In 1982, Brian Eno said that while the album (The Velvet Underground & Nico) sold only 30,000 copies in its early years, "everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band."
Brian eno was and still is a pretender who knows little of the collectives wishes but we will forgive his naivety coz his heart was in the right place at the right time
What a great song, I love it! I put it into my "Shellshocked Radio - Recommendations" List: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0rujC6hb1SA.html Very well done!
The other groups that year: "Listen to all the pretty colours, man! I like to sit in my tree! It's a gas! We're all goin' to California! Tune in turn on..." The Velvet Underground: "Let's sing about a paedo sadist hiring a prostitute!"
Actually , thid slbum began in 1965 from what I had read . The album was delayed in being released in 65-66 for some reason .Pobably financial in tje case with quite a few;
@@hugbug4408 The album was completed in 1966 and was due for release. Unfortunately there was a problem with the back cover; the shot of the band playing had a backdrop of Eric Emerson projected onto a wall behind them. He claimed this was done without his permission and there was a legal case that stretched out until 1967, hence it's delayed release. Shame cos if people had heard it in 1966 when they were supposed to, they would have realised just HOW revolutionary this thing actually was.
+Kieran Collins ..But some bands have relevance. I go everywhere! I see all music. ..But, I must say this song is unique! Not many can match it!..It sings of a world many fear,.....As Queen Boudicca holds the whip of redemption!!
+Kieran Collins ..ps: I guess Velljanov is the closest we will get to this scene now...He's Macedonian. He had a band with a German cat....Called Deine Lakaien.......Try to find this >>(Deine Lakaien-Reincarnation)
Thank you for saying that you just discovered The Velvet Underground,,, I was not going to tell a living soul!! LoL. But I am on a mission and it is to listen to as much fucking music as I possibly can and when I no longer feel it I will excuse myself home and check out what's on the other side of death,,,
+Court Laszlo I doubt it. They will most likely fade into forgotten memory while shitty bands try and copy their sound become popular. Happens to all the greats, sadly :( lol
I remember where I was and how old when I first heard this. The line "I am tired, I am weary" played alongside a contrasting, sudden upbeat chord change is sublime. Like the admittance of being tired, is in itself a euphoric moment of affirmation.
1967? 1967?! Jesus Christ!! This does NOT sound like a 60s song at ALL. Entire genres (i.e. alternative rock, indie rock, gothic rock, post-punk, etc.) were predicted by this song......all the way back in 1967. Wow.
Check out the Stooges, the MC5. All this stuff influenced the music of which you speak. Bands like Sonic Youth, the Ramones, The Pixies, REM, Husker Du- I assure you all of them owned all those records from The Velvets and The Stooges.
Hendrix was cranking out Hey Joe in '66 but I see your point! They were a collective of musicians/creative's who were ahead of their time - and they had to deal with the restrictions of old skool tech
@@Alex-cw3rz agreed. i read a youtube comment somewhere that said after hours sounds like an indie song released in 2010 lol that's how timeless it sounds.
I find Sonic Youth to share many similar qualities, but of course Sonic Youth are only after the fact, but I can see so much influence in this that likely carried on
LeThayle velvet underground are probably my favourite band, so i'm not saying anyone's better or worse, but there are moments when there are obvious similarities. also, the song 'monkey 23' by the kills is lovely and velvety.
I just started listening to the velvet underground, this song is one of the most hypnotic and mysterious pieces of music I've ever listened to, what a masterpiece 🖤.
It's crazy how music can sound different to everyone. To me it reminds me of all the heat of where I live (in Brazil) and how hard it is to a lot of people, to work under the intense sun.
Lou Reed was a junkie, a lousy guitarists, and a poseur..you might want to look up 'genius' in a dictionary. That is a book with words and their meanings...Warhol and his poseurs were nothing but odd at the time; only a modern day moron would use the word 'genius' and lou reed in the same sentence. I saw them when they first became 'hot'. A light show, drugs, everyone high, you could kill a cat and it would have sounded 'great'. Here he finally found out about Venus in Furs the book; a young ignoranti trying to be 'hip'. Your intelligence tends to widen if you know your sources. His were heroin, pornography, oh and hip Sador Masche...via germany. As if Lou could read German; he can barely speak english!!!
John Cale slowed down the original tempo and added the drone to this song, opening up a whole new musical universe. His musical genius has been generally overlooked considering his enormous musical contribution not only to the Velvets, but also arranging Nico´s Marble Index & Desertshore, also producing the latter and the debuts by The Stooges, Patti Smith and The Modern Lovers, all of them milestones. Can´t think of anybody else who had such a musical impact of what later was to become Punk and Alternative Music.
Plus, John Cale produced some of Nico's solo albums, he is on Eno's albums, he produced one of Siouxsee and the Banshee's albums. I think but I am not sure he did some work with Phil Manzanera.
@@Codzilla71 Nope, don't think so. Firstly Bowie was influenced by The Velvets, secondly it was Cale who implemented the Avant-Garde sound into Rock music.
@@Codzilla71 It's important to note that Bowie probably wouldn't have made the music he did if his manager hadn't given him an acetate of VU & Nico in 1966.
First time I heard this song was in The Doors movie when I was 13, and it sent me on a wave of obsession of obscure and psychedelic music that I still ride today at 33 years old
What a great song, I love it! I put it into my "Shellshocked Radio - Recommendations" List: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0rujC6hb1SA.html Very well done!
Same! The Doors movie came out when I was also 13 in 1991 and was mezmerised by this song at Warhol Party Jim goes to.... "I don't know what may happen tonight. Maybe Death" "Not death man! You drink to much." "Let's get out here Jim these people r Vampires. Let's make the myths"
John Hechtlinger Disagree. Music is better than ever before, if you look a bit underground. But yes, these bands benefit from the influence of greats like VU
"Venus in furs" is a novel by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. The term "masochist" was named after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. "Severin" is the male hero of the novel (written by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch). FYI the term “Sadism” is derived from the name of Marquis de Sade. "Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather Whiplash girlchild in the dark Severin, your servant comes in bells, please don't forsake him Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart. Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather Shiny leather in the dark Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart . I am tired, I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years A thousand dreams that would awake me Different colors made of tears ." Listening to the song while reading the novel is a unique experience.
+svagana "The Aristocrats!"I'll bet Melania whips his ass til the blood flows after every bombastic speech."Lick my boots, maggot!""O, yes, mistressssss...... Yisssss.... "
Discovered today that Leopold von S-Masoch was great gran uncle of Marianne Faithful who co-wrote many important songs with the Stones (a part from a successful solo career) including the spell-bounding Sister Morphine. Heroin of the Velvet and Sister Morphine are the testament songs to heroin epidemic of the 70'. It's a small world.
I always thought it was like trudging through the desert, with the sun beating down mercilessly on you. Barely awake, but you gotta keep going or else you'll never get out.
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather Whiplash girl child in the dark Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart Downy sins of streetlight fancies Chase the costumes she shall wear Ermine furs adorn the imperious Severin, Severin awaits you there I am tired, I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years A thousand dreams that would awake me Different colors made of tears Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather Shiny leather in the dark Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart Severin, Severin, speak so slightly Severin, down on your bended knee Taste the whip, in love not given lightly Taste the whip, now plead for me I am tired, I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years A thousand dreams that would awake me Different colors made of tears Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather Whiplash girl child in the dark Severin, your servant comes in bells, please don't forsake him Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
The music itself is incredibly haunting and exceedingly alluring. But the video at 1:53 and seeing the utter detachment from reality.. That unmistakable look that someone is operating on a different frequency and this reality is coming in pretty fuzzy and static-ridden. It really helped drive home that hash-n-heroin vibe
Back then, youtube was an 8mm camera looping on a factory wall, an ipad was a gritty notepad and a ball point pen, music wasn't a recording that everyone took for granted. I'm not saying it was a better time, but I am saying: if you want to go back to it, if you want that feeling, you need to find the tribes up in the mountains running music on generators, the people out in the lighthouses, the wild crazy mad obscure ones completely beyond the grid, you won't read about them in your news feed, or on any youtube posts. I have seen the future, and it doesn't have a website...
A track way ahead of its time . One of the seminal rock/pop classics . Sterling Morrison said Venus In Furs was the best thing they ever did and was a song that no other band could have done . I agree entirely . Brilliant track . For me , John Cale's customised Viola's manic sound is what makes it so magnificent.
+ThefightingCelt yes i agree, that song is jut so perfect in every way lous voice and all the different sounds, just so erie ! i fucking love it man just listened to it twice :P
Isay Hi Tänx to correct that. i have record and I lost number, what embarrassment. I dont really like velvet underground but this song is brilliant description about heroine and original record is expensive.
duffs has that feel to it ..... which is why i love it so much its dark and moody great song to get high to i must admit i was a fan of that combination :P
perhaps more under appreciated than underrated. nowadays they get the proper credit they deserve, but back then, almost no one who was paying attention to popular music knew about them for the most part
Most definitely scary. I remember two weird t-gurls singing this song to me in the seventies. That was the first time, I'd ever heard the song despite the fact that I had bought 'Walk on the Wild Side' LP. Underground music?
There is something visceral, dark and absolutely breathtaking about Lou Reed voice and the whole musical composition of this which makes it one of the authentic art rock song of all time .
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather Whiplash girlchild in the dark Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart Downy sins of streetlight fancies Chase the costumes she shall wear Ermine furs adorn the imperious Severin, Severin awaits you there I am tired, I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years A thousand dreams that would awake me Different colors made of tears Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather Shiny leather in the dark Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart Severin, Severin, speak so slightly Severin, down on your bended knee Taste the whip, in love not given lightly Taste the whip, now plead for me I am tired, I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years A thousand dreams that would awake me Different colors made of tears Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather Whiplash girlchild in the dark Severin, your servant comes in bells, please don't forsake him Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart Songwriters: REED, LOU
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather Whiplash girl child in the dark Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart Downy sins of streetlight fancies Chase the costumes she shall wear Ermine furs adorn the imperious Severin, Severin awaits you there I am tired, I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years A thousand dreams that would awake me Different colors made of tears Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather Shiny leather in the dark Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart Severin, Severin, speak so slightly Severin, down on your bended knee Taste the whip, in love not given lightly Taste the whip, now plead for me I am tired, I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years A thousand dreams that would awake me Different colors made of tears Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather Whiplash girl child in the dark Severin, your servant comes in bells, please don't forsake him Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
Yep. The velvet underground sound so much like heroin to me . It’s almost like all of them were strung out(sarcasm) although I read nico didn’t get into dope until after her time with VU
Lyrics and music are superb! A timeless masterpiece... "I am tired, I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years A thousand dreams that would awake me different colors made of tears"
Like the primitive simplicity of the instrumentals, the deceptively shallow and decadent subject matter of the lyrics hides something deeply profound,cold,calculating and mocking of a society that is taken for granted and assumed to be perfected and refined.
This is the first Heavy Metal song...Sabbath is great.....but The Velvet bring the darkness....That haunting beat sounds like an exorcism or orgy is going to begin,
Niagara Falls Gazette, Sunday, February 26, 1967; ALBUM NEWS, by Charles J. Schreiber; Andy Warhol Presents the Velvet Underground and Nico (Verve) - Somewhere out there, turned on and creating his own mix of musical LSD, is the darling of those who need to be led, pop art's answer to Timothy Leary and Madison Avenue, Andy Warhol. The presentation is a vague and disjointed collection of cacophonic unharmonies that defy the senses. Noise without rhyme or reason. However, it is the type of way-out offering (it is anything but an effort) that will attract those who need to hide behind the unfathomable. We just find it offensive to the senses.
this song is about 40 years old, and still avaunt garde... and kinky . I was lucky enough to see the Velvets 3 or 4 times. Lou Reed had the most commanding stage presence
The claims of "Venus in Furs" to be one of that literal handful of the greats just increases with time. Lou Reed's decadent weariness as John Cale scrapes away on the strings... It just makes everything else seem paltry.
Venus in furs Review En español "Venus en pieles" es el titulo de la canción de Velvet Underground basado en la novela de Leopold von Sacher Masoch, que cuanta que el personaje Severin se había enamorado de una mujer llamada Wanda, la que extorsiona para conseguir que lo trate como su esclavo en formas cada vez más humillantes.. Severin decía "El dolor posee para mí un encanto raro, y que nada enciende más mi pasión que la tiranía, la crueldad y, sobre todo, la infidelidad de una mujer hermosa." El psiquiatra aleman Kraft-Ebing tomó como cimiento la literatura de Masoch para el concepto de la conducta sexual llamada “masoquismo”: aquella por la cual el placer sexual del sujeto esta ligada a la sensación de dolor, castigo o humillación para su libro titulado Psicopatologias Sexuales. El personaje Severin asumía la sumisión y se sentía profundamente atraído hacia la imagen de una mujer imponente que lo dominara , una de las siguientes citas lo explica claramente: "Quiero ser el esclavo de una mujer hermosa envuelta en pieles. Una mujer dulce y diabólica que me domine, me azote y me rechace con el pie mientras pertenece a otro. En medio de todo esto quiero cambiarle los zapatos. Esto también es la felicidad.Solo se puede amar lo que está por encima de nosotros" ¿Acaso no era coincidente que los fetiches de Severin correspondan al orden de su masoquismo? La imagen de una mujer imponente envuelta en pieles que delinean la perfeccion de sus curvas, nos remiten a la idea moderna de la diosa Venus, jerarquía divina del amor, la belleza, y el deseo que Severin proyecta en la imagen de Wanda. Finalmente Severin consigue ser profundamente complacido con el peor de los dolores que puede experimentar el hombre, la traición y la infidelidad de una mujer que con dolor alimentaba sus deseos, a partir de esa experiencia ya nada vuelve ser igual , pero ese era el profundo deseo de Severin, que su amada sea de otro, que a diferencia de el, era superior y podía dominarla. Todo esto, deja profundas reflexiones, las conductas sexuales orientaciones y otras expresiones de la sexualidad estan indiscutiblemente ligadas al campo de los afectos y emociones, la forma en como nos relacionamos con los demás marcará nuestra actitud y moldeará nuestra personalidad. El psicoanálisis se interesó tempranamente en estudiar el desarrollo psicosexual de los humanos y como estas experiencias tempranas con nuestros cuidares marcan decisivamente la vida y el desarrollo de la personalidad, gracias a esto la psicología puede acercarse a una visión mas completa profunda pero interminable del hombre, que no puede ser simplificado a las mascaras del yo. Está composición del pisciano Loud red, puede comprenderse si se traduce la letra, o si simplemente nos dejamos llevar por su sonido musical, es una excelente canción con admosferas hipnóticas y secuencias psidelicas envolventes inducen estados extraños de consciencia, como un llamado de esa diosa divina ciertamente moderna en cueros azotando a ¡Severin Severin en el coro! embriagados por su hechizo divino, o en un estado de profunda adicción al objeto al cual no somos capaces de dejar... El autor Masoch de la novela también llamada Venus en pieles, sublimó y proyecto a traves del ejercicio de la escritura deseos probablemente dormidos pero que eran profundamente esteticos románticos e idealistas, es por eso que su tinta lleva una marca de erotismo sumamente fino e imperceptible, en la que no deja dudas de su gran talento.
When i listen to this, i flashback to my days of psychedelics. Oh what a time...and i remember every thing...holding on to the anchored string so I didnt have liftoff, commanding the color green to ruse from the gentle rug. I looked at my co-trippers and they melded into the spiral sounds i heard....it was great,..yes very universe.
The Banana Album was the only album that made rock and roll grow up into an adult! It was all greasy kid stuff before this! Thank you, Lou, for doing a far better job than folky Dylan of making rock literary and, above all, Smart! What a genius was our Lou! R.I.P., Tom Paine of Rock and Roll!
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather Whiplash girlchild in the dark Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart Downy sins of streetlight fancies Chase the costumes she shall wear Ermine furs adorn the imperious Severin, Severin awaits you there I am tired, I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years A thousand dreams that would awake me Different colors made of tears Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather Shiny leather in the dark Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart Severin, Severin, speak so slightly Severin, down on your bended knee Taste the whip, in love not given lightly Taste the whip, now plead for me ❤️
Lol @1:52 John Cale looks sooo fckin high out of his mind on herion and several pints of booze. Probably helpin him come down from so much teeth chattering speed. Haha
Yeah. I've read about that the album.actually was recorded in latter part of 1965. But , due to finance problems the album was delayed to about 66-67. So way ahead of it's time , but a sign of the times. Heroin was used widely from rebellious teens/beatniks to hippies to in the 60s . It was that time of the thr season socio/politcally , with the Vietnam War Raging !
It has the mid-60s twang/tone , flavor to it. By 1965 rock n roll was going through some radical changes ; the time period , like the Vietnam War , the Beattles , and beatniks turning into hippies , and the drugs. Especialy the abuse of heroin , was big by mid-60s evan more so, and the Vietnam War played its part in this morph of society @ that time.
If you don’t know the history of this song.. then just a suggestion check Leopold von sacher-masoch you won’t regret it! This whole album is utterly underrrated ! Bowie loved this album too, such a Shame the USA had to ban it back in the day!
Você percebe o nível intelectual dos caras só pelo nível de psicodelia encontrada nas canções deles, algo que eu nunca vi até hoje em outras bandas, antes e depois de Velvet. Goste ou não, Velvet Underground tem um "q" a mais.
So someone from Buhaus was on a VU record? He might be ok. I said might!!! Remember the shiny shiny shiny boots of leather, did Lou use those boots on the Bahuas guy? Thanks for sharing.
Rest in piece Lou Reed, thank you for your contribution to music. Luckily your sound will still live forth in the music of many bands influenced by you.
The sound was mainly John Cale's achievement. 'To me the sound of the band was John Cale. That was confirmed a few years later when I worked with Lou on Transformer. John was the subversive element of the band, one of the most underrated musicians in rock history. That guy is a danger, a true character. ' David Bowie
Thank you so much for uploading this! The Velvets were the roots of alternative and punk rock. As the saying goes, 'Not a lot of people bought the first Velvet Underground, but the ones that did, started their own bands.' It's as challenging and inspirational of a record I've ever heard. RIP, Lou Reed!
I listened to this song while my alter ego dressed in black leather and holding a long banded cobra vicious whip, whipped me while saying "bow down to your demise, you will feel the pain and you cannot fight it", the sound of hissing struck at me, then i did what any normal human being would do, succumb to the bite and let the venom inject me, escaping into the guilty pleasures of Medusa's seductive promises of hope, only turning into stone and watching life pass me by like a dead rock watching flowers bloom and die through my minds colorful disappointment. Yeah i am fucked.
@@jasonpeters9716almost, but not quite. Here's a shout out for The Kinks and Eric Burdon & The Animals (the psychedelic years). And not to forget the Velvets Maestro of Sound John Cale is Welsh!
When i was in a mental hospital in 2004 (schizophrenia) i became friend with a girl. I made her discovered the VU and she became instantly addicted to them. We spent nights listening to them while smoking cigarettes in this boring place. The only good memory of my 6 month there.
Thanks to Gus Van Sants Last Days for turning me on to this song..i know a lot of you people are older and were around for this song and have other memories about it but i just think about the scene in the movie with this song in it and it gives me chills...then again that whole movie is pretty eerie
+Joe Lobello yeah i think of that scene ever time i put this track on as well, was the best scene in the whole movie. i wasnt a huge fan other than it was different and i liked the fact there was no dialog just erie-ness and imagery
When Gus Van Sant has this song play in Last Days, he uses it to establish time - the movie bounces back and forth, but when you hear 'Venus In Furs' you know what things are happening simultaneously and what things are not.
Devon Angell Ever since my first listen,many moons ago,a shiver runs the full length of my body,licks my ears, and dances into my loins....this is the track that introduced me to the VU.........
