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Post by wayved on Sept 26, 2005 23:09:44 GMT -5
ritalin pants-Spoons Telephono is awesome....
I will never talk shit about the first VU album again. Never. I have heard the error of my ways.
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Post by Rit on Sept 27, 2005 14:09:08 GMT -5
yep wayved. early Spoon is criminally underrated.
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Post by Rit on Oct 25, 2005 12:33:27 GMT -5
hey@!
who here has listened to Metal Machine Music ALL the way through once?
twice?
thrice, even?
(oh my god) four times all the way through?
who?
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Post by Rit on Oct 25, 2005 12:33:57 GMT -5
've listened to it twice all the way through, but that was over the space of 2 years.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Oct 25, 2005 12:39:36 GMT -5
Many, Many times have I listened to that record. Mostly because I love odd sounds and extreme noise. To me it totally walked in the place for early Throbbing Gristle, Wolf Eyes, extreme noise terrorism from the likes of Filthy Turd and Merzbow. He wasn't the first to do this, musique concrete had done it France years before, but I still think it's a great piece and a nice middle finger to the record company.
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Post by Rit on Oct 25, 2005 12:42:35 GMT -5
Part One is amazing.
Part Four is kinda a'ight.
but come on. Parts Two and Three are a little overkill.
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Post by rockysigman on Oct 25, 2005 17:43:42 GMT -5
Actually, it's really not that far off from the stuff that John Cale was doing, both with LaMonte Young and on his own, when Lou Reed met him in 1964. Have any of you heard Cale's Sunblindness Music? He was doing it with slightly more traditional instrumentation (because it was 1964 so he had to), but conceptually it was the same. And a lot better.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Oct 25, 2005 18:31:44 GMT -5
Oh yea, I have that record and the Dream Syndicate records that came out on the Table of the Elements label. Cale has always mused that Reed owes everything to him and there are several times when I have been inclined to agree with him.
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Post by rockysigman on Oct 25, 2005 23:33:33 GMT -5
Well, Lou is a great songwriter, and would have been with or without Cale. But even with the great songs, a lot of what made the first two Velvet Underground records great was the arrangements, and Cale was probably a bigger part of that.
I'll take Sunblindness Music over Metal Machine Music any day, although the MMM liner notes are fucking great.
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Post by Thorngrub on Oct 26, 2005 12:10:51 GMT -5
I need to pick that up on vinyl, MMM.
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Post by melon1 on Mar 2, 2006 2:03:56 GMT -5
Thought I'd pull a few up for the new guys/girls.
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Post by sisyphus on Mar 2, 2006 19:40:45 GMT -5
if you like nico, you should check out mi & l'au....they produce some very thoughtful, surreal, sparse, chill-yet-warm-and-throbbing-inside meditations...
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Post by Paul on Mar 3, 2006 11:08:41 GMT -5
Voted for Loaded, but I was torn between that and the self-titled album...."What Goes On" is probably my favorite VU song, but I think Loaded is a more complete album...
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