The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane (Live 1969)

[indigoskiesable]

sweet jane ohhhhhh sweet jane baby ohoooohhhhsweetjanehahahahah ntrip on that silver and golden showers on danae sensitive orifice of love .......hahahaha ahhhaaahh sweet jane ....peace laterzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[CalebGannon]

This is practically a combination of Sweet Jane and Ride Into the Sun. In other words, utterly amazing.

[thenobs123]

@CalebGannon its just 1 less chord. no bm

[youngartist9]

much better version of this song...i just like the slowness....

[DJAsh65]

Less is more. Brill.

[MultiShades]

Jane has a hairy ass for sure. Love it so much ...

[elvispresley718]

what a bunch of perverts! but talented perverts

[BeccaHeartsRainbows]

I've heard many versions of this master piece.. but this for me.. Is the greatest version of all. Lou Reed <3

[johnnyrocket566]

nice song...and ass.

[unfamous13]

@johnnyrocket566

Its a man

[holybear]

I guess the Velvet liked the slower tempo Tommy James and the Shondells used for that riff, huh?

[NoRegretsForOurYouth]

This could be my all-time favorite song. Loaded is such a good album.

[purtrudingfairys]

2.44

[fraannkkiieeN000]

Beautiful!



[thetheRedundant]

It's amazing how modern this sounds. It doesn't sound dated at all..

[nakedbogan]

nice video

[Audrexfractal]

best version

[FezTickle]

cute butt, but an even better tune ;)

[bodsnvimto]

@FezTickle

Not cute, not shapely, in fact I think (given it's VU) it's probably a man's arse.

[FezTickle]

@bodsnvimto lol

[jackrowet1234]

@bodsnvimto Just like the babe on the back of "Transformer" hahah... made alot of people unwillingly question themselves...

[poeticreject]

@bodsnvimto

ha ha, It's probably Lou's

[bodsnvimto]

I love both this & the album version. I thought Cowboy Junkies did a sensational version also.

Still, I preferred the John Cale period, in general.

[jmatzkin]

This is definitive. But I'd like to point out that Ian Hunter and Co. did a great version a few years later. We should give the Velvets their props for inspiring the Glam movement, shouldn't we?

I'm just sayin'.

[zcosmos9]

I know a girl named Jane ...and she is very sweet!

[SpEcIaLoPsM4mAn]

This is obviously a pre coke version of this song!

[Speedosify]

FAP FAP FAP, just wanted to let you know

[lkjhgfdsa954]

what a great ass

[ALICEcupofjuceyjayy]

VELVET IS MY FAVE :p

[oeyvind93]

The Strokes Is This It 's cover is maby more sexy

[MinorHeinrich686]

DL the audio from this vid at searchripgrab doht cohm.

[malachyZZZZZ]

you have actually cut it off as there is another section to the long "Whay am i so shy etc"

[godspelledbackwards]

@malachyZZZZZ you confuse it with Lisa Says

[stepenwolf7]

Admirable

[claus250]

Love these two guitars on this beat...

And the atmosphere... seems a small club!

[spaceorbison]

what a flat little ass that is

[ndinigwe]

@spaceorbison, Hey your eyes are weavering!!!! lol

[chrispycritter2]

It is so hillarious that conservative pigs who lost their virginity at 25 grew up not knowing who to bone! You conservative wimps are angry puds,are you not? You are gonna be the same puds that you have been for years! Wanking the hankie! HAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

[chrispycritter2]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUU!

[whatdoyoucareforr]

I don't hate anybody but BUTT this is disgusting puke if you are going to be that way then JC have some respect for your body....and the people that have to look at it....

[chrispycritter2]

@whatdoyoucareforr Suck it!

[Galuche1L1U]

@whatdoyoucareforr Wtf are you talking about? Are you high?

[whatdoyoucareforr]

I don't hate anybody but  BUTT this is disgusting puke

[ellioteaston93]

GRANDE LOU!!

[moriluk]

thank you . i had both volumes when i was a kid. they are scratched and lost. this is so good!!

[burntheiris]

im sorry lou reed i love you but cowboy junkies version is sooo beautiful. her voice adds to the innocence and magnificence of the song. both bands are amazing :]

[MrVelderado]

the album cover is so bad that i didnt much listen to this great double album

[TheEvilelvis89]

@MrVelderado

it's an ass. what's bad about that ?

[SarahRachel59]

@TheEvilelvis89 I've always found this cover to be kind of gross, considering that it's a man's ass. I just dont find men's asses to be sexy in the context of the picture on the album cover. But, that's just me. Im sure plenty of people do.

[TheEvilelvis89]

@SarahRachel59

oh so it's a man's ass ?? LOL I didn't know that.

[SarahRachel59]

@TheEvilelvis89 Yes it's a man's ass. Lou was really into the drag scene at the time.

[thenobs123]

does anyone happen to know the lead here? please make a video on how to play it or tabs it really makes this song what it is please help

[CamillaVitale]

this is the best version by far ...the best cover is by the cowboy junkies.....love this song.....

[rainbowpagun]

i miss jane

[WoodRatGirl]

Awesome album cover!

[453609]

F*ck the Junkies.  Not even close.

[misterjaz]

Every version until the solo version was this same tempo.

[ThisTownNotMe]

crimson and clooverrrr

[okhan001]

beautiful..i haven't heard this in a while, thanks

[tondi69]

la piu bella

[mwindle1973]

Here's the studio outtake that has the bridge and extended outro:

/watch?v=WgUs7yWnDJ8 (won't let me post links, but just copy this after .com)

Here's the shorter version without the bridge that was released on the album:

/watch?v=nkumhBVPGdg

[ab77blues]

Beautiful. Just beautiful music.

[VoodooPolitico]

Years ago, I knew this junkie chick named Melissa. The were calling her Sweet Jane before I had met her. I had always assumed it was from this song.. I heard a few years ago that they found her dead somewhere in fucking Croatia. She was the cutest sweetest little thing. Rich family. Loved the needle more than anything. She actually loved the lifestyle of being a junkie.

[WoodRatGirl]

@VoodooPolitico

That's a great story and hey at least she's happy wherever she is now right?

Well I hope so anyways :)

[saltcitysuesey]

I wish they could have found someone besides Lou to pose for the cover photo! I bet they airbrushed! 

[MrVelderado]

awful cover but great live album, I used to listen to it in the eighties

[61dodgelancer]

Oh, great version. I like. Thanks!

[starkomanchild]

Theres a live version the tragically hip did with saxophone player Davis Manning its awesome.

[SquidAttackMusic]

I dig the slower tempo thing.

[spaGhettiTypeR]

somebody light me up, while i pour this wine

[bluejayway123]

this is the only version of this song that i can listen to

[IoEstasCedonta]

Must say I liked the original better, especially with the bridge this is based on. This redux is nice as part of a concert, but as a single (SOMEONE'S single...) it's just terrible, especially when they had so much better to work with.

[ludditeneaderthal]

@IoEstasCedonta this live version was released after 2 other versions of the song.. original outro... then the "la lal la" outro with the same version lyrics...all within only a couple of years... it would have been "beating a dead horse" to release yet another with the original lyrics... i find it fits perfectly into the "operatic illustration" of nyc ca. 1965 - 1970 that is the VU catalog... along with "waiting for the man" it paints a vivid picture of that era's "heroin class"

[Duesenbergh]

Oh my god what a fantastic Song,let the good times roll!!

[hoolihans58]

Nice, but check out VU Live at Max's Kansas City album 1970. Lou, Doug Yule, Billy Yule and Sterling Morrison. As pure as it can get and that goes for all the songs on it.

[apaper234]

always changing it up, like they were bored with their work... check out the quine tapes and searching for my main line

[Teddyb1939]

This is pure MAGIC ,lovely track . This is their best music,slow & moody.

[Wilfslad]

I read somewhere this was the day or night he wrote it, which might explain why other versions are so different

[AbsoluutKat]

The V.U.'s first paying gig was in 1965 at my HIGH SCHOOL in Summit, NJ. That's right. They got paid $75 bucks. Awright!

[hoolihans58]

@AbsoluutKat

We still pay beginning bands aboutt that little. Maybe that's the way to get it done, hardship.

[BruceK10032]

@AbsoluutKat $75 wasn't so bad in 1965.

[nevanance]

first heard this on a compilation tape (like we used to do) about 20 years ago, sounds brand new now......lovely x

[EMPower08]

i love this song and this version

[plopplop1983]

the best version by a million miles... when john cale left the band sterling morrison came into his own.... utterly fantastic, no slight on john, he was genius

[wistoncap]

With the possible exception being the "Take no prisoners" version, if only for how funny it is.

[Fatherflot64]

You said it, avooslwuthoqquan. I have loved every minute of of "Live 1969" (with the exception of "I Can't Stand It") since I first heard it about 25 years ago. This is the post-Cale version of the band at its best, very Sterling-dominated, I think. The Quines tapes have more great stuff from this period. They play like the greatest, coolest bar band in the world---no avant garde, no arena rock, just lovely, intimate work.

[avooslwuthoqquan]

This is my favorite version of the song. The Velvet Underground were at their best when they were slow and somber. The faster versions of this song just don't do as much for me.

[mwindle1973]

Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Mott the Hoople & the Cowboy Junkies are the only versions.

[adamheart85]

So this must be where the Cowboy Junkies got the idea to do the slow version! This song sounds great fast or slow.

[mwindle1973]

You're right because the first verse in this is just like the cowboy junkies. It's the last verse in most version. Actually this seems to be an alternate lyric altogether

[ludditeneaderthal]

@mwindle1973 it's a "redux"....a trailer to put on the end of a live performance...it's like "life is just to die..." drop tempo 1/4, add the 5th beat to the harmony, and make their jaws drop... maybe also because they were performing in texas, and the alternate harmony has a more "country feel"? the tele chops dont hurt that either

[mwindle1973]

@ludditeneaderthal You know I just noticed to this is a three chord progression in the verses instead of a four chord progression.Really they added a transitional chord for the studio.And I stand corrected their are a dozen or so recorded remakes of this song.But I further researched this and this is the orginal arrangement.Plus there are 2 versions of the studio take.One with a bridge, & on with just the pre-bridge.The pre-bridge is the first verse in this version.I really prefer this version.

[JamPonyMessenger]

@adamheart85 From Wikipedia: 1988: Cowboy Junkies on The Trinity Session album. Later released as a CD single, and used on the Trent Reznor-compiled Natural Born Killers soundtrack. The Cowboy Junkies's version is based on the slower early version included in 1969: The Velvet Underground Live. Lou Reed himself described it as "the best and most authentic version I have ever heard".[2]

[deardahl]

@adamheart85 It is. Cowboy Junkies version is also Lou Reed's favorite version.

[insightdelight]

@adamheart85 Yeah man. This is the version of the song that Cowboy Junkies covered. The other V.U. version has completely different lyrics and a different vibe, too. I prefer this one.

[youngartist9]

@insightdelight yeah this one is better...

[blockisland12345]

this is by far my favorite version of sweet jane

atta boy lou!

still goin strong after all these years

[WaldoJeffers25]

I've also uploaded live versions Heroin and What Goes On, check them out!

[johnnylongback]

@WaldoJeffers25 Smuck!!!

[johnnylongback]

@WaldoJeffers25 Waldo, I'm fairly new to this internet fing, and all your comments seem to have been posted for a while, but has no-one cottened on to the fact that you're a real "gift" can't remember your birds name but did she ever say sorry for stickin that fing through your head after you'd travelled half the way cross the U.S. to see her!!!!

[NutsInGuts]

hands down

[thenobs123]

@blockisland12345 without a fucking doubt