Reviews (page 7 of 8)
A bunch of noise and words. i couldn't wait for it to end
Nope from me
I had assumed I'd enjoy this, so it was quite the disappointment. And opening bland track, followed by a long story over some low repeating sounds. A 17 min noise track with a story that, sure great write a book. I guess if this is your thong then sure... cool. But I've got bettwr things to do with my time.
This is the kind of nonsense that music critics fawned over so that they could come off as sophisticated and, therefore, justify getting paid to listen to music. This is the equivalent of when you give a group of kids a tape recorder and a microphone and, just like this album, they can demonstrate that they don't understand audio levels and sound mixing.
el peor álbum q escuche en mi vida
This is an ADHD Nightmare. It is chaotic, loud, just a bunch of random noise with talking over it. You know the creepy tunnel scene in Willy Wonka ... This is like that but on drugs. I hate it with a passion and couldn't get through a single song
Not my jam. Mostly noise, and weirdly experimental. There's a 17 minute song about a blowjob with the lyrics "You're busy sucking on my ding-dong. You busy sucking on my ding-dong." For fucks sakes.
Blah. Find out annoying at best
The Gift was fun in a novelty kind of way. I Heard Her Call My Name was atrocious and a 17 minute final track was a special kind of torture. Abysmal.
Oh this again. Really, we need all three of these? Pretty sure we get the gist of what this band is all about after the one album, I have to listen to all of them before I die to really understand music? What if I already went through my Beat phase in college? Anyway, there's not what I would classify a "song" here. Especially whatever is happening at the end of this thing. "She's busy sucking on my ding-dong?" Bro. Embarrassing. That was cringe THEN. Anyway, I'm out of patience with this band. Pretty sure Sonic Youth would have figured it out without them, and the Nirvana cover of "Here She Comes Now" is infinitely better because Kurt had a sense of like, melody and rhythm. Also, real quick, this is not the only experimental band from the 60s. But apparently enough people have decided that this is the only one that matters somehow. This band is annoying. I'm annoyed. Suck a ding-dong, Velvet Underground.
This was fucking dreadful cunt, looking aside the horrid audio quality the lyrics and musicianship on this fucking suck. PUN INTENDED because the rambling in Sister Ray was just stupid, as well as the incoherent dribble that come out of whoever-the-fuck drug addict sings for Velvet Underground. I HAD TO LISTEN TO SOME CUNT SAY "TOO BUSY SUCKIN' ON MY DING DONG" ARE WE BEING SERIOUS NOW This was fucked man I don't understand why these guys are so acclaimed. That being said, I've had everything served up to me on here except for the banana album - whatever that's called.
I actively hated listening to most of this. It’s difficult to make me completely dislike an album that has even decent guitar playing. But this even got me to cringe at the guitar parts. Somewhere hidden in there are some good guitar riffs but you can barely tell because of the ear-shattering nonsense noise going on elsewhere. I should get an award for getting through most of Sister Ray without driving my car off a bridge.
“…the album’s engineer was so put off by the 18-minute ‘Sister Ray’ that he left to get coffee, complaining that no amount of money was worth listening to that crap.” I’m with him. 1.4 stars
oh dear god, not another velvet underground. No. Not gonna happen.
garbage noise.
called the velvet underground because their music puts you underground
Yeah I was too mean to the first Velvet Underground one we got At the very least, Nico wasn’t that painful, if a little boring. This one is so unpolished and rough that it barely sounds like music at times. It really does sound like you gave a bunch of five year olds instruments and told them to rock out. Horrible rhythm, the vocals just straight up suck, and the instruments are passed through way too many layers of distortion. The lyrics are awful too, it’s not like there’s some kind of deep meaning behind them. That 17 minute song to cap off the album is definitely some of the truly worst music we’ve had on this list I really don’t have a whole lot to say that’s nice about this one, I understand why it’s on the list and how it’s super influential but man this one straight up sounds like shit. Every once in a while there’ll be a section that sounds ok but they’re far and few between. I really don’t get the appeal of this one at all
It's still the same thing; too rough and unpolished for my enjoyment. The Gift is some kind of dry comedy bit and I don't know why it felt the need to be 8 minutes long. Lady Godiva's Operation is the same thing; a half-baked melody wrapped in random sounds with no care for whether or not it's listenable. They're more obsessed with being an art project than making music. Also Sister Ray is 17 minutes and I have more important things to do with my life.
I hated the first Velvet Underground album that we got and I was so disappointed to find out that there was another one on this list. There is not much to say other than I can't stand listening to this music, it's not even music. Why is this album on the list? It does literally nothing.
Listen, I don't mind a jam session. I'm not huge into the Grateful Dead, but I can appreciate them. There's elements of noise rock and psychedelic here, but man, they find one chord progression and beat it to death, don't they? Yes, the lyrics were extremely progressive for their time, but there's got to be more than that, especially when the vocals are buried beneath everything else. Throughout listening I was steady on a two, maybe a three, but then "Sister Ray" started to drag on and I realized, with growing horror, that it was going to go on forever. This is just my purgatory, I guess.
Couldn’t wait for this to finish
Prätentiös ohne Ende, der zweite Song hat mich richtig aufgeregt.
I'd like to nominate "The Gift" as a bottom-ten song in the 580 albums from this list. We were so far into negative-star territory that even Lou Reed couldn't pull us back to mediocrity.
Very unpleasant experience, not sure I liked a single thing about this album, the 17+ minute final track cemented 1-star status
Did I just hear five plus minutes of sucking on my ding-dong?
I just didn't like it, the vocals were drowned by the guitar, which might be fine, but makes it really hard to follow a spoken story for 6 min. And the vocals that did come through weren't very enjoyable and didn't really build on the distortion or use it for effect. It all seems very random and disconnected Standouts The Gift 1/5
The Velvet Underground will forever be that band that people like because it's "different" or "groundbreaking." It's straight ass. It's so fucking garbage. I wanna blow my fucking ears in after hearing the first few songs on the album. It actually hurts my ears. Straight brainless noise, and pretentious people can't convince me it's good or purposeful like genuinely shut the fuck up. Silver Ray's alright but it's still unnecessarily long like we get it. The opening track isn't too bad, but the rest of the album is completely unbearable. This is probably the worst album I've ever heard.
You would have to be on some ridiculously strong hallucinogen, like pure liquid acid, dripped onto centimetre cubes of plaster of paris, which you had to keep in the freezer to prevent the drug evaporating, to think this album was 5 stars. Otherwise sober you’d realize that this is a festering pile of dog shit.
Listened to The Gift with right ear only, that way it was pretty enjoyable The rest stinks
Bogus lyrics and equally as bad instrumentals
Like their other album, certainly interesting from an expiramental view but not enjoyable to listen to.
Nul, pas aimé
This is what happens when Andy Warhol does zero work on a Velvet Underground album
If there’s something to get, I didn’t. Too busy sucking on that ding dong.
Feel like there’s a joke I’m not getting, like a bunch of teenage boys have somehow managed to have their shitty album get big. Favourite song: White Light/White Heat Least: The Gift
I think theres a reason that people mostly talk about "The Velvet Underground & Nico" in regards to The Velvet Underground as group because while the whole nature of their work is experimental or avant garde in nature... Some of it is too much so to be enjoyable for the average person. Frankly the only song I kind of liked here was "I Heard Her Call My Name" and the rest was absolutely not for me, ESPECIALLY "The Gift" the 2 channel use on that song drives me fucking crazy I h a t e it. And y'know what I bet Sister Ray sounds life-changing if you just shot some smack into your veins
I love when someone takes garbage and turns it into art. I hate when someone, posing as an artist, produces garbage and tries to convince you that it's art.
I’m not sure all of that was actual music.
I didn't like this. They were trying SO HARD to be counterculture it just comes off cringey.
I went in biased because I saw the little blurb on Apple Music refer to this as The Velvet Underground’s noise album. My fears were confirmed. Absolute garbage.
Some of this will always be more in the admire/respect camp, but from their own telling it was a failure technically, the product of amateurs enthralled with the sound of distortion and loud guitars, something anyone who has been in a practice space will understand. Reed’s lyrical concerns have never interested me and their “boundary-pushing” a bourgeois, adolescent fascination, a tourist on holiday, maybe provocative in its time but quickly tamed. At times his performance has the sensibility of a 6 year-old giggling at the word fart.
A bunch of noise
2.5/10
Struggling to think of anything positive to say about this. Jarring guitars that sound like they're being bashed against a wall, coupled with awful vocals and mumblings. The only thing that would be a positive would be if I never have to endure any more Velvet Underground ever again which, given the nature of this list so far, is pretty unlikely.
Could not stand this. Not for a second. Sorry.
I do not like the Velvet Underground. This isn't good and their vocalist is so annoying. There are decent parts, but not great overall. Liked Songs: "White Light/White Heat" , "Here She Comes Now"
Didn’t love this one
Die Frage ist nicht, ob die Katze beim Hören gestorben ist – sondern ob es Gnade war. Dieses Album klingt, als hätte jemand Feedback zur Kunstform erklärt und vergessen, wieder aufzuräumen. Verzerrung, Dissonanz, ein 17-minütiger Krach-Monolith namens „Sister Ray“, der klingt wie ein Stromausfall im Irrenhaus. Die Künstler wollten Noise – sie haben ihn bekommen. Avantgarde? Vielleicht. Hörbar? Kaum. Am Ende bleibt nur Stille. Und die klingt plötzlich wie Mozart.
Didn't get this at all.
Beznadziejne czuć że słabo nagrane
Holy shit, this is not good. I want to like it. I really do.
The music is extremely simple and boring and the guitars are covered with feedback and distortion that makes them tough to listen to. The lyrics are repetitive on most of the songs, and there's even a meandering spoken word track. It's not the worst album on this list but it still gets a 1.
no thank you
This faded into the background..... until it started to annoy me. Sorry Phyl.
Listened Before? N What a pile of pretentious garbage. Apparently they fired Andy Warhol before they recorded this one.... I hate Andy Warhol - but he would have improved this record. What a noisy turd. My first TRUE one star rating. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Here She Comes Now (because it was short and the only song that had any coherence to it).
Underwhelming :/ and ew
Never actually listened to these before but I was aware of their Andy Warhol album so I was quite excited going in. However I just couldn't get past what felt like messy instrumentals and slurred vocals. Maybe it was just the style of the time and I can see how in a time of very "clean" music it could be viewed as a bit rebellious but I really struggled to enjoy any of it.
Well... there's that. Love you John Cale, but this ain't it.
I don't get it, this group continues to be overrated to me.
I didn't enjoy 1 second.
Garbage. Beat poets with amplifiers. I can't stand beat poets. I'd gladly listen to 100 hours of that Captain Beefheart Fish Head album before I'd listen to this again.
Who is this for?
Terrible
What an insanely unpleasant album. Not one redeeming quality.
Pure noise. Not good.
Hated it, and I like the velvet underground other stuff
Thank god I didn’t listen to the deluxe version. Absolutely horrible. You must have to be high AF to think this is decent.
Quite messy. A little too much distortion and squeeking; way too much talking.
I hated every second of this. The subversive subject matter of the lyrics was newish at the time, but other than that I simply don't like/get Lou Reed's oeuvre. This sounds like the output of heroin-addled narcissists, which it is.
I am not cool enough to enjoy 90% of this. 0.4
This is mind numbing stuff. As much depth as a puddle. Does not belong in any best of lists and instead belongs in the dustbin of history.
What a shambles this is. Going by the Wiki entry the recording was rushed and chaotic and even the band thought the production was terrible. Why anyone would want to sit down and listen to this on the regular I have no idea
3eme album avec Lou Reed =>1/5 Je n'aime toujours pas son chant, et l'accompagnement est particulièrement désagréable dans cet album.
Er det noen som setter på dette frivillig?
Pretentious as can be. Indulgent. Hard to listen to.
Ah not my favorite band and least favorite album from them so far.
What the heck even is this?
This is experimental noise rock and the thing about experiments is they’re often a failure. 6 tracks and 40 minutes, meaning you get a 17 minute track that’s just slamming on instruments. If that were the only offense I could get over it, but it’s not. The opening track ends with cringe inducing noise; “The Gift” is story time with minor background music; “Lady Godiva” starts ok until you get bad talk singing out of nowhere followed by an annoying heartbeat sound; and “I Heard Her Call My Name” has some really obnoxious guitar. Not since Pink Floyd’s debut album have I been so disappointed in an artist I otherwise like. This is bad and it should feel bad. 1/5
The gift... Can I send it back? Awful album, not surprised I've never heard of them before.
Goodness me! That was shit!
Just because every band I love loves this album doesn't mean I have to. 1/5
Had to listen to this AND Bjork yesterday. Not my finest musical day.
White light / white shit!
a failed experiment? Tracks to Track: White Light/White Heat
Proof that Americans can make noise.
I had to turn the volume way down on my headphones to survive that seventeen minute shitfest at the end
Unlistenable. Terribly recorded to boot
Honestly unlistenable in parts. The distorted guitar that got them all the acclaim wasn't intended and the band didn't like it? Give me a break.
painful
Just wasn't pleasant or even interesting
This wasn’t an easy album or something I enjoyed. Most of the guitars are too distorted sounding just as noise. One song was too long without really catching my attention.
Didn't get this at all. Half listened earlier in the week and came back to listen properly today. Too avant-garde, not a fan of the vocals, lyrics not great. The final song sister ray, at 17 minutes final nail in the coffin.
this sucks
What in the Christ on a bike was that! Just cause you can be experimental doesn’t mean you should or are good at it! I will say one thing though I think they may have invented the Audiobook with the track The Gift…. Poor Waldo!
Noise. No Songs.
Sheesh. You can hear that these are some great musicians. But for the love of Pete, who gave them so many drugs? Hate to high hell. Perhaps with exception of the few classical rock and roll tracks.
I just don't like this band.
Not my vibe
No. It's more than just sounds because I can say that it's rock, but it's just barely more than sounds.
Profoundly annoying and aimless. Oh look, Lou Reed is involved. Hard no.
I can't do this one. Couldn't finish it. 1 star.
Thank goodness it's over. Of the 40 minute runtime, 20 percent of it is one song that is just a story. 1 star.
Unlistenable.
joo mitä vittua? tämä ei voilla mikään . public zeitgeist moment. aivan paska bändi lopettakaa näitten suosittelu spotifyp spotfuy en kuuntele velevt undergoround sekä nico albumia olen jo kuullut en vittu halua uudestaan ja tämä vieläkin paskempaa hyi helvett TTTTI.. so low key tho... vähän chilli ja menee vaa .. menee vaan eteempäin kinda chill in that way... aina niin strukturoitu niin nää vaan tekee heh jotain tekee vaan. ja mitä sitten? jatsi ollut jo aika kauan olemassa tässä vaiheessa ei se tarkoita että paska musiikki on jotenkin uutta heh.. vuosi on jo 68 eiköhän ole jo selvät sävelet että tällästä romumusiikkia ei enää tarvita.. sister ay
I don't know who thought it was okay to give Lou Reed a microphone, but if he says "sucking on a ding-dong" one more time, I'm gonna blow my goddamn brains out. I can't imagine taking The Velvet Underground and Nico off this list, or Transformer, but this album absolutely doesn't need to be here.
1.5 - not a whole lot to like
Awful
I know how influential these guys were but I just can’t bring myself to like The Velvet Underground. Everything sounds so fucked up but not in a fun or cool way but in a way that absolutely drives me insane.
2/10
I mean I just can't even. That final track will haunt me forever.
Probably influential, but not very good.
Me gusta el disco de la banana, pero este disco realmente suena mal. No se cuál es el atractivo del mismo.
Gives pretentious shithousery a bad name.
As a concept, The Velvet Underground seems like a great idea. In practice, it is unlistenable garbage. I'll never get the appeal. Sure, Lou Reed did make some fantastic songs later in his career. I certainly hope that his masterpiece, "New York", is on this list. If VU sounds like what heroin feels like, this album serves as a very effective deterrent against the drug.
Ich liebe Lou Reed und Velvet Underground. Das hier nicht.
sure why not!
Nope...fucking terrible. Nothing velvety about this album. More like The Piss Soaked, Sand Covered, Shredded Leather Underground. File this one with the other obnoxious noise albums from The Jesus and Mary Chain and Suicide. Somehow White Light/White Heat was actually harder to get through then those for me though. Band was too busy getting their ding-dongs sucked to write good tunes. Even the softer track "The Gift" is a pretentious load of shite. The only solace is that the band was not happy with the final release and it was not well received by the public or critics. On the list because it influenced punk and was about trannies? Fuck off...0.58 stars.
Did not think my first 1-star (after~338 albums) would be a Velvet Underground album. A bit anticlimactic as it's not exactly something I loathe with all my being but it also just contains nothing reedemable outside of the first track.
1/5
I'm allowed to not like things and I don't like this. The production is self-satisfied, the lyrics are a navel-gazing glorification of unexamined masculinity, and the sound mixing is terrible. Life is short! I don't have to listen to a song about sucking on anyone's ding-dong! I don't need to endure uninterrupted monologuing or long, masturbatory outros! I'm not saying this album needs to be expunged from the world, or even that it doesn't deserve its place on this list, but once mostly-through was enough of this album for me personally.
hey, this fucking sucks. aimless, masturbatory experimental noise that includes the line "you busy sucking on my ding dong". hard pass.
Hahaha va fan. Det här sög ju stenhårt. Älskar också kritiken. När det inte går att säga nåt bra så säger man istället att "musiken" varit viktigt för utvecklingen av andra genrer. Men det gör dessvärre inte denna upplevelse bättre. Ett jävla megatrots. "Suck my ding-dong".
Milda makter vilket skräp.
Redom ide dosadna pjesma, pa priča s malo pozadinske muzike, pa još jedna trun muzikalnija priča ali ovaj put o lobotomiji, pa dosadna pjesma, pa dosadna pjesma s najgore odsviranom gitarom koju sam ikad čula, pa dosadna pjesma od 17 MINUTA! Ovo je stvarno jedna od većih katastrofa dosad.
It's a group of white people making lots of noise, which engulfs the alleged vocals in the background. Particularly, the final track was a chore to get through. Favorite Track: "White Light/White Heat".
I want to give this album a chance to prove to me why it is so well-loved, seminal, and influential. But it makes it so hard. From the boring spoken word story of “The Gift” to seventeen minutes of “She's busy sucking on my ding-dong” and improvisational noise on “Sister Ray,” it’s all just too much. This album is so different from “Velvet Underground and Nico” that preceded it, and from the follow-up self-titled album. At least in the latter, the difference is John Cale, who was kicked out of the band after “White Light/White Heat” as Lou Reed wanted to take their sound in a more conventional direction. And while Cale was too much for me, Reed swings things too far in the other direction on “Velvet Underground.” I understand how much “White Light/White Heat” was 20-30 years ahead of its time, and it's clear the influence it had on many. I want to give it a ⭐️⭐️, but the ding-dongs kill me.
Eclectic, random. A bunch of noise. A couple cool instrumentals, but some really annoying, piercing sounds that were distracting. Grating vocals.
I really wonder how some of these albums get onto this list. I get it, this is a prime example of psychedelic rock from the late '60's, but it's nearly unlistenable. Plus a 17 minute track about drugs, sex, and murder...I'm sure it was quite shocking in the day, but it just comes off as annoying now. Albums and music like this make me happy we have moved onto better things. Also, there was way better examples of music like this from the time, why aren't they on this list?!
Langweilig! Langweilig! Monoton! Monoton! …
# Album Name: White light white heat # Artist: The Velvet Underground # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Absolute shite. I think the opening song was the only audilble track. The rest is garbage. Fucking hot garbage. Just noise. Sister ray - 17 mins? give me a fucking break sunshine. # Top Tunes: Absolutely none of them. # Would I listen to it again? No
A horrible follow-up to a band's magnus opus. As someone who, doesn't entirely love, but enjoys The Velvet Underground & Nico's Self-Titled, imagine my disappointment when I actually got to playing the album. On their debut, the distortion was an interesting aspect of the album, maybe not entirely for me, but I liked it at least a bit. This album is trying too hard to be noisy, and doesn't have any variation whatsoever, besides maybe a few seconds in one or two of the songs. 1/5, was too busy sucking on a ding-dong to make it sound good :(
Alternative band from the early 20 teens. No real hits.
Not great. Lots of noise and words, but almost no melody or musical lyrics.
I just couldn't get in to this album at all. I can't really put my finger on why but something about the style of music, the mixing, and the singing just didn't vibe with me at all. I might have to come back to this another day to see if I feel differently then.
Sorry, the best words I can find are Fucking Wank.
Meh
If you have synesthesia that causes you to feel sound AVOID THIS ALBUM. The purposful feedback screeching, the having every song recorded to sound like your speakers were damaged by dry rot and the parts that sound like someone is using a car horn as an instrument, make this album painful to listen to. Their reputation far exceeds their talent!
Album shouldn't be on the list! Really love the debut album of Velvet Undergound, but this is total crap to me. Normally I don't give 1 stars (especially for genres that I don't "like"), but since I really like rock etc. I have to give this a 1...not 1 goood song on the record, really enoying stuff...
More self aggrandizing bullshit from the Underground. Bletch
Been a while since I couldn't finish an album, but boy oh boy, I couldn't take another minute of this one.
Sucks for the most part
TRASH
Just garbage, barely can be considered music.
I loathe this band. What a bunch of losers.
I don't think I'd listen to it again. 1/5
did not like. too jam bandy
I've never listened to this album before, I'm sure. But if this had been the first thing I'd ever heard from VU, I'd never have listened to anything else from them. This is absolute trash.
i don’t think i’m the target audience for this album.
This album was just outrageously dull. Looking back, I actually scored The Velvet Underground’s self-titled album highly, but holy guacamole this album is awful. It’s shoddily played instruments very bizarrely mixed vocals, and occasional loud feedback sounds. I’m genuinely amazed that this is considered a good album. I’d rather listen to 40 minutes of dog farts.
I really tried liking I swear to cow but it was dull and boring as fuck
1. light - 0 2. gift - 0 3. lady - 1 4. nouu - 1 5. name - 1 6. zizter - 1 7. name 2 - 1 8. love - 1 9. heart - 1 10. ztephanie - 1 11. rain - 1 12. rain 2 - 1 13. light - 1 14. booker - 1.5 15. anymore - 1 16. love - 1.5 17. man - 1 18. run run - 1 19. ray - 1 20. gift - 1
inaudível mixagem horrível até pra 1968 sua influência se compara a como se uma das primeiras pinturas na história usando a cor azul fosse um pênis mal feito não é pq é influente e histórico q eu tenho q gostar dum quadro dum pênis
Achava que eles so tinham feito bittersweet symphony. Honestamente o album não é um dos mais impactantes. A segunda musica é basciamente um monologo hippie com uma linha de baixo fazendo dum dum dum dum dum, detalhe que essa musica é basicamente uma romantizacao de suicidio de corno. francamente bem boiola. Meio meh.
What the actual fuck have I just listened to. Sounds like a poor quality recording made by a bunch of people who were too high/drunk to form coherent thoughts. Way too screechy but possibly could be made good if it was re-recorded well.
You don't get to read a urban legend copypasta at me without my consent and then end the album on a 17 minute meander meme fest.
Feedback: The Album. I hated this more than I expected. I can't believe a full 8 minutes of the 40 are devoted to a spoken word story. Nothing else in here really contains any music I want to hear again. The vocals and lyrics are unpleasant too.
Obnoxious garbage. Apart from The Who, I absolutely DESPISE The Velvet Underground.
Spotify wil me naaien met een 126 minuten versie, maar dat kan ik me met mijn achterstand niet veroorloven. Maar zo is het album oorspronkelijk natuurlijk ook niet bedoeld. Vanaf track 2 (een langdradig kutverhaal) ben ik er aan uit dat dit album nooit op een dergelijke lijst had gestaan als het nu zou worden uitgebracht. Ongepolijste, kunstzinnige rommel die vooral legendarisch is omdat een lading boomers dat ooit heeft besloten. Af en toe krijg je bij dit soort bands het idee dat ze vooral aan het kloten waren met hun taperecorder en dat de liedjes zelf bijzaak waren. Kunnen zingen was in ieder geval geen vereiste. Het zal allemaal wel z'n plek hebben in het muzieklandschap, maar ik ervaar dit album toch weer vooral als een enorm vermoeiende schreeuw om aandacht. Dit is niet aan mij besteed. Die laatste track waar iedereen even een kwartier mag uitrazen begint wel aardig. Helaas wordt het al weer gauw een schelle kakofonie. Ik vind dit super kut. 1 ster. Kutherrie.
White Light / White Heat is what happens when a band decides they’re above making actual music. Lou Reed probably thought he was a genius when he recorded this, but it sounds like he tossed his instruments into a cement mixer and called it art. Every “song” is a cacophony of screeching, distorted guitars over lyrics that make zero sense. If you’ve ever wanted to know what it’s like to have your eardrums sanded down by pretentious noise, you’ve found it. Art? More like White Noise / Headache.
so fire that it's burning down the house!!!!!
альбом - перформанс, альбом - провокация
I can easily imagine in 1968 that there was so little going on that someone could hear this and it could be so experimental and different and interesting that they’d be like wow this is so experimental and different and find it very entertaining, but i am listening to it in 2024 and it isnt interesting it’s annoying
This was so awful. They got rid of Andy Warhol and Nico for this album, and apparently they needed them. This was just poorly produced noise. I really have no idea why this is on the list.
bruh this was dogshit. Why do people say something was good because it was experimental. It has to be good first, then you get extra points for doing something unique. Otherwise experiment failed. You all can boo now idc. The Waldo song is an interesting story but since when is reading a short story a song. I really don’t care for discordant noise and then people cheer cuz “wow no one else is doing this”. yea there’s a reason. Smh 1.5 if I could
1/5
Songs are too much like talking with music in background, difficult to understand what song is. Out of tune, no melody at all.
couldn’t finish. fell asleep
This was almost painful to listen to.
Didnt finish it. An hour too long and it is mostly experimental noise.
Surely the worst album that regularly pops up on "best of" lists. Monotonous, noisy, lyrically offensive. VU are like a comedian who thinks it's cool to be crass. Nah... just boring.
Ummm 30 tracks, over 3 hours? Dear god, why. OK, I'll give it a try... check back in on me in an hour or so. I'm back. This is crap. Sorry, I know I know I know Lou Reed, influencer, innovator, he took a walk on the wild side... but come on, this is crap.
White hot trash! First song was fine, then for some reason they started overusing feedback in their songs and it kept making me cringe like nails on a chalkboard. Then in another song, after a line is sung, some dude half ass repeats the word like a crappy hype man at a hip hop concert. I don’t understand how this even made the list.
9/5/24. I'm a big fan of Velvet Underground but I didn't like this one, just thought it was rambling and noisy. Compared to Nico and the Self Titled, this one is far behind in my opinion.
Loaded is a far better album than this hot mess.
Did not like one little bit
💤💤
if you want to torture your ears for 40 minutes give this a listen. Might be the worst album on this list so far.
What the hell is The Gift!? Motherfucker Lou, Sister Ray is so poorly mixed. god this stuff is a pain to listen to. Wow what a real pile of shit.
I can only speculate why this might be a "good" album. It can't be the music.
1/10…Postpunk(apokalypse)
Actively bad
Sure man whatever you say, this ain't for me
I get it, the noise and chaos is the point, but it’s just not good.
“Where Waldo” meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Sounds like someone pressed record in the rehearsal room full of drunks. I really dont get the greatness of this.
Jeez, White Light/White Heat is definitely not for me, it actively annoyed me and/or made my head hurt at times, and the rest of it was pretty inaccessible with (deliberately) sparse production and a lack of coherent structure. The Gift as a spoken word song was crap, Here She Comes Now was a load of noise, and Sister Ray is stupidly overblown and genuinely terrible in places. I am not remotely the target audience for this sort of stuff, experimental in every way, but it can get in the bin as far as I'm concerned, a 1 from me, and I'll fight you about it too. Lou Reed was a cunt and I'll fight him as well, dead or alive.
#272. This started out bad, and only got worse. 1/5: terrible, take a lap.
Shit!
pretentious drivel
Wooooaaaaaah, bloooooaaaaa, and spuuuuul is random sounds that for some reason make up this album and it is wildly confusing overall. No me gusta Velvet Underground.
Just because your music is dIfFeReNt and aRtSy doesn’t make it good. After the first song I was like oh okay maybe this won’t be that bad. This song was okay even it Reed was just repeating the same things over and over (same thing for tracks 4 and 5). Then I got to track 2. Who puts a spoken word track on an album. It was bad. The story was stupid and really depressing and had no purpose being on the album other than making me hate it. Then track 3 happened which I didn’t like either. Track 4 was okay just like track 1. Track 5 was good up until the 2 and half minute attempted guitar solo that’s was BUNS. Then track 6. I mean what the heck guys. Why. First off it’s almost 18 minutes long. Secondly it’s AGAIN the same lyrics just repeated over and over and over. Then there’s another terrible attempt at a guitar solo that hurt me inside. This album was just pathetic. Did not deserve to be on this list and don’t want to ever hear it again.
Not a fan of this “experimental rock”. It’s just noise w instruments. And I’m sorry but at nearly 20 minute “song” with just nonsense & mumbling words??? No.
There’s a reason why even the band dislikes this album, this is such a step down from their other albums and I can’t believe the same band made this album
My theory still stands: experimental or new for the time doesn't mean it'll be good in 50+ years. If you like the sound of the band playing around and making stuff up before the ACTUAL song is recorded, you might like it. Maybe. I like noise with purpose, and if they meant for purpose in it, I couldn't find it.
lmao what the fuck is this shit? 8 minute long spoken word "song"? whats up with the audio quality? having no direction and no equipment to record your shit with doesnt make this groundbreaking, lmao i cant, this is fucking terrible what?? NNN what the fuck hahaha
what a bunch of bullshit.
Why are these weirdos so popular. I needed a palette cleanse after 17 minutes of noise. Best bit of trivia is the engineer left the room during recording of sister ray since he couldn't stand the noise.
Okay, okay, okay! I confess to everything just please make it stop! 1 Star or F- worst album I have ever heard, and that is saying something after Slim Shady.
"White Light / White Heat" is the second studio album by the Velvet Underground. What sounds like the a great grandparent to garage or grunge, this album charted worse than its predecessor. Listening to some of these tracks ("The Gift") felt more like listening to an audiobook than music. It is inconceivable and extremely burdensome that this album is 126 minutes long when the original track listing was only 22 minutes.
Not good. Fuzzy, dumb lyrics, and just generally bad music. It's got a vibe, and if you're in a trance then maybe this is for you, but I didn't really like any of it. If I had to pick a favorite, probably Here She Comes Now, party because its actually a somg, and partly because it's only 2 mins long.
not a fan, just felt like noise to me
etwas nervig bis schlecht
Has continued to confirm to me that anyone who claims a Velvet Underground album as their favourite is the worst kind of tedious "arty" bore. Unlistenable for the most part, this noisy rock sound has been done 1,000 times better since 1*
Unlistenable garbage.
Mest megnis frekar boring.
Not their best effort
Noise. Someone please tell me what I'm missing.
Mostly horrible noise. Managed to listen to most of it except the last part of the last track, my ears couln't take it any more after about six minutes.
I... don't like it. The tracks mostly feel samey, some of them are excruciatingly long or repeated. Everything has an unappealing layer of electric fuzz over it. To top that off, there seem to be random screeches and loud shouts that are at totally different volume levels.
Much as I want to rate this highly, this album is just too much of a mess to be listenable. VU have done so much better than this.
dont care for it
Too much experimentation
I'm getting pretty tired of this era/sound. Whoo buddy. I enjoyed the weird spoken word, but I wouldn't listen to it again. I heard her call my name was so bad I skipped it halfway through
White light white heat So distorted and compressed. Mix is terrible. Is the playing intentionally so bad? Songwriting sounds like pretentious psychedelic rock stuff or like they didn’t really even try. I just really don’t understand how something like this gets made and released. Some of the noisy feedback stuff is cool but not really in a cool context. This is so bad. The band is criminally overrated. I just don’t get it. 1
This sounds like shit! a masterclass on how to make a terrible sounding record. The recording section on wiki is kind of a funny read. Is this “the room” of albums??
This sounds absolutely horrible. In a bad way.
Noooooooope! Nope nope nope. If he says, "sucking on my ding dong" again, I'm flip a fucking table ⭐️
No
I did not like this album
Didn't like this at all
not really my jam, no saves on this one for me.
Proof that not all artists of the 60s were great - or in this case even talented.
This sounds like kids recording their first month with new electric instruments trying to make the worst noise possible.
Noooooooo.
I know this group was considered influential for the 60’s counter culture movement, but this is just noise to me.
Yo wtf is up with the gift? I tuned out all that nonsense. Off the bat, this is garbo, maybe this is on the list because of the band name, not because of how the album is. Or maybe this is here because it "pioneers a genre" -- just because of that. it doesn't make this a good album.
Not sure what it was but this was a horrible listen. I think it was just the dissidence in the lead guitar throughout the entire album. It physically hurt my head. Not sure if I liked any song because I couldn't focus past the guitar. :(
Obnoxious sound, poorly produced
Bråkete og jævlig
Adjacent to so much I liked but there are only so many times I can hear "sucking on my ding dong." I hate this album.
Not pleasant to listen to.
its like if remain in light was bad
An absolute atrocity. I don't care what edgy vibe these noisy fuckwits are trying to put across, it's no good if there ain't a tune popping out every now and then. Just stupid dissonant noise. Gross.
What on earth was that? Lo-fi recording can be an artistic choice, but this sounds like it was recorded on a potato. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: White Light/White Heat Date listened: 01/12/23
Oh my.
The link here directed me to the deluxe edition of this album, and I wonder if that was really supposed to happen as I see now there is a also a regular one on Spotify. Listening to the original album version might've changed things as it seems much more condensed, but I can't be arsed to go through it again. This album has cemented my dislike of The Velvet Underground. Their first album is ok, but not really my cup of tea. This is much worse in all regards. The guitar distortion they have on all tracks is done in an ear-deafening way and not very nice. So many high pitched shrieks that are really unpleasant. It's not just the actual sound though, the songs themselves are super boring as well, and a few of them just drag on forever, like 'The Gift' and 'Sister Ray'. I think this probably has to be listened to with the fact in mind that it was released in '68, but it's hard to do that when it sounds how it does. There are many older albums that survived the turn of time, but not this one.
Man, how I didn't like this. Pretentious, noisy (in a bad way) and just boring. "The Gift" might have been fun if the story was actually any good. "Stephanie Says" is like a worse "Sunday Morning".
I did not enjoy these noisy jams. Maybe if I had the context of 55 years ago I would have been more impressed by the experimentation given the context of the time.
Pretentiöser Art Rock.
Just as meh as all the Velvet Underground albums.
Truly dreadful
Sorry, know they were supposed to be great but I found it naff.
A truly terrible album where I stopped listening after a few tracks, "the gift" was both bad and disturbing. Why are they famous?
Weer een gevalletje 'operatie geslaagd, patient overleden'... We hebben al eens eerder zo'n matige experimentele plaat van Lou Reed gehad, en deze is zo mogelijk nog erger. Ik zat nog heel hard aan redenen te denken om deze nog tenminste een 2 te geven, maar ik kon er geen enkele bedenken.
Wat gemompel dat losstaat van de muziek. Als er toch zangpoging wordt gedaan, is het een soort slechte Dylan. Af en toe nog het piepende geluid van een microfoon die te dicht bij de box staat om het af te toppen. Een 1, omdat lager niet kan.
I have tried to find something here which could justify two stars, but I had to give up.
bad length. I really don't like 8 minute monologues about shit I don't care about. I also dislike boring 17 minute songs about ding dongs. dogshit tier. I also don't really like the sound of the real songs either.
The sounds my turds make when they plop into the toilet bowl are more musical that this dogshit.
Nö. 1 Stern
I didn't enjoy this album at all unfortunately.
I mean, I don't mind talking and stuff, but what the heck are those excessive noises... NO
What an absolute ugly mess. This is not good music, I do not enjoy listening to this.
Mostly super early punk-ish tracks. I kinda liked Stephanie Says as it felt more like inspiration for Weezer or early Fountains of Wayne, so it was more my style. Overall nothing I would listen to again but fine for what it was representative of at the time it was released
Had to skip the 3rd track. And the 5th track. The orig release only had 6 tracks, so I only reviewed those. Velvet Underground has _way_better songs than anything on this album. There's actually some good stuff on the Deluxe release. 1/5
I'm glad that this 1001 albums thing gets me to listen to stuff I never would on my own. Also, I didn't like this one. I was waiting for it to end.
I can't seem to get into it. Have heard other albums by them before, but it doesn't click. Maybe I'd need to give it another chance (or two) someday. Liked the spoken words of The Gift though.
Trop de distorsion et de n'importe quoi.
Get the fuck out
This was pretty terrible. Some songs have great potential but the singer's tone/voice and strident noises just don't work. The rest is just over-saturated noise. Gave me a headache.
Man, could not get into this. 1/5
I'm glad there is a place for experimental music to be made, but this was torturous and it made me angry. I began by laughing at the absurdity of it all, but then that quickly turned into screaming shut the fuck up over some freaky 8 minute story time about mailing yourself to a woman and then getting murdered. You can like this and say it's ahead of it's time, which it probably is, but listening to a 17 minute noise rock song about getting your ding dong sucked just isn't for me.
I was only familiar with Velvet Underground & Nico 🍌 album, hadn't listened to this one before. I went with the non-deluxe edition, 6 tracks, conciser-ish. https://open.spotify.com/album/0HHmJpwOXXRJu9HI9iQiEO Funny with the opening track, immediately knew where LCD Soundsystem's Drunk Girls got its influence. For the rest of the album, I didn't care for it much, it's all over the place. Some call it art, most call it noise.
Ugh. It was annoying. The 17 minute song was definitely not needed and it just became noise. It was not good. I am rounding down.
I'm not a fan of the VU and this album was even more unlistenable due to the terribly distorted recording.
Sounded very dissonant to me. Did not enjoy it at all.
An insult to my ears
Fyfan, En gång var det nyskapande och edgy nu mest jobbigt.
så trist och dåligt
Ohh... kay. Wasn't really expecting... whatever that was. It certainly has its moments of brilliance ("White Light/White Heat", "Sister Ray", and "Beginning to See the Light" are so good). But it also has its moments of utter batshit WTFery. Unfortunately, the latter far outnumber the former. I mean, "The Gift"? "Lady Godiva's Operation"? What the actual hell? I really REALLY wanted to give this at least a 2-star rating. I kept desperately looking for reasons not to fail the album... but I realized I was trying too hard to make excuses for what is, truly, a shit record.
p127. 1968. 1 star. Unattractive 60s art-house rock. You can see its influence on punk rock, but that doesn't mean it's good. Outstays its welcome on most of the tracks, especially the 17 minute wankage that is Sister Ray. You can see why it didn't sell. Would not listen to it again.
09/27/2022 Bruh…they were off the shits when they recorded this album. Considering I’ve heard like 3-4 of their other albums, this one is easily the worst. A lot of these songs were a pain to get through, or I had to skip them altogether. It’s like they were all fucked up off whatever they were taking and were like “oh SHIT, we have to pull up to the studio today. Alright y’all, let’s just pull something out our arses and make this deadline” Boo
I understand the importance of The Velvet Underground in music, but not something I want to listen to. It seems loud and over compressed for the sake of it. Had to push myself to finish it. Maybe it's just too artsy and I'm too basic.
Songs weren’t very catchy and repetitive - psychedelic rock just isn’t for me I think
Listen, I don't mind a jam session. I'm not *that* huge into the Grateful Dead, but I can appreciate them. There's elements of noise rock and psychedelic here, but man, they find one chord progression and beat it into a grave, don't they? Yes, yes, the lyrical topics were extremely progressive for their time, but there's got to be more than that, especially when the vocals are buried beneath everything else. I thought this album would escape my one-star graveyard, but then "Sister Ray" started to drag on and I realized, with growing horror, that it was going to go on forever. This is just my purgatory, I guess. "Suckin' on his ding-dong," eh, Lou?
Probably good in the 60’s trippin on acid. Not for me in 2022
Just noise
Can confidently say I never need listen to this again
ugg, I need more melody
Why? God to live in a time where you can make absolute shit and get recognized.
Ick. No thank you. Sounds like uninspired trash.
Just awful. The Gift just sounds like he’s reading a book and no one can convince me that the 17-minute closer is actually good.
The height of pretentiousness
I just don’t like Lou Reed.
What a stupid album. I'll give it a 1 so I can remember it. Because it did actually make me feel something and think. I like it. But it's really terrible. "Your business' sucking on my ding-dong" And then they put "Stephanie Says" on the Deluxe Edition, and it sounds like a fucking masterpiece beside all the other horrible shit they made you listen to.
Not good
“Utterly pretentious, unbelievably monotonous.”
I didn't like this one, I think it was too avant garde for me.
Incredibly boring
Wat een akelige toestand. Dit verdienen we niet.
Не понял
Terrible solos… is it a joke? Bad sounds Stephani says was good doe
didnt like not good
Not really for me. Rather bland.
Vittu mitä paskaa. En jaksanut kuunnella koko levyä ja biisit meni hyppien läpi. Ei käynyt mielessäkään testata levyä 2....
Yks kuunneltava biisi ja senkin Nirvana coveroinu paremmin. Skippailin enkä kuunnellu niitä extroja
1968. Why am I not surprised. lol. Ok wow, this fucking SUX. Even worse than expected. What in the hell?? 1/5.
Never have been impressed with TVU. Kind of boring and pretentious. Don't get it.
Utter garbage
Muito paradao e devagar pra mim
Absolutely ridiculously over hyped garbage. I’m actually angry for having had to listen to this and try find something positive. There’s a lot of albums here that I feel like I have to like because everybody does and everybody does because everybody does. Like a contagion of stupid music. Can some of these older artists just be considered old and irrelevant and not hold the “classic” tag forever?