Do they all sound like this? Venus in Furs - The Velvet Underground 

Lou Reed just wrote about the world he lived in. He didn't judge it for you; he just presented it for you to see. The Velvet Underground put music around it.

the whole album is a masterpiece

There lay the inspiration for the band Sonic Youth

The percussionist, Mo Tucker, is possibly the most underrated/unacknowledged musician ever.

Hi! Great video as always. So: Venus in furs is the English translation of the book by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. The book and the author gave the name and concept of sado-masochism to the world. Severin is the main character in the book, who desires that Wanda must treat him poorly for his own satisfaction. In the end he realises that as long as a woman does not have the same rights as man, she can only be his superior or his inferior, never his equal. While the book is really about equal rights for women, it mostly is considered a kinky book.

"Do they all sound like this?" is quite funny. No, nothing sounds much like anything else. In fact, I once listened to two critics break down how, arguably, every track on this album spawned a different stream of music that would arise in the next 20 years. Not for nothing did they say that, while it only sold 5,000 copies, everyone who bought one started a band.

The combination of two geniuses, Lou Reed and John Cale is unbeatable.

Now plead for meeeeee.... Lou's phrasing on this kills me.

If you liked that you should have a listen to Waiting for The Man from the same album, or if you are feeling really, really adventurous try listening to Sister Ray from their second album. The Velvet Underground were a band like no other. They sounded different, they looked different, they had a (genius) female drummer and above all they had Lou Reed.

Their songs do not all sound like this. Venus in Furs was from a story by Von Sacher-Masoch. Read between the lines.

Severin Severin is the protagonist in a nineteenth century S and M novella also titled Venus In Furs.

Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs (published 1870) is an odd book. To start with it's as cold as ice. There is no love here. There is only desire and domination, humiliation, frustration. Severin offers a contract to Wanda that he would be her sex-slave for a period of one year. The terms of the contract are carefully laid out, and it is signed. At the end of the year, the relationship would terminate. Perhaps the most interesting aspect is what I call the tableaux--the extension of time, the setting of the scene held in complete stillness. Severin would be bound and abandoned without knowing for how long, maybe hours, before Wanda would return to begin the flogging. It is a fascinating book. Since I hope you do read it, I'm not going to spoil the story by giving away plot points.

Check out Coney Island Baby By Lou Reed ( The lead singer) it's done in the same spoken style and is beautiful.

I got to know this record when it came out and it made a life-longing impression on me... I'm 67 now, but I can feel the thrill of this music as if it was made yesterday. The VU was an exeptional amalgam of magicians, Lou Reed to me he's on par with Dylan. I miss such artists as him and Nico, it was a truly different era. Thanks for the upload mate, deeply appreciated!

This way 50 shades of Grey a couple century`s back.

Classic Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground.

Venus In Furs" is inspired by the novella of the same title, written and published by Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch in 1870. It tells the story of a man who wishes to be dominated and treated as a slave by the woman he loves. We get the word "masochism" from Sacher-Masoch's last name, and the entire practice of dominance and submission from this and the works of Marquis de Sade, a male author who wrote from the opposite position of dominating women and treating them as slaves.

Tommy

The song is based on the novella "Venus in Furs" by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. It was from his name that the term "masochism" was derived. As you surmised, the song is about sadomasochism. Severin is the main character and is infatuated with a woman named Wanda von Dunajew and desires to be her slave. There you have it.

One word i think of is Lust.