Velvet Underground Trainspotting Question

Yeah, they're de-'80sd or something.

he aching love song “Pale Blue Eyes,” allegedly inspired by a girlfriend at Syracuse University who got away, with lead vocals by Yule;

ummmm

oh OK that might be a good thing xxp

xp durrrrr

see also Edward IIIs eloquent defense of the Etc mix (i.e the original) of "I'm Sticking With You" vs. the VU remix, he wrote abt it in the artist poll

_he aching love song “Pale Blue Eyes,” allegedly inspired by a girlfriend at Syracuse University who got away, with lead vocals by Yule;_

ummmm

Yeah, Doug Yule's ex-gf Shelly.

the Etc mix (i.e the original) of "I'm Sticking With You" vs. the VU remix

? where would one hear this

xp ha yeah, i think it's supposed to be shelly, but doug definitely does not sing that one.

Inspired by sterling morrisons electroshock therapy

Drummer Moe Tucker's testosterone-fueled beats

John Cale's well-documented struggle with pica informed much of the initial recordings

man my jokes always suck and yet i keep making them
never give up!

I irl lol'd at pica

the Etc mix (i.e the original) of "I'm Sticking With You" vs. the VU remix

? where would one hear this

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, September 30, 2014 3:53 PM

http://www.discogs.com/Velvet-Underground-Etc/master/660580

used to be available via the "nuns on the seawall" blog

B-b-but does Doug sing the "Hitchhike" intro?

BUT YOU GUYS THE MATRIX RECORDINGS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU NIGGLING ABOUT THE PROMO BUMF FOR

how come the only source I can google on this is a Norwegian press-release-regurgitation site? Nobody else picked it up after a week?!

(and how on ye olde green earth did you ever find it, Tyler?)

Starting to think some college kid put that "Hitchhike" thing at the top of a syndicated Voice Media Group listicle called "Top 5 Things To Know About The Velvet Underground Before You Die."

Not surprised at tyler being hip to anything VU related very early in the game. Like if some Freeport demolition team turned up Lou's lost bar mitzvah photos, I'd assume tyler and his blog would have the scoop.

(that "Lead vocal by Doug Yule" thing looks like the sentence was about "Candy Says" but the "Pale Blue Eyes" bit got dropped in, badly)

if some Freeport demolition team turned up Lou's lost bar mitzvah photos

That's weird, I was thinking about Lou's bar mitzvah yesterday (which is weird in itself).

ha, i just saw it over on those wacky steve hoffman forums.
i dunno, the more i think about it, the more i'm kind of annoyed that the matrix tapes are being bundled up with this deluxe edition -- they should just be doing a "complete" release of all of those recordings. (there are a few interesting things missing in the tracklisting)

also sort of bummed there isn't like "take 1" of what goes on or other things like that.

oh don't worry, they'll roll them out as a separate set w/bonus tracks in a few years xp

lol yeah

It would be nice if "I'm gonna move right in" was a vocal version, but I guess it's still going to be 6 mins of, well, no vocal.

I did check yesterday, the mono LP version from the box is the closet mix.

Still sounds good though.

a version of “There She Goes Again,” interpolating the opening guitar quote from Marvin Gaye’s 1962 hit, “Hitch Hike.”
just like every version of this song! it's weird that that little bit of trivia is repeated everywhere.

― tylerw, Tuesday, September 30, 2014 3:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's just as likely that they nicked it from the rolling stones cover, no?

also jesus christ these stupid fucking deluxxxe box sets woven of unicorn hair costing a week's wages. shit makes me want to download illegally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmkU3yg4lK0

the "velvet underground 75th anniversary holographic box set" features a 372-minute live version of "sister ray," spread across seven CDs. the fourth CD is the intermission.

would buy

can you really call the 4th album unreleased when everything on it has been officially issued already in some form or another

don`t forget those hot 2014 mixes bro

what goes on (and on til the break of dawn)

a 372-minute live version of "sister ray,"
funny you should mention it -- just saw this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63xKbG_9aok

amazing

going to listen to it all. twice.
stereogum is milking the clickbait: "Unreleased Velvet Underground album to be included in new box set"

that youtube should just be the opening string chords repeated over and over

it'd be like vexations

Sterling Morrison once claimed there was a literal "lost 4th album" that they cut in LA in late '69, of which the tapes were lost in route when shipped to MGM in NYC. Salt grains needed.

most album-losingest band ever. i bet you'd go over to lou's place and there'd be like 4 lost albums down the back of his couch.

lol, yeah, who knows but that mention from sterling is the only thing i've ever heard about that west coast record -- i think there's the possibility that things like "countess from hong kong" and the demo of "i found a reason" were recorded around the time he's talking about. but i don't know, he liked telling people about amazing things they would never hear (see "sweet rock n roll" and "what goes on" live w/ Cale)

but i can't help it, seeing "UNRELEASED VELVET UNDERGROUND ALBUM TO BE RELEASED" headlines today is irritating me.

I wanna talk to that Lou Reed, man, he threw a lost acetate at his roadie.

(Xp) In the spirit of "What else can be left?" in the case of another artist, I always wanted to call a band Unreleased Hendrix.

every time lou reed got drunk he lost another VU album

there are 100s of lost VU albums rotting in landfills tucked into old taxicab seat cushions

You ought to give other people just a little chance, in record collecting anyway.

well some speculate he deliberately lost them so that they could be found again decades later

we may never know

but i can't help it, seeing "UNRELEASED VELVET UNDERGROUND ALBUM TO BE RELEASED" headlines today is irritating me.

― tylerw, Wednesday, October 1, 2014 8:13 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it is obviously super irritating, both the people writing these articles & everybody reading them has owned this unreleased album since they were sixteen & found out music was cool, the regurgitation is distressing. hitchhike trivia attacks too.

Real headline is that the matrix tapes are coming out.