finetune artist: The Velvet Underground

From their early days as the house band for Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, the Velvet Underground were the antithesis of late-1960s Flower Power optimism. Lou Reed's decadent lyrics and dour vocals proved to be the perfect match for the group's droning pop, and the early addition of goth-chanteuse Nico only served to increase VU's black-clad mystique. The influence of their blend of street poetry, avant-garde experimentalism, and raw rock & roll on punk and its aftermath is inestimable. It's been said that not many people heard their early records, but everyone who did went out and started a band.

Listen to The Velvet Underground at Finetune.

(2008) Playlist Plus
(2007) The Best Of The Velvet Underground
(2006) The Very Best Of The Velvet Underground
(2005) Live At Max's Kansas City
(2005) Loaded: The Fully Loaded Edition
(2005) Loaded
(2005) Gold
(2005) Chronicles
(2002) The Velvet Underground & Nico
(2001) The Velvet Underground Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes
(2000) 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of The Velvet Underground
(1996) White Light / White Heat
(1996) The Velvet Underground
(1996) The Velvet Underground & Nico
(1995) Peel Slowly And See
(1993) Live MCMXCIII
(1989) The Best of The Velvet Underground
(1988) Another View
(1988) Live With Lou Reed, Vol.1
(1988) Live With Lou Reed Vol.2
(1987) V.U.
(1985) VU

Sunday Morning
Sweet Jane
Heroin
I'm Waiting for the Man
Venus In Furs

lgvhnI5s on 2009-12-31 05:25:10.213:
Lou Reed at his best.
lgvhnI5s on 2009-10-08 09:09:22.230:
This band is superb. Very eclectic (like their British contemporaries Cream) they are very representative of the culture of the time. Very well worth listening to. DIG!