The Velvet Underground
& Nico
The Velvet Underground
Babble, Bar Open, October 2007
Side 1
Sunday Morning ??
I'm Waiting for the Man ??
Femme Fatale ??
Venus in Furs ??
Run Run Run ??
All Tomorrow's Parties ??
Side 2
Heroin ??
There She Goes Again ??
I'll Be Your Mirror ??
The Black Angel's Death Song ??
European Son ??
Lou Reed: “Andy said I should write a song about Edie Sedgwick. I said, ‘Like what?’ and he said, ‘Oh, don’t you think she’s a femme fatale, Lou?’ So I wrote ‘Femme Fatale’ and we gave it to Nico.”
Hands up who prefers Duran Duran’s version?
Mentor and manager Andy Warhol suggested that the album have a built-in crack in it so the line ‘I’ll Be Your Mirror’ would repeat infinitely on a record player until the listener moved the needle themselves, but nothing ever came of this idea.
‘European Son’ is dedicated by the band to the poet Delmore Schwartz, a literary mentor of Lou Reed’s. It was chosen because it had the least amount of words among Schwartz’s work (rock-and-roll lyrics being something he abhorred).
The song begins with two stanzas of lyrics sung by Lou Reed, then a loud crash is heard (caused by John Cale hitting a stack of plates with a metal chair) after the first minute or so.
Featuring:
Laura Jean McKay
Alicia Sometimes
Lee Kofman
Emilie Zoey Baker
Geoff Lemon
Eddie Burger
Justin Heazlewood
Sean M Whelan
David Prater
Ben Pobjie
Crazy Elf