Nothing Song - The Velvet Underground

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  • Опубликовано: 6 дек 2016
  • From "Caught Between the Twisted Stars" (bootleg box set)
    Disc 2 - The Chic Mystique of Nothing Songs
    Track 1

Комментарии • 133

  • @farisadam8380
    @farisadam8380 4 года назад +83

    Thanks for Nothing

    • @Justdon-s2s
      @Justdon-s2s 2 года назад +2

      Nothing is everything

    • @bramda8602
      @bramda8602 Год назад +2

      V.U.meters work at 0db (popol..)
      Anyway Cats that look like cats sound like Stoogees (softer though)
      That for Lou Reed contempo reams....later in time Lobstertheramin Ma Snake -other time other place still V.U. meters move at 0dblike the Def fence lijn basketball(wave hand to turn the attacker blind)...(Sunday morning pack of cheaps+hot beer Saltan watch Lakers play with V.elvet soundtrk Got my point?)

    • @1656581
      @1656581 Год назад

      The essence !!!

  • @ewantaylor483
    @ewantaylor483 2 года назад +21

    Don't walk away in Silence !

  • @wildbill5670
    @wildbill5670 2 года назад +22

    Been a huge Velvet fan for over 50 years. The coolest band ever.

    • @redskies4530
      @redskies4530 Год назад

      Hi I recommend a song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix

    • @busterhymen6377
      @busterhymen6377 Год назад

      50 years for me, Started listening at 10, im 60 now.

    • @mavjimbo
      @mavjimbo Месяц назад

      By far the coolest band ever

  • @paix7232
    @paix7232 5 лет назад +54

    I can't listen to normal music the same way that I can listen to this Noting Song, it touches another area of my soul...

    • @nemmett9968
      @nemmett9968 5 лет назад +1

      sempai_acdc okay dude

    • @clarkzion1169
      @clarkzion1169 3 года назад

      you probably dont give a shit but if you guys are bored like me during the covid times you can watch pretty much all the new movies and series on InstaFlixxer. Have been binge watching with my brother for the last couple of days =)

    • @beckhamkeagan8983
      @beckhamkeagan8983 3 года назад

      @Clark Zion Yup, been watching on Instaflixxer for years myself :D

    • @michaelmcdonald8452
      @michaelmcdonald8452 3 года назад +3

      Paix what does that even mean? what “different way” do you listen to this song?

    • @miavangijsegem5814
      @miavangijsegem5814 2 года назад +1

      haha!x

  • @ingridhaney4395
    @ingridhaney4395 2 года назад +20

    SINCE A LONG TIME I LOVE VELVET UNDERGROUN D, AND NOW I FOUND SOME NEW STUFF, WHICH IS GREAT FOR THE SOUL TO LISTEN TO

  • @zzzwy777
    @zzzwy777 2 года назад +32

    Literally early velvet underground(check out their demoes) is classical(ie baroque/medieval/renaissance),mininalistic-primitive,ancient and traditional folk type music using electric guitars ,bass and drums that's why their music sounds so timeless and touching as well as a little touch of experimetal textures and sounds .
    Amen.

    • @ewantaylor483
      @ewantaylor483 2 года назад +5

      Is the early stuff not just folky , Dylan-esque until it got Caled ?

    • @redskies4530
      @redskies4530 Год назад +1

      Hi I recommend a song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix

    • @II-xl7lj
      @II-xl7lj Год назад

      @@ewantaylor483 nope. Don't spread your stupldlty to other people

    • @robertloader9826
      @robertloader9826 Год назад +6

      @@ewantaylor483 Not that kind of folky. More like older, ancient pagan trance music.

    • @user-qm6wc2ek9y
      @user-qm6wc2ek9y Год назад

      ​@@ewantaylor483 he means traditional folk as he was referring to hundreds or even thousands of years ago
      Dylan may sound "old" to you
      But he is hardly old enough to be "traditional "😂

  • @johnmoore9681
    @johnmoore9681 3 года назад +52

    Thanks for posting this, I’ve never heard it before and I’ve been hooked on Lou Reed and the Velvets for over 40 years.

    • @ricardm100
      @ricardm100 2 года назад +4

      Me too, my friend · 35 years with the Velvet and I had never heard this song

    • @jamesscanlon5969
      @jamesscanlon5969 2 года назад +3

      Me too!

    • @svendmalchau2112
      @svendmalchau2112 Год назад +1

      For me its about 45 years😜

  • @henrylombardozzi8254
    @henrylombardozzi8254 3 года назад +20

    The best band ever I can just lay back and drift way listening to them pure mind ectacy

  • @garyriley20
    @garyriley20 3 года назад +19

    a lovely quiet version of sister ray. Love it.

  • @Riatzi
    @Riatzi 3 года назад +17

    For me, a deeply spiritual and emotional journey.

  • @richardwolter2368
    @richardwolter2368 4 года назад +9

    I think this is the thirteenths time I catch myself, listening to this tune since my unexpected discovery about five months ago and it led me to more treasures from this period before Lou left the Velvet Underground.

  • @mokozu2291
    @mokozu2291 6 лет назад +19

    thank you
    thank you
    thank you
    for this great NOTHING SONG

  • @je7647
    @je7647 3 года назад +8

    beautiful raga piece

  • @plrndl
    @plrndl 9 месяцев назад +2

    There are sometimes when only the Velvet Underground will do.

  • @kennewton6626
    @kennewton6626 2 года назад +5

    Thank you! Never heard this one before. I would like to go back in time, just so I could have a look at how dilated were the (eye) pupils of each member of the audience. There were probably only 30 +/- in attendance.

  • @NickRowsell
    @NickRowsell Год назад +2

    Everything they did seems so effortless …

  • @NomadFoyle
    @NomadFoyle Год назад +3

    This song has a cadence and rhythm very similar to the early days of Dead Can Dance. Excellent.!!!

  • @DoyleAndrewCarson
    @DoyleAndrewCarson 2 года назад +4

    Well, they were the house band for warhol’ Factory. This sounds like they had the electric viola doing a drone carrier wave. So cool

  • @mathiasgunther6209
    @mathiasgunther6209 7 месяцев назад +1

    düster und magisch

  • @julianciahaconsulting8663
    @julianciahaconsulting8663 5 лет назад +6

    brilliant absolutely brilliant!

  • @kamalmanzukie
    @kamalmanzukie 2 года назад +2

    i haven't heard this in well over 10 years

  • @Fortwentt
    @Fortwentt 4 года назад +9

    listening to this i am able to think. i had a few beers. but just got over some really bad pain. still got a twinge. thought i might die from the pain, thought i had cancer or something.
    i dont know what tyhe hell it is. but better now. this is really cool trance music i dig and am grateful for. Lori play this please. before I die.

  • @declankirwan1337
    @declankirwan1337 4 года назад +26

    Sounds pretty good after a few whiskeys as well.
    Over 60yrs old and beats the crap outta anything nowadays.
    Jim Morrison must've been influenced also as The End sounds a little similar.

    • @Fortwentt
      @Fortwentt 4 года назад +1

      omg 62 in 1 day from now and i like it too. it does beat the shit out of anything these days.

    • @ceef8688
      @ceef8688 3 года назад +3

      @@Fortwentt yall may be 62, and you may be right, but you gotta check out some cool stuff from nowadays too. It's just different because the VU vein was hit, perfected, and blown by the 80s. But check out Pilgrimage by Om and Nightly Trembling by Six organs of Admittance. I think especially that one, and most 6 Organs stuff, will hit this nerve for you.

    • @ceef8688
      @ceef8688 3 года назад +3

      also the current works of SWANS on bandcamp, if you want to go nuts swans.bandcamp.com

    • @JesusGomez-ob2qt
      @JesusGomez-ob2qt Год назад

      The Doors were a huge influence on the Velvet Underground. Nico had an affair with Jim and Warhol had a crush on him! He hung out at the factory sometimes and wrote people are strange about them

    • @seandeoro7995
      @seandeoro7995 Год назад +2

      The Doors were not an influence on the Velvet Underground except for some of their orgsn playing in 1968/69

  • @user-kv9gg9kh6f
    @user-kv9gg9kh6f 5 месяцев назад

    First there was Lou and the Velvet - than the Universe - many thanks Lou and The Velvet !

  • @gerritjohannssen4734
    @gerritjohannssen4734 3 года назад +3

    So ein schöner Song ,Thx a lot

  • @mateoito8266
    @mateoito8266 Год назад +2

    there is another 60s band who had this sound, super similar even because they have been admittedly inspired by the VU , that is parson sound from sweden, most underrated euro impro band imo. thank me later.

  • @zeniafotiadis5298
    @zeniafotiadis5298 3 года назад +1

    was and still top! thanks!!!!!

  • @jamesflowers874
    @jamesflowers874 6 лет назад +17

    COLUMBUS OHIO NOVEMBER 4th 1966

    • @user-qm6wc2ek9y
      @user-qm6wc2ek9y Год назад

      All great music played around the day I was born❤

  • @joecolchic1620
    @joecolchic1620 Год назад +3

    this and ocean are something else no?

  • @nataliezementbeisser1492
    @nataliezementbeisser1492 3 года назад +3

    the audience at the end is totally shocked

  • @robertofrattini5736
    @robertofrattini5736 7 лет назад +9

    amazing ,thanks for posting.

    • @alondathomas293
      @alondathomas293 6 лет назад +2

      Never heard this----alws liked weird experimental stuff from the '60's,lol.

  • @udogoger7345
    @udogoger7345 2 года назад +1

    Wow!

  • @mahammaduli9820
    @mahammaduli9820 3 года назад +15

    ihear
    "atmosphere"
    by
    joy division
    (posthum-hit)

    • @emmanueldartigues1341
      @emmanueldartigues1341 3 года назад +2

      "In silence"... ;)

    • @Dianica
      @Dianica 2 года назад +1

      same

    • @JAFHRH3GR
      @JAFHRH3GR 2 года назад +1

      If anyone was alive, the lawyers would be fed. Atmosphere my 2nd favourite song; All Tomorrow's Parties my 1st.

  • @plophlegm
    @plophlegm 2 года назад +3

    it's actually EVERYTHING song

  • @alienalajna
    @alienalajna Год назад +3

    I can't make out what Nico is singing, but around 1980 I heard on WBAI a performance by Allen Ginsberg who sang "The Nothing Song". Something between comedy and existential pessimism à la Samuel Beckett. He sang "Monday nothing, Tuesday nothing, Wednesday also nothing, Friday and Saturday much more nothing, Sunday also nothing". First in English, then in Spanish, then perhaps Yiddish. But in each language the melody - a minor-key lament - somehow took on the character of the language, as if it were the culture of origin of the song. I don't recall if he was backed up by the Velvets. Perhaps he also played his squeezebox. I haven't been able to find it. Sound familiar to anybody? Can anybody help me out?

    • @dubkebab6307
      @dubkebab6307 Год назад

      Try "Carpe Diem" by the Fugs

    • @dubkebab6307
      @dubkebab6307 Год назад

      oh,actually I meant 'nothing' by the Fugs. ahem.

    • @alienalajna
      @alienalajna Год назад

      @@dubkebab6307 That's it, dubkebab. Looking briefly at the lyrics I see no credit for Ginsberg as a/the writer, but it sure has his fingerprints on it! Going back to the politics of a generation before the Fugs - that is, A.G. Many thanks! I will listen ASAP.

    • @alienalajna
      @alienalajna Год назад

      I've just listened via RUclips, and for all I know it could very well be a Fugs original composition. But seemed just right for Allen Ginsberg to cover it, or do guest vocals with the band. Is there a Fugs or Ginsberg scholar in the house to give us the straight dope on this burning question? Such fun.

  • @theotherlindsayrickman
    @theotherlindsayrickman 3 года назад +1

    YESSSSSSS

  • @_artorical_
    @_artorical_ Год назад +6

    There’s no VU without JC.
    Nico should’ve been inducted with the Velvets into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

    • @deanarberman2985
      @deanarberman2985 10 месяцев назад

      dude she died like 10 years before they got inducted

  • @reaganwiles_art
    @reaganwiles_art Год назад +1

    Another one to fall asleep to, after "Time To Melt" by LARD

  • @dizierjeanclaude9453
    @dizierjeanclaude9453 3 года назад +3

    meditation music
    that give peace

  • @jimrader5299
    @jimrader5299 4 года назад +6

    riff may be derived from Charlie haden's bass solo on ornette's 'ramblin'. unsconsciouly, that is.

    • @iamdamosuzuki_
      @iamdamosuzuki_ 3 года назад +6

      Lou Reed was heavily influenced by Ornette Coleman's music so that's a very real possibility.

  • @Luiz-pt2bf
    @Luiz-pt2bf 6 месяцев назад +1

    Lou solo le tenía miedo a su madre

  • @guneetlehl8098
    @guneetlehl8098 Год назад +2

    Cale at his best

  • @klaus-peterwoyke2989
    @klaus-peterwoyke2989 Год назад +1

    Schamanistic music

  • @user-yf9xi1ym7k
    @user-yf9xi1ym7k 13 дней назад

    Nothing is no nothing to be.

  • @vomeinsamenmadchensophie
    @vomeinsamenmadchensophie 5 лет назад +2

    🖤🦇🖤

  • @lilli5232
    @lilli5232 2 года назад

    oooh....

  • @beatlehelter
    @beatlehelter 2 года назад +1

    Me recuerda mucho a lo que hace Yo la tengo! :o

  • @TiagoVarjao-uh3vc
    @TiagoVarjao-uh3vc 2 месяца назад

    It was a pleasure then…

  • @hangedman8250
    @hangedman8250 2 года назад +1

    a piece

  • @kenkovar2647
    @kenkovar2647 2 года назад +1

    Lou's OBE to India i guess!

  • @annafontana7446
    @annafontana7446 3 года назад +11

    Who cried when Lou died?

    • @emmanueldartigues1341
      @emmanueldartigues1341 3 года назад +1

      I knew it was the beginning of the end

    • @rodhen2357
      @rodhen2357 2 года назад +3

      @@emmanueldartigues1341 personne car personne ne le pense mort.

    • @nadasadhana
      @nadasadhana 6 месяцев назад

      yes

  • @rossturcotte419
    @rossturcotte419 3 года назад +2

    🌈

  • @ewantaylor483
    @ewantaylor483 2 года назад +1

    Buttercup Song now please

  • @federicoconte7027
    @federicoconte7027 2 года назад +2

    lyrics pls!!

  • @richardcrudgington9663
    @richardcrudgington9663 2 года назад +1

    Grate Mon xlent

  • @sodiumlights
    @sodiumlights 4 года назад +3

    Question; what music is playing in the background in the lou reed doc rock and roll heart @ 5mins25 & @1hr 5mins55sec? i`ve asked this question for years and no-one has ever been able to answer...please...please...

    • @robertmiller532
      @robertmiller532 3 года назад

      Where can i listen to it ?

    • @sodiumlights
      @sodiumlights 3 года назад

      @@robertmiller532 on the doc Rock n Roll Heart. Sadly it's not on RUclips anymore but you can faintly hear it in this...ruclips.net/video/EAvkDrkUfoo/видео.html

    • @espirituneutro9696
      @espirituneutro9696 3 года назад

      bump

    • @robertmiller532
      @robertmiller532 3 года назад +2

      @@sodiumlights I know a lot about VU music but not too much about Lou Reeed as a solist, and that music in the background doesnt sound like VU so i bet it is from Lou Reed working with some other guys post VU

    • @sodiumlights
      @sodiumlights 3 года назад +1

      @@robertmiller532 I thought it might even be from the time rocker score...but no. I've been asking folk for years about this, to no avail:(

  • @alienalajna
    @alienalajna Год назад

    It may have been at CBGB.

  • @mannystech4776
    @mannystech4776 5 лет назад +8

    If your're not listing to this song high af, you are not listing to it right.

    • @jacketmeyer4534
      @jacketmeyer4534 4 года назад +8

      High on life

    • @EknahZnark
      @EknahZnark 4 года назад +6

      it´s also good when your not high... but it´s really another thing when you're on acid... taking drugs and listening to music is the ONLY thing that matters...

    • @iamdamosuzuki_
      @iamdamosuzuki_ 3 года назад +2

      I'm listening ing to it right now totally shitfaced. Does that count?.

    • @jinoziniosti5633
      @jinoziniosti5633 Год назад

      you havent heard Train Round the Bend until you slow it down a few ticks

    • @douglasarthur2673
      @douglasarthur2673 Год назад

      I frequently list when lost in music; I also oscillate wildly at times. 😊

  • @alshaw3882
    @alshaw3882 2 года назад

    Middlefield afar in hindsight foreshadow now moments

  • @cescorosa61
    @cescorosa61 2 года назад +3

    Who sings, Nico?

  • @harryknackers7892
    @harryknackers7892 2 года назад +1

    It would be great if there were a point to this, or to Warhol's life in general.

    • @biffDipstick
      @biffDipstick 2 года назад +1

      Why?

    • @harryknackers7892
      @harryknackers7892 2 года назад +1

      @@biffDipstick Didn't you used to think it was all going somewhere?

    • @biffDipstick
      @biffDipstick 2 года назад +3

      @@harryknackers7892 no. The song title says it all.

    • @harryknackers7892
      @harryknackers7892 2 года назад +2

      @@biffDipstick Warhol's life says it all.

    • @silversnail1413
      @silversnail1413 4 месяца назад

      You're right. Warhol's life would have been infinitely more meaningful if he had access to RUclips and could waste his time criticizing people like the great harryknackers7892 instead of leaving an indelible mark on the American pop culture landscape. Truly a missed opportunity.

  • @alexwalton593
    @alexwalton593 4 года назад +1

    is this the same as melody laughter

    • @biffDipstick
      @biffDipstick 4 года назад

      No. Here is Melody Laughter.
      ruclips.net/video/990Xj4s-GlE/видео.html

    • @iamdamosuzuki_
      @iamdamosuzuki_ 3 года назад +3

      They were from the same show. They bookended the show and were essentially the same jam did I to two halves by the rest of the set.

  • @sparrowx4442
    @sparrowx4442 4 года назад +2

    Who is singing?

    • @iamdamosuzuki_
      @iamdamosuzuki_ 3 года назад +8

      Definitely Nico. She's singing through a tremolo effect.

  • @rosskelly3244
    @rosskelly3244 Год назад +1

    I thought there psychedelic tracks were shit but there songs were great I don’t get it ??