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Few rock groups can claim to have broken so much new territory, and maintain such consistent brilliance on record, as the Velvet Underground during their brief lifespan. It was the group's lot to be ahead of, or at least out of step with, their time. The mid-to-late '60s was an era of explosive growth and experimentation in rock, but the Velvets' innovations — which blended the energy of rock with the sonic adventurism of the avant-garde, and introduced a new degree of social realism and sexual kinkiness into rock lyrics — were too abrasive for the mainstream to handle. During their time, the group experienced little commercial success; though they were hugely appreciated by a cult audience and some critics, the larger public treated them with indifference or, o More... (Submit New Velvet Underground Lyrics) (Submit New Velvet Underground Lyrics) Review about Velvet Underground Thursday | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song All Tomorrow's Parties performed by Velvet Underground I recall back in the late sixties that people used to say "It's Thursday today", implying something erotic or sexual. I never quite got what. I have always thought of this song in that context. Or possibly Monday as the "dreary first day", Thursday as the promise of the weekend coming, and Sunday as teh spent week, the end. These can, of course be seen from the point of view of a life - childhood, adolescence, and approaching old age, or as before a relationship, impending relationship and endof relationship. Certainly the feeling of the temporariness of everything is very present. Stephanie is a man? | Reviewer: kennyweezer ------ About the song Stephanie Says performed by Velvet Underground I have a different take on it and considering I'm a Velvet Underground/Lou Reed freak, I might have some insight. The song could most likely be about Steve Sesnick, who was the manager of the Velvet Underground after the first album, "The Velvet Underground and Nico". The song, if interpreted in this way, is about Steve and how he manages so many bands and things for bands that he is neither here nor there sometimes and Reed makes note of that in the song. "People he hates now" could be the bands that he once enjoyed but now is simply a task to listen to and give help to. "Calling from across the world obviously refers to bands touring and calling and/or booking agents and whatnot asking him questions. The line, "she's the door She can't be the room" refers to how he is the starter for musical events, 'the door' but he actually isn't the talent and this could be frustrating for him(many times over the course of his career). "She's not afraid to die" is a reflection of Reed's point of view that although Sesnick handles all these stressful tasks he still seems self assured(unlike Lou Reed who kicked out John Cale for two reasons, one of them being that he was too self assured and not open to change). Towards the end, "they're asking if it's good or bad" is a perfect example of people consulting him for music choices and venue issues. The "icey" and "Alaska" part is a statement to how Sesnick has to seem stoically objective in his decision making and care for all the bands he had. So take what you want from this, I personally think there is no definitive meaning to a song. A last interesting tidbit is that Sesnick pushed Reed to write "hits" for thier last album Loaded but Reed, because of the pressure quit right after making it. I always wondered ... | Reviewer: Lance S ------ About the song Venus In Furs performed by Velvet Underground if the "made of tears" could possibly be read "maid of tears". Both would fit. This was my absolute favorite song when I was 12. Of course, I had no idea what it was about, and (thankfully) the tape I had was poor enough quality that my parents couldn't really hear the lyrics either. At the time I thought the use of the word "mistress" was pretty racy! Definitely the best B&D song ever (and one of the best by a truly great band). ? | Reviewer: Alex ------ About the song Candy Says performed by Velvet Underground This is such a beautiful song. The original is amazing, but the only cover I've heard which does it justice is that by Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man. I love Portishead, but it was this cover by Beth which got me into Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground. Please check it out and I'm sure you'll agree. Corr, Velvet Underground are so damn good. I could listen to their music in any state of mind, and they vary wildly! Love Alex. xx existential is right | Reviewer: Jay ------ About the song All Tomorrow's Parties performed by Velvet Underground I agree with all the meanings people have found so far. When I first heard this, it spoke to me immediately, in a way connected to, but also separate from all those meanings. An earlier poster said the song is "about an existential dread, or an anxiety of time. the fear of getting old and being young and trying to always look fresh and beautiful". That's how I read the core meaning too, with "all tomorrows parties" being both a literal reference to the parties to come, and a strong metaphor for our increasingly futile attempts to hide from pain and mortality through distraction and drugs, as time wears on. It's a song of mourning for the future loss of a youth that has yet to be completed, but whose coming loss casts a pall back in time, ruining what should be the enjoyment of a golden time. I agree with George's assessment right up until the last verse (or two?) of the song. I think the ending is saying that if she's going to cry about not being cool at a party she deserves to be despised (i.e. the rags and mourning shroud suit or "fit" her). There's a cruel recursiveness to it - she cries because she can't dress "cool", and is despised and dismissed all the more for crying. It seems like she'd get more respect if she held her head high. But probably not much more. How much of this song is intended to reflect back on the Warhol crowd, rather than the girl herself? What does it tell us about that crowd and their values? The ending puts a twist on it | Reviewer: Bob ------ About the song All Tomorrow's Parties performed by Velvet Underground I agree with George's assessment right up until the last verse (or two?) of the song. I think the ending is saying that if she's going to cry about not being cool at a party she deserves to be despised (i.e. the rags and mourning shroud suit or "fit" her). There's a cruel recursiveness to it - she cries because she can't dress "cool", and is despised and dismissed all the more for crying. It seems like she'd get more respect if she held her head high. But probably not much more. How much of this song is intended to reflect back on the Warhol crowd, rather than the girl herself? What does it tell us about that crowd and their values? review | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song All Tomorrow's Parties performed by Velvet Underground i think you are all on the right track but it is really more about an existential dread, or an anxiety of time. the fear of getting old and being young and trying to always look fresh and beautiful. "thursday's rags" implies that the clothes of a few days ago are already old, out of trend. the girl always ends up on sunday, the last day of the week crying because she is trapped in a cycle where she is always left in hand me downs and rags. she cant keep up. Reference to 'the Factory'!! | Reviewer: George ------ About the song All Tomorrow's Parties performed by Velvet Underground Apparently it's about the Warhol clique. On Wikipedia is says that Lou Reed wrote it in reference to what he saw going on at the Factory The 'poor girl' I think is some kind of wannabe - used to be cool but has fallen out of fashion (and fortune) with the rest of the group, who now see her as a joke (a clown). She goes to the parties but can't really afford to. Dresses a bit tragically/unfashionable perhaps, and everyone thinks she's pathetic. Quite mean actually! But hey, it was probably the reality of some unfortunate girls' plight. Could it be about Edie Sedgwick perhaps!?!? you really think its a bout a girl and a clown? | Reviewer: Peter ------ About the song All Tomorrow's Parties performed by Velvet Underground I am pretty confident that there is no actual clown involved with the meaning of this song. the girl is the clown because she feels fake dressing up in old clothes when everyone around her is sporting the hot new fashions. she goes home and cries after because she feels like such a phony dressing up and she believes she has nothing. but i think the real meaning of the song is that the girl shouldnt be so self conscious about her appearance or her social class. she makes herself worthy of the inadequate clothes by being so preoccupied with her appearance and making herself feel bad all of the time. the last two verses imply that by being so untruthful in the end she gets nothing and has no one there for her. it is sad, but it has an inspirational message that the girl shouldnt have been so concerned with her appearance and should have been proud of who she was. this was a lesson nico learned coming from humble beginnings to high society. It sets the mood | Reviewer: Elevo ------ About the song Heroin performed by Velvet Underground When I was younger I loved the emotion of "the world is fucked so watch me kill myself while being brilliant" not so much lately, but It's still a sound argument. There are more dead bodies piled than ever. The statement I hear "this is the best song about heroin" This is the most fanciful. But the best song actually about heroin is without a doubt waiting for the man. followed by run run run and white light. Who wants to think about heroin when they are already high? I want songs about marijuana like sweet jane most. As a heroin addict everything starts slipping away, like a good joint. I listened to this song exchanging the word heroin for heroine. He uses It's my wife. Heroin is known as the male. Just something to think about. Another good song while on heroin is venus in furs. Wow. | Reviewer: amanda ------ About the song Stephanie Says performed by Velvet Underground I love this song. I know it's not about me or my situation (duh), but it reminds me of when my family was moving around alot. We lived in California for a while, and all the kids at my school learned that I was from the Midwest and they would ask really hurtful questions about if I was a hick or a farmer and the like. Most people didn't know my name, so they would call me "Indiana". It was so awful. I'm so glad we've settled now and I've finally found a stable place. :) the velves from there to here | Reviewer: garage tech ------ About artist/band Velvet Underground velvet underground, as a kid in the 80s this kinda scared the living shit out of me and i LOVED it! so dangerous! even though i didnt even know they had been around since the 60s. Danger! LSD, dark mystery, blending medival sado masachism with allmost rockabilly, garagte, what became known as punk, rock and roll psychdelia, noise art, movie projections, fear, euphoria! and yet those tender moments exploring vulnerability, transgenderism, love, and inner spiritual vison, no real attempt at impressiing, just a simple honesty that "this is how the trip feels today, like jesus, or like hell!" yeh! an honest band! trying to keepo their spirits going throughout a lying time. vietnam, the lie of the hippy woodstock, and enchraoaching mass produced plastic inevitable captured of course by andi worhols team, for all andy was slagged off about, he really did aide and abet and help platform and transform the velves into what we remember! and threw around them, exactly what they were seeming to be their own anti-dote against! plastic, and it worked, and how these clashes always worked for the velves! conflict, contradiction, anger, drugs, jesus, girls, boys, transgenderism! and a girl whacking the most unconventionally set up drum kit yet to be seen in most well known rock and roll bands! maureen didnt give a shit! she did it her own way. bass drum set up on its back-side like a giant snare drum, and away she went, thumping with sticks at her bass drum where most drummers would tap-tap at a hihat or ride symbol. cool chick! and i thought she was a boy till i was 18 myself in mid 80s. from the first schreechings, art rock and rock and roll of the banana one, through to the more counrty rockabilly of "rock and roll" yeh, they really did get from there, to here! in style, and of course! many of us became one of the many descended from the few who bought the records at all first ime round. they certainly come round, and kicked ass all the way! thank f**k That shit is amazing | Reviewer: puffthemagicdragon ------ About the song Heroin performed by Velvet Underground This song is fucking amazing. If you have ever done heroin you know thats exactly how shit starts sounding. It's ike hearing poetry in a perfect form without rhyme. Too bad we missed the 60's. I would have gone in person Simply Great | Reviewer: Reggie ------ About the song Heroin performed by Velvet Underground The song itself is wonderfully done. The way if flows is almost as if you were doing the drug yourself. "Herion" is a beautifully done song and one of the best songs on drug addiction I have ever heard. It gives you a glimpse of what the addict is thinking. The way the song builds up and then goes on a different course, it just seems like something you'd expect to experience if you were the user! Thank you Velvet Underground....and you too Nico! sad? hmmm, | Reviewer: gno-wave ------ About the song All Tomorrow's Parties performed by Velvet Underground a very misunderstood song, its not a sad song at all, its about a girl getting the clown on sunday to make her weekly dresses, she cries behind the door to win his sympathy, he possibly being the guy from the night before debauichery... the stylising is wonderful indeed, and invokes a mystical medieval ball, and strange things afoot, in fact i think psychedelic folk bands like the incredible string band and the pentangle would have been proud to have bagged this one, but would they have been able to create the rustic abrasive almost painted tones of cale? very direct, very honest, and they simply allowed the fashionable chemicals of the time to speak thru their own playing, most musicians are too eager for acceptance to do that, the velvets appeared to relish it. i dont think seven those psycchedelic folk bands could have recreated this type of imagined folk style, like a folk tune from no particular culture, seeping thru the chemical haze, , they (pentangle,) would have been too prfessional, too anal, if you will,and that was another key to the success of the velvets, an almost "professional-amateur" approach if you will. very psychedelic for the velvets, who usually come across as speed/heroin heads yoh, they certainly have their pensions paid i should think if music is the food of love play on | Reviewer: trish ------ About the song Stephanie Says performed by Velvet Underground this is one of the most lovely songs i know, it expresses perfectly how it feels to be trapped by other peoples expectations of us, the title may or may not be for alliteration purposes but we have all been stephanie at some point in our lives if we are honest, i have! Video Version | Reviewer: H ------ About the song Candy Says performed by Velvet Underground The 'Lou Reed's Berlin' film by Julian Schnabel includes, near the end, a wonderful duet of 'Candy Says' sung by Lou and someone he refers to as Anthony. For me, though I've long been a fan of 'Berlin', Anthony's singing on this song was the surprise highlight of the DVD. Available from Netflix. The version from 'Loaded' | Reviewer: DJW ------ About the song Ocean performed by Velvet Underground Lou Reed sing/talks the lyrics to a classic and very cool arrangement. Personally this is the ultimate version of this song, Reeds intimate and mythic vocals outline the story of 'the ocean' inspiring all kinds of ancient imagery in the listener, the music really does wash back and forth like tides. Still way ahead of the times, then and now. You will discover new things to like about this every time you listen to it. One of the best songs ever recorded | Reviewer: Pete H ------ About the song Sister Ray performed by Velvet Underground I got to see the VU at one of their last shows, in Revere Beach, MA., long after Cale left, but they did a great version of this. I still listen to it all the time, more than any other VU song. It's a shocker, still. "Aw you shouldn't do that, don't you know you'll stain the carpet?" A guy is dead on the floor and this nut is worried about the carpet. Lou and John saw these kinds of people. I did too. I watched a guy inject an entire ounce of cocaine in one night, and miss his vein every time. He was so numb he couldn't find a vein or feel it if he did. These people were insane in a way most of us will never realize. gotta love it....simply amazing.... | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Heroin performed by Velvet Underground this is one of the best song ever written! the lyric is fantastic and the music is simply genious!! i'm not surprised that this record has been produced by someone called Andy Warhol maybe the most genious man of the last millenium... You could review the artist/band Velvet Underground in Biography page You could review Velvet Underground album by visiting Albums page and selecting an album You could review Velvet Underground song by clicking the song which you like  Download "Velvet Underground" Music | |
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