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Tall, moustachioed alcoholic - plays firewood with a bow.

White Light/White Heat is the best Velvs album, even though it doesn't contain the most good songs (that honour goes to their first one, I think). But their debut suffers from a rather weedy production (and Nico) whereas WL/WH has a ragged, messy, raucous sound that I find tremendously exciting and provides a perfect backdrop for Reed's deadpan vocals.

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Curmudgeonly Rock 'n' Roll time traveller from ye olden days

2nd verse same as the 1st...

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Curmudgeonly Rock 'n' Roll time traveller from ye olden days

2nd verse same as the 1st...

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Tall, moustachioed alcoholic - plays firewood with a bow.

For me the 1st LP has been tainted somehow. Whenever I mentioned I loved VU everyone just thinks of them as being a drugs & S&M band. Which I have to admit was my first impressions of them.

Pulp edited the NME in 1996 (a week before the Jarvis/Jackson/arse incident) & Mark Webber the guitarist did the Most Listened to bit. One of his choices was the Peel Slowly & See box with the comment- "Every teenager should be made to listen to this". I was a teenager & a Pulp fan so I went to my local lending library & checked to see what VU was on offer. As it happened the Peel Slowly & See box was available in it's entirety. I got it home & after dismissing the 1st CD of multiple takes of demos I started listening to each LP in order & as much as I loved the 1st 2 records it was what I was expecting noisy songs about deviant things with the quieter songs sung by Nico (but not on WL/WH obviously). When the 3rd LP started I was totally taken aback by the change from WL/WH & even more then when Loaded played. These were POP records. Which is why I preferred them.

From then on it became an obsession & I turned all of my friends onto them becoming almost evangelical about their music. Which I still sort am.

Recently I made a best of VU for my girlfriend's mum. I didn't put Sister Ray or any of the big druk songs on there because I didn't want to scare the horses.

1. Sunday Morning
2. Waiting For The Man
3. Femme Fatale
4. I'll Be Your Mirror
5. Guess I'm Falling In Love (Live)
6. The Gift
7. Stephanie Says
8. Some Kinda Love
9. Beginning To See The Light
10. The Murder Mystery
11. After Hours
12. Ride Into The Sun (Instrumental)
13. Sweet Jane
14. Rock & Roll
15. New Age
16. She'll Make You Cry
17. Louise

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Candy Says should've gone on that comp', Simon. One of thee most beautiful, touching songs I've ever heard.