Reviews (page 8 of 8)
An insult to my ears
Fyfan, En gång var det nyskapande och edgy nu mest jobbigt.
så trist och dåligt
Ohh... kay. Wasn't really expecting... whatever that was. It certainly has its moments of brilliance ("White Light/White Heat", "Sister Ray", and "Beginning to See the Light" are so good). But it also has its moments of utter batshit WTFery. Unfortunately, the latter far outnumber the former. I mean, "The Gift"? "Lady Godiva's Operation"? What the actual hell? I really REALLY wanted to give this at least a 2-star rating. I kept desperately looking for reasons not to fail the album... but I realized I was trying too hard to make excuses for what is, truly, a shit record.
p127. 1968. 1 star. Unattractive 60s art-house rock. You can see its influence on punk rock, but that doesn't mean it's good. Outstays its welcome on most of the tracks, especially the 17 minute wankage that is Sister Ray. You can see why it didn't sell. Would not listen to it again.
09/27/2022 Bruh…they were off the shits when they recorded this album. Considering I’ve heard like 3-4 of their other albums, this one is easily the worst. A lot of these songs were a pain to get through, or I had to skip them altogether. It’s like they were all fucked up off whatever they were taking and were like “oh SHIT, we have to pull up to the studio today. Alright y’all, let’s just pull something out our arses and make this deadline” Boo
I understand the importance of The Velvet Underground in music, but not something I want to listen to. It seems loud and over compressed for the sake of it. Had to push myself to finish it. Maybe it's just too artsy and I'm too basic.
Songs weren’t very catchy and repetitive - psychedelic rock just isn’t for me I think
Listen, I don't mind a jam session. I'm not *that* huge into the Grateful Dead, but I can appreciate them. There's elements of noise rock and psychedelic here, but man, they find one chord progression and beat it into a grave, don't they? Yes, yes, the lyrical topics were extremely progressive for their time, but there's got to be more than that, especially when the vocals are buried beneath everything else. I thought this album would escape my one-star graveyard, but then "Sister Ray" started to drag on and I realized, with growing horror, that it was going to go on forever. This is just my purgatory, I guess. "Suckin' on his ding-dong," eh, Lou?
Probably good in the 60’s trippin on acid. Not for me in 2022
Just noise
Can confidently say I never need listen to this again
ugg, I need more melody
Why? God to live in a time where you can make absolute shit and get recognized.
Ick. No thank you. Sounds like uninspired trash.
Just awful. The Gift just sounds like he’s reading a book and no one can convince me that the 17-minute closer is actually good.
The height of pretentiousness
I just don’t like Lou Reed.
What a stupid album. I'll give it a 1 so I can remember it. Because it did actually make me feel something and think. I like it. But it's really terrible. "Your business' sucking on my ding-dong" And then they put "Stephanie Says" on the Deluxe Edition, and it sounds like a fucking masterpiece beside all the other horrible shit they made you listen to.
Not good
“Utterly pretentious, unbelievably monotonous.”
I didn't like this one, I think it was too avant garde for me.
Incredibly boring
Wat een akelige toestand. Dit verdienen we niet.
Не понял
Terrible solos… is it a joke? Bad sounds Stephani says was good doe
didnt like not good
Not really for me. Rather bland.
Vittu mitä paskaa. En jaksanut kuunnella koko levyä ja biisit meni hyppien läpi. Ei käynyt mielessäkään testata levyä 2....
Yks kuunneltava biisi ja senkin Nirvana coveroinu paremmin. Skippailin enkä kuunnellu niitä extroja
1968. Why am I not surprised. lol. Ok wow, this fucking SUX. Even worse than expected. What in the hell?? 1/5.
Never have been impressed with TVU. Kind of boring and pretentious. Don't get it.
Utter garbage
Muito paradao e devagar pra mim
Absolutely ridiculously over hyped garbage. I’m actually angry for having had to listen to this and try find something positive. There’s a lot of albums here that I feel like I have to like because everybody does and everybody does because everybody does. Like a contagion of stupid music. Can some of these older artists just be considered old and irrelevant and not hold the “classic” tag forever?
Mest oväsen
1/5 - I get why it's on the list (it's a bridge between two worlds of music), but this album objectively is terrible.
I wanted to like this so bad, but every song just had something that annoyed me, from the random different voice singing 1 word to the guitar being made to scream, did not love
This was a hard listen. It seems to me to be an early example of that difficult second album. Or maybe no Nico was the problem. Or maybe you just had to be there, and I wasn’t obviously.
The aural equivalent of 8mm black and white endless sweaty torture nightmare fuel. The horror... 1/10
Not interesting.
Really not much of a fan of this. Sounds kind of Beatles - ish. Bit experimental, bit rock n roll. Didn't warm to it though, bit too out there. I assume/hope these guys have better albums. 1/5
Hurt my ears.
This album is very weird and I kind of hate it. I can get behind a messy album, but this is all over the place with some truly annoying stuff like someone basically swallowing the mic and blowing out the levels. It doesn't sound artsy, it sounds stupid.
No se lo pondria ni a mi peor enemigo
Awful. This album was developed by the Imperial Japanese Army as a form of torture for POWs so severe they begged to be cut open and experimented on. If aliens invaded earth it would be because this album was beamed out to space. If aliens invaded earth, humanity would win by playing this album so the aliens decided suicide was preferable. Worst album to ever disgrace the universe.
Now I know what heroin is like. I didn’t like it.
Nope
Nah. Not for me
Ok, la de The Gift está chistosita pero el resto me recordó una banda de garage en un ensayo en el que no terminan de ponerse de acuerdo. Con todo y que le di dos pasadas y que entiendo un poco que son retos a la estética y salidas a lo convencional y eso puede funcionar en algunos puntos, los 17 minutos the Sister Ray son algo que no logro apreciar.
Meh
I was not a fan of this album.
Ik vind dit geen chille muziek. Beetje te druk en niet mijn smaak. Nummers I Heard Her Call My Name en Sister Ray doen pijn aan mijn oren.
Just bad
Garbage
Made me grinds my teeths together. Definetly did not like it.