First Listen - "Femme Fetale" by The Velvet Underground (Hip Hop Fan Reacts)
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Bob Dylan knew Edie Sedgwick. Allegedly he wrote Like A Rolling Stone about her. He also wrote Just Like A Woman, Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat and (maybe) I Want You as well. She seemed to have been very inspiring to the songwriters that knew her back in the day. Very good video again like always.
Blonde on Blonde = Sedgewick and Warhol ???
Nico was a great singer with a tragic life. Her solo career has some gems. Her version of "These Days" from her album "Chelsea Girl" is haunting.
Yes!
Love it!
Her solo albums are some of the most underrated in the rock canon. The covers album Chelsea Girl is very good; the next few, with her own songs, are even better, and really deserve to be heard and celebrated. The Marble Index, Desertshore and The End are superb.
I love her cover of Dylan's I'll Keep it With Mine.
Agree
Next stop...Venus in Furs.
Uh-oh!
Shiny shiny, shiny boots of leather…
That’s the one… devastation
I used to play this album constantly in college and that was about 15 years after it came out. It was also in heavy rotation on the college radio station. A lot of my friends had this album. I really loved it.
And Femme Fatal provides the perfect break from some of the other stuff and it's the kind of song that will just leap into your head years later. It's so soothing and beautiful and I think bands like Mazzy Star many decades later owe a huge huge debt to this.
Velvet Underground is one of those bands that I didn't grow up on but blew me away the more I listened to them. Wes Anderson uses several of their songs in his movie "The Royal Tennnbaums" to great effect. If I had to pick a favorite song, I would say Heroine is a dark masterpiece. Really happy to see you checking out more Velvet Underground . I hope you keep exploring!
"Vicious" on Lou Reed's debut solo album Transformer is my favorite Warhol inspired song.
And that banana was a piece of Warhol art, si it was not just a banana - it was a "colorform" banana that could be removed from the album cover (if you look close, you'll see that it says "Peel Here and See" at the tip of the banana), to reveal a pink colored peeled banana. Juvenile art as only Warhol would come up with at that time.
This song certainly grows on you. I've heard it only a few times and now am certainly a fan. Something about her deep voice, the chill guitar arpeggios, and how nonchalant the whole thing is.
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It isn't like she could actually sing.
Nico was German and English was her second language. I don't think the Velvet Underground would have gotten the attention they got without Andy Warhol and then Andy getting Nico together with the Velvet Underground. I have all of Nico's albums, she was a very interesting person, very deep haunting voice. Her album "Desert Shores" is my favorite album of her, there are so many beautiful haunting songs on it. She died tragically, while taking a bike ride and falling.
Love Nicos voice.. Reviewer Richard Goldstein describes Nico as "half goddess, half icicle" and writes that her distinctive voice "sounds something like a cello getting up in the morning". One of my favorite records and you are my favorite reactor 🌟
Sweet Jane on Lou Reed's Live Rock n Roll Animal is legendary with Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner on incredible, melodic, twin lead guitars. Part of the legend that was Lou Reed. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎸🎶
An amazing song then and an amazing song now...once you heard the Velvet Underground, your world divided between people who liked them and people who didn't... since most people didn't like them, suddenly you were all alone knowing there must be other people who liked them, and hoping to meet some one day... but loving the Velvet Underground was definitely an isolating experience
By the 1980's, a number of "new" bands, that came out of Punk, and Sixties music, showed the influence of the VU. Like R.E.M. did this tune in concert, before they got big around 1987, and recorded it was a b-side, or fan-club gift flexi-disc. Albums by the V.U. were out of print, folks would scour used LP racks, or tape off a friend. There was a compilation called 'V.U, ' in 1985, of rare or unreleased tracks, from 1968-'9, that made me a fan, before I got "...&Nico". My brother had a vinyl of their last album "Loaded"
You might have something about the up/down bliss/agony of drug addiction, because the next scene (Venus in Furs) is a totally drug-induced notion of a nightmare with screaming violins and all sorts of unnatural insanity going on.
This particular song is definitely not something that stands so well on its own but it’s very much “of a piece”. To me it feels like a pastiche, almost as if they’re mocking Nico a little bit.
The film "Factory Girl" about Edie Sedgwick is very good staring Sienna Miller. Keep going on this VU debut album, European Son is probably the most Punk Rock song on this album. I love all 4 albums, all very different sounding. "What Goes On" might be my favorite VU song 🤔.
Like this one, but I can't wait for the next 3... "Venus in Furs"; "Run, Run, Run"; and "All Tomorrow's Parties". Awesome songs.
Please more of The Velvet Underground
One reason Edie is fascinating is because, in contrast to the outsiders in the Warhol crowd, she was the closest thing to an aristocrat that you can find in America. The Sedgwicks were old, OLD money, prominent before the Revolution and the family tree was full of distinguished politicians, lawyers and artists. Her demeanor and accent were effortlessly upper class. There was also a robust strain of mental illness in the family. Two of her brothers committed suicide and Edie at was dead of a drug overdose at 28. In addition to Femme Fatale, you really do need to listen to the lyrics of Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone and Just Like A Woman to get a fuller picture of Edie. She was more than just a "model and actress" - she really is an American icon.
RIP Edie
Eddie Sedgwick was amazingly beautiful she had every one attention...
Perfect you do this one in order!
Oddly beautiful. Nico makes it haunting but seductive. Great reaction
Lou Reed wrote the words, and sang them when Nico didn’t.
What ever you may think about this album, it was nothing like what was playing. It was revolutionary, even if you don’t like it.
Ah, yes, Nico! The young girl dancing at the beach-side café in the film La Dolce Vita. Fifteen minutes, indeed.
First listened to it on cassette tape when I was 10😁. One of the all time great albums!
This track is a real grower. At that time there was nothing that compared to this album, at least a decade ahead of it's time.
I bought this album in 1967, when it first came out. I had never heard a track, but I loved the album cover. Not any banana at all, because I'm British and that was so NOT the cover in Britain, the cover was the inside, turned outside, with Exploding Plastic Inevitable pictures. I don't think any Brits had even heard of Andy Warhol at that time. I loved it from the first note and am still playing it 56 years later. Still my favourite band.
Like a Rolling Stone was probably written about her as well. I don't think Dylan ever said that specifically though
Edie Sedgwick is my idol. ❤
This LP was actually released in 1967.
Wow, always thought it was a Big Star song. This is cool stuff.
This debut album was recorded in 1966 and released in 1967, not released in 1970 as stated in the opening of your reaction video and which you repeated verbally later on, and this error drastically lessens the impact/importance of what this band and it's album means in the history of rock music in both the minds of those who know and those unaware people who don't. Indeed, what an album. Overall, a superb and welcome analysis and review.
This album, released around the same time as "The Doors" (their self-titled debut), "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Beatles groundbreaking classic), Pink Floyd's debut, David Bowie's debut... so many new musical ideas exploding onto the scene in 1967. The Velvet Underground was revolutionary & special... and 1967 was the year popular music abandoned all of the rules to forge unexplored ground.
I waited a decade or two before listening to this album. Since around a decade ago it has been my favourite album. Top ten for sure. A gem album. All the songs stand out.
Like a Rolling Stone, and probably Just like a woman were also written about Edie Sedgewick.
I'd say.. definitely Like a Rolling Stone, maybe JLAW also.
Edie was a trust fund baby. Dylan tried to warn her about Andy Warhol, how he'd use her then lose her.
Warhol gifted Dylan a double life-size Elvis print he used for dark practice.
He then made a deal with ex manager's wife, Sally grossman, the Elvis print for a sofa.
She then sold it for thousands which I know bothered Bob, lol.
I'm sure you know the story :)
@@michele-33 yeah - the song is filled with references to Warhol.
This only sold about 1500 albums. But the story is that everybody who bought this must have started a band, because everybody in the 70s called this an influence.
Of the three songs Nico sings on this album, All Tomorrow's Parties is the best. It's absolutely colossal.
Love your channel. Please keep doing what you’re doing
The cover was a more involved piece of art. The banana that you see was actually a sticker. If you peeled it off is revealed the naked banana underneath, which was pink. Perhaps not so subtly phallic. This was only in early editions, and since the record famously didn't sell a lot of copies, but still greatly influenced many musicians to come, (see well known quote by Brian Eno on this subject) vintage copies with the sticker can be quite valuable! It is definitely worth your time to look up the story of Andy Warhol's cover for this album.
Peel back slowly and see...
Frank Zappa (The Mothers of Invention) had two albums out prior to this release. The Doors debut was a couple months prior.
The Velvets were Andy Warhol's house band, so they had a bit of help regarding the cover art, they were an art band first and foremost. As for punk - there was commonality in that a big percentage of NYC and London punk musicians were former art school students.
Apart from one song (Sunday Morning Nov.66) the album was recorded in Apr/May 66, but due to Verve pushing the Mothers Freak Out, who they also had on the bill and publishing issues, due to an unauthorized photo of a guy called Eric Emerson on the back cover, TVU&N wasn't released until Mar. 67.
We would call this femme fatale a narcissist now. You must listen to the 1969 live bootleg double album. Carries the atmosphere of the small room they performed.
Dude, they played art galleries. There wasn't a thought given to singles vs. album tracks. I'd love to watch you react to Lou Reed and John Cale's "Songs for Drella" album. from a few years after Warhol died. Best overtly non-fiction rock album.
The Velvets were a band that seemed to be going nowhere despite their talent. They were way down in the music charts. All these years later, The Velvets are considered to be one of the greatest and most interesting bands of all time. I still can't get through their second album, but albums 1, 3 and 4 are classics.
I really like the song “Waiting for my man”. Bynthem
I believe Eddie Sedgwick had 5 to 6 songs about her
I love Nico's voice
Just wait…..
You got it pretty much spot on. The Velvets wrote about the street and the darker characters that inhabited it. For this first album Andy Warhol paired them with Nico, and it resulted in several of these gentler songs ("I'll Be Your Mirror" is the third of them) alternating with the louder ones. Lou Reed's less tuneful backing vocals on this song add just the right edge to it IMO.
Try Heroin. The song... 😉
The album art is *Warhol* inspired. Not sure if Andy was involved with the design 🍌
requesting: david bowie - "five years"
You should react to either “Black Dog” by Led Zeppelin or “Rock & Roll” by The Velvet Underground
Look up Eddie Sedgwick to see her the movie factor girl was about her
Check out “Pearls Before Swine”.
Yes, "Translucent Carriages"
The "banana" was a hoax -- that baked banana peels would get one high.
The tone of this piece sounds like the mild complaints of the passive dependent personality which is the victim of the femme fatale.
Released 1967 surely?
It's femme fatale tho !
* Femme Fatale
I dont get it.
The Velvet Underground's album is a bit disorientating and a bit disturbing and seems to represent art as much as music.
What a refreshing change to hear intelligent analysis on a reaction channel. Usually, the reactions on other channels are inarticulate and often misunderstand the intentions of the artist and - especially - the context and times in which the tracks were produced.
You seem to get a handle on these things pretty well, despite being a lot younger than my generation (I'm nearly 70). We grew up in different times and we were just waiting for The Beatles and the explosion of youth culture that followed. But we didn't know it and we didn't know where it would lead.
Duran Duran did a cover on their Wedding album in 1993. Better than this original.
A fantastic song and performance, but it is super hard for me to listen to. It's probably the worst recording ever, can't they clean up the sibilance and mud/overload (?) from this? Is it a bad mic? Over saturated? It's super annoying to hear the voice so distorted. Rod Stewart's Reason to Believe had some of this horrible sound, but it could have been due to being the last track on Every Picture Tells a Story, the needle not aligned well. This is just awful, and tragic. Maybe I can clean it up some program, it would be worth it because I stop the song most times in a fit of angst LOL.