Hello my name is Michael Kavanagh and I will be talking about Velvet Underground and Nico in this Blog.
One thing I can definitely say about Velvet Underground and Nico is that their sound is arguably unique, as I have never heard anything of their sort before. I personally am not a fan of their music on a whole, but a few of their songs of theirs I like.
Velvet Underground have been described as precursors of today’s music, pathfinder, they were the one’s that would take the ridicule which that type of music is accepted today. Some of their songs like Heroin was different than rock and roll love song that dealt with darkness and wasn’t anything optimistic about them. I also felt that Black Angel’s Death Song was more of a storytelling song and wasn’t a traditional song you would hear on the radio.
Heroin had a very displeasing sound to my ear about half way into it. If this was the intended sound that they were going for they definitely achieved it. I like the sound of I’ll be your mirror. From an industry standpoint I like the instrumentation of I’ll be your mirror as well. One thing I can really take my hat off to Velvet Underground is that they incorporated many things into their songs such as sound effects like a glass cracking sound effect, which they put into their song European song. Part of their style though I feel is having their songs sound almost out of key then bringing it back home as I would say, in terms of bringing it back to the Tonic Chord.
From an industry standpoint on their song European Sun it sounded as if the microphones were feeding back during their guitar and drum solo at the end at certain parts of it, which made me wonder whether they just recorded a practice version of the song and whether that song wasn’t planned, more as if they just went in the studio and just came up with it.
