Download the Velvet Underground's (more like the Doug Yulederground) Squeeze here. Read about it here.- Pitchfork is under the delusion that things ever change in popular culture.
- I missed this story the other day: MTV is somehow managing not to celebrate itself on its 25th anniversary Tuesday. But they'll start right back up again on Wednesday.
- Willie Nelson thinks the Dixie Chicks got a "raw deal." I must report this to my pastor at the local megachurch right away so we can start the boycott.
- Be sure to check out the hip-hop exhibit at the Smithizzonian.
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Squeeze - the album that made me realise that collecting every album by anyone that had ever played with The Velvet Underground was not a rational exercise. I still didn't stop for a few years but at least I knew I was a lunatic.
ReplyDeleteWow. Now I know why Reed disparaged Doug Yule for so many years. This in no way measures up to any of the Velvets' work. I can see why the label pulled this after 20 minutes. Doug Yule may have been a decent musician, but on his own, writing his owm material, I don't think so. I sorta was hoping for some illumination, but not this time. Probably the fact that he called this a "Velvet Underground" album is what put him on Louie's shit list.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Squeeze link. Now I can finally put Dopey Joe on my iPod!
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