hi everyone Anthony Fantino here
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a little list I've been wanting to do
something like this a while a short 10
song list of my all-time favorite Velvet
Underground songs The Velvet Underground
they have a number of documentaries
about them some of them are actually on
YouTube and you can watch yourself
those can condense the band's history
and just their place contextually in
music better than I can in a short video
for sure but but the Velvet Underground
are an important band to me I was not
all too impressed with their music I
remember when I had first heard them but
after returning and just sort of really
I guess getting a grip of what they were
trying to do with their music they just
give things like rough-around-the-edges
recordings very abstract and sometimes
very lewd and an offensive lyrics and a
very simple simple instrumentation that
is sometimes performed with a very kind
of amateur display of musicianship all
these things to me which originally were
not all too impressive all of a sudden
kind of became impressive and in a way
became kind of beautiful I feel like it
takes a special band a special group of
people who have a really great vision to
take things that people usually classify
as being bad ugly sort of mmm subpar and
really make them great really turn them
into something special and kind of
unique I feel like The Velvet
Underground and they're very short
discography did that very well across
several records and the songs that I
have picked in this 10 song mix are
definitely showed that a few of them
that I
want to bring up Venus inverse beautiful
song not not beautiful in the
traditional sense but you know great
track kinky sex lyrics John Cale's viola
violent and whatever on that track is
just wailing screaming and from what I
hear you like put different strings on
it to get that kind of unique sound to
come out of it it is a twisted song
furthermore Sunday morning in my opinion
one of the most beautiful songs to ever
be written period that's it can't say
any more about it than that
sister Rhea damn man this 17 minute
track I believe which came off the
band's second full-length LP is just
this long twisted disgusting
rock-and-roll Jam detailing this story
having to do with cops busting in on
this place where there's there's drugs
going on there's there's like an orgy I
believe I believe there's like
transsexuals involved as well it's a
pretty sick track in this 17 minute
track went on much longer than that
whenever the band would play in a live
setting basically the handful of the
records that this been put out when when
they were around are very important to
me
really fantastic music music that I'm
sure I wouldn't see music the way I do
if I had not heard them and basically
looking to kind of share them with you
guys like I said this list is below this
video I listed out via text you can
search any of these songs on the
internet and probably hear them but the
entire list of tracks is also available
to stream on Spotify as well so follow
those links where you that list easily
put it together pretty fast
my favorite Velvet Underground tracks of
all time and and that's it thanks for
watching love you
Anthony Fantana development underground
forever
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