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The following is a list of all songs by The Velvet Underground, excluding those after the departure of Lou Reed on the Squeeze album and the reunion tour. This list details the name of the song and any officially released recordings of the song.
Song TitleReleased Recordings"I Can't Stand It"Studio recordings: VU (1985) Live ..."I Found a Reason"Studio recording: Loaded (1970) ...Studio recording: White Light/White Heat ...Studio recording: The Velvet Underground ...The Velvet Underground Lyrics, Songs, and Albums | Genius. About The Velvet Underground. The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City. First active...
- Coyote
- I’m Sticking with You
- Foggy Notion
- Here She Comes Now
- We’Re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together
- Candy Says
- What Goes on
- Femme Fatale
- All Tomorrow’S Parties
- New Age
In 1993 the original quartet staged a reunion tour that imploded before it ever got to the US, but their double-live album Live MCMXCIIIgave a fascinating glimpse of what might have been. There are two particular moments when the magic kicks in: “Hey Mr Rain,” an old outtake stretched to 16 minutes, and “Coyote,” the one new song of the reunion – a...
The only time Lou Reed would write something this simple and sweet was when he did something for Maureen Tucker to sing. One of only two leads she did with the group, “I’m Sticking With You” is a romantic duet that takes some surprise musical turns, but never loses its sweetness. Originally recorded but not used for Loaded (to give her a track on a...
With Doug Yule taking John Cale’s bass slot, The Velvet Underground spent most of 1969 working on an unfinished album that moved toward straight-ahead, melodic territory; they also moved part-time to Yule’s homebase in Boston. A swaggering garage rocker, “Foggy Notion” was a highlight of their live sets at the time, though it didn’t see release unt...
The outlier on the White Light/White Heatalbum, this is a brief, beautiful song with a mantra-like quality – the only notable Eastern influence among the many Velvet Underground songs. Reed broke another taboo by playing on the meanings of “come” in the lyric. No coincidence that The Cars, who covered this tune in their early days, would later have...
Also originating from the aborted 1969 sessions is this joyful rocker with its can’t-miss “na-na-na” chorus. It’s essentially one of their more good-natured Velvet Underground songs, though Reed darkened it considerably when he remade it on Street Hassle. “We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together” was also a favorite concert-opener for Patti Smit...
Inspired by an encounter with the transsexual actress Candy Darling, this was Reed writing about gender dysphoria before there was a name for it. Doug Yule gets the opening vocal on his first album with the band, giving it an innocence (and a falsetto) that Reed might not have managed.
“What Goes On” is the closest thing to a straight-ahead pop song among all The Velvet Underground’s songs, featuring wall-to-wall hooks with the Yule-era band doing a friendlier version of the Cale-era line-up’s sound (with Tucker’s primal groove and the Vox Continental organ). Maybe not the deepest Velvets song, but arguably the single catchiest o...
Andy Warhol’s greatest contribution to The Velvet Underground may have been his suggestion that Reed write a song about Edie Sedgwick and call it “Femme Fatale.” Reed responded with a song that perfectly combined two of his obsessions: sexual jealousy and New York doo-wop. Nico sang it as if she knew nothing about the latter and everything about th...
Lou Reed was resistant to Andy Warhol’s efforts to install model/actress Nico as part-time lead singer for the band’s debut album. But it’s hard to imagine this song, effectively a dramatic monologue about the allure and emptiness of Warhol-era party culture, without her. It’s even more evocative than Reed’s later, more famous song about that demim...
The Loadedalbum was designed to be loaded with hits, but there was still room for one of Reed’s darker musings. Delivered almost as a doo-wop ballad, “New Age” tells of an encounter between a fading actress and a besotted fan; as usual, Reed makes the story more compelling by virtue of what he leaves out. “New Age” is the perfect vehicle for Doug Y...
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The Velvet Underground discography includes 246 songs. Popularity. Heroin. 278.3K. Sunday Morning. 209.4K. Pale Blue Eyes. 205.3K. Venus in Furs. 200.8K. Sweet Jane. 154.4K. I’m Waiting for...
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- 'I'm Waiting for the Man' From: 'The Velvet Underground & Nico' (1967) As if turning heroin abuse into a temporary vacation from the hassles of daily life wasn't enough (see No. 2 on our list of the Top 10 Velvet Underground Songs), this track, also from the debut album, makes hanging out and waiting to score seem like a casual midday adventure.
- 'Heroin' From: 'The Velvet Underground & Nico' (1967) Just how revolutionary were the Velvet Underground? While everyone else's drug songs in 1967 were about playful LSD trips disguised as children's stories or opening up one's mind through enlightening experiences, the Velvets' seven-minute dirge paints a darker and more apocalyptic portrait of a drug that even most hippies were scared of.
- 'Venus in Furs' From: 'The Velvet Underground & Nico' (1967) 'Venus in Furs' sounds like sex and pain and a dungeon filled with leather-clad, whip-wielding masters (and their sweaty servants) before Reed utters even a single word in this S&M dirge based on an underground book.
- 'Sweet Jane' From: 'Loaded' (1970) Reed had pretty much had it with the Velvet Underground when they were making their fourth album. He was in total control of some songs, almost to the point where 'Loaded' was a solo album; he was barely a presence on others.
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The Velvet Underground:TBO a Playlist for the best Velvet Underground tracks in their whole discog, their long songs, short songs, and their great songs, meaning most of them. Also including Lou Reed, Nico and John Cage's solo work, the one's I consider really good to blend in with a Velvet Underground album.
