The Velvet Underground

You would think The Velvet Underground were the second coming of Jesus or something with the way people hype them up, but the reality is they actually had little commercial success during their time. Honestly, I can see why. This is just your average underground rock album from the '60s. There is some interesting instrumentation and are an interesting enough mixture of rock and avant garde things, but it's very middle of the road to me. I wonder if the "myth" of the band is greater than the sum of its parts. The standout song is "Candy Says" which was actually surprisingly progressive and sensitive for its time. Excellent song. Other than that, meh.

The Velvet Underground albums with black covers are better than the Velvet Underground records with white covers. …and this is the best one.

However flawed he may be, I am a Lou Reed fan. This is the first VU album after John Cale left the band so the experimental weirdness that came from him and Reed together is lacking here. This makes for a more widely palatable VU sound, which is not a bad thing. I love this album! There are lots of standouts for me, the biggest being "Pale Blue Eyes," which is one of my favorite love songs/songs in general. I think this record is also a testament to albums as a cohesive piece of art as opposed to a handful of singles and supporting tracks. The pacing is fantastic. It goes from serene to rollicking and back again throughout, which creates this wonderful feeling of tension and release. This is especially apparent as the wacky, intense "The Murder Mystery" plays into the cute little ditty "After Hours." I also love that track as a closer because it feels like I'm being tucked in and sung to sleep as a night of partying, and the album, concludes. A classic.

This album is boring and is not interesting. I don't know why this album has 4.10 on rym

Mellow, bland, dull, boring. I guess I'm just not hearing what everyone else is hearing. But reading the reviews, and the book entry, I still haven't found anyone who was able to articulate exactly what makes this essential listening. One confused shoulder shrug. 🤷‍♂️

I really liked this. Actually, reflecting on it, I really, really liked it. Every song had something that caught my ear by way of darkness, tenderness, beauty, despair - usually all of the above in some transfixing you constellation. Then came the one-two of Murder Mystery and After Hours, which really sealed the deal. Murder Mystery staggered me - so many of the (emo) songs of my youth lifted wholesale the double-voices murmuring gnomic, dark lyrics - it was truly surprising to hear this approach on a record 45 years older than those songs. Then After Hours acts as a gorgeous counterpoint to all that fevered intensity, and sealed the deal - the deal being that I really, really liked this.

Interesting but can’t get me excited.

During a heroin zonk-out on their previous album, Lou says, “and I know that I just don’t know”. He probably says it a few times. Heroin is like that. Here, considerably less heroin’d, and aided by melodies and vocals so affectless they’re almost childlike (just joking—you ever heard a kid make music? it’s shit) he shows us in exquisite detail just how much he doesn’t know. “What do you think I'd see if I could walk away from me?" “Between thought and expression, lies a lifetime.” “Here comes two of you. Which one will you choose?” “That's the difference between wrong and right. But Billy said, ‘Both those words are dead.’” They’re the questions, thoughts and feelings the great unwashed have every day. They just can’t put them in such a way that they retain their allusive, liminal quality, yet feel entirely accessible. Happily, Lou shows us he can brain-fart, too. The whole of Murder Mystery, for example, or the one where he says, “I wore my teeth in my hands, so I could mess the hair of the night.” Sure you did, pal. Elsewhere, After Hours may be the most unassumingly beautiful song ever recorded.

This is terrible. Lou Reed has just never clicked for me. This does nothing to change that. It’s just boring, meandering, and pointless.

'The Murder Mystery' is easily the best and craziest song on this album. Two verses at the same time by different people hard-panned to each channel, with strong instrumental backing. 8/10, want more like this song, but the banana album is better overall.

What the fuck is this? It's fucking brilliant that's what it is. Why have I never heard this. That's on me really.

I’ve heard this album a lot over the years, but I’m really enjoying it more now today for some reason. It’s nicely cohesive for a VU album, and far more musically accessible. The absence of John Cale gave the band an opportunity to be a little more restrained, moving into fresh territory while still retaining some of their trademark grit. The album also feels like more of an all-band affair, and frankly just sounds like they’re just having fun. The lyrics are more contemplative and emotionally earnest, with less of the cool cynicism you might expect from VU. The band really nailed a certain moody, melancholy vibe, one that other artists have been chasing unsuccessfully ever since. I really like the collaborative aspect of the vocals that the band took this time around. Lou Reed had a strong pop sensibility, which I don’t think a lot of people give him credit for. He didn’t want to do the vocal on every song, and the other band members were brought in to do lead or harmony depending on who he felt was most effective for each song. Doug Yule probably doesn’t get enough acknowledgement for the quality of his vocals, but his work on “Candy Says” is really lovely. Also, Moe Tucker on “After Hours” at the end is such a bright blossom of a song. When the band ventures into more energetic fare, the commingling guitars of Reed and Sterling Morrison are riveting, the sonic equivalent of a sneer. I tend to favor tensely melancholy songs like “Candy Says” and “I’m Set Free,” but the punchier little rockers like “What Goes On” and “Beginning to See the Light” are great fun, full of the old VU jangle and burn. “The Murder Mystery” is some kind of wackadoo madness that you’re only going to find on a VU album. It’s noisy and outlandish and so very 1969, but weirdly fascinating. The album would have been better without it, but you just know they couldn’t help themselves. And I can’t help but love them more for it. Fave Songs (all songs, in order from most to least favorite): What Goes On, Candy Says, Pale Blue Eyes, Beginning to See the Light, I’m Set Free, Jesus, Some Kinda Love, After Hours, That’s the Story of My Life, The Murder Mystery

Songs were a little hit or miss but overall a nice chill album that felt relaxing and easy to get through

More late 60s, hooray. Lou Reed sucks, his band sucks too. 2/5.

Fell asleep briefly in the middle of the day listening to this. When I awoke it was to a cacophony of babbling. Then Mo Tucker sang a song. Most unsatisfying.

The Velvet Underground should stay buried. Sounds like the soundtrack to some bad romcom movie. I couldn't sleep at all lest night but this album almost cured my insomnia.

Three albums from 1969 so far this week. Great year, and this is probably the best of them. Timeless, influential and so listenable.

8/10

Quite liked about half of this, although largely fairly forgettable. A few songs bored me a bit. Might benefit from a deeper understanding of the band/context. Not really what I expected from TVU. Much more folky (almost country?) than I imagined. Quite like the sad/relaxed vibe to some of the songs. REALLY like After Hours - probably the only song I'd return to. Faves: After Hours Pale Blue Eyes Least faves: Jesus I'm Set Free Track-by-track: 1) Candy Says - Striking lyrical start. Chilled. Sad. Like it. 2) What Goes On - more upbeat. Jangley! Like it a lot. Good organ. 3) Some Kinda Love - yee ha - country. Less keen. 4) Pale bule eyes - pleasant. Relaxing. Not sure its supposed to be. Sad vibe. Like it. 5) Jesus - bit dull 6) Beginning to See the Light - like the harmonies bits. Bit Bob Dylan otherwise. Meh. 7) I'm Set Free - nah, not keen on this. Dull and also a bit irritating. Folky at the end. 8) That's the Story of My Life - Jaunty. Fun. Nice little interlude after a bit of a drudge. 9) The Murder Mystery - System of a Down! Organ! Weird vocals. Some spooky and some talking. A bit odd. Don't mind it, but doubt I'll listen again. Liking it less the longer it goes on (which is long). 10) After Hours - Nice. What does this remind me of? Mr Rodgers? Really like the happy tune and sad lyrics. Soudns like Mouldy Peaches. Which is a good thing. Maybe my fave on the album (sorry Lou).

I was majorly into The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed circa 18 years old. Even spent what was probably an entire paycheck to buy the Peel Slowly and See boxset. I remember having a crush on a girl I worked with at the grocery store and lending her this cassette. I don't think she was that impressed. Looking back I'm wondering if I truly was that into The Velvet Underground or whether I was just being pretentious. Probably both. But listening to this for the first time in maybe 30 years I knew every word except for the long song where they just talk into both sides of the mix. Jesus is still a standout on all levels and I'm not sure why that song is not talked about more in the Velvet Underground canon. Also justice for Doug Yule, that guy was doing some heavy lifting here. Rounding up for nostalgia.

Phew I was worried yesterday's gem was a happy blip on an otherwise trashcan radar. If yesterday's album got me imagining ripping a giant bong and sinking into a couch while jerking it to Zooey Deschanel, this album makes me imagine dressing in all black, injecting just the tiniest amount of heroin, and squeezing lemons on Nico's cheek bones. I don't know if I've ever fallen in love with a voice quite as hard as Moe Tucker's in "After Hours". She was also their drummer—Matt, maybe this is an opportunity for you to lilt a tune while drumming during our next jam. Who knows what bulges will emerge. It's hard to not feel cooool, maaaan, while vibing to the Velvet Underground. Lou Reed will swallow you whole and shit you out into Andy Warhol's Factory.

I don't care for Lou Reed's voice and I think The Velvet Underground are largely overrated. But this album wasn't too bad. It was cruising for a high 3 star rating but then it ended on a shitty note with the bizarre (and not in a good way) "The Murder Mystery." Left a yucky taste, so I grant this album a begrudging 3 stars rather than a curious and optimistic 3 stars.

This album works whatever my mood. Sometimes I feel so happy, sometimes I feel so sad...When I'm up it feels bouncy and celebratory, when I feel more introspective it still feels in tune. That's before we get into the fact that this band made - to this point - three absolute classic albums, all of which are so different from each other. Beginning To See The Light and What Goes On will always make me smile. One of the best.

Heck yeah this album is brilliant. There are no bites of the commercial apple taken on this and I'm glad for it. Mellow and lo-fi, I'll be adding this to the rotation. Just exactly perfect for a Friday morning. I think Kirk Hammett said it best, "when Lou Reed says he wants to make an album with you, you say yes." 5 stars all day, everyday, in my book.

Candy Says and Pale Blue Eyes have been some of the most important songs in my life since I was a teenager. The blend of calm and melancholy have been a source of much comfort in many different times, and also a source of enhanced wallowing when I could not wallow to proper depths unaided. I have heard What Goes On described as "a big swingin dick of a song", and crass as it may be, I cannot disagree. The Murder Mystery is probably the only song I'm not as in to, but hey, who am I to tell the Velvet Underground what to do. After Hours is such a great contrast to the rest of the album. I really wish she hadn't gone off the Right-Wing deep end. Album cover: (B) Its good but its no banana.

10/10 The Velvet Underground’s first 3 album run is possibly the greatest album run in Rock history, first by cementing an Art Rock classic in 1967, the most grotesque and Avant-Garde Noise Rock masterpiece in 1968, and with this, one of the most beautiful and lovely Pop albums of the 20th century. If you at all loved the lovely’s tunes on their first album, you are presented with an albums worth of wonderfully written and delightful melodies and tear jerking lyrics, a complete whiplash that displays the versatility and range of Lou Reed and company. I love gay people and Jesus!

Hard to believe how early this music was. So ahead of its time.

Masterpiece! Wondering if song - the murder mystery was taken as an inspiration for chop suey. Tried googling it, didn't find any info saying it was, but I'll live my life further believing that it's true. Overall I really think this album is a piece of precious art and should forever be cherished!!! Listened to the 45th anniversary deluxe edition, really appriciated the live versions of their songs from other albums, very nice. What can I say, I really like the velvet underground.

I want to start this review with the one complaint that I have about it. I did not enjoy listening to "The Murder Mystery." I have... respect for the song, but it just give me too much of a sensory overload that I feel like if I ever listened to this album again, I would probably skip this song. But would I ever listen to this album again? Yeah, probably. Aside from the one skippable song, this is basically a perfect album. Going back to when I listened to Lou Reed's "Transformer" a while back, my one complaint with that album was that I didn't like Reed's singing. Fortunately, his singing in this album is a million times better. The singing from the other members is great too. The songs have interesting writing that makes you really think about these songs. The instrumentation and tone are expertly crafted as well. Overall, this is a (mostly) phenomenal album, and I'm willing to excuse the one song that freaks my brain out and give this album a 5/5.

The machine has started the week kindly. I won't try to write something new about a record that's been dissected, scrutinised, extolled and rolled between many a sticky hand. My experience of listening to this today was marred by some randomizer I couldn't switch off in the car that kept jumbling the record, usually to play 'After Hours', one of the two songs on this record that I find a little irritating - the other is 'Murder Mystery' - though I'm glad they exist. The randomizer also threw 'Foggy Notion' at me, which is not on the record, but should have been, and is one of my favourite rockers in their repertoire, so irritated me in a different way. So I'm knocking one star off their six as punishment.

Love all of this ("The Murder Mystery" included), probably the VU album I listen to most (sorry, John and/or Mark). I could play "What Goes On" on repeat ad infinitum, love that proto-Motorik drone groove (see also "Foggy Notion" elsewhere). Just so good

Mellow and reflective with the aggression dialled down from their other efforts. A sobering soundtrack for that inevitable moment when all tomorrow’s parties turn to morning-after, makeup-smeared, self-loathing introspection.

more cozy music! much calmer then their debut, so i glom on to it faster. 92/100

Candy says is such a beautiful song

Feels like a bridge between the more experimental early VU and the later Loaded era. After hours feels like it was written yesterday.

This album is very cozy and enjoyable. Liked songs: Candy Says, What Goes On, I'm Set Free, The Murder Mystery Favourite songs: Pale Blue Eyes & After Hours

Solid jams! 4/5 just reminds me of oldies

Overall, I did like this album. No songs really stood out to me, but it was a good vibe all the way through. Some of the lyrics were really nice and I liked the sound.

Overall, I enjoyed it but some songs were still a bit trippy for me.

More mellow than I was expecting which was a good thing. Interesting, I'll have to revisit sometime.

Really good. One's always thought VU to have got overrated after years of being underrated. Their massive influence is legit of course, as is quite hearable here, easily their best record because the least pretentious and most earnest. Understatement worked well for them, particularly LR. "Pale Blue Eyes," "Some Kinda Love" and "After Hours" are all great, and other cuts are interesting, and the whole thing feels like a nicely integrated whole, and a product of them not trying too hard. Aside: It's weird to do an eponymous title on a third record, especially given the "w/ Nico"the debut.

I had never listened to this one from the Velvet Underground. This is a really good record, somewhere between the sneer and agression of their first one and the sunny disenchantment in Loaded. Though John Cale has left at this point and been replaced by Doug Yule, the tension and dissonance he was bringing to the whole is still haunting some of the songs, like with the organ in What goes on. Lou Reed is maturing as a writer really in his own league, but this feels like a transition: where the tension between Cale and Reed was driving the early Velvets' music, the center is visibly moving on this one. Love the doo-wop accents on Candy Says, a nice wink from Lou Reed to the music he grew up listening to in the 50s. And the nod to early R'n'roll on Beginning to see the light. And I love the closing song, with Moe Tucker singing, bringing to the foreground the child-like innocence and simplicity that drives most of their music, even at its most furious. Though it does not reach me as viscerally as their first record, this album is a great listen, with some amazing moments: Candy Says and Pale Blue Eyes are easily among the best songs Lou Reed has written. There is a kind of purity that he reaches at these peak moments. These songs feel like quiet creeks that invite reflection (the mirror is a theme in the Velvets music that reappears here and there here): moments of peace in the chaos. I don't know many bands who can capture this sense that beauty and chaos are merged at the hip, that there cannot be one without the other. The beautiful, the quiet, the still carries the memories of the grit and the filth it emerges from. And the oceans of noise carry the seeds of grace. It is playful and dark, graceful and filthy, honest and sarcastic, full of paradoxes. Just like life, and just like humans.

Listening to The Murder Mystery while at Atlanta International Airport has to be one of the most surreal experiences with music I've ever had! Overall, the vocalist balances traits of both anxiety and tranquility efficiently.

Surprisingly gentle and charming. This had a lot of sweetness to it backed by strong songwriting. And while we lost John Cale and subsequently a lot of the bite that I loved in the debut, we also got rid of Nico. So, you know, trade offs.

Aside from the iffy experiment "Murder Mystery", this album is tight from top to bottom and shows a lot of craft. Reed's vocals and lyrics are their characteristic mix of enthusiasm and apathy and ruminate on love and morality.

I really enjoyed this one. The songwriting is intriguingly subtle (especially for The Velvet Underground), the performances have an enchanting energy, and the production is appropriately raw. "What Goes On," "Pale Blue Eyes," and "Beginning to See the Light" are absolutely fantastic examples of alternative songwriting. It's a power album for The Velvets where they flex and show their depth. My guess is that most detractors get stuck at "Murder Mystery" which is admittedly extremely avant garde. But it's not enough to tank the whole album and, if you take the time to dig into what's being said, it's actually a really great piece of poetry about existential identity confusion brought on by an onslaught of popular culture. It's often considered to be a great example of the power of modern poetry.

Why have I never listened to this album in full. Simply outstanding from music to lyrics to overall vibe. Going in the keeper pile.

'Down for you is up' is maybe my favourite lyrics of all time not because it is difficult or clever but it's performed with such beautiful simplicity that I want to die a little bit every time I hear it. Does anyone else think I look a little like Lou Reed on this album cover? Just similar energy. He's got good posture though.

This list has definitely made me a Velvet Underground fan. I love this stuff. Nothing really sounds like them, even in the decades since, everything they do is interesting because it's unique. If nothing else good comes from the 1001 albums, opening my eyes to these guys will be worth the time spent. I feel so at home with this music.

I think this album is really gorgeous. It's deceptively simple, but the chord structure is nearly always flawless. Reminds me of a bit grittier version of the Beatles. Banana album will always be my favorite, but this rocked.

Never been a huge VU fan because my only point of entry was Lou Reed's solo stuff, and my one coworker who only played their live stuff. I like this quite a bit. "The Murder Mystery" is an absolute mess, but I really enjoyed the rest of it. Lackadaisical, subdued, easy listening. Favorite tracks: "Candy Says", "What Goes On", "Beginning to See the Light"

I don't know exactly what this means, but... at some point in the early 00s, I bought the self-titled Velvet Underground album, then an quiet part of their canon, overshadowed by the influential debut and White Light/White Heat, which included songs covered by Bowie and Nirvana. Of course, over time, I decided it was my favourite record of theirs. It was a bit of a surprise, as I always reckoned John Cale was the best part of the first two albums. But, truly, not so much of a surprise: why accept the received wisdom when you can peacock your contrarian opinions? In the years that followed, the self-titled album would be reclaimed, reassessed, and revised, steadily climbing historical charts and receiving mention in all the right places. A decision I had come to by myself was apparently the same one everyone - or everyone cool, at least - had come to. We've seen something similar, although much grander and harder to fathom, happen with Abbey Road, where footnote has become mountain head. Perhaps there is such a thing as culture after all. Perhaps there is something in the water (I heard it might be full of estrogen). Regardless, I can't trust my feeling on the self-titled album now. Which is a shame, because it is a lovely record. If the Velvets' small catalogue is one of reduction - remove Nico and Warhol; remove Cale; remove the cutting edge; remove Reed and try to make it with Doug Yule; gone - S/T sits in an interesting spot. Who was the transgressive element in the band and what was the form of that transgression? Are the hushed tones of the album an inevitable result of losing Cale, the noisemaker, or a deliberate retort? To me, the strangely intimate rock band sound is just as sensory and disorienting as the La Monte Young drones that Cale introduced. Everything is miked so closely that it feels like ASMR, there is a faint distortion on everything because everything is too near to everything else. The lyrics, then, feel more like inner monologues amplified, a breach of privacy that discloses self-hatred and desperate prayers. Even the guitars, which play together beautifully in stereo, hover around the same band of sonic space, playing the same undemonstrative licks, a drone in execution if not nature. Not exactly the highlight of the album, but an exemplar of all this, is The Murder Mystery, which is how I fear God experiences his people: too many voices all at once. It is a more contrived experiment than any Cale put into operation, but it is exactly right for an album that - consciously or unconsciously - is obsessed with proximity and the sacred. Probably not the best Velvets album then, but a great collection of songs with a strange, loveable character. 3.5 I said somewhere else that I thought Pop music was record-making first and songwriting second. Here’s another album, taken in context, that proves that to me. The first two Velvet Underground albums are great records and while there is really no drop in the standard of songwriting - there are some crackers here - the third album isn’t a great record in my opinion. The speakers miss John Cale, simple as that. The hole might be less about the loss of general ‚wacky‘ ideas than about the absence of textures - particularly harsh trebles. Everything - even that familiar choppy guitar in the left speaker - is softened, like it’s wrapped in cotton wool. Supposedly Lou Reed wanted this album to be more of a commercial gambit than the previous two. It’s very hard to understand how this collection relates to that ambition. The general sense is not of keen, fresh-faced courting of an audience’s approval but of a band that is done with ambition and now just wants to hang out in the studio and make something nice. I find it hard to escape the temptation of comparing this album is the introspective bits of The Beatles‘ White Album. ‘Candy Says‘ subdued guitars and whispery vocals recalls ‘Julia’. The sleepy sweetness of ‘Pale Blue Eyes’ and Jesus‘ makes me think of ‘Long, Long, Long’. There is facetious old timey-ness in ‘After Hours’ as there is in ‘Honey Pie’. The only track that lifts the sleepy, bassy veil is The Murder Mystery - with the twin spoken tracks buzzing around your ears like an annoying fly. But even that track does not really seem to me to constitute any kind of proper challenge to the listener - in the way that Revolution 9 or Sister Ray does. Those tracks know the audience is there and want to shock it; The Murder Mystery is merely selfishly introspective. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it ruins the album - in fact it might represent the spirit of the album as well as all the other tracks put together - but it isn’t any good at the same time. A lot of this album is ‘good’. Lou Reed’s lyrics are funny and striking and sad and memorable. The melodies are strong. It’s an easy collection of songs to admire - but not an engaging listen, and so a difficult record to love. If John Cale had dressed these songs though... I think that would have been something special. 2.5/5

i love them but a lot of the songs sounded like they didn't have energy in them

Slow, Melancholy, forgettable, unremarkable, and boring at times I dont think I'll revisit the whole album often, if ever, but Candy Says is a beautiful song I liked. I really disliked The Murder Mystery. Overall I give the album a shrug.

Some laid back folk/pop rock. Not what I expected from The Velvet Underground as this was my first time listening to them, but it was ok. Hard to believe this is 1969 as it sounds pretty fresh to this day - smooth, laid back clear production and vocals. However, there’s nothing here that sticks out to me and I’ll likely never revisit. It’s fine to have on in the background while I’m doing something else.

I don't care for this album at all, but I just want to shout out the final song - After Hours - which is amazing and was doing the modern indie bedroom pop thing 4 decades before that became common. I'm glad I had the opportunity to listen to this album for that song alone.

# Playlist track - After Hours # Notes - Not particularly interesting. - Found "Murder Mystery" to be way too gimmicky and the rest of the album to meander between "oh, that's really nice" and "can't this track just end already?"

Abysmal, barely a single coherent thought in the whole shebang. Absolutely rubbish, but still better than the Nico album! 0.00000001 🌟

Super boring. One long section of chord vamping made it sound like the mixer forgot to layer in the guitar solo. Least interesting 60's album thus far.

so fucking amazing…

Its definitely not the best the velvet underground album but i still love it so 5 stars

A sense of dread washed over me, here comes some more "greatest of all time" avant garde dross from someone I've been told to love by indie darlings my whole life. Turns out to be an understated masterpiece, I was wrong. Subtle but far reaching in places. Delightful songs about love.

Good

An exceptional album, notoriously different from the last two records, yet still full of Velvet's soundscapes. It's charming, sometimes naive, but definitely a rock 'n' roller.

Good album. 10 out of 10 would listen again

w album my new fav i would throw it back to listen to it for the first time agian

discazo, recomiendo escucharlo triste

Otimo album de rock classico, mt bom de ouvir

Juicy

"Candy Says" me gustó mucho, muy emocionalmente vulnerable y "What Goes On" es severo contraste. Siento que "Pale Blue Eyes" ya la había escuchado, qué temón igualmente. AMO las armonías en "Jesús", las que suben bastante y hasta suenan forzadas; me fascinan, y toda la atmósfera chill de la canción, ugh, perfecto. Es un poco redundante esto, pero el sonido de este álbum encapsula muy bien el sonido de los 60s, de hecho, uno pensaría que es hasta más antiguo, pero salió en un año perfecto para capturar este sonido sesentero, en 1969, y "Beginning To See The Light" es el sonido perfecto. "The Murder Mystery" suena como un riff de SOAD, JAJJAJA. Me encanta lo raro que es. Este álbum es definitivamente varias pinturas, una tras otra, hechas canción. ¡AMO ESE FINAL DONDE ESTÁN CANTANDO DOS COSAS DISTINTAS BOFFFF MUY BUENO Y ATRÁS COSAS AL REVÉS!!!! Wow, "After Hours" suena a bedroom pop, como a una youtuber cantando ahí en su cuarto, no, maravilloso. Este es un 9.5/10

Skjønte det ikke helt

Very chill

hold my hand. let’s do downers together <3

Amei

hermoso

I love this album so so much. More focused than White Light / White Heat but warmer than Nico. Such an easy album to listen to with a beautiful array of moods and textures. To me, The Velvet Underground are singular in their approach to songwriting and recording, it's hard to be a rock band that is so cognizant of space and atmosphere, but this album captures a time in place so beautifully. No skips, damn near perfect album in my opinion. Favorite track: so hard to pick, but as of today it's probably Pale Blue Eyes. Some days it's Candy Says, others it's What Goes On, others it's After Hours.

Amazing — can’t believe I missed this when I was in my psychedelic music phase in college. Unbelievably influential on so much contemporary and subsequent rock.

Pretty good

Nico will never fail you.

Greatest running order of any album? What a flow. What a band. Adore it.

It helps that I'm in Paris, but this makes me want to pick up smoking and sit outside a Parisian Café, with shades on and a cravat. So cool, so ahead.

Общая оценка: 5.6/10 Атмосфера – 8 / 10 Эмоции – 4 /10 Переслушиваемость – 7 /10 Личное удовольствие – 8 /10 Запоминаемость – 3 /10 Визуальность – 4 / 10 Время суток: спокойный летний день

-1 for the nazi singer, but otherwise no notes.

Classic

94/100

der erste song ist so interessant, finde Candy says richtig richtig gut, hätte nicht gedacht, dass das aus 1969 ist. => generell so so cool, finde das immer noch crazy dass das so alt ist, finde fast jeden song richtig cool und das album hat mich sehr überrascht

Incredible vibes

After The Beatles maybe the band that has had the most influence on my life. From my first exposure to The VU via their debut album (I liked the pink banana on the cover LOL) back when I was a little brat too young to be thinking about pink bananas and spanking butts - I fell in love. No other band (not even The Beatles) reminds me more of myself. If I was music, I would be the first 4 VU albums. Squeeze is NOT me. It's an imposter! A creeper! A self-loathing lout! I can't imagine the world without me.

A new iteration of the band and largely devoid of cales avant garde influence, lou might be at his melodic peak and I can’t get enough of sterlings guitar tone. Perfect in a new way.

Loved every second of it. Never wanted it to end. This one is going into the regular rotation. My favorite track was "The Murder Mystery" -- it was a tour de force. The end part where they sing different things at the same time was some of the most impressive song production I've ever heard.

It's not as good as the debut but it's still brilliant. Another album where I like every single track. Candy Says, After Hours and Pale Blue Eyes especially are some of their best

Great album. Really liked it. Can’t understand why I didn’t listen to it years ago.

Not as amazing as Nico, but still an amazing album. Candy Says. Pale Blue Eyes. Beginning to see the Light.

Wonderful! It seems like I have to keep re-learning this lesson, but I really need to stop assuming things about bands based on their publicly identifying fans.

After Hours ❤️

Incredible - 5 Stars.

This was great. Even the odd experimental craziness that was murder mystery worked for me. 5/5

It is still a great listen and got a positive vote from my nine year old granddaughter as well. A sound of it's own.

4.7

AWESOME