BORED at Max's Kansas City

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

SO ANYWAY, I am of the opinion that your chosen favourite members of the Velvet Underground sez a lot about you. And if you do not have favourite members of the Velvet Underground, and/or do not know who they are (hello the lex), you hate ramshackle fun. The question as to whether Nico counts also says something about you! I personally think Doug Yule doesn't count either, but that says something about ME.

ANYWAY, in the comments, members of the Velvet Underground in order, from CLASSIC to DUD please.

Thank you!

(Supplementary factoid: once I have had a few beers I can be heard claiming that the Velvets featured both Sterling Clover and Sterling Moss on their books. This is of course classic).

Comments

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

The original fab four, in order:
1 - John Cale
2 - Lou Reed
3 - Mo Tucker
4 - Sterling Morrison

If Nico and Doug are in, Nico goes second and Doug goes last.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Nico not only counts but WINS, because the saddest song in the world was written about her.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Number one is correct! The rest are incorrect! And Nico doesn't count - if Nico counts then you might as well count Andy and Edie and then everyone in New York and seeing as New York is a pie that includes EVERYTHING, you're doomed!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I know and like the Velvet Underground but do not know who they were except John Cale (and beyond his name I know nothing about him) and of course Nico (I really like her solo stuff! Apparently she wasa massive racist but people seem more keen to defend her and Daniel Johnston than they do for Paris Hilton).

Oh xpost I know who Lou Reed is, I did not know he was in the VU! He always seemed a bit dirty-old-man to me.

[friedslice.livejournal.com]

Kale
Morrisons
Tucker
Reed

Reed was by far the easiest to place here.

I am so bored with Nico

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

She seems quite marginal in the grand scheme of things, you know?

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

The way I see it, you've got the band, and then people who joined the band. Doug and Nico both sing lead on some of the bands best known songs, after all. It would be crazy to say, for example, that Midge Ure doesn't count as a member of Ultravox. That said, I agree with you - when I think of the Velvets, I think of the four as members, and listed them accordingly. Nerh.

Re: I am so bored with Nico

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

None of the songs with Nico are anywhere near my favourites!

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Oh xpost I know who Lou Reed is, I did not know he was in the VU! He always seemed a bit dirty-old-man to me.
You got that right.

Re: I am so bored with Nico

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Nico is the reason my favourite VU songs are my favourites!

I only actually own The Velvet Underground & Nico.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

John Cale has done loads of solo albums, most of which are probably guff, but he also did Paris 1919 which is absolutely wonderful. I have another album of his, Honi Soit, but I can't remember ANY of the songs on it which probably says it all.

I dunno about Nico being a huge racialist - was she? It was prob all the smack wot dunnit.

salad of all the sterlings

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

angus maclise = classic
everyone else = dud

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Nobody was actually IN Ultravox! They were far more conceptual than that...

Re: I am so bored with Nico

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

If Leonard Cohen is the centre of the universe she becomes much less marginal.

(And John Cale comes second.)

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

More love for Mo Tucker needed here I think - it's between Cale and Tucker as my favourites, with Reed far down at the bottom.

Re: salad of all the sterlings

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

It was a sad time for rock'n'roll when he left to start up those chains of steakhouses.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

there was a big grau article about it this week which caused a bit of a kerfuffle I think! though written by S Reynolds so may well be completely made up.

I have a John Cale promo kicking around somewhere which I keep meaning to listen to...from a couple of years ago I think?

Ah here is the RACIALISM - http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2034504,00.html

call him by his name

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

FREAKY TRIGGER CONTRIBUTOR DOUG YULE

people like to think that if someone's changed society in some profound way, then perhaps they don't

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

SUCK, but they're wrong in thinking this, my first example is lou reed (listen up)
lou reed wrote some good songs including a couple that made me cry
when i was breaking up with my 8th grade girlfriend
he also made it cool to wear black all the time
and to be a junkie

if it wasn't for lou reed, maybe it wouldn't be so hot in summer
maybe axl rose wouldn't be a social phenomenon

lou reed sucks
sterling morrison sucks
mo tucker sucks
jon cale sucks (and he's welsh, nico also sucks [mumblemumblemumble])

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

yes, i am bored at work.

[koganbot]

Lex, not knowing that Lou Reed was in the Velvet Underground is like not knowing that Timbaland had anything to do with "Get Ur Freak On," except it's even more extreme than that.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I'd put Lou first, but that's very much based on Lou-then, as he has been the most painful embarrassment since, and if I were assessing whole careers that would move him well down. John Cale I think was kind of a bad influence at times - too much artiness - but he brought the noise, which is vital too. Sterling was great, so was Mo (if not in a technical sense), and she did some wonderful things since, also. Nothing terribly wrong with Doug Yule either, but that was the last kickings of a band on the way out.

Nico doesn't count, which is why they had to label it 'the Velvet Underground and Nico', which they wouldn't have done had she been a member.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Doug and Nico both sing lead on some of the bands best known songs, after all.

Which best known songs are these (re: Yule)?

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

YES seconded with the Mo love! MO LOVE FOR MO (dys)

[pot80.livejournal.com]

I like Lou the best because he wrote all the VU songs I like the most, but I have a major soft spot for Mo because she sings "After Hours," which is one of my favorite songs ever.