avent-garde rock Archives - Vinyl From The Vault https://vinylfromthevault.com/tag/avent-garde-rock/ Fri, 26 Nov 2021 15:00:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 198238920 The Velvet Underground “White Light/White Heat” https://vinylfromthevault.com/the-velvet-underground-white-lightwhite-heat/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-velvet-underground-white-lightwhite-heat Tue, 30 Jan 2018 18:57:13 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/the-velvet-underground-white-lightwhite-heat/ The Velvet Underground “White Light/White Heat” released 50 years ago on this day, January 30th, 1968. VU’s second studio album, post-Nico and Warhol and the last with new tracks from John Cale (whose quote about White Light/White Heat is superbly accurate: it’s “a very rabid record…consciously anti-beauty”). Allmusic calls it the least accessible of VU’s recordings, a “no-holds-barred [...]

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]]> The Velvet Underground “White Light/White Heat” released 50 years ago on this day, January 30th, 1968. VU’s second studio album, post-Nico and Warhol and the last with new tracks from John Cale (whose quote about White Light/White Heat is superbly accurate: it’s “a very rabid record…consciously anti-beauty”). Allmusic calls it the least accessible of VU’s recordings, a “no-holds-barred frontal assault on cultural and aesthetic propriety” but it also set the standard for avant-garde and experimental noise-rock and inspired musicians from David Bowie to the Buzzcocks.

The Velvet Underground released two singles from the album, the title track “White Light/White Heat” (which gleefully expounds on the rush from shooting up methamphetamine) and the manic free-form garagey “I Heard Her Call My Name.” My favorite tracks on White Light/White Heat are “Lady Godiva’s Operation” (weird and psychedelic and I am repeatedly startled by Lou Reed shouting “SWEETLY” out of the mix) and “Sister Ray,” an epic 17+ minute song filled with sex and depravity that was recorded in one amazing take.

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