Blog: So Well Remembered

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (1969) Glenn: Let's clear one thing up: "The Murder Mystery" is awesome. Anybody who disagrees hasn't caught onto the Velvet's project, which is to use drones, pulse, and deadpan-specific lyrics to create a trance that contains an entire world. Anything else the Velvets do - sing, change chords, play feedback, take speed, let Nico do her thing - is extra. While "The Murder Mystery" isn't a typical Velvets song, it does have the elements I've just identified, plus a wild bouncy-piano-with-vocals outro. [...]

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