Lou Reed, Venus in Furs

[Bruuutal1]

Lou Reed looks like Fabi Cappello

[doctorfuse007]

Clever live version.

[jdleonard999]

An awesome mesmerizing song with cello emitting the deep emotional travail of a tortured soul

[luk4sbc]

Jane Scarpantoni > all in here.

[MisterMorizon]

For a long time I've always prefered Cale's version and was very unhappy with this one. I still prefer Cale's, but this one is exactly right right now. It has a really new entry into the song. I've always criticized the Cello, but I love it now.

[cristinawilligs]

love this, im 37 years old and never heard this!! neither payed attention to lou reed, if it is not in itunes i download this illegally

[festma100]

feine musik....

[hamajuggle]

O my god, I didn't know a cello could cry and puke...

[DamoEmuSmall]

some people have criticised his performance. Why???? This to me is Lou Reed proving how great he is - still so versatile and different and representing music in its true artistic form. Sure he sounds different but don't we all after years age us with the yellow tongue of time. He rocks without a doubt.

[petkracken]

I love this rendition, and as always I find this song so inspiring. The cellist rocks, gave me chills. Now if only I can convert all of my years of classical violin training into something like that!

[BigPoppa957]

He can't even be close to how it's suppose to be sung...He LOST so much his delivery is awful.

[MushroomCloud22]

@BigPoppa957 he wrote it, he has the right to sing it how he wants.

[jeezusallahchrist]

@BigPoppa957

I agree with you completely

[arsenoxid]

@BigPoppa957 Shall he alltimes be his own echo?

[DonnaCherry9109]

23 people are afraid of masochism.

[nilirl]

fuck -it's so gooood

[kartoffelmozart]

This is good, but nothing beats the Animal Serenade cello solo!

[Schurik72]

It is an absolute marvellous rendition. His interpretation is more abstract, gives something new to it, it is more mature. But don't misunderstand me. Cale's version is quite good as well, adorable but still more a profound remake than a new inventive interpretation. To me the cello sounds absolutely not forced more a very courageous means to express the inner distortion.

[JosephODea]

Jane Scarpantoni makes her cello sounds like the doppler effect of a passing motorcycle gang, a model airplane engine, a chainsaw, a swarm of hairdryers, an electric saw, machines being tortured, an orchestra of power tools in agony, a pterodactyl with a spear in its bowels, a dying jet plane. Jimi Hendrix and Yoko Ono would be proud. It's all sex and violence and frenzy. The track should be renamed "Jane Scarpantoni Masturbates Her Cello In Anger." -- Joseph O'Dea.

[smurfthumper]

@JosephODea Close, except that it just sounds like a cello.

[PrivateAckbar]

It's very Doors-ish.

[rsgrievous10]

nice sort of rockn roll/ light versionof it. tbf i cant describe it

[Malonestar]

cello sounds forced and unatural, i know its out there but john cales violla of pure sonic madness is like a lilly floating down the river

[Malonestar]

it was alright, the sonic parts on the cello are obviously forced, what you get with JOHN CALE is something else, effortless flowing psychedelia

[StrummingSparrow]

the cello just lifts the performance here

[KiLLiNHiLLz]

JANE ROCKS!!!

[winggoddess]

i'm surprised that girl's hair doesn't get caught in her cello strings.

[kevindmt]

Lou Reed's interpretation sucks, but Jane Scarpantoni litterally rescues the show with her extraordinarly awesome cello solo.

[Carthsgtr]

@kevindmt

He wrote the song you idiot. Not that I disagree with your opinion though. His voice sucks and this is devoid of all feeling.

[kevindmt]

@Carthsgtr

Why do you call me 'idiot'? I know he wrote the song, i've never said otherwise! I just don't like the way he sings it now...

[johnnimar]

lou heoroina reed perfec day

[tislidge]

super cello

[raonipaes]

There is a deep dark ages musical feeling to this song plus much of psychedelic  experimentalism

[astroboirap]

what was loopy lou thinking of, his delivery is poor. terrible lou. i woulda asked for my money back.

[i0love0the0strokes]

goood fuckin song

[uberpedant]

ouch - truely awful version. Go and look at the V.U. / John Cale original it's so much better.

[justnicknet]

@uberpedant John Cale original?

Hmmmm.

[uberpedant]

@justnicknet you do know who john cale is I assume?

[krapotkin71]

@uberpedant do some more research turd... this song is made by Velvet underground.. guess who wrote it.. Lou reed..

[uberpedant]

@krapotkin71 and who sang it in VU?...yep indeed get researching

[justnicknet]

@uberpedant

Who sang it in the velvet underground?

This guy named Lou Reed.

[krapotkin71]

Lou reed wrote it.. and sang it.. i have the album right here.. the ONLY song on this album written by someone else is "sunday morning" and its by Cale

[MrNottheword]

Damn. damn again. Pretty bare but, wow.

[sekhmetraptah]

this poem is beautiful in and of itself, no matter how lou wants to convey it...this is only meant for those that get it and nothing else matters

jane's masterful cello drone is breathtaking

[2010Hendrik]

Sorry for Lou, but it's horrible. Almost unconceivable that Lou Reed himself is actually singing this. It doesn't hold the faintest glimpse of the compelling magic of the original studio version. Which was carefully produced of course: the unsettling big-drum beat, the lush tamborine bells, the sinister violin and of course Lou's brilliant clear, sober, metallic-like voice. What a difference! Just reminds us perhaps how the best music is made in studios by producers, not on stages by singers

[secilXD]

@2010Hendrik Just reminds us that some songs are not meant to be resinged

[m333mz]

@2010Hendrik How about this, the man's old as fuck; his voice clearly won't be the same as it was when he was younger. Cut the man some slack.

[2010Hendrik]

@m333mz Yes, you are right, I think. He's the prime genius behind this fantastic song after all and deserves our gratitude for that. Thanks.

[m333mz]

@2010Hendrik Heheh that's the spirit!

[ronaldzucker]

When it came out, this record supposedly only sold 2,000 copies, but everyone who bought it started a band. I know it changed how I listen to music, and started me thinking about writing all those years ago. Still my favorite cut off the record.

[Doomhead22]

Lou fucking Reed

[uberpedant]

check out the John Cale venus in furs video, and decide if it's Lou Reed or the violin that makes this song. Well worth checking it out,

[ltsmash1200]

@uberpedant I'm not going to lie, I like John Cale's better.

[Buru80]

Absolutely stunning version of this song.

[waarsenburg1]

The best song ever

[kikmyjimi]

I must admit,wasn't really into Velvet Underground, just came across it while looking for the most expensive vinyl lp of all time,and look here velvet underground,25,000 US dollars,wow !! Now I know why,great song,have checked out other songs too, excellent stuff !! And all this some 40+ years later.

[beepmotherfuckerbeep]

@kikmyjimi Fortunately there are reissues of those LPs that only cost 15-20 dollars. I recommend getting those.

[LuLoZ1987]

awesome !

[SueNeri45]

L'amo!

[assmonkey75]

I miss the sitar.

[heysatan8]

Shiny, shiny...

[9988eddie]

wow I like this version, if you like Lou Reed than you will understand this song. Great!!!!

Peter

Switzerland

[EricPierreCantona]

It's this the same version from Animal Serenade? Anyway, the first time i heard it it really strucked me, it sents chills up your spine...

[venisfurs]

WHAT CAN I SAY!

[willwkrueger]

the cellist is the shit, ive heard her do other versions of this and heroin, anyone know her name?

[DrBenway83]

Jane Scarpantoni.

[willwkrueger]

thanks!

[AlandisDendii]

Jane Scarpantoni - Saw Lou with this line up in April 2005, just incredible, after he sang Vanishing Act, my missus was in tears...

[eliasrafn]

For so so so long I've been looking for that cello solo to listen to it again! thanks a lot for putting this on youtube!

[Bananaskunk]

@eliasrafn ha same i heard it at a house party and have been searching far and wide thanks

[Bananaskunk]

@eliasrafn oh and you can buy it on lou reed's Animal Serenade Album

[SadSak08]

Fanstasic~

[piroschka6]

the studio version is one of my favourite reed songs....the life perfomance is for my taste too far away from that sinister atmoshere....

[EscapingEthanOfficia]

He's gone tone death, he hasn't even tried. He obviously doesn't care anymore!

[willwkrueger]

it's "tone deaf" you jack ass, and he is singing in key, just mixing it up. tone death lol

[EscapingEthanOfficia]

@willwkrueger

Ok 'TONE DEAF,' then, chill out dude!. If you think this is in key then perhaps you need to take a look at some older velvet underground stuff as I think it is quite obvious that the performance standard has dropped. But if you don't agree, that's cool, no need to be such a prick about it!

[veranka3]

One CD with a dozen songs spanning Lou's career represents more originality than the combined box sets of 20 bands you'd customarily hear on the radio. He essentially created the underground/alternative rock scene in America. He stood up & said the music was more important than commercial success or anything else. Others have also done this since, of course, & the overwhelming majority of those artists are huge Lou Reed fans. It's fine to have an opinion, but please-- respect what he has done.

[MrLetsdolunch]

@veranka3

Wow well said veranka3. Nice to see a top comment that doesn't come from a fucking moron.

[CatrinaDarkangel]

I think this is a wonderful version of the song...it has a very haunting sound to it when it first starts...then the cello....wonderful. It is not like the old version.....but..I think it is cool that the original singer reinvinted the song.

[ajabberwock]

One of my favorite VU songs, and my spanish fly DVD is my favorite, but this is a miss. Sorry Lou but you should have left this in the past.

[Varganchik]

Hahahahaaha))))))))))))))) She's the greatest cello player)))) I guess she has a close relationship to Kurt Cobain))))

[djboony]

its curious how all great musicians go off the boil, to say the least. not to be nasty but i wish he died with the velvets. i like my rock and rollers dead, better than this

[EscapingEthanOfficia]

Couldn't agree more!

[dereksmallsuk]

el shite-o !!!

[StrummerLivesxxx]

Well I disagree with everyone. At the start I had hair standing up on the back of my neck. But then the chello lady came in...

[genoto]

common this is realy bad. i can't belive that lou reed did this.

[audible67]

you can't believe it? clearly you haven't seen what he's been doing for the last 20 yrs...(with good reason) I do agree with you.

[nickfromCO]

WOW WTF?!?! Lou Reed was great with the Velvet's but this is not a good performance and John Cale's live performance puts this to shame. This lady with the cello makes me wanna shoot myself.

[kyral210]

I think its called not caring any more.

[beepmotherfuckerbeep]

I love Lou Reed, but this is just terrible.

[AlcuinHimself]

Sure, but it's interesting. I can see what he's trying to do, and if he'd done the vocals differently, it would have worked. I love the cello.

[Bananaskunk]

i think she just got her hair tangled up with the strings... it wasnt supposed to sound like that.. jk

[Reguasca]

That cello can hypnotize anybody.

[PopeRoderic]

This prodigious song is said to have been composed in 10 minutes, just after Lou Reed finished to read Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's masterpiece - Amazing !!!

Great version :D:D:D

[panmadrypl]

he sings terrible. i think he wants to be too proggresive. velvet underground was much better. try amon tobin's version of velvet undergound's masterpiece.!!

[sssssssssssssssssste]

tragic...never go back

[JustinO2]

all i can say of this performance is FUCK YES....again please

[SpinettaGMR]

what a genius!

[slcollom]

John Cale's version is better; it stays true to the essence of the Velvet Underground

[ForARide]

Totally agree. Cale is the true legacy of the Velvets. Reed just sounds like an old pair of socks here.

[noels0asis]

Cale's version is awesome, but you should never forget who Reed is. he is the legend. the way expressing his feeling is fucking brilliant. it's irreplaceable.

[Mulwany]

Songwriting is everything, and lou wrote it as most of the other stuff... he is velvet underground. And he sounds pretty good here, he's never been a conventionally good singer. Why start now...

[rrte2]

I also prefer Cale's version to this one, but the one that is in Lou's Animal Serenade is at least as good as that one...

[gareri74]

that lady is killing the cello... why is everyone standing by while it is screaming in such pain! do something lou!

[dancelotski]

her name is jane scarpantoni and she is poetry in motion

[KHeyHeyHey]

the girl on the violin is freaking me out wtf

[punkace]

Cello.

[benmeltzer]

Is Animal Serenade available on DVD now????

[D0ST03VSKY]

strike dear mistress, and cure his heart.

[StickyRix]

Yes, Yes, and Yes

[kwakky]

can you post the other songs from this concert, especially "ecstasy"?

[lshaw17]

Looks like Severin's been a naughty boy again.

[dinborough]

Jane Scarpantoni's cello is the ultimate infernal beauty here, fantastic

[Doomhead22]

@dinborough Sounds like a cat dieing... fits perfectly

[nabyloo]

GREAT LOOOOUUUU

[punkace]

It isn't the VU, but its pretty damn cool.

[manelsegura]

Boníssim !!!

El Lou Reed és genial i la Jane Scarpantoni també !!

[egolandia69]

Espectacular!!!!!

[dudzibunny]

que ridiculo esse cara é um merda sem o velvet underground, viro velho pop rico afemeninou-se viro muito da socialite capitalista bundão do caralho, iggy é o cara iggy se mantém, velvet é a origem do mundo e isso ai foi a transformação de uma bicha pop!

saldaremos os tempos do velho velvet

[miguelnevoeiro]

absolutamento certo!

basta compara a versão do john cale.

[rfhache]

thanks !