Forget the cute goth songs of "Christine"
or "Spellbound" - this is ice cold Art
Rock ...... and on that bombshell, come back
in time with me to the mid seventies when
I had never heard of the Velvet Underground.
"What the fuck!!! ..... I do not wanna read
this shit ...... you dumb prick .... just gimmie
the album"
Hold on dear download monkey .... my tale
continues. When I was a teenager, '73-'75
was a golden time for me and music. Heavily
into hard rock and prog, every month brought
a classic album being released by Bowie, Sabbath,
Zepp, Genesis, Cooper, Hawkwind, Yes, Purple etc.
I would buy them on the day of release and play
them over and over in my bedroom, listening
to the songs that the band had written just
for me.
Drift into '76 and I had discovered Lou Reed and
his live album "Rock and Roll Animal" Hey, these
songs were first done by his previous band called
the Velvet Underground.
'77 came and went - I was a punk crazy fool and
fuck yeah, I loved the Velvets ..... and still do ....
but you know what? They were not MY band -
they split up when I was a kid, I had not
discovered them myself ..... but the Banshees
and all the other punk stuff was mine, all mine
I tell you!
When "Join Hands", the 2nd Banshees record
came out, it was my "White Heat, White Light".
It spoke to me in strange tongues, no guitar solos,
no shouting, atonal sax breaks, cold remote lyrics,
14 minute songs, THIS was my V. Underground -
this was the album that lead me to listen to PIL,
Television, Gang of Four, Pere Ubu, Devo etc.
Anyway, what do you care -
Listen
