HEROIN

The bit in Jarhead (the book) about there being no such thing as an anti-war movie is also pretty true of drug songs IMO.

I was taken aback when someone said that reading Naked Lunch made them want to try heroin. It was my favourite book as a teenager and I never took it as anything but a warning against control systems, including drug addiction.

that was probably too harsh an assessment. they had some great songs

“with no name”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM75GdNNwA8

“comes to mind” ← practically a 10 min VU epic by the standards of san diego post-hc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQYYY6DhmpA

“head cold” ← IF YOU FEED A COLD / DOES IT GO AWAAAAAYYYYYYY??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUK5Cr6-RW0

does it? will it? whatevs

"heroin" the song does not move me and never has, always struck me as a corny power ballad. "waiting for the man" on the other hand.

that is a great song too. i love that whole album, the lore around it, and the quasi-mythic idea of "downtown new york" it evokes.

I find the tumble of images pretty compelling, and the denouement. It’s been excessively revered which ruined it as an experiment with form and subject, now it has to be an anthem and it sucks at that.

xp “uptown,” iirc

the album is definitely rooted in greenwich village culture. "i'm waiting for my man" is about a downtown guy going to harlem to score heroin.

I know, just joshin’

hm

that is a great song too. i love that whole album, the lore around it, and the quasi-mythic idea of "downtown new york" it evokes.

or whatever, I listen to vu/lou and the world is a sewer

Bad vibes are part of the gestalt I am talking about. I agree that there is a darkness that was a necessary corrective to the utopianism or whatever of the 60s.

"heroin" the song does not move me and never has, always struck me as a corny power ballad. "waiting for the man" on the other hand.

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banana album their weakest album by a mile

The harsh music is what makes both the song jump out as well as deromanticising the lyrical content, somewhat.

The dissonance is what is great about this album, when it appears. I cannot agree that this is the weakest velvets album.

Not when there is the black angel’s death song, with cale’s demonic electric viola

Thought this thread was going to be about the superpitcher song

always loved this power ballad abt a junkie boyfriend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmAds0EKCWM

this is a really cool album

https://www.discogs.com/master/60897-Stephan-Mathieu-Ekkehard-Ehlers-Heroin

Does your heroin lose its glamour on the washboard overnight?

Thought this thread was going to be about the superpitcher song

same. thread title's in all-caps like on the record.

and you will see that there will be a receptionist of some description.

lol