бұрын

I DEFINITELY concur. People ask me about music in general. To their horror I tell them that there is really only one record: White Light/White Heat. Nothing else sounds like it does. This is true blood soda: an unholy congress of Ornette Coleman, 96 Tears, A Rainbow In Curved Air, amphetamine and 'Last Exit To Brooklyn'. Nothing else sounds like this I've looked since first hearing it in 1982 and there is nothing that comes close. I don't think the band even knew what they had done here.

@czgibson 9 жыл бұрын

***** I concur. It's a stunning record. One of the most amazing, nerve-shredding bottles of noise ever perpetrated on the public at large. It's an astonishing racket to be making in 1967. But have you heard Les Rallizes Denudes? A band directly influenced by side 2 of 'White Light / White Heat'. Their mission was to take it further, and they brought on the Japanese noise scene. You will not completely hate them.

@ralucagymnast 9 жыл бұрын

***** What about Tontos Exploding Headband haha!! Just for that name alone, they should be the greatest band ever haha. But yeah, this is my second favourite song of all time. Do you know what my number 1 is? The live in 1969 version of What goes on, nothing has eclipsed it, before or since. This runs a very close second.

@luminousmystery1208 9 жыл бұрын

***** haha - great story - what did they expect? - and did you cover the walls in tin foil?

@luminousmystery1208 9 жыл бұрын

***** haha - but no Nico there? ah well, you know next Factory party you have you should invite people who post on Velvets uploads on here - you'd be sure of total commitment then :-)

@clc-gl4jn 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite part is 3:32 to 4:05 and a few more times into the song. That sound is so cool. It goes from metal to a joyful-ish hard piano is just incredible. The whole song is amazingly groundbreaking

@yoanlima1327 3 жыл бұрын

The Velvet Underground were amazing and still are .

@pabloisusi6097 3 жыл бұрын

And they will be. One of the best bands ever

@mike196212 8 жыл бұрын

VU soared over the heads of most music fans when they appeared,but the enormous influence they had on tons of bands can't be denied. A wonderful,hypnotic,truthful squall of aggression I never get tired of. VU were easily 20 years ahead of their time.

@vollsticks 8 жыл бұрын

+Mike Poitras More influential than The Beatles, easily.

@homeyman1917 8 жыл бұрын

+vollsticks why do people always compare the two? They're worlds apart. It's such a stupid and needless comparison

@caradonnelly8776 7 жыл бұрын

The beatles were the 60's one direction lmao. They suck. I dont get all the fuss.

@mike196212 7 жыл бұрын

I wasn't talking about the sound of the two bands. No,they sure as hell don't have much in common there. You're obviously right. I was commenting more on influence and stand by what I said. The Beatles? If you don't like them that's fine. And,like all bands,they did lay some eggs. I like both bands but I prefer VU. I like lots of music. I think this comes with age,experience. I know far too many people of my generation(I'm 54) who will likely never leave the 70s. I like music from all eras. I still love the old Stones. I'm an Interpol fan and an REM fan. And so on. I think it's a lot more satisfying to have eclectic tastes. However,if you ''don't get all the fuss'' about The Beatles,I can't help you.

@vollsticks 7 жыл бұрын

Isaac Soto Not comparing the MUSIC I'm comparing their INFLUENCE on SUBSEQUENT MUSIC. No-one said they were similar. I was pointing out that popularity does not necessarily equal long-reaching influence upon other artists.

@chewbaccapannekoek7803 3 жыл бұрын

Messaged my music teacher if she could play this song during music class. Still haven’t heard back yet.

@rederickfroders1978 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine her desperately trying. Seriously maybe the only way to give this justice is to know how to play really well and then add the sleaze with copious amounts of drugs

@fastenbulbous 9 жыл бұрын

2:20 Awww yeah.

@alivebytheriver 10 жыл бұрын

this is the definition of debauchery

@philipkanis3064 Жыл бұрын

People thought l was weird in 8th grade(73) listening to this on my cassette player. I have always loved it. Maybe I am weird. So what! VU, The Fugs, Stooges , screaming Lord Sutch, Fuzzy Duck, Mahavishnu etc. I feel privileged to have lived in that era!

@ericclaptonslowhand4726 7 жыл бұрын

Recorded In A Single Take

@tracksuitjim 7 жыл бұрын

one of my all time favorite songs

@666Eva 4 жыл бұрын

can you imagine being part of this jam. Cale was on, once in a life time, fire. Of now to hear Lou's most perfect chord progression...Beginning to see the light

@Goatchild90 7 жыл бұрын

Top 10 album closer of all time

@samroth4118 3 жыл бұрын

Let's say Top 1

@hopscotchoblivion7564 8 жыл бұрын

WHIP IT ON ME JIM!!!!

@deadboydansmith089 6 жыл бұрын

hopscotchoblivion kind of emploding void of debathery hipnotizing choas of super loud intermodal trashed systematic beat of the time

@Rippd_Bagel 4 жыл бұрын

Daniel Smith stop trying to sound smart

@thiscorrosion900 4 жыл бұрын

HE'S DEAD, JIM

@jbsamakis 2 жыл бұрын

Not only is the song great but so are the comments describing the song.

@barberoriley5059 2 жыл бұрын

Three incredible musicians soloing over one another, at eardrum-crushing volume, for as long as they damn well please. Rock n roll at its most pulsating raw power best. If methamphetamine was a song.

@jasonwade8774 3 жыл бұрын

Slowly becoming my favorite velvet song

@coisasecenas50 10 жыл бұрын

This has to be the heaviest and dirtiest song ever.. and I love it!

@Syfoll 5 жыл бұрын

@Shut Up Before I Ankle Pick You I have to disagree

@hunteranthony3853 5 жыл бұрын

@Shut Up Before I Ankle Pick You This song is H E A V Y

@zaphyra- 5 жыл бұрын

this song is thicc

@aestheticaltwat 4 жыл бұрын

Ah! The Millenials!

@iamdamosuzuki_ 4 жыл бұрын

Listen to the Japanese band Les Rallizes Dénudés. They basically took the formula of this song and took it to even more of an extreme.

@brianmackenzie5652 2 жыл бұрын

This is heavy stuff. Not for the faint of heart. Fine tuned and built for the connoisseur if there is such a thing in the punk rock crowd. But 17.5 minute songs is why Velvet Underground remained well, underground.

@alexblock2248 6 жыл бұрын

This song used to be a chore to sit through when I first heard it...now almost ten years later, the song as the whole album is a masterpiece

@Goatchild90 6 жыл бұрын

Happy 50th anniversary to one of my favourite albums ever

@deannbaird5999 Жыл бұрын

I've listened to VU on Pandora every once in a while, but I never heard this song until I saw the movie Call Jane. Where has this song been my whole life! I absolutely love it! It's so raw!

@samroth4118 3 жыл бұрын

✮✮✮✮✮ The only song that fully deserves this jugdment

@goldenorchid833 4 жыл бұрын

it's not a song, it's an art experience

@dxchase9886 8 жыл бұрын

One of those songs you cant go without listening to it for longer than...a day

@flyingbrians9510 5 жыл бұрын

This song is the big bang of rock music

@Mitchell_E_Underscore Жыл бұрын

This is a great song to run to. Spend 17 minutes lost in the groove. Before you know it, you're a few K in and you didn't even notice because you're just in the Sister Ray trance.