Cale has an almost Scarborough Fair Elizabethan feel to this. Fascinating.

John Cale is one of the most underrated musicians of all time.Swapping out the strings on that electric viola for guitar strings gave the fierce drone on the first two records.

Literally early velvet underground is classical,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.

John Cale makes this version so alluring and captivating. His voice is beautiful and in great contrast to the somewhat dark lyrics of this masterpiece. I am truly blown away by its sheer beauty. Help,i cant stop listening to this.

"Vicar, would you mind singing this tune for us?"

Gives a whole new dimension and vibe to this song !! I like this version even if its not better than the original

This is the Renaissance Fair version!

I just discovered this song watching TVU documentary, its just so spiritual singing, way ahead Lou singing. Very emotional and pure

Wow! I never heard this before! John Cale is excellent on this!

I would love to hear Nico singing this.

I strongly recommend the new VU documentary to any of their fans.

Gorgeous voice Cale has. And how can anyone think this is Reed? Reed's voice is pretty distinctive.

My favorite version of this song!

Like the medieval feel of this version

From everything I've read I am surprised Cale didn't get a writing credit on this. He virtually invented drone drone rock... or at least introduced drone to popular music

this is john cale ( and that accent is amanford valley, carmarthenshire, wales.) and personally i love this version best. tough shit.x

Never heard this version before. It starts off as a pure English folk song. The music continues as such but the lyrics become really dirty , as I remember the song

Reminds me of something that could have appeared on Chelsea Girls

RIP Sterling Morrison

This is incredible!

Dude, totally Cale. Welsh accent, sounds exaclty like he does on White Light/White Heat

I think I love this version more than Lou's version. Of course, Lou made such an amazing job but John's vocals in this song is just.. Magical?

Like a really old English folk song! still sounds great!

yes, yes it's Cale's vocals, the info on this acoustic demo version can also be found on wikipedia, google Peel Slowly and See

I hadn't heard this version of the Velvets' song. It's totally different in sensibility. In this acoustic version, with Cale singing, it sounds as if it had come out of the British electric folk scene that was happening in the late 60s/early 70s -- something totally different from what the Velvets were up to.

ugh beautiful.

John cale is amazing

Sorprendente!

It's insane. So different from the final version

Feel like you might hear this from afar in the plague years of England. A minstrel locked up in a tower, running out of food, slowly losing their mind.

“Cale sings Venus in Furs as a hymn, Satanic perhaps, but a hymn nonetheless." - Source: Sal Mercuri REVIEW

Ooooo that’s great!

S&M at its finest!!!

Whoa

Hermoso

this is Cale. Lou Reed sings the electric version on the album. the "official" album version.

Gold

Celtic songs at 2021

Just the melody to this song should be played in all churches in the world because it literally strikes a chord in your heart just like Scarborough Fair beautiful

lou's version, gothic ass satanic sounding song cale's version, gothic ass medieval song

Definitely "bleed for me" in this version,which was what i first heard with the studio version and suits the so much more

Wow

I've got the set and agree this is the best one of three...and for the sake of it Cale is Welsh......

@justnicknet yes, J.Cale on vocals

I love this versio.

son celtique..les origines de Cale!!

@Alkyani on the album version yes, but I think this is Cale. It's a very good version either way.

Wish I could pay the local bards in Skyrim to play this

the studio version is Lou. This is John.

Never heard this before and the pictures are great. Credit to the creator.

Eyes Wide Shut vibes

On this version, it's definitely Cale on vocals.

its amazing. i wouldnt mind both Reed and Cale-sung versions on the same album because little differences make the actual takes of the songs so much different.

Sounds like they were listening to a lot of Simon and Garfunkle.

Bijou

The Celtic roots of John Cale…

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Would anyone happen to have tab for this version (or any transcribed version)?

Read the comments section for reiteration of information given with the video "for some reason "?

@Alkyani I think in this version it really is Cale...

@justnicknet Are you sure? i've always tought it was Lou reed singing...

Could someone show me the chords, please?

Cale singing this is way surperior to Reed singing this . They should have had him singing the original version.

Cale on vocals for this.

@Alkyani Definitely John Cale

i love this song, i even recorded a version myself, not that you care, and this is the most extraordinary performance, they could have been using lutes and dressed as mummers. i hate it. i'm amazed. if this is the demo i'm surprised they ever recorded it again. i suppose they are playing with ironies, opposing the setting against the lyrical content. it just goes to show how risky jokes can be.

dandelion version

Lou nicely erased John's vocal from the VU album on this song. Nice. My wife always said "How did someone with a voice so beautiful get in the Velvet Underground?". Refer to John's version of this or a certain Leonard Cohen song for reference...

sounds like something I'd hear walking down the streets of europe 500 years ago

This is the end.........

Cale on vocals, I believe?

Who said Lou wasn't a Folkie ~! By heart

Does anybody wonder if the band ever really approved of Lou's decision to sing the song himself? I have been in bands with more than one singer, and I know if someone else could sing it like this, but I wanted to "sing-speak" it like Lou, a lot of musicians would put up resistance. That's why a lot of singers make it a rule that they alone are lead singer, because they don't want to compete, especially on their own songs. But the best bands, like the VU, mostly have more than one lead singer.

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What year is this from?

You can also hear the english accent

In the church of true creatively made music,there is a stained glass window that lets only the moonlight in on full-moon nights.it stands behind a dusty,unused lectern,where no priests of sound have conducted since the 2010s-16s. The stained glass,as you approach down a worn black carpet spun from musical notes of violence, emptiness, triumphs&downfalls young&old, voices&instruments,the glass slightly blinds you ,scintillating the entire church in what looks like the tears,or maybe black blood,or patent leather. When you climb the bald stone stairs to get close enough to see ,the arched window contains the leaded,stained glass of eons- &all the colors of the tears of the worlds unfounded & that which is within the nomads, the suffering,partying,rising falling&dying stars,always creating ,true artists. The colors inspire fear & then you recognize- not Jesus,suffering on a cross,but a wiley 2- headed saint, St. John(Cale)& St.Lou(Reed),dressed tightly in black,the black angel grinning behind them giving them the very ink from his veins,& Severin,serving at the pointed boots of the 2 bickering, yet lifelong, bound friends, the spikes &within the droppers,the best medicine,to quiet the mind of chaotic, relentless creators,that which will torment them then leave them used up,alone, until they numb away the ringing of truth in their skulls,or unless they let it join with ink &blood& sound,&leave for the masses,what they can. In selfishness,they create what they would want to hear- & some of the masses without ability or too fearful, but in desperation for something meaningful, find it,hear it,treasure it,Amen. To inspire,humankind,someday, maybe,again.- b not B.- VUalways

It is Cale, Reed sounds nothing like that. Listen to Lady Godiva's operation. They both sing and have an obvious difference.

fantasy and scarborough fair version lol

This is a beautiful version even though it’s about S&M

wait who thinks this is lou reed? all the comments that say it's john cale...

i am sure its CAle

It sounds like 13th-17th century English folk music.

Why they didn’t release this version, I’ll never know. This is far superior to the Reed version

Without LouReed and Mo's drums it's old English foke.

Chords???'

He had committed Himself as Producer of The DiLs' Debut LP fer his Fledglin' label, SPY; & Pled w/ the Kinman Bros to remain in NYC that Summer '79 coin' Gigs {"There's Enormous demand fer Yoo guys here"}; but Drip & Phony Blew Him Off & Let me Go. I prolly had a nervous breakdown subsequently & Ole JC Lost innarest in them&zippy

Wauw..this really reminds me of "scarborough fair"..Still the final version is so much better.This is much to restrained..no passion.

Simon and Garfunkel, anyone??

This version is much better imho. Who's "Severin"? Not Severin from Souixsie and the Banshees?

[Verse 1] Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather Whiplash girlchild in the dark Comes in bells, your servant, don’t forsake him Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart [Verse 2] Downy sins of streetlight fancies Chase the costumes she shall wear Ermine furs adorned, imperious Severin, Severin awaits you there [Bridge] I am tired, I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years A thousand dreams that would awake Different colors made of tears [Verse 3] Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather Shiny leather in the dark Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart [Verse 4] Severin, Severin, speak so slightly Severin, down on your bended knee Taste the whip in love not given lightly Taste the whip, now bleed for me [Bridge] I am tired, I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years A thousand dreams that would awake Different colors made of tears [Verse 5] Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather Whiplash girlchild in the dark Severin, your servant comes in bells, please don’t forsake him Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

I'm sure that it isn't Lou Reed on vocals, but it seems it's not Cale either.

This sounds like some wank Hipster cover of the known version. Goes to show what I know. It sounds amazing really. Same artists, totally different vibe. Dirge, New York version versus folky Welsh hippy version. Who would win? There's only one way to find out...

Music could be an English ballad from centuries ago , the kind Joan Baez made a career of . The lyrics a reference to an 1800's porn book - of special interest to masochists . Ive always thought that Cale was rated as a genius by people who never noticed how basic his skills actually were . Warhol was the real genius - at convincing rich bored people that ordinary people were facinating . Sometimes they were , I can agree . But usually they were just sitting there , zonked out of their heads on Warhol's drug cocktails , mumbling about random things . Or just sitting there .

Venus in tunic. Not especially exciting.

it's not cale

VU for poofters?

Simon & Garfunkel anyone?