“I thought I had to show our other side. Otherwise, we would become this thing dimensional, and it had to avoided at all costs. ” This is Lou Reed to contextualize in 1994 Velvet Underground , the third album. It was what he had done. In September 1968 the band announced that, or John Cale was fired, or Velvet ended at that time. Neither Sterling Morrison guitarist or drummer Maureen Tucker wanted to see the Welsh in the back , but none of them faced the leader. In late 1968 Cale even disappeared from the scene. The next step, after its replacement by a 20 year old guy named Doug Yule (bassist and keyboardist talent and owner of a small voice), was a self titled album is not innocent. The Velvet Underground is like a second debut album, as confirmed at the commemorative reissue of its 45 years. An edition in six discs (three with different mixes of the album, a song created for a fourth album that was never released and two with the band concerts records in San Francisco in 1969) are available, and a version double album (a mixture of producer Hal Valentin, plus a selection of songs extracted from two of Californians concerts).
Velvet Underground , in retreat to a song structure more conventional, the elimination of slogans created by Cale or violent noise layer running through White Light White Heat , Velvet show the other hand, Lou Reed as a composer capable of a rock slimmer delicacy. It’s an album that comforts us and welcomes the familiarity and almost tender sensitivity of interpretation.
Of course, the delicate melody Pale blue eyes or devotional environment Jesus hide other layers: the first song for a lost love and the second is the sound of looking for somewhere between despair of the world: “Jesus, help me find my proper place / Cause I’m falling out of grace “, sings the little Catholic Reed.
Here still the guitars of Morrison and Reed, clean effects, rattle with a frenzy anfetaminado in Beginning to see the light , which distill the overflowing energy that we heard in the previous album – and you hear The murder mistery , sonic exercise no more than interesting (the voices shocked unresolved and repetitive tone music not hypnotize as The gift , White Light White Heat ). The heart of the album lies elsewhere. Early on, Reed offers the Yule the main voice of Candy says and the contrast between the sweetness of the melody and the lyrics say is disarming: “Candy [Darling, Figure Factory Warhol] says I’ve come to hate my body / and all it requires in this world. “
Lou Reed ambition do Velvet Underground the passport to fame. In this sense, failed with crash – was the least selling album of the group. Its effects manifest would later -. Part of called indie that bloom later it was tuned
We hear the concerts of the records included in this new edition and found the band in San Francisco, the center of a hippie counterculture in the antipodes of Velvet. Intimate setting, judging by (reduced, polished) volume of what they hear applause at the end of Heroin or Waiting for the man .
Both Reed Sterling Morrison as used by this time twelve-string guitar, applying its open sound in the long instrumental digressions of the above songs. We hear them and are like estranged relatives of the Byrds, trying to sabotage the psychedelia of these, eight miles high . We heard Lou Reed show I can not stand it anymore : “The following is a song about the hurts of the contemporary world, we all know so well.” After a short pause, he adds: “At least that’s what I’m always hearing about.” Under the skin so that they covered the body, the new Velvet Velvet were still the old.
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