Best Member Of The Velvet Underground

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Bimble, Saturday, 2 June 2007 07:23 (5 years ago) Permalink

Those results do make a lot of sense, though. But then, I never cared that much for Nico myself.

JN$OT, Saturday, 2 June 2007 07:29 (5 years ago) Permalink

hahaha, for all the brave talk about sterling and moe & all the shit-talking about lou and john guess who are nos. 1 & 2 when it came time to actually VOTE?!?

;-)

Eisbaer, Saturday, 2 June 2007 08:45 (5 years ago) Permalink

yeah Geir given the distinctive melodies that populate Vintage Violence and Paris 1919 I'd say the "Sunday Morning" melody has Cale's thumbprints all over it - it would not surprise me to learn that Lou wrote the words and Cale set it to melody 'cause that's how it sounds, right down to the "watch out"s

-- J0hn D., Thursday, 31 May 2007 12:31 (Yesterday) Link

yeah it's so empathetic (melody-wise) that i've always heard someone else in there besides reed. i have no idea who else was involed though, in all honesty.

i voted cale only because i can't imagining living a life without those solo albums -- paris 1919, vintage violence, fear especially. that doesn't really address the question of the thread tho, which implicitly specifies the band and the years etc. all i know is that 'guess i'm falling in love (live)" from peel slowly and see is my favorite vu song of all-time, and i suspect reed wrote it.

strgn, Saturday, 2 June 2007 09:08 (5 years ago) Permalink

oops, should have been i instead of b

strgn, Saturday, 2 June 2007 09:09 (5 years ago) Permalink

see also:

cale pwning reed on 'temptation inside of your heart'
the violin on 'hey mister rain v. 1'!

strgn, Saturday, 2 June 2007 11:31 (5 years ago) Permalink

How does "cale pwn reed on 'temptation inside of your heart'"? He doesn't seem to be saying too much on it

Tom D., Saturday, 2 June 2007 11:36 (5 years ago) Permalink

Sterl's on there too remember

Tom D., Saturday, 2 June 2007 11:36 (5 years ago) Permalink

r: somebody shut the door, heh

c: you can talk during this

r: well get outta here

c: wrong wrong wrong wrong

r: oh shut the door

c: *slap* ahhh!

r: it's only port or nutin i dn

c: b-b-b-b-b-b-b

r: (but she dint pay dollar a night (???))

c: woot-hoot-hooo!

r: ooooo motown, wooo!

c: it's not even five feet

r: you gonna look like marvin and (????)

r: oww we just gonna start it all over again someone get her outta here

r: electricity comes from other planets

c: ooooooo

c: it's not that bad a solo

c: four times, it's pretty together

r: you can't say that

c: yes i can

c: i can talk to myself this way

r: lock the door this time

strgn, Saturday, 2 June 2007 11:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

Is all of that actually Cale tho?

Tom D., Saturday, 2 June 2007 11:53 (5 years ago) Permalink

Not that it matters that much...

Tom D., Saturday, 2 June 2007 11:54 (5 years ago) Permalink

r: you gonna look like marvin and (????)

i always thought this was "you don't look like martha and the vandellas"
the only bit that sounds like cale is the bit right at the end

"the pope in a silver castle"!!!

zappi, Saturday, 2 June 2007 12:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

^ not cale but favourite bit

zappi, Saturday, 2 June 2007 12:03 (5 years ago) Permalink

yeah i love that line, how did i miss that!

maybe it's actually r. pwning c.

strgn, Saturday, 2 June 2007 12:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

yeah, "martha and the vandellas'

James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 2 June 2007 17:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

I thought most of it was sterling!

Mark G, Monday, 4 June 2007 07:42 (5 years ago) Permalink

isn't it mostly lou talking to his own back-up track?

ghost rider, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

also moe was robbed ;_;

ghost rider, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

Oh, and Nico doesn't really belong up there.

Fuck you, yes she does. Like it or not, she was in the damn band, people.

-- Bimble,

And fuck you right back! cuz she wasn't. Not a question of "liking it" or not - just semantics. She performed with them and collaborated with them but never actually joined 'em.

Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

MVB OTM, but I liked having her and Yule in the poll so they could be pwned.

Rock Hardy, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:25 (5 years ago) Permalink


She taught me about wine, real wine

James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 4 June 2007 17:14 (5 years ago) Permalink

Nico : VU :: Steve Martin : SNL

poortheatre, Monday, 4 June 2007 19:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

Yeh, John Cale OBE!

Mark G, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 09:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

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