The Velvet Underground is a 2021 American documentary film directed and produced by Todd Haynes that chronicles the life and times of the rock band the Velvet Underground. The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on July 7, 2021. It was released theatrically and on Apple TV+ on October 15, 2021, to critical acclaim.
I honestly love that their is not much film about them, it just made them more mysterious. Their sound is what tells their story, they were the mirror image of the underground degenerate life of NYC.
So goddamn raw and primitive. Astounding how this kind of sound was produced in the 60s. One of the most brutal things I’ve ever heard from the Velvets.
If only Warhol had done proper films instead of farting about with the camera, we all would have had excellent coverage of the godfathers of alternative music!
Warhol said when VU started touring The Plastic Exploding Inevitable: (On 'Sister Ray') 'If they can take it for 10 minutes, then we play it for 15 minutes... That's our policy. Always leave them wanting less.'
So damn good to see Gerard and his bullwhip act was captured by someone even if only in part...hard to explain to young people/outsiders exactly what those gigs were like...but I lived at 22 St, Marks and only had to walk across the street (to where I worked) to get to The Dom...and as for The Gymnasium, whew....
so damn loud its amazing. brilliant beautiful. on a note : who has the right to tell anyone how they can or cannot feel music? right or wrong etc? feel it or not. to the people who say its sucks or is a bad performence is all relative to preference. so whatever. but i love it. i would give anything to go back and get blasted out of my skull from this
... listen to the Cale's viola drones, feel the jetsam of sounds spreading all around... the clatter noise.. ... Look at Gerard dancing, look at Edie jiggling... Absolutely eerie... it's the unattainable song forever.
Maybe Lou Reed invented punk rock in 1965 because he didn't know more than four chords. As for his "wanting to make rock and roll poetic and literary," Dylan, Lennon, Jagger/Richards, Brian Wilson, Chuck Berry, Paul Simon and a half dozen others had that covered by '65.
+Bobby Hawthorne None of the above were in Reed's league. Nobody was singing about masochism in the 60s. Nobody had a girl drummer with limited drumming knowledge. Nobody used alternative tunings like Ostrich. This song shocks people TODAY. I can't imagine how people would have taken it then. All of the people you listed sounded like their time. The Velvet Underground are timeless. They don't exist in a certain era when it comes to sound. They don't exist on a timeline other than physically. Their spirits were and are roaming freely. They don't abide by time.
there is a whole lp , Live '66 vinyl bootleg, mid 1980's, there are 2 versions of this on it( Venus in Furs), 1 is a full version. this is cut from that with the noise at the begining being something entirely different. I have it.I need to make a CD of it.
@@guyincogneeto9034 I did some digging and I think this version is from their first public appearance, jan 14th 1966 on a psychiatrists convention... There doesn't seem to be a 'full' version around. they just start halfway into the song and all of the recordings I found go straight into heroin after this bit. ruclips.net/video/7bVvB0xS280/видео.html
VU were the antithesis of hippy. Dark, weird, artsy cool, and not exactly "nice". And brilliant. This stuff has aged way better than The Grateful Dead in my opinion.
Right on, i couldnt have said it better myself. I have found that often when people say VU "sucks", they just dont get it and never will, because their minds are already closed to the idea. Especially in todays world of faster-is better. Anyone that plays an instrument knows that to play something simply and beautifully is sometimes the hardest thing to do.
L.S.D. was not very popular in the Factor scene although I am sure some were using it. Amphetamines were, however, the drug of choice supplied by The Mole People(Ondine and company)
I agree with boosheri, when I was young I experimented with LSD and whilst listening to this had the most terrible visions that I could have imagined- the whole day turned out to be bad just because the song had stepped on my mentallity and gort enhanced by my silliness with drugs. I still listen to it now and find it the most macabre piec of music ever written. Wherever the heroin took them- it must have been a really dark place.
i promise this is the best cover of Venus in Furs i ever heard.I found this piece in a rock program on tv years ago and I always wanted to have it.If anyone knows where I can get the full version, please help me
Love how Morrison could give a fuck about any of the theatrics that came with the scene they were in. Dude would play the guitar perfectly and would check out afterwards. Love his little glance to the camera while everyone else is janked out on speed
oh my. cale & reed looking so young and fresh. not to mention hot, hot. love their attitude in these clips. some sort of too cool for you-pose. guess it was all an act but works/worked anyway. nothing beats black sunglasses!
Edie's older sister lives here in north Toronto,Canada with her 5 kids...I attended her home for a Buddhist class on a Sunday last year...you should see the photos she has! Unreal shots...
@bigdunk9 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's 1870 novella centers around an un-named man who confides in Severin von Kusiemski of his obsession of his anointed Venus, Wanda von Dunajew. The un-named man's fascination with Wanda is so extreme that he is willing to be subjugated to the unlimited depths by this woman of his fantasies. Politics and literature were a popular poetic venue during the time the song was written.
Lou Reed's guitar in this video is allegedly a Kent No.532 Copa model (c.1964-65) If you live in a big city with a lot of pawn shops there's a slight chance you might find one.
Whoa, go easy. Gerard Malanga is responsible for some of the most iconic photographs of the Velvet Underground and Warhol Factory scene, and damn awesome!
Blood Brothers rule - although I agree that is subjective, you cannot deny that they are innovative and different even if you don't like them. There are just as many, maybe more, great bands today as there were in thr 60's. You're just not looking.
quality video. its good 2 c Gerard Malanga with his whip as well as Edie. I am just reading factory made, the warhol years and this just puts it all 2 gether
@bigdunk9 but now its seen in a different light though tbf just because its heavy death metal or whatever doesnt means its scary. venus in furs reminds me of long lonely desert roads for some reason. im going to listen to it and think yeah
The world needs ALL unseen Velvets footage
Agreed.
The Velvet Underground is a 2021 American documentary film directed and produced by Todd Haynes that chronicles the life and times of the rock band the Velvet Underground.
The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on July 7, 2021. It was released theatrically and on Apple TV+ on October 15, 2021, to critical acclaim.
I honestly love that their is not much film about them, it just made them more mysterious. Their sound is what tells their story, they were the mirror image of the underground degenerate life of NYC.
So goddamn raw and primitive. Astounding how this kind of sound was produced in the 60s. One of the most brutal things I’ve ever heard from the Velvets.
Some kind of early industrial. So much wilder than the version on the album.
Early industrial? This was the factory, this was the way it was meant to be!
If only Warhol had done proper films instead of farting about with the camera, we all would have had excellent coverage of the godfathers of alternative music!
No Warhol, no VE
@@jscottmccollam correct
Warhol said when VU started touring The Plastic Exploding Inevitable: (On 'Sister Ray') 'If they can take it for 10 minutes, then we play it for 15 minutes... That's our policy. Always leave them wanting less.'
Shut up
He was a pretty neurodiverse individual
Venus In Furs is the shit. I wish I was at that party. RIP Lou & Edie.
This is the best 1:18 of video ever recorded.
I actually like the way this video was shot
The only bad thing about it is that it lasts less than a minute
Jesus they really were nuts in the 60s,,great music
I would have loved to have been there all the craziness of the factory
So damn good to see Gerard and his bullwhip act was captured by someone even if only in part...hard to explain to young people/outsiders exactly what those gigs were like...but I lived at 22 St, Marks and only had to walk across the street (to where I worked) to get to The Dom...and as for The Gymnasium, whew....
so damn loud its amazing. brilliant beautiful.
on a note : who has the right to tell anyone how they can or cannot feel music? right or wrong etc? feel it or not. to the people who say its sucks or is a bad performence is all relative to preference. so whatever. but i love it.
i would give anything to go back and get blasted out of my skull from this
When I think of the Velvet Underground, this is the sound that comes to mind
Beautiful, daring, destructive NOISE! Cheers for putting this on, it shreds. And now i know how to dance to it...
Cale looked so damn wicked with that viola. All black and shades, pumpin' out that sinister drone. Beautiful.
Damm... Edie Sedgwick & Gerard Malanga teaching how to dance!!
... listen to the Cale's viola drones, feel the jetsam of sounds spreading all around... the clatter noise..
... Look at Gerard dancing, look at Edie jiggling...
Absolutely eerie...
it's the unattainable song forever.
I think it's beautiful... just so great to take a peek at some video footage from that time period. Great to see Miss Edie dancing too!
my god this sounds so raw and animal live, brilliant!
This is trippy stuff. Listen to this while high.
Lou Reed surpassed Dylan with this monster song.
I want more of this version
I wish I was there, my kind of crowd
John Cale is a sonic genius.
Lou Reed wanted to make rock and roll Poetic and Literary, so he invented punk Rock in 1965. How on earth did he do that?
+54markl Irony is poetic
Maybe Lou Reed invented punk rock in 1965 because he didn't know more than four chords. As for his "wanting to make rock and roll poetic and literary," Dylan, Lennon, Jagger/Richards, Brian Wilson, Chuck Berry, Paul Simon and a half dozen others had that covered by '65.
+Bobby Hawthorne
None of the above were in Reed's league. Nobody was singing about masochism in the 60s.
Nobody had a girl drummer with limited drumming knowledge. Nobody used alternative tunings like Ostrich. This song shocks people TODAY. I can't imagine how people would have taken it then. All of the people you listed sounded like their time. The Velvet Underground are timeless. They don't exist in a certain era when it comes to sound. They don't exist on a timeline other than physically. Their spirits were and are roaming freely. They don't abide by time.
read Lou
@@rudimentaal Reed Lou
this is just ridiculously great man
My entire life I have been a nerd but listening to this band made me cool. Thank you VU!!
just perfect name 4 a band, velvet underground...oh man...! wicked!!!
John Cale is just beautiful.
there is a whole lp , Live '66 vinyl bootleg, mid 1980's, there are 2 versions of this on it( Venus in Furs), 1 is a full version. this is cut from that with the noise at the begining being something entirely different. I have it.I need to make a CD of it.
Is this one of the versions? ruclips.net/video/HLTfi4zYIBg/видео.html
@Wayne Larsen have you ripped it?
@@DfactorPop no
14 years on, any chance of guiding us in the right direction to hear this version of venus in furs?
@@guyincogneeto9034 I did some digging and I think this version is from their first public appearance, jan 14th 1966 on a psychiatrists convention... There doesn't seem to be a 'full' version around. they just start halfway into the song and all of the recordings I found go straight into heroin after this bit.
ruclips.net/video/7bVvB0xS280/видео.html
VU were the antithesis of hippy. Dark, weird, artsy cool, and not exactly "nice". And brilliant. This stuff has aged way better than The Grateful Dead in my opinion.
Right on, i couldnt have said it better myself. I have found that often when people say VU "sucks", they just dont get it and never will, because their minds are already closed to the idea. Especially in todays world of faster-is better. Anyone that plays an instrument knows that to play something simply and beautifully is sometimes the hardest thing to do.
LSD was still legal back in 1965. Not sure when this has been filmed though
Nico is not shown, so maybe late 1965, as Nico joined the gang at the start of 1966.
L.S.D. was not very popular in the Factor scene although I am sure some were using it. Amphetamines were, however, the drug of choice supplied by The Mole People(Ondine and company)
I agree with boosheri, when I was young I experimented with LSD and whilst listening to this had the most terrible visions that I could have imagined- the whole day turned out to be bad just because the song had stepped on my mentallity and gort enhanced by my silliness with drugs. I still listen to it now and find it the most macabre piec of music ever written. Wherever the heroin took them- it must have been a really dark place.
Must have been a freakout to be there. That Owen Wilson comment is funny as hell.
That's awesome, love that song.
Finally. i found how to dance with this song.
Velvet underground is so awesome!
Is the rest of this anywhere
Oh, and this is simply one of the best things that I've ever seen.
My favourite song.
0:43 Sterling's reaction hahahah. He was a fucking genius ♥️
Mesmerizing
i promise this is the best cover of Venus in Furs i ever heard.I found this piece in a rock program on tv years ago and I always wanted to have it.If anyone knows where I can get the full version, please help me
God I love John Cale!! and the Velvets!
Excellent quality.
Awsome! Just, awesome
Thanks for the post. Excellent video.
It's wonderful to see Edie Sedgwick dancing, even for a short while. Thank you so much,
Incesticidergp!
Edie's dance moves are hypnotic.
I hope oneday they release a remastered complete unreleased performance
spectacular!
Psychedelic trip!!!!
Awesome video ty
the velvets were just.. fucking amazing. genious. edie = god darn good looking
this is such a fucked up and dark song. i love it.
really cooooool!
you're so right.
such a shame there's not a longer footage of him.
This is Hard as FUCK!!!!!!!
I love it!
shine....
RIP Lou, Happy to have met you..
Love how Morrison could give a fuck about any of the theatrics that came with the scene they were in. Dude would play the guitar perfectly and would check out afterwards. Love his little glance to the camera while everyone else is janked out on speed
cool session
Getting to hear the Velvets play "Venus in Furs" and watching Edie dance..... That's about as good as it gets for this kid.
This was the best time in history. Only in the 1960s and 1970s would any of these people be allowed to live.
sick and brilliant!
Awesome!
Need moreee
wish all the song was on this video... it is amazing
Brilliant
oh my. cale & reed looking so young and fresh. not to mention hot, hot. love their attitude in these clips. some sort of too cool for you-pose. guess it was all an act but works/worked anyway. nothing beats black sunglasses!
what I would give to be in this room at this moment....
Edie's older sister lives here in north Toronto,Canada with her 5 kids...I attended her home for a Buddhist class on a Sunday last year...you should see the photos she has!
Unreal shots...
I think Andy, and The V.U., and most of the Factory crowd were into speed more than anything. Lou certainly was.
I love watching Edie dance.......
they all look like maniacs. i love it
love this song
reminds me of a party i went to not so long ago:)
0:36 how I impress the girl things
Wow, very cool performance.
no words can describe this song
Edie Sedgwick is there dancing!
Oh i love Edie Sedgwick! Icon!
RIP you will never be forgotten
@WhitstableWilliams There's a lot of great, documented VU footage. Sadly most of it is not in public circulation. It really should be more accessible.
John Cale id the coolest man to walk the earth.
i wish i was there
@bigdunk9
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's 1870 novella centers around an un-named man who confides in Severin von Kusiemski of his obsession of his anointed Venus, Wanda von Dunajew. The un-named man's fascination with Wanda is so extreme that he is willing to be subjugated to the unlimited depths by this woman of his fantasies. Politics and literature were a popular poetic venue during the time the song was written.
00.50.....hahahahahaha!!!!! Too funny!!!!
Goin with the music baby.
Lou Reed's guitar in this video is allegedly a Kent No.532 Copa model (c.1964-65)
If you live in a big city with a lot of pawn shops there's a slight chance you might find one.
Whoa, go easy. Gerard Malanga is responsible for some of the most iconic photographs of the Velvet Underground and Warhol Factory scene, and damn awesome!
@holfordstars: The lyrics of this song is based on a novel by Sacher-Masoch. So it's not "where heroin took them".
Riverdante, you made me laugh, honestly. Nico and Dare, thats hilarious!!!!
Great clip
Blood Brothers rule - although I agree that is subjective, you cannot deny that they are innovative and different even if you don't like them. There are just as many, maybe more, great bands today as there were in thr 60's. You're just not looking.
quality video. its good 2 c Gerard Malanga with his whip as well as Edie. I am just reading factory made, the warhol years and this just puts it all 2 gether
wheres the rest of this ?!!
is there full version of this version?
wow!
Mid 1966
I think Nico was just about to join or just joined.
For sure though, no way Nico was making solo music by the time this was shot.
@bigdunk9
but now its seen in a different light though
tbf just because its heavy death metal or whatever doesnt means its scary. venus in furs reminds me of long lonely desert roads for some reason. im going to listen to it and think yeah
The Velvets were the coolest