“Candy Says” begins The Velvet Underground not with a bang, but with a whisper. Blind Melon – Candy Says (The Velvet Underground cover) While there, more than a few have taken the opportunity to pay their respects to a band that dared to strike out on their own path, in their own fashion. (Quick aside: Happy birthday to Maureen Tucker, who turns 77 today, and a moment of silence for Sterling Morrison, who was born one August 29 and died one August 30.)ĭespite not making the Billboard charts until sixteen years after its release – and even then, only getting as high as #197 – The Velvet Underground has proven its value to be enduring, connecting with its listeners for over half a century and continuing to send many of them down the path to performing their own songs in the studio and elsewhere.
With Doug Yule replacing the singular John Cale, and with Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker both as simpatico with bucolic Lou as brusque Lou, the band was more united than ever, and just as powerful in a whole new way. A complete one-eighty from White Light / White Heat, the album that preceded it, The Velvet Underground saw Lou Reed embracing his inner balladeer, writing and playing slower and so much sweeter. Of course, they’ve never left the annals of influence – not since all those few who bought their first album went out and formed bands.īut it’s their third album we’re going to look at today. The Velvet Underground are making one of their regular visits to current-events music magazines, what with the Todd Haynes documentary that wowed Cannes and the impending Hal Willner tribute album.
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