The Velvet Underground & Nico

5/10

I don’t see how influential this album could be, boring as bat shit!

Not many actual songs I loved off it but it’s got a consistently good sound

Easy 5 lol, but in all seriousness I don't even need to think hard about this, an album which kept growing on me over the years and acted as a catalyst to seek out more similar alternative and experimental music. A timeless classic and super influential one at that.

Iconic and maybe most accessible, but by no means my favorite VU.

I genuinely fucking hate this, really dissapointing

I don't know, some of this is ok but some of it is really fucking annoying.

The Nico songs pull this down some.

Anyone who says they love this album is lying. It was made to be hated. It’s noise rock, anti-music, built to be destroyed. It’s music about people on drugs searching for more drugs and Lou Reed and I … we don’t do the same drugs. I’ll never be high enough to get this album. But I like bananas, so there you go.

like i think i have to give this a 10/10?? because 1: i think all the songs sound good and some of these songs are genuinely like amazing and 2: how they fuck were they doing that in 1967!!!!! bro what the fuck!!!!!!

some of these parts are insane, like if heroin or european son came out today it would still be experimental and the fact that they were doing this in 1967 is wild

Incredibly influential on future artists? Yup.

A spot in my regular listening rotation? Not so much.

It was ok, a bit different from the other things from that era, but still kinda boring. Not bad though.

!!!!!

I think 🤔 the point of the album and the band themselves are to be as subversive as possible. It definitely makes that attempt. Lou Reed has his best performance vocals until Transformer. But Nico… oof. Musically too Dylanesque without the folky credibility.

Here’s the thing. I just simply don’t enjoy the VU. They just make me cringe. It’s a lot like Andy Warhol’s art. Mostly conceptual, and groundbreaking by bringing the subversive stuff up from the underground. Without being able to cite any example, there’s a lot of stuff from the underground that is well executed and thought through. VU are a little too spontaneous and sloppy for me to clearly see the concept. But according to Wikipedia all rock is essentially transgressive. So they do succeed at making rock music. I s’pose. 100% influential. Very risky. Not all bad. I get the experiment. It just freaks me out that this all gets so much love. 🤷‍♀️

This is yet another incredibly influential and incredibly divisive albums that's full of droning, dissonant and atonal noise, and feedback. It won't be for everyone, but I absolutely love it! I'm Waiting for the Man, Venus in Furs, Heroine and the Black Angel's Death Song are huge highlights for me. Heroine is honestly a perfectly crafted song.

I det stora hela en samling bra popmelodier (lite som Belle & Sebastian 30 år senare). Den taskig ljudbilden är väl medveten men hade nog mått bättre av lite mer hi-fi.
Var ett tag sen man lyssnade på albumet, men tycker det håller än.

We all know it’s influential and that everyone who bought it in 1967 formed their own band, yada yada yada, so I'll just say that the thing that most surprised me about this album the first time I heard it is how pretty some of the tracks are. I'll Be Your Mirror is so genuinely lovely, even Nico softens her imperious honking.

album cover is iconic but the music is not

Not their best

Listented to this maybe 4 times in the last two days and have a lot of thoughts. I'm spending too much time on this...

Where I've landed is this is cool as hell.

Many bands try to develop mystique and Velvet Undergound, no doubt with some intention, did it effortlessly. The world they bring you into with this album is unlike any other. Lou Reed and Nico carry the day here - coming off as cool and weird as ever. They deliver on being the seedy underbelly of all the flower power movement at the time and I'm sure was refreshing, and maybe distrurbing, to many.

Reading up on this one I did not know the Warhol was the actual Band Manager. I also had not heard of the Plastic Exploding Inevitable (a multi-media experience with Warhol movies and the Velvet Underground etc.) which sounds awesome.

I like all the tracks, or at least aspects of them, but this time I'll Be Your Mirror stood out. I've always loved Nico and I don't know why. I think its because she seems so out of place, but happy with that? Very nice sounding voice too. Listening through the first time I thought the premise was she was singing this to a dirtbag and showing them what a piece of shit they are. Second time through I realized thats not what it is, but i like that version better.

Black Angel Death Song might be my only hang up. IMO its a Dylan rip off and doesn't make sense.

Lou Reed is great. I want to know more about Warhol and this Plastic Exploding business. Gotta to back and compare to the first VU we got.