it's not just the late great lou reed who's lauded as the 'godfather of punk'.jane scarpantoni was the 'godmother of classical punk cello'.her solo is intense,dramatic,behemoth.very punk rock!.thanks for the music lou. we loved y'all!
this poem is beautiful in and of itself, no matter how lou wants to convey it...this is only meant for those that get it and nothing else matters jane's masterful cello drone is breathtaking
One CD with a dozen songs spanning Lou's career represents more originality than the combined box sets of 20 bands you'd customarily hear on the radio. He essentially created the underground/alternative rock scene in America. He stood up & said the music was more important than commercial success or anything else. Others have also done this since, of course, & the overwhelming majority of those artists are huge Lou Reed fans. It's fine to have an opinion, but please-- respect what he has done.
I love this rendition, and as always I find this song so inspiring. The cellist rocks, gave me chills. Now if only I can convert all of my years of classical violin training into something like that!
Great!! Lou was alive a BIG legend, and even more with songs of the Velvets during his solo period. This is so good, and a perfect performance to.m thanks!
Pretty impressed by this version of venus in furs, although would loved to have heard the master, john cale on viola, the lady was great a mean lou only worked with the best, john cale did venus in furs on later with jools, the musicians an people in the audience were blown away, after 40years he can make that viola do magic, he still cuts the mustard man
some people have criticised his performance. Why???? This to me is Lou Reed proving how great he is - still so versatile and different and representing music in its true artistic form. Sure he sounds different but don't we all after years age us with the yellow tongue of time. He rocks without a doubt.
I think this is a wonderful version of the song...it has a very haunting sound to it when it first starts...then the cello....wonderful. It is not like the old version.....but..I think it is cool that the original singer reinvinted the song.
The bass player is astounding. I was making my way with some friends to a Velvet Underground concert in Baltimore and we got too whacked on Acid to find the site. I always felt Lo Reed would understand.
It is an absolute marvellous rendition. His interpretation is more abstract, gives something new to it, it is more mature. But don't misunderstand me. Cale's version is quite good as well, adorable but still more a profound remake than a new inventive interpretation. To me the cello sounds absolutely not forced more a very courageous means to express the inner distortion.
Cale's version is awesome, but you should never forget who Reed is. he is the legend. the way expressing his feeling is fucking brilliant. it's irreplaceable.
Well, here i am again, checking out Lou's music. Two years ago i was doing the same, trying to figure out what's the background of Lulu (i was really confused about this album), what music has this guy made earlier. I found music that was almost the same strange as Lulu. Now i'm here again, mostly because Lou has passed away, found this song and got an idea that his music has no limits. He was doing exactly what he wanted, and that might be why other people (maybe me too) didnt understand it...
I first heard this song when I was 12. I realize now that I had misheard some parts of it, and replaced them with lyrics even pervier than the original. Anyway, I picked that Velvet Underground album out my parent's record collection as my favorite. No idea why. Nobody else in small-town Hawaii seventh grade was listening to the Velvets' in 1975. Anyway, it's still my favorite album.
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it's not just the late great lou reed who's lauded as the 'godfather of punk'.jane scarpantoni was the 'godmother of classical punk cello'.her solo is intense,dramatic,behemoth.very punk rock!.thanks for the music lou. we loved y'all!
Excellent rendition of this Velvet Underground classic. The cello part is just stunning!
Absolutely stunning version of this song.
one of the Greats has left us...
Thanks for Being, Lou!
this poem is beautiful in and of itself, no matter how lou wants to convey it...this is only meant for those that get it and nothing else matters
jane's masterful cello drone is breathtaking
One CD with a dozen songs spanning Lou's career represents more originality than the combined box sets of 20 bands you'd customarily hear on the radio. He essentially created the underground/alternative rock scene in America. He stood up & said the music was more important than commercial success or anything else. Others have also done this since, of course, & the overwhelming majority of those artists are huge Lou Reed fans. It's fine to have an opinion, but please-- respect what he has done.
Great version of this Velvet classic! And Jane Scarpantoni is just amazing!
I love this rendition, and as always I find this song so inspiring. The cellist rocks, gave me chills. Now if only I can convert all of my years of classical violin training into something like that!
Great!! Lou was alive a BIG legend, and even more with songs of the Velvets during his solo period. This is so good, and a perfect performance to.m thanks!
Your music is forever with me..R.I.P. Lou
Jane Scarpantoni - Saw Lou with this line up in April 2005, just incredible, after he sang Vanishing Act, my missus was in tears...
Pretty impressed by this version of venus in furs, although would loved to have heard the master, john cale on viola, the lady was great a mean lou only worked with the best, john cale did venus in furs on later with jools, the musicians an people in the audience were blown away, after 40years he can make that viola do magic, he still cuts the mustard man
brilliant work Jane!
I can't miss u Lou, 'cause u're a part of me...
truly one of the best rock songs even written with a magnificent interpretation
Tears in the rain. Goodbye Lou.
wow I like this version, if you like Lou Reed than you will understand this song. Great!!!!
Peter
Switzerland
What a great tune. The cello action was pretty funky shit.
makes me wish I took up the cello as a young person. Show this to kids and we will have a nation of cello players.
wonderful...no...beautiful..no....feelings...impossible to be or to be....never questions
some people have criticised his performance. Why???? This to me is Lou Reed proving how great he is - still so versatile and different and representing music in its true artistic form. Sure he sounds different but don't we all after years age us with the yellow tongue of time. He rocks without a doubt.
Jane Scarpantoni's cello is the ultimate infernal beauty here, fantastic
My name is Severin , and i miss Lou Reed. I saw him at Winterland - S.F. many years ago.
IMPRESIONANTE !!! MAGISTRAL !!!
lou is best ,what nyc gave us!
Maravilha. Ouvir essa interpretação é um privilégio. Fico doidaço e grato pelo que é o Rock and rol.
I think this is a wonderful version of the song...it has a very haunting sound to it when it first starts...then the cello....wonderful. It is not like the old version.....but..I think it is cool that the original singer reinvinted the song.
the cello just lifts the performance here
R.I.P. Lou great Man of Musik
John Cale...the MASTER
I agree! Too bad he's not in this video
R.I.P. great rock'n'roll man
Jane Scarpantoni Venus in Furs rips it open on cello, hell yes.
Shalom Lewis Allan, grande poeta. Rabbà Todà.
Just brilliant.
R.I.P., Lou. Your genius was and is very much appreciated, and you will truly be missed.
helaine625 vv
love this, im 37 years old and never heard this!! neither payed attention to lou reed, if it is not in itunes i download this illegally
@eliasrafn ha same i heard it at a house party and have been searching far and wide thanks
Like a combination of Pink Floyd's Welcome to the Machine and John Murphy's In the House - In a Heartbeat. That cello solo was sublime.
Hipnótico!!
Stunning.
Jane Scarpantoni, i think, is playing the cello here. RIP Lou
Different colors made of tears... :(
Totally agree. Cale is the true legacy of the Velvets. Reed just sounds like an old pair of socks here.
The bass player is astounding. I was making my way with some friends to a Velvet Underground concert in Baltimore and we got too whacked on Acid to find the site. I always felt Lo Reed would understand.
That's so funny, I understand
Inarrivabile. Quanti ci manchi, Lou...
Cellist is Jane Scarpantoni..from NYC...
Sublime Lou
Ανατριχιαστική εκτέλεση.. Καλά ταξίδι φίλε... Η μουσική σου θα ζει για πάντα μες τις καρδιές μας...
It is an absolute marvellous rendition. His interpretation is more abstract, gives something new to it, it is more mature. But don't misunderstand me. Cale's version is quite good as well, adorable but still more a profound remake than a new inventive interpretation. To me the cello sounds absolutely not forced more a very courageous means to express the inner distortion.
Cale's version is awesome, but you should never forget who Reed is. he is the legend. the way expressing his feeling is fucking brilliant. it's irreplaceable.
That cello can hypnotize anybody.
Espectacular!!!!!
R.I.P. Lou.... you'll be missed
I think its called not caring any more.
Impossible to forget
Demasiada pasión acumulada en un sólo video
Bol Ogenstein likes Lou Reed's younger voice, but Bol Ogenstein thinks it's very cool how Lou Reed can make the same song sound so different and cool.
this is a hymn to music! ....from 3:33 onwards, madly touching.... ♥♥♥
@JosephODea
the best description of a song EVER...
Well, here i am again, checking out Lou's music. Two years ago i was doing the same, trying to figure out what's the background of Lulu (i was really confused about this album), what music has this guy made earlier. I found music that was almost the same strange as Lulu.
Now i'm here again, mostly because Lou has passed away, found this song and got an idea that his music has no limits. He was doing exactly what he wanted, and that might be why other people (maybe me too) didnt understand it...
Miss you, Lou!
You are still here Lou
There is a deep dark ages musical feeling to this song plus much of psychedelic experimentalism
R.I.P. Mr. Lou Reed
This dark version of Venus in Furs is like a top model dressed by Valentino: a masterpiece made even more perfect.
masterpiece
This song is a masterpiece. The original version.
самая любимая песня у этих ребят...
I first heard this song when I was 12. I realize now that I had misheard some parts of it, and replaced them with lyrics even pervier than the original. Anyway, I picked that Velvet Underground album out my parent's record collection as my favorite. No idea why. Nobody else in small-town Hawaii seventh grade was listening to the Velvets' in 1975.
Anyway, it's still my favorite album.
Boníssim !!!
El Lou Reed és genial i la Jane Scarpantoni també !!
RIP Lou, see you in the other side
Great Song
RIP Lou.
What this lady does on viola is akin to what Hendrix did on guitar- simply amazing!
stunning
nice sort of rockn roll/ light versionof it. tbf i cant describe it
... Rip - Lou ...
"cure his heart""
RIP hero man
Well, it seems you're not dead Mr. Reed.
best version
Venus in tears
R.I.P. :(
awesome !
Sweet Jane solo!
I also prefer Cale's version to this one, but the one that is in Lou's Animal Serenade is at least as good as that one...
simplemente brutal..
apabullante interpretación !!
Esta música, la dominatriz perfecta para cualquier oído, fiel esclavo del sonido de ese violonchelo. Oh si...
Great version, and even if the cello part is magnificent, she is not John Cale
Who was that gal. My god that was epic
thanks !
love you senns 1976..........
JANE ROCKS!!!
el violonchelo es brutal.. me encanta!
Lou gave me words......
Lou Reed imortal!!
Clever live version.
you're right man!
Severin, Severin, speak so slightly
Severin, down on your bended knee
Taste the whip, in love not given lightly
Taste the whip, now blead for me
Bleed
@uberpedant
Who sang it in the velvet underground?
This guy named Lou Reed.