S&M at its finest!!!

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.

Whoa

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

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

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

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

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

John cale is amazing

Hail Pickwick.where they met..!😊

Venus in tunic. Not especially exciting.

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Like the medieval feel of this version

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

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

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

The Celtic roots of 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.

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

Ooooo that’s great!

VU for poofters?

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

What year is this from?

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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

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

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

[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

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.

♡♡

Lou Reed had been listening to The Incredible String Band?

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

Chords???'

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...

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

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

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

Simon and Garfunkel, anyone??

Celtic songs at 2021

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

Eyes Wide Shut vibes

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 .

fantasy and scarborough fair version lol

Simon & Garfunkel anyone?

Hermoso

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

Bijou

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

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