My Favorite VU Album

Easily, my favourite VU album.

Debauchery, fucked-up stories, excessive drug abuse, freakish operations, all wrapped up in insane noise and distortion. Even for today's standard, this is still one of the most WTF albums. But, fuck, I just love this album. It's loud, it's sick, it's  aggressive, it's hypnotic, it's everything you want in a rock album that fucks, and fucks its way through and through to the end.

Let's Take a LSD Trip

I switch on the TV, and saw this wonderful documentary about Rock and Roll, Seven Ages Of Rock from ABC. But I think to myself, those days, especially in the sixties, people were out there making history, playing good music to massive crowds. Like David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Roxy Music. Now people who love good music are staying home listening to the albums that their friends have absolutely no ideas of. Maybe you have lots of cool indie kids as friends, but I don't. I can only stay home browsing through youtubes and strangers' blogs and see if there are music that I like. If I am lucky, I will find some and go to the gigs alone. Such as life... Watching this documentary takes me back to those time, seeing these amazing and brilliant performances. Still, I rather be there, taking drugs, listening to music, imaging myself as an albatross hanging motionless upon the air. Insanity, madness, surrealism... what's new now? Can anyone tell me?


The Velvet Underground


Ziggy Stardust


Pink Floyd - Astronomy domine

Roxy Music - Remake/Remodel

Genesis - I Know What I Like

I Wish I Was There

My Bloody Valentine 1991
- After the release of Loveless. I really don't mind to be deaf after seeing them.

The Smiths 1987

- After the release of Louder Than Bombs. They have so many good songs... Jeez!

The Replacements 1986
- Before Bob leaves the band. I don't care if they're drunk or sober, I wanna see them!

The Jesus and Mary Chain 1986

- I want to see the riots, and the JAMC when they are young, rebellious, noisy and don't give a fuck. Now they're old.

Joy Division 1980
- Anytime, anywhere before the death of Ian Curtis...

Woodstock 1969
- Love, Peace and Music.

The Velvet Underground 1968
- After the release of White Light/White Heat, and before John Cale leaves the band. Raw and noisy. I want to experience their unique live performance!

My Bloody Valentine - Glider/When You Sleep live (1991)

The Smiths - Ask live (1987)

(The way Moz and Marr dance is so cute...XD)

Oh! Sweet Nuthin'

The guitar in the beginning of the song is heartbreakingly beautiful... It melts my soul. She ain't got nothing at all.

Heroin

The Velvet Underground -Heroin

I don't know just where I'm going
But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can
'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man
When I put a spike into my vein
And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same
When I'm rushing on my run
And I feel just like Jesus' son
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know

I have made the big decision
I'm gonna try to nullify my life
'Cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the dropper's neck
When I'm closing in on death
And you can't help me not, you guys
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
You can all go take a walk
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know

I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
In a sailor's suit and cap
Away from the big city
Where a man can not be free
Of all of the evils of this town
And of himself, and those around
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know

Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life
Because a mainer to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then I'm better off than dead
Because when the smack begins to flow
I really don't care anymore
About all the Jim-Jim's in this town
And all the politicians makin' busy sounds
And everybody puttin' everybody else down
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds

'Cause when the smack begins to flow
Then I really don't care anymore
Ah, when the heroin is in my blood
And that blood is in my head
Then thank God that I'm as good as dead
Then thank your God that I'm not aware
And thank God that I just don't care
And I guess I just don't know
And I guess I just don't know

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Let's Party Mixtape

1. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular - Time to Pretend

2. Depeche Mode - The Singles 81-85 - Just Can't Get Enough

3. The Tough Alliance - New Waves - Silly Crimes

4. The Legends - Facts And Figures - Darling

5. Johan Hedberg - Labrador Summer Sampler 08 - Grammisgalan

6. The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing - Great DJ

7. Primal Scream - Dirty Hits - Rocks

8. The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes - Pull Shapes

9. The Sounds - Dance With Me

10. The B-52'S - Time Capsule - Rock Lobster

11. Le Tigre - Le Tigre - Deceptacon

12. C.S.S - Donkey - Rat Is Dead (Rage)

13. The Strokes - Room On Fire - 12:51

14. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have it so Much Better - The Fallen

15. Muse - Black Holes And Revelations - Supermassive Black Hole

16. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor

17. The Killers - Hot Fuss - Somebody Told Me

18. New Order - (The Best Of) New Order - Regret

19. Joy Division - Permanent - Transmission

20. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico - All Tomorrow's Parties

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After Hours

This is a Velvet Underground song from The Velvet Underground.
Lou Reed wrote it, but he said that the song was so innocent and pure he couldn't possibly sing it himself. So Moe Tucker sang it, and it sounds so cute and innocent.
Especially with this little video... so cute!

Hello! You're my very special one!

same song with Edie Sedgwick