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
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 🖤.
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.
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.
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
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
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"
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.
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 .
@@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.
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
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!!!
+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
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.
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
"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.
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.
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"
+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,,,
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
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
One of the ICONIC songs of rock and roll. I heard it first in 1968 when I was very little and I never, ever forgot it. When FM radio first began, it was one of the first songs they played. Cale's viola work very tasty, Lou's guitar nothing short of genius, they were all wonderful.
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 Severin is the most beautiful form of boy. He is kind. He is gentle, yet he is strong. He is not afraid to love which only makes someone love him more. He has no value, but you give him your heart because he earns it. "I'd never seen a Severin before, hes perfect and I love him!"
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!
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.
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.
This song makes me feel confident with who I am... this is the only song that makes me feel myself, transporting me in a world I belong but have never seen! This song is magic !
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.
I used to Love to Come to TH-cam and Watch old bands. Now..there is 10 minutes of commericals to watch a 2 minute song. Rip TH-cam Music. Rest in Peace
I'm a hip hop person and I'm digging this. It's like a score playing in the background when you're about to getting into something questionable. I love
Tonite this is about the 10th time in a row that I’ve listened. Can’t believe I never heard this before. Guess I never heard VU. Guess I’m gonna have to remedy that. St. Lou, forgive me “Different colors made of tears”
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
I always loved that one thing someone said about Velvet Underground. I forget who it was but it was something like this. "They didn't sell a lot of albums but those who bought them also bought guitars." Meaning of course that they're very influential to musicians. Well, they're certainly in their somewhere among all the music in the brain stew that swirls around and comes out of me.
MEDITATION IZ THE DISCIPLINE YOU CANNOT BE GIVEN ~ THE KEY TO A PURE HEART CAN UNLOCK THE MIND’S OF A SMALL WORLD AND SET THEIR INNER SPIRITS FREE TO RISE TO A HEAVENLY PERSPECTIVE…. STUDENTS CLASS IZ STILL IN!!!!!
Let me just say I love all kinds of music from all eras/genres and have definitely heard of this band , but have never actually given their songs a full listen. At almost 30 yrs old I have a new found love for this amazing band 😆😆
Shamefully I admit I was older than you before I actually gave the good music a real listen. I think it has something to do with the current crap music scene of today that compels you to go all the way to find a different sound. Something to scratch that itch for real and thought provoking music.
When I was 13 I spent a weekend at the Brighton scooter rally, sleeping on the beach and keeping warm with vodka. On the way home, not far from my house, I was jumped by about 7 twunts who beat the shit outa me. I staggered home and after slumping on the sofa I switched the telly on. It was a programme about this band I hadn't heard of: The Velvet Underground. John's violin hook from this song was the backing track to the 'talking heads'. My mind was blown, I forgot my bruises and I just sat there - transfixed. The next day I went out and bought the Safety Film LP (the only VU album in the shop). 35 years later, I have not looked back. I was lucky enough to see the VU when they played in '93. And, yeah, I formed a band, and was 'lucky' (sic) enough to be playing on the day Lou passed. I played Heroin and, strangely, there was a violinist at the show with his instrument. He joined me on stage. Magic! Long live the V.U.!
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?
For many years after watching a very, very off the wall advert for Dunlop tyres, I wondered about the haunting, strange music that played throughout and when I came across this video, my mind was blown, I had found the song in question. So strange as it may seem, i am sending a rather belated thankyou to the ad agency in question. You failed dismally to make me buy Dunlop tyres, but you succeeded in introducing me to a fantastic band. If you havent seen the ad, its on Utube and just search for dunlop venus in furs ad
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.
@@sheikhyaboooty Hey D thing is to ride them N keepem in good shape so they won't go to Hell! Cz any kind o ride will wilt just like a flower not paid attention to So it's worse to just park them N forget about them! When you try to use them again they just won't ride D same! Believe it RIDEON BRO!!!
Surely this is more innovative than anything on the music scene today, including this video, no imagination from new artists and nothing to say anymore...
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
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."
Cool
thatstrue
It actually sold just under 60,000 copies in the first two years it was released but your point still stands
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
weren't they 100?
This song is hypnotic
I like your pfp, what's it from??
Yep
What a great song, I love it! I put it into my "Shellshocked Radio - Recommendations" List: th-cam.com/video/0rujC6hb1SA/w-d-xo.html Very well done!
AGREED
Very
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 🖤.
Enjoy the ride man. They are the best band ever. I've been listening to them for 30 years and never get tired.
Me too...
They are pretty good but Nico is they soul of the band.
correct
Check out the acoustic demo of the song. It is gorgeous. th-cam.com/video/mJ96_jGAmCY/w-d-xo.html.
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.
I could sleep for thousand years
Une pensée pour l'enfant blond Ari que l'on aperçoit, fils de Nico et Delon. Mort en mai dernier à 60 ans
Song is about sadomachisim and bondage
@@JakePickett-mz7lg Yes. One reason why I like it
@@bertus161057makes me think of heroin definitely!
This! came! out! in!!1967!! These guys were LIGHTYEARS ahead of their time- pure genius
and it's inspired by a book published in 1870. so they were actually very behind the times as far as subject matter.
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.
55 years ago and still counting...
can't believe this is 60's. the whole album is at least 20 years ahead of it's time. what a band!
agree. their music is so timeless. sounds like it could of been made yesterday!
Bit like Psyche Rock.
This from 1967.
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make it 50...they don't make music anymore...it's all crap today, strictly bottom line...the medium peaked and then the rot set in....
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
Disagree, twenty years later was the height of hair bands and Madonna. There in there own universe
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
I too am 33 years old and got my first taste of Velvet from the Doors movie
What a great song, I love it! I put it into my "Shellshocked Radio - Recommendations" List: th-cam.com/video/0rujC6hb1SA/w-d-xo.html Very well done!
You have a spotify playlist?
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"
How I was introduced to Velvets
The part from 2:39 to 2:52 brings me chills every time. So haunting, just like the whole song.
The Velvet Underground, there will be no band like them. Ever.
brian jonestown massacre are quite like em in my always humble opinion. saw BJM live and they were immense
Not even close @Bathaslefttthecave... Velvet Underground is way better
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.
Sonic Youth picked up where they left off.
That weeping viola. In the chorus especially. Good god what a fucking song this is.
cara, que canção é essa?
Johnny Viola
I thought that was a hurdy gurdy?
@@CesarRodriguez-zf1fn No, it's a viola that John Cale plays here:th-cam.com/video/m22hw-kd19E/w-d-xo.html
John Cale ,
This song is so dark and damn hypnotic
... basically a drug trip pressed into vinyl grooves!!
It's about sadomachisim and bondage
Does not get much darker in music future. Fog Metal.
Anguishing and anguished visionary Masterpiece. A Song as a Nightmare, a psychedelic fear and loss, One of the best Lou Reed Classic...Wow
It's about sadomachisim and bondage
It's as much a John Cale classic as a Lou Reed classic. The hypnotic music is mostly Cale's doing. Lou wrote the lyrics.
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 .
Still one of the slinkiest, most seductive songs ever written.
Cause it's about sadomachisim and bondage
The Velvet Underground - Exactly 1 Million Years ahead of their time.
This song is a hypnotic masterpiece, time stops and reality is an illusion.
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.
ok 😄
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I feel you...
Im convinced Lou Reed is a time traveler who played post punk music in the early 80s and traveled back to the 60s to form a post punk band in the 60s
aertit here much work on time travel and now the first consciousness
Even later than that, a lot of his songs like After Hours you'd have thought can out in 2015
@@Alex-cw3rz honestly, that song could easily be a song that plays in a wes Anderson movie
@@jaceyp.8457 Nico's These Days was in a Wes Anderson film, so you are definitely not wrong their
@@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.
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
do you know what you are listening here. NY undergroung from 70es, do you really
. I mean 60es.
+!?! + letter Except this is the 1960's
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
John turned 80 today. Congratulations Mr. Cale.
happy birthday mr. cale
A mystical Piscean. 🎼🎶
Lou Reed was a true genius.
Jim too , Navarro
@@ericavila431 Lou certainly didn't think so...
Absolutely
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!!!
@@craigdylan3953 How unfortunately toxic you are.
I predict a very big future for this young and upcoming band.
+Court Laszlo +1 Scouter ;)
+Court Laszlo Most of the bandmembers are dead....
They formed in New York 1964! XD
+Court Laszl I bet you're joking
+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 agree-they're even better than biebber..
This song sends u on a trip no drugs required
Thats i feel everytime i listen to this Song 🖤
But they help
Song is about bondage and sadomachisim
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.
La Monte Young slowed down a young John Cale and added drone to his l i f e : : th-cam.com/video/_8kpwVtlPcg/w-d-xo.html
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.
I agree
@@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.
"Strike dear mistress, and cure his heart" ♥
Yeah
ouch...but in a good way.
@@janarchy9 owee, owee, OWEEEEEEE!
the safety word is transubstantiation. Now shut up and take it.
The most underrated band in history. I don't think it's possible to measure how much they influenced music and musicians in the decades that followed.
Just far ahead of time. The flower power world in 1967 wasn't ready for them.
Not underrated at al... After do many years, they have fans, and the New ones too. The test of time... And still..
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
Bowie says they were more influential than the Beatles, OK?
How you gonna call VU underrated lmao
"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.... "
wooowww pretty good info,thanks, and thanks youtube
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.
insane...
Mine blowing
The most ballsy badass alt rock song of all time…and way ahead of it’s time.Still sounds contemporary
Would have been Lou Reed's 74th birthday yesterday. What great musician he was. I am truly grateful to enjoy his works.
i can't stop listening to this.
gears5336 I'm one more Black Metal warrior who stuck during listening to this.
Vaaaarg
Varg 🔥⛪️❤️
Cyrus Mortem check out the Krieg version.Its Black Metal.
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The real question is, how do you like your cornflakes?
Saw them summer of 67 or 68 - so long ago I can hardly remember & I'll never forget!!!
aquamoon22 you are so lucky to saw them!
+aquamoon22 wow so lucky to live 1967... the best year in music for me, so many all time top albums wow... :)
quamoon22;That would have been great!
I see them 1990 in Hamburg/Germany
These guys invented alternative rock without even trying.
I started listening to this album in 1966 before most people had even hear of Velvet. Still live and love it to this day
ewww! are you saying you're like 70 and still doing S&M?
Are you alive?
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.
Woah. Are you like the very first hipster?
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"
Discovering the Velvet Underground has made so many bands unimportant to me
+Kieran Collins I thought I was the only one. I've only been able to listen to them enjoyably ever since I listened to VU & Nico the full way through.
+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,,,
+Kieran Collins Even Pink Floyd was made unimportant to you?
one of the greatest songs ever written and performed
There is rock and then there is art rock. Art.
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
YESSSSS
Thats my favorite part
That's John Cale for ya.😂 started getting addicted to opioids when he was a kid.
@@fuckingblackgod I love it when people use the term 'opioids' instead of wrongfully applying the word 'opiates'. You've made my day!
John Cale looks to be slightly out of his mind 😂
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
Peace…
My favourite song of all time.
One of the ICONIC songs of rock and roll. I heard it first in 1968 when I was very little and I never, ever forgot it. When FM radio first began, it was one of the first songs they played. Cale's viola work very tasty, Lou's guitar nothing short of genius, they were all wonderful.
one of my absolute favourite songs!
The book is just as amazing :)
Do you like wearing furs?:)
@@MrBali90 only faux fur...
the first time I heard this...I was 12, and I knew then I wanted to grow up to be homeless.
What ambition! Did all your hopes and dreams come true?
Being homeless in California isn't fun. Someone has to bring home the bacon.
@@JimBimBum id rather be homeless in California then in new york
very poetic!
on the road '' ;)
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 BlakeHall Hat's off to you, so well said.
A BlakeHall yep
A BlakeHall i don't thumbs up or comment very often, but you sir got a thumbs up and a comment...
+A BlakeHall cliche much :P
+A BlakeHall ooooooo sooo deep maAan!.....
rock and poetry
Rodrigo Seguel I would say it’s one of the first Goth songs... given the sound and the subject matter, it’s perfect for Goth.
A Severin is the most beautiful form of boy. He is kind. He is gentle, yet he is strong. He is not afraid to love which only makes someone love him more. He has no value, but you give him your heart because he earns it. "I'd never seen a Severin before, hes perfect and I love him!"
This album was released about 3 weeks after Strawberry Fields Forever. Thousands of miles apart, completely different situations.
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!
Genius. A unique rock and roll song. A style that is unlikely to, ever, be duplicated
Sublime, lancinant, sulfureux et transgressif, un morceau qui rend addict et qu'on écoute en boucle jusqu'à basculer.
One of the sexiest songs ever recorded. By consequence, an amazing song to put on a sexy time playlist.
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.
Amazing how this song, and pretty much all of their music sounds timeless. It never ages.
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.
Look im buzzy wid client wen she gone ill reply
A timeless masterpiece.
Ex girlfriends favorite song. Hurts so good to listen again. Only ever grateful through the pain. Beautiful song.
This song makes me feel confident with who I am... this is the only song that makes me feel myself, transporting me in a world I belong but have never seen! This song is magic !
This is, to me, the quintessential Velvet Underground song. It's a song i will come back to over and over until i die
Used to listen to the Velvets back in the 80s..memories. Wish I could turn back time! UK 💐🇬🇧
i always get shivers listening to this song
You shouldnt
Loved how Cale and Reed worked out songs, and this is my favourite form them. Thanks for the great music!
This song feels like an opium den. It defies time
velvet underground - means heroine underground
opium den indeed
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.
perfect way to describe it!!!!!!!
I used to Love to Come to TH-cam and Watch old bands. Now..there is 10 minutes of commericals to watch a 2 minute song. Rip TH-cam Music. Rest in Peace
I'm a hip hop person and I'm digging this. It's like a score playing in the background when you're about to getting into something questionable. I love
Another masterpiece from Lou. Somewhere in heaven someone doesn't have to wait for his man anymore
"I'll Never Ever Get Sick Of Hearing This Song"...
Tonite this is about the 10th time in a row that I’ve listened. Can’t believe I never heard this before. Guess I never heard VU. Guess I’m gonna have to remedy that. St. Lou, forgive me “Different colors made of tears”
Fucking hell you just gotta love some of the 60's music, absolutely brilliant !
the most influential band in rock history . . you can hear them in most indie music
I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me....
Yea i know me too
Hurts
me IRL
Diferent colors make of tears..
Me during exams
The most pioneering album of all times! I am always lost when listening to it...
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
These guys didn't just define a certain kind of music, they defined creativity itself
RIP Lou Reed. My master
I always loved that one thing someone said about Velvet Underground. I forget who it was but it was something like this. "They didn't sell a lot of albums but those who bought them also bought guitars." Meaning of course that they're very influential to musicians. Well, they're certainly in their somewhere among all the music in the brain stew that swirls around and comes out of me.
I’m gonna start painting again because of this song, preferably when I’m listening to it over & over
MEDITATION IZ THE DISCIPLINE YOU CANNOT BE GIVEN ~ THE KEY TO A PURE HEART CAN UNLOCK THE MIND’S OF A SMALL WORLD AND SET THEIR INNER SPIRITS FREE TO RISE TO A HEAVENLY PERSPECTIVE…. STUDENTS CLASS IZ STILL IN!!!!!
Best song ever.
Let me just say I love all kinds of music from all eras/genres and have definitely heard of this band , but have never actually given their songs a full listen. At almost 30 yrs old I have a new found love for this amazing band 😆😆
listened to them for the first time two days ago, amazing stuff
Shamefully I admit I was older than you before I actually gave the good music a real listen. I think it has something to do with the current crap music scene of today that compels you to go all the way to find a different sound. Something to scratch that itch for real and thought provoking music.
This is a great song to listen to when you're stoned and just wanna listen to music.
Maggie Mae why I'm here 🤚
This band and this song change my life,long,long time ago,but nothing is changed 50 years later.The same sickness.
The chord changes are simply awesome
When I was 13 I spent a weekend at the Brighton scooter rally, sleeping on the beach and keeping warm with vodka. On the way home, not far from my house, I was jumped by about 7 twunts who beat the shit outa me. I staggered home and after slumping on the sofa I switched the telly on. It was a programme about this band I hadn't heard of: The Velvet Underground. John's violin hook from this song was the backing track to the 'talking heads'. My mind was blown, I forgot my bruises and I just sat there - transfixed. The next day I went out and bought the Safety Film LP (the only VU album in the shop). 35 years later, I have not looked back. I was lucky enough to see the VU when they played in '93.
And, yeah, I formed a band, and was 'lucky' (sic) enough to be playing on the day Lou passed. I played Heroin and, strangely, there was a violinist at the show with his instrument. He joined me on stage. Magic!
Long live the V.U.!
Was Sting at the scooter rally?
that happend
eerie and scary,really disturbing me song.so good.
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?
For many years after watching a very, very off the wall advert for Dunlop tyres, I wondered about the haunting, strange music that played throughout and when I came across this video, my mind was blown, I had found the song in question. So strange as it may seem, i am sending a rather belated thankyou to the ad agency in question. You failed dismally to make me buy Dunlop tyres, but you succeeded in introducing me to a fantastic band. If you havent seen the ad, its on Utube and just search for dunlop venus in furs ad
*Splendid ! One of my favorite songs from The Velvet Underground. A great song inspired by a great book from Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Thanks a lot, Hernan Melgarejo, for the sharing of this video !*
*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*
*Venus In Furs lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC*
Books are useless.
Sporting Primal yeah me too
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.
Pablo Benitez yes i can tell that
they'd be obviously wasted on you by your level of vocabulary
cette chanson devrait faire parti du patrimoine musicale, les paroles et l instru c est juste du genie.
Amazing. The most influential Rock band of all time.
"I' am tired, I am weary, I could sleep for a thousand years... a thousand dreams that would awake me, different coulors made of tears..."
How time flies!!! 17 yrs old when I first heard it I'm now 71! Wohaow! I still ride my Harley N just trip-on back to those days!
I`m a few (not many) years younger then yourself and ride a Triumph I think I was about 12 when my brother played this..instantly hooked.
KOOL! I loved those Triumph Bonnavilles I had about 3 back in D 60'S kool rides! RIDEON Bro!
@@cruzncrow380 I had a T110 back in the early 80`s, I`ve a 1050 ST now and its a fine bike.
@@sheikhyaboooty Hey D thing is to ride them N keepem in good shape so they won't go to Hell! Cz any kind o ride will wilt just like a flower not paid attention to So it's worse to just park them N forget about them! When you try to use them again they just won't ride D same! Believe it
RIDEON BRO!!!
Surely this is more innovative than anything on the music scene today, including this video, no imagination from new artists and nothing to say anymore...
Another facet on the cosmic jewel
this really is beautifully composed music. cale and reed were a powerful combo together.
how the fuck have i not listened to this band until now. 24 years of wasted existence.
Don't miss Can and This Heat. They're good.
EARTH IZ YOUR HOME ~ ALL YOU WILL EVER NEED ~ EVERYTHING YOU CRAVE ~ EVERYTHING YOU CANNOT CREATE
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
John Cale is the true genius. Let's all acknowledge.
The coolest tune ever. What a vibe! 😘😘
I think I first discovered this song 13 years ago. How can this song still feel the same? :/
Primera vez que los veo y escucho, que buena musica para la época de los 60's, realmente el padre del rock alternativo como asi lo conocen...😃🤘
The safe word is ‘banana’
haha
I disagree because I have 1 for breakfast every morning! m s
lol
Why did Jesus die on the cross ... he forgot his safe word!!!
@@brineb58 IDIOT
this song is so good its ridiculous i cant explain it
Genius band . They are the coolest band ever as well .
i love the switch to the chorus so much