VELVET Velvet velvet UNDER Under under GROUND Ground ground VENUS Venus venus IN In in FURS Furs furs FURUS Furus furus Live MCMXCIII mcmxciii rere video
Same, i only like this version. I heard it on Rage many years ago and it's the same video, as soon as i heard it i felt immersed in the melody, i just sat there transfixed until the song was over. I still feel like that.
@@Ignirium Me too, this version has the little extra guitar bits added to the chorus. For some reason I absolutely love those bits. Wish I could buy the video.
In 1999 or 2000 when i was about 15, my music project was on the Velvet Underground. I played Here She Comes Now. The music teacher had never heard of Velvet Underground lol but i got an A so all was well 😄
No. Lou Reed & John Cale! Cale was the musical genius behind their sound. He was never credited properly for his musical contribution on TVU&N and WL/WH. It should have been lyrics: Lou Reed music: Lou Reed & John Cale.
Who's watching during the pandemic & these amazing guys deserve to be in the early stages of grunge they played the way for acts like verve nevanna courtney Cobain etc endless you guys still have it 🎙🎹🎸📽📺
Love both versions, favor this one. So dark and sexy, sinister, slightly menacing but still sexy. This song hits a part of me few other artworks have. Wow.
A Severin is the most beautiful form of boy. He is kind. He is gentle, yet he is strong. He is not afraid to love which only makes someone love him more. He has no value, but you give him your heart because he earns it. "I'd never seen a Severin before, hes perfect and I love him!"
@@InvisibleGirl80 see i love all these. i thought severin meant 2 definitions: "serious" or " a state of unrequited lust"??? note: i maybe waaay off, but that's what my ol search came up with 🤔
It's like 50 years since his songs were "prime-time"-songs, so give him a break on his performances in front of the cameras... Anyways, he was the man, and he decided how to do his songs.
I don't feel they get the credit they deserve. Velvet Underground has influenced not bands but art and yet their almost unknown to most people. Definitely one one the top five greatest bands of all time
They’re good but they’re not top five good man come on stones Floyd zeppelin Skynyrd Alice In Chains rush don’t get my wrong they’re def underrated and rock but they aren’t what these bands are
A lot of y'all seem surprised by this performance.. Lou Reed was notorious for this, he would sing his own songs differently on a pretty regular basis (usually the changes are significantly worse than the way he sings on actual studio releases imo, the reason I'm guessing is because he was not a highly-skilled / technical vocalist).
I would argue his vocal ability since he delivered powerful vocals in recordings like Rock and Roll. The main reason he does live drastically different, I believe, is that he was one of the many musicians who finds recreating studio version boring and somewhat repels it deliberately.
@@darenwu8266 Like the Dead. They never played the same song the same way twice...Jerry once said they weren't good enough to do so! Ha!! Jerry was a humble man!
@@darenwu8266Reed got that of Cale. While playing with LaMonte Young, their concept was to never repeat a track the same way. Cale's numerous takes of different versions of the songs he has performed live are mind blowong. Cale is easily one of the most versatile musicians to ever have walked this planet.
My very favourite bit, after the guitar flourishes after the verse, is his almost perceptible head nod near the end. I know I sound pedantic, but when I saw Lou Reed live in Melbourne many decades ago, I was very disappointed with him keeping his back to the audience for most of the concert. I was very young and was turned off him for many years. This performance is what I would have liked to see. He’s still non committal but there’s those moments when he just gets into it and I love that. A very talented man. 🥰❤️
+newdawnfades He is tired, he is weary, he could sleep for a thousand years, so what do you expect? If you need lively music you better look somewhere or for someone else. :)
+newdawnfades I saw Low Reed in concert shortly before this and the whole concert was like this, he just didn't have the delivery anymore - don't know if was his age , the drugs or what.
+newdawnfades Probably because rather than in the studio version here lou had to keep on tempo with the guitar. That's why he sounds "weird" and "bored".
So this is a reunion ("redux") from 1993? That's many years removed from the original energy of the 1960s. Even in the 60s, the Velvets had a deliberate lack of affect, which was a new thing then. It's not new now, and they could have put some more spirit into this redux/redo/reunion performance.
can someone please tab this performance? I have been trying to put different slightly incorrect tabs together, and obviously just learning by ear as well, but I want to play it the way it's played here, more than any other way. Hope someone sees this. thanks
@@conrado5859He might have tried play it off as, just messing, but really he was physically and mentally incapable of putting on a good performance consistently in youth, and at all as he aged.
@@conrado5859 No, that concept of not playing a song the same twice comes from John Cale and not Lou Reed. Cale has been doing this ever since he left The Dream Syndicate and carried that concept into The Velvets. Here are two playlist where Cale permenatly rearranges the songs: I´m Waiting For The Man; ruclips.net/p/PLNINWcxxj9hHREhUH6k-p2MZgk5Ld17AO and Venus In Furs; ruclips.net/p/PLNINWcxxj9hF3oSTgvKJUABFBgw8qFJW3
They changed the guitar parts, removing the exquisitely dissonant notes in the riff in the original. Horrifying bland-out. Morrison was so disenchanted with the reunion shows he went to his grave refusing to listen to or watch the videos.
Love the band, love Lou Reed, love the song,..hate it live...please don't start with the hateful mean comments....I just dislike this live ..studio is by far superior.
I like it. The original sounds like a naive young guy coming to terms with ideas beyond him. This sounds like an old, tired hedonist recounting times long past. Given that Lou was in middle age by this point, I suspect that's precisely the case.
Am i the only one around here that thinks that this live verson is utter crap the singing done by lue is terrible the thing about the studio verson is just that his voice is chillingly good and awesome but here he hardly puts any soul into it i hate this but i love thr original
I have seen the show back then in Hamburg. Reed was a full disappointment. Each song sounded the same, without any difference in his "singing". Morrison and his contributio to the sound was the true revelation. Cale as good as always.
That's kinda what I thought at first. Then I really got into the lyrics and watched this video high and not I'm super into it. It's not so much shitty as it is just soulful and natural but I can see why you think that. Plus it still has that atmosphere that I love.
Yikes, the singing it terrible! The Smashing Pumpkins do a really nice live version of it too, but it also is a bit noisy as a live recording. Shame, such a great song.
I love this sing buy really dont like the way lou reed sings it john cale version u can find on youtube is soooo much better the john voice in laterv years sings great maybe lou reed cant sing it like 1967 ????
Masterpiece!!! My Velvet's favorite song!
Same, i only like this version. I heard it on Rage many years ago and it's the same video, as soon as i heard it i felt immersed in the melody, i just sat there transfixed until the song was over. I still feel like that.
@@Ignirium haha same i remember seeing it on Rage a long time ago 😄
Totally a masterpiece.
@@Ignirium Me too, this version has the little extra guitar bits added to the chorus. For some reason I absolutely love those bits. Wish I could buy the video.
@@vivnoname Thanks for the reply, I'm going to listen to it again
In 1999 or 2000 when i was about 15, my music project was on the Velvet Underground. I played Here She Comes Now. The music teacher had never heard of Velvet Underground lol but i got an A so all was well 😄
Lou Reed undisputed founder of the alternative rock !!!
No. Lou Reed & John Cale! Cale was the musical genius behind their sound. He was never credited properly for his musical contribution on TVU&N and WL/WH. It should have been lyrics: Lou Reed music: Lou Reed & John Cale.
Who's watching during the pandemic & these amazing guys deserve to be in the early stages of grunge they played the way for acts like verve nevanna courtney Cobain etc endless you guys still have it 🎙🎹🎸📽📺
Love both versions, favor this one. So dark and sexy, sinister, slightly menacing but still sexy. This song hits a part of me few other artworks have. Wow.
Oh my lord, Lou Reed on vocals and John Cale on rock viola.
And Sterling Morrison on bass
@@sydfloydism4146 and Mauren Tucker on drums
A Severin is the most beautiful form of boy. He is kind. He is gentle, yet he is strong. He is not afraid to love which only makes someone love him more. He has no value, but you give him your heart because he earns it. "I'd never seen a Severin before, hes perfect and I love him!"
the Severin the band refers to is the protagonist of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's "Venus in Fur"
@@nastiaandrej I didn't know either things.
Severin is indeed a good boy 🖤
@@InvisibleGirl80 see i love all these. i thought severin meant 2 definitions: "serious" or " a state of unrequited lust"???
note: i maybe waaay off, but that's what my ol search came up with
🤔
@@bakionigeri6414 Severin is the perfect submissive. BDSM is mostly about trust and give yourself completely than anything else.
This is my ist bought album of velvet underground. I was 17 at that time '93. RIP Lou
@Herbie Adasa Mine, too, except it was in '67...
so many versions and i love em all
Me encanta cómo suena en vivo.. Different colors made of tears, qué frase!
Exacto
It's like 50 years since his songs were "prime-time"-songs, so give him a break on his performances in front of the cameras... Anyways, he was the man, and he decided how to do his songs.
I love this band this is my favorite song of them,and their best
I don't feel they get the credit they deserve. Velvet Underground has influenced not bands but art and yet their almost unknown to most people. Definitely one one the top five greatest bands of all time
They’re good but they’re not top five good man come on stones Floyd zeppelin Skynyrd Alice In Chains rush don’t get my wrong they’re def underrated and rock but they aren’t what these bands are
Many people may not know them but I assure you the people who do have them in their top 10 at least
@@knell-zh7do why is anyone ranking art like sports teams
@@adminmanager443 it's not ranking it's just personal opinion. in reality, no art is "better" than another form of art
Great version. Thank you.
Bellissimo..
Grande respiro...
I would pay to unhear this version.
I sort of regret this comment. He's a beautiful man. He could sing it anyway he wishes and I would melt.
Lou had such a soulful voice, v cool :)
As dark as it was all those years ago . Whiplash, whips and .all those dark secrets you keep locked up. Shinny shony
:( Todavía no lo puedo creer...Buen viaje querido Lou Reed!!
Sterling Morrison on bass!
RIP Nico,Sterling,lou
It sounds like his singing a different melody
The applause says it all.
0:04 Fucking CHILLS
F-A--N-T-A-S-T-I-C-!
excellent!!!!
Definitely a Le Femme song, and that is a compliment.
sterling and the bass :p i remember he hate play bass but love the song
highly trained musicians - you dont see that today
This version is better than the original one.
The voice is not better
yeah, the chorus get kinda messy in this one, but the instrumentals sounds like heaven
The original punks
RIP Lou REED !
I Love You !!!!
Very true to the original and very live...RIP Lou Reed
Thats amazing!!
I worship VU, but this version... Lou sounds like he just wants to be done with the song so he can go home and pass out on the kitchen floor.
not many liked the original when it first came out. not many likes this version now. but it's still great. just for the contreversy.. lou is great
john and sterling and moe as well. . they're all great.. I appreciate
just goes to show how many people who complain here about how wrong the song is sung, actually never loved the song but the hype around it
Lou Reed doesn't look like Homer Simpson, he's look like God ?
this is he VU song which really sets them apart
Lords of Salem......
It's the best horrible music I've ever heard.
A lot of y'all seem surprised by this performance.. Lou Reed was notorious for this, he would sing his own songs differently on a pretty regular basis (usually the changes are significantly worse than the way he sings on actual studio releases imo, the reason I'm guessing is because he was not a highly-skilled / technical vocalist).
I would argue his vocal ability since he delivered powerful vocals in recordings like Rock and Roll. The main reason he does live drastically different, I believe, is that he was one of the many musicians who finds recreating studio version boring and somewhat repels it deliberately.
@@darenwu8266 that's one way to look at it but i personally think youre giving him too much credit, lol.
@@darenwu8266 Like the Dead. They never played the same song the same way twice...Jerry once said they weren't good enough to do so! Ha!! Jerry was a humble man!
@@darenwu8266Reed got that of Cale. While playing with LaMonte Young, their concept was to never repeat a track the same way. Cale's numerous takes of different versions of the songs he has performed live are mind blowong. Cale is easily one of the most versatile musicians to ever have walked this planet.
venus de las pieles
still great
My very favourite bit, after the guitar flourishes after the verse, is his almost perceptible head nod near the end. I know I sound pedantic, but when I saw Lou Reed live in Melbourne many decades ago, I was very disappointed with him keeping his back to the audience for most of the concert. I was very young and was turned off him for many years. This performance is what I would have liked to see. He’s still non committal but there’s those moments when he just gets into it and I love that. A very talented man. 🥰❤️
Rock n roll life eeeeeeeee
I think you lost sight of the fact that it was in part his cadence that made this song so hypnotic. And the notes in the melody? Oof.
yaaaaaaaa
Went slightly crazy with the tags, lol, but cool video. Thanks.
best version since the original, imo
Shiny shiny SHINY bootsofleather
При первом просмотре бесило, что Рид поет как будто рэп читает. А потом эта манера пения даже нравиться начала
+DENIS Shishckariov В этом случае, как и во многих других случаях у него, такая манера соответствует содержанию песни.
shut up
Стоит отметить что в 60-е вокал у него был вполне неплох. К сожалению многие (почти все) утрачивают голос с годами.
I like this version better than the original but I wish he would fucking sing it like the original but keep the beat as it is in this.
RIP Lou
The live music sounds great but Lou puts zero effort in the vocals. He sounds bored, like he doesn't want to be there
+newdawnfades He is tired, he is weary, he could sleep for a thousand years, so what do you expect? If you need lively music you better look somewhere or for someone else. :)
+newdawnfades I saw Low Reed in concert shortly before this and the whole concert was like this, he just didn't have the delivery anymore - don't know if was his age , the drugs or what.
+newdawnfades Ooo my my! He invented bored vocals you sould know btw!
+newdawnfades Probably because rather than in the studio version here lou had to keep on tempo with the guitar. That's why he sounds "weird" and "bored".
Need to watch John Cale´s version of this song. JC is the true Maestro of Venus In Furs!
Lou thinks he's a jazz singer. He's not.
So this is a reunion ("redux") from 1993? That's many years removed from the original energy of the 1960s. Even in the 60s, the Velvets had a deliberate lack of affect, which was a new thing then. It's not new now, and they could have put some more spirit into this redux/redo/reunion performance.
can someone please tab this performance? I have been trying to put different slightly incorrect tabs together, and obviously just learning by ear as well, but I want to play it the way it's played here, more than any other way. Hope someone sees this. thanks
I think he sang different but still love it!
Lou Reed: great composer and singer but worst live performer ever
He’s just messing with the audience. I believe he’s the one who said that you should never play a song the same twice.
@@conrado5859He might have tried play it off as, just messing, but really he was physically and mentally incapable of putting on a good performance consistently in youth, and at all as he aged.
@@conrado5859 No, that concept of not playing a song the same twice comes from John Cale and not Lou Reed. Cale has been doing this ever since he left The Dream Syndicate and carried that concept into The Velvets. Here are two playlist where Cale permenatly rearranges the songs: I´m Waiting For The Man; ruclips.net/p/PLNINWcxxj9hHREhUH6k-p2MZgk5Ld17AO and Venus In Furs; ruclips.net/p/PLNINWcxxj9hF3oSTgvKJUABFBgw8qFJW3
R.I.P LOU REED.
You had to have lived in those days to get it
This album is not a Velvet underground& Nico as it shown in the end . This is Live MCMXCIII. yaa Venus in furs is the song from that Album.
amazing version....good bye lou
Allahova
In the original there wont be a moment like 1:40+ in this song
Só para almas.
During the verses sorry, after shiny bits of leather.
They changed the guitar parts, removing the exquisitely dissonant notes in the riff in the original. Horrifying bland-out. Morrison was so disenchanted with the reunion shows he went to his grave refusing to listen to or watch the videos.
This song is really ipnotic and one of the best of this band. But the way Lou Reed is singing here is a ruin.
Love the band, love Lou Reed, love the song,..hate it live...please don't start with the hateful mean comments....I just dislike this live ..studio is by far superior.
Sucks. This song is epic and deserves more effort. Hear how excited the crowd was? Then this is the effort. Sounds like a sedated Johnny Cash ripoff
Yeah, I completely agree, this song on the record is so epic. It sounds like lou doesn't even lile the song here
I like it. The original sounds like a naive young guy coming to terms with ideas beyond him. This sounds like an old, tired hedonist recounting times long past. Given that Lou was in middle age by this point, I suspect that's precisely the case.
@@crankystinkleton4284 If you didn't listen to the words you'd think it was some old country song.
The original studio version is unique on its own but here it sounds like they are trying to make it sound like other conventional songs .. sad...
Am i the only one around here that thinks that this live verson is utter crap the singing done by lue is terrible the thing about the studio verson is just that his voice is chillingly good and awesome but here he hardly puts any soul into it i hate this but i love thr original
I agree
I have seen the show back then in Hamburg. Reed was a full disappointment. Each song sounded the same, without any difference in his "singing". Morrison and his contributio to the sound was the true revelation. Cale as good as always.
That's kinda what I thought at first. Then I really got into the lyrics and watched this video high and not I'm super into it. It's not so much shitty as it is just soulful and natural but I can see why you think that. Plus it still has that atmosphere that I love.
ScagAteHer and now I'm super into it* opps didn't proofread.
I like it better than the original, just to be controversial.
This would be great without Reed's terrible singing.
lou wasn't better
just more stoned.
Yikes, the singing it terrible! The Smashing Pumpkins do a really nice live version of it too, but it also is a bit noisy as a live recording. Shame, such a great song.
Is Lou forgotten how he has to sing the right melodie ?
And that goes for all his old songs : worthless !!!
The ugliest coolest guitar in the world! Um... Lou's...
I love this sing buy really dont like the way lou reed sings it john cale version u can find on youtube is soooo much better the john voice in laterv years sings great maybe lou reed cant sing it like 1967 ????
Não ficou legal...
overrated band
🤡
I remember i heard this song first time on Vh1 in their program " Vh1 classic" . It used to air on sunday and they show old song their.
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