The Velvet Underground & Nico

Holy shit, this album is so boring. 2/10.

Repetitive soundscapes with bad singing. I just don’t think I like the velvet underground. Cool Andy Warhol cover though? Finishing it was rough, wth was that last track?

So bob Dylan and the doors formed a Vegas style lounge band playing sub par mamas and papas with vocals by a member of the third Reich. Truly awful.

...auf dem Weg zu Ruhm abgebogen zur Vorstufe des Punk.

If a studio-generated album results in a singer sounding this "pitchy", I would hate to hear a live version!

Noise

amen vafan, det här kan inte vara bland de 1001 bästa albumen. En låt är bra, resten är obehagligt. 1:a.

Did not care for this one at all.

Do not like

Terrible. Arguably not music. Just utterly awful. If I wanted to punish somebody I would play this album.

boring

Typical 60's vibe. The singer sounds like a Dylan wanna be. Not a talented group, but their album cover is fun.

I didn't like this one. Too slow, energy was depressing, too avante garde to allow me to just enjoy what I was hearing.

L'énorme influence qu'a eu cet album tient au fait que n'importe qui l'ayant écouté s'est cru capable de faire de la musique. Daubesque à souhait.

war mir zu viel geschrammel, hab ich nicht bis zu ende gehört. hat mich jetzt nicht unbedingt abgeholt. und auch wie unkreativ der albumname…

Couldn't like it if I tried, on the boring and dull end of the albums

Nix für mich

i’ll be your mirror is nice ig. i almost enjoyed run run run and then that fuckass guitar solo started and stabbed my ears. i like some of the 60’s experimental stuff but this ain’t it. also FUCK nico

After getting a record by Nico earlier in this project and researching about her, I refuse to listen to anything that she's involved in, so this will be getting a 1 from me.

Evidently all you need to make it in the music industry are 3 chords and a catchy band name.

Basically noise

Boring and noisy.

Over-rated.

Annoying to my ears. Have never been able to get in board with them. Might be because I’m not crazy about the genre they so heavily influenced

NIET mijn ding. Ken venus in furs ivm bdsm maar de rest is echt matig.

While this album may have been revolutionary for its time, this is proof that not all innovation is good and music has really evolved for the better over these past 55 years. I shudder to think what music would be like if it followed a path like Heroin or The Black Angel's Death Song.

Not to my taste, didn't enjoy listening to this one.

first song started strong; disappointed by the rest of it. painful to get through.

Feels unfinished, timing off, maybe should be considered an experimental. Almost like a raw (unmastered) and Bob dylan feel

I've tried so hard to love this record. Literally, my entire life, I've listened to this, hoping to feel something other than desperation for time to pass more quickly while it spins. This listen is no different than the many before it. I understand its musical implications and influence intellectually, but I find it almost unlistenable. For now, I guess I'll have to admire it from afar, give it the respect that groupthink has lead me to believe it's earned and just categorize my disdain for it as one more thing that makes me uncool.

Only 1 ok song

not good

Like if Safe as Milk was really bad. Possibly the most over rated album of all time. 1/5

This album is a mixed bag of nuts with no song being particularly great or memorable. It’s very much a sleeper album with an underlying theme of late 60s early rock. The lead singer sounds like a combination of Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones if they made bad music.

folky rock; 1/5

I find this album to be unlistenable. If you have the vinyl the banana is a sticker so that's kinda cool. 0

It all sounds a bit pretentious and the screeching guitars are unpleasant to listen to. Altogether quite boring, which is amplified by the droning voices. Ending song is really just noise and screeching, not at all plesant to listen to.

"Alright boys, you are going to play with shit, canned production because it is more real. You are going to add those unnecessary last 4 minutes to Heroin (which could've been fantastic) and European Son (which never have been saved) because it makes it real. And you are going to add unnecessary noise guitars that add nothing to the songs because, you guessed it, makes it more real" - probably Andy Warhol at some point

I just don't get it

Why is this popular with anyone. Noise.

Not my kind

Their voices were not pleasant to listen to, no innovation compared to other artist of the same genre and era

Yikes. Nothing here of value. Very annoying album to trudge through. The vocals, the random sounds, just terrible. 1!

Gud, så jobbigt

Ah sweet, this one always comes up in David Bowie circles, so I'm looking forward to it. Plus, I really like Venus in Furs. Vocals in Sunday Morning put me in mind of Bob Dylan, which is not a good thing, but it's not to a bad degree here. The music really screams 60s in a Strawberry Alarm Clock kind of way, maybe a bit more subtle. Damn, the more this I'm Waiting for the Man song goes on, the more I want it to end. Very repetitive, and too long. Am I going to dislike this album? The vocals now are kinda feeling more Violent Femmes. Yeah, cut two minutes from that track and we're cookin'. Femme Fatale is a totally different vibe, I dig it. Ayyyy Venus in Furs. What a unique sound from this one. There are a lot of different sounds going on here, and it would take a few more listens to isolate all of them. Run Run Run is very Rolling Stones to my ears. Lots here on this album, cool. First couple of songs had me a bit worried. Heroin is an interesting one, because it's really repetitive but it builds kind of when you don't expect it. Oh wow, except I just realized it's 7 fuckin' 13 long. I just hit 4 and half minutes and thought, yeah, this must be winding down. Nope. Ew, this shit just got unlistenable with the screeching. Why do artists do this? The highs are high and the lows are low on this album. Feel like I've heard enough. OMG the last song is almost 8 minutes long?? Better not be more hyper-repetitive shit. This album too damn avant-garde for me, I think. God damn this last track is hard to listen to. You know what? I'm skipping it. Jesus, a few good tracks can't save that mess.

This influenced quite a bit of music that I use to listen to. But not my cup of tea.

Just being honest. I really didn't enjoy anything on this.

Nope. Off their faces, clearly, and Nico just can't sing. It's not quite as bad as her solo album, but still the 2nd worst album I have ever listened to in full. How this got on the list, I will never know. Absolutely rubbish; 0 🌟

This album is the audio equivalent of a modern art exhibit where the artist stands around and sneezes on people, then yells at them until they apologize for not getting it. 1/5

Not my bag!!

Re-listen, as terrible as first time.

Ouwverwetste popmuziek. Het album begint wel geinig, beetje cult-achtig. Helaas wordt de opname erg slecht, overgemoduleerd geluid, short-loops in de audio - peeeep. Daarna worden de nummers ook wel erg vaag. Nee, dat wordt hem niet. *

The rating's unfair but I've listened to this album so many times in my life it drives me crazy. I never liked Nico songs when I first listened to this album and now when I hear her it's nails on a chalkboard. Besides that though, it's a classic. Seriously, I just hate it.

Ok i guess not my bag though

Trash

I’m not on nearly enough drugs to appreciate this kind of music. I’m sure KG&TLW fans dig this, but I cannot. WHERE ARE THE 5’s?!

My limited knowledge of the velvet underground is that it was a club in New York...or possibly LA, where you could be your freakish best and live out your sexual fantasies for a night and everyone else would have to put up with them. It was run by an equally freaky dude who would encourage the artistic elitists to get up on stage and put some musical entertainment on for the adoring patrons. This led to a band under the same name as the club, which led to this album...among others. Am I close? Do I really care? Does anyone care? Would I recommend you go out & buy this album?...Definitely not. 1 Star!

old white guy music, alternative version, I guess. 2 songs in, and i'm not impressed. We're working in the 2 range, give or take. Let's see.... GAWD, the MUSIC just isn't any good. Maybe the words are witty or progressive or whatever, but the sound is crap. 1/5.

meh

This was physically painful to listen to.

1.5

Not my scene. Couldn’t get into it and it all felt all over the place.

Greatest album ever recorded.

Just ok

Not for me.