The Velvet Underground - There She Goes Again

[versta12]

one of the best songs ever exist

[cinedores]

you better hit her

[1glib1]

The hook is a shameless ripoff of "Hitch Hike" by the Stones. It's undeniable, even if the Stones lifted it from somebody else. A brilliant Pop Art maneuver.

[simoom37]

one of my favourite VU songs... I mean, listen to this guitar!! the way it being played!

[Rossyboy3000]

And I'm sorry but anyone who says they enjoy the singing voice of a female Ahhhnold is fucking lying.

[RDBeatnik]

@Rossyboy3000 Cool story, bra!

[Rossyboy3000]

I like this band but I admit I can't understand the hero-worship some bands give these guys...i guess you have to understand them in the context of their time, as well as appreciate their lo-fi grungeness.

[johnny10301968]

God bless Andy Warhol for this group.

[hagusmalloy]

holy shit I've never seen it before but that's the original goatse, that first image.

[TheFarnation]

@alongfortheride1 Hey, prostitutes pray too!

[MrJoshtrocki]

is it wrong that this gave me a boener

[CDLSrockers]

@MrJoshtrocki no



[DeedleDeedleDumplin]

If she's out on the street and down on her knees, she surely ain't prayin' ;) Great track.

[paolosilv]

Lou has his own sound, but there's definitely a Dylan influence in there. He's more hard-edged than Dylan.

[nickfromCO]

@alongfortheride1 one of the best comments i've ever read on youtube...hahahahahaha

[11xzxzxz]

Lou Reed stole the intro from the Rolling Stones cover of Marvin Gaye's 1963 Hitchhiker. But it was just the intro (the dumb stones didn't realize what they had) and the rest of the stone's cover song was pretty average. The Velvets stole but they used it to much greater effect and the whole song is just perfect. Also Nico sounds "fake" but is still effective on that record. After Loaded, Lou lost his genius - it's hitchhiked elsewhere. Down on her knees=oral sex. Better hit her=with a drug.

[nilbog44]

this kinda reminds me of onerepublic

[JurricaChiannaNycole]

Is she really dead? That's unfortunate.

[bobika366]

Nico is so fake

[animascat]

@bobika366 no she is quite dead.

[1957glen]

class

[IngaKnows]

Singer sounds so much like Iggy Pop to me... anyone elso agree? Thumbs up my comment if you do. :)

[lupica747]

@IngaKnows he sounds more like bob dylan to me...or he just sounds like lou reed...im sure lou would like hearing people say that too.

[krono965]

The Velvets are the best band of all time fusing beat lyrics and avant garde rock. In the words of Allen Ginsberg. HOLY!

[mussman717word]

@krono965

RIGHT! 

[BmomSON]

@krono965 HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY

HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY

THE UNDEGROUND IS HOLY

LOU REED IS HOLY

THE FOOTNOTE IS HOLY

[rioblancoman]

jagger and richards, n' page n' plant snaked their tunes from the fertile fields of the south. As in the American south.

Lou embraced it all, and made his own crop from the seeds.

[jonnytheoasisfan]

@highschoolmusical841 Jagger sung like a american .. no one's original may friend.

[DejectedPanda]

Is this the album cut? It sounds like it was recorded on a hand held tapedeck while the band was in another room.

[BilisNegra]

@DejectedPanda Not been listening to the album lately, but some years ago I listened to it about twice in a week... and I should be used enough to it to notice if there is a difference. For me, it sounds as usual. Youtube vid quality is not always close to a cd or good mp3 file, but the cut itself seems the same. Anyone correct if I'm wrong.

[11xzxzxz]

@DejectedPanda No sure at all why you think that . Millions have listened and I'll bet you are the first to think that though i think it just means you don't like the song. My favorite on the record. Really fine harmony with a hard-edged guitar leading the way. You really hate the song or just the sound which is the song I guess?

[DejectedPanda]

@11xzxzxz I just meant it sounds like a live bootleg or something. Not real polished. The song actually isn't bad.

[11xzxzxz]

@DejectedPanda Ha .. song isn't bad? You more or less prove my point and don't like the song and tguis us the studio version though a little raw/ Do you like any other songs by Velvets?

[gabziel]

Another great song! Still about heroin...hahahaha

[ledzeppize]

DaFawky is a fucking naive guy

[mollehhhx]

@highschoolmusical841 ahahahha okay i'm sorry

[mollehhhx]

@highschoolmusical841 you faggot i said the end of the song not how he died god CAN YOU READ

[Mzza99919]

Attention everyone please do not feed the trolls thank you

[xabnu]

why we're analyzing instead of just fucking enjoying this song...

look at all your friends that she's gonna meet, now take a look there's no tears in her eyes, fly fly away. No prayer here whatsoever - VU are great because they don't f-in preach.

[BowskiBig]

The only time "down on her knees" is ever even close to implying praying in rock in roll, is probably California Dreamin'. And even then the priest may have wanted some action in exchange for the warmth, I'm not going to interprate the lyrics.

[jonnytheoasisfan]

Hitch hike anyone?? never thought VU would rob their riffs

[jetelegen]

Did someone seriously posit that "down on her knees" was about prayer?

See, our generation needs a new VU, and for EXACTLY THIS REASON!

[vansfire]

@alongfortheride1 it sounds like it could have dual meanings, lou did shit like that, and thats why the velvet underground are as awesome as they are

[xXKilamanjaroXx]

ehh. I dont like.

[mollehhhx]

the end is amazing

[imakeawishforapotato]

you bettah hit her

[AndreGolf4]

she won't take it from just any guy ;-)

[Ansofiie]

fav song!

[soulkitchenmami]

the sound is hipie hit.... 

[DNDis4Suckas]

@soulkitchenmami I can't entirely tell what you wrote since it's rather illegible, but if you're saying that this is hippy crap then, just like the guy who thought "down on her knees" meant praying, you don't know the Velvet Underground.

[johnny10301968]

God bless Andy Warhol for this group.

[bigdunk9]

It's amazing when it skips off on its own around 1:53 and comes right back into the melody, like a wonderful banana shaped dog off its leash.

[IsYouAthanasios]

Not all about Heroin.

It's about a whore selling herself around and a drunk guy beating her up.

[jaqua524]

love this song

[TheLegitMan93]

I love the way the guitar sounds on this song!

[michaeleddie1]

@alongfortheride1 ots open for interpretation, nobodies right or wrong

[guyanaboi122]

lol "the velvet undergroud"

[kylethompson4]

hit her once for me :)

[ONLY1MEXICANROCKER]

Every time i hear this i get chills haha

[jonathan1994ish1]

Respond to this video... it means blow jobs

[Stoopchow]

Every time I listen to this song in the car I nearly crash; taking my hands off the wheel to beat or clap out the rhythm. "You better hit her" dun dun dun dun.....dun dun dun dun.

[predlycon]

down on her knees! lol :))

[tjpell68]

This sounds better than when REM covered it!!

[MundayMotion]

@tjpell68 no kidding???

[happyjack585]

it's great, they sorta piss u off in a way, but that makes them good. Like in heroine, (and it makes me feel like I'm a man/when i put a spike in my- u expect them to say hand, cause it rhymes, but they're beyond it, and it might sound weird, but it lets you know that these guys don't need to rhyme to make a kickass song.

[MundayMotion]

@happyjack585 arm

[vikinglustmachine]

The stones didn't even write hitch hike, its a marvin gaye song. Weird, a white super band covering black soul songs and no one knowing who did it?

[jonnytheoasisfan]

@vikinglustmachine yeah.. Soul and motown is best there ever been.

[Sahyeh]

@vikinglustmachine You speak the truth bruvva!!

[San5a]

i wanna understand how can they mix the voice fucking great!

lou's great here 1:20 :"now take a look there's no tears in her eyes"

[unavaiblle]

ahaha 'down on her knees' = blowjob

[alivebytheriver]

all about heroin i think

[sekhmetraptah]

@alivebytheriver mayhap the oldest profession

[TheUndergrnd]

you better hit her!

[jasonjarvis1988]

i reckon blow jobs were better in 60s

[sidDkid87]

@jasonjarvis1988 no doubt, they were cheaper

[flicker1969]

@jasonjarvis1988 i thought the 80,s woz a good vitage ? ? ?

[yerk3]

@jasonjarvis1988 WTF? blow jobs were better in the 60's? How do you figure?

[wildyoungsters]

@jasonjarvis1988 oh i'd definitely reckon that one

[tommason1984]

@jasonjarvis1988 asked my dad, he confirmed this THUMBS UP!

[jrod1112]

@jasonjarvis1988 I'll bet.

[BilisNegra]

@jasonjarvis1988 Need to be that vulgar??? No, hahaha, just kidding ;-)

[GrigoriZhukov]

@jasonjarvis1988 naw, most of 'em didn't swallow back then either.

[BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS]

@jasonjarvis1988 blowjobs are immoral

[robinzhooded]

@BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS No they aren't you dumb god freak. Go back to church and suck off jesus's dick some more, you know you want to.

[BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS]

@robinzhooded clit licking is immoral as are blowjobs-lou reed; jesus; mohammed; budha ; john cale maybe go back to art school and or high school art class paint some bad paintings some more, you know you want to

[robinzhooded]

@BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS Im not an artist dumbass, god freaks sure are great at spewing out nonsense and trying to make it look like logic.

[rachelwilson5]

@robinzhooded BAHAHAH nice ;)

[nimatek667]

@BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS they may be immoral, but also a good way to meet god and all his saints XD

[Stephanjnj]

They "borrow" Marvin Gaye's Hitch Hike riff here, to great effect. Good God, this should have been a smash hit for them.

[Coppertunes]

And Johnny Marr from The Smiths borrowed the intro for 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out'

Made a great song out of it :-)

[mistermousterian]

@Coppertunes and VU copped it from the Stones "Hitch -hike"

[genericusername337]

You betta hit'uh!

[ramita79]

HITCH HIKE !

[anthonydom1]

this is probibly their best song next to heroin

[BazzTheBoss]

haha that's quite funny.

[BazzTheBoss]

@Feralgirl6

she's down on her knees my friend, but you know she'll never ask you please my friend...

[BazzTheBoss]

*again

[DaFawky]

well that doesnt really mean its prostitution. it could be a very religious woman on her knees "praying to the Lord Almighty"

[BazzTheBoss]

@DaFawky

People only pray when they need something, and people say please to be polite

[DaFawky]

hmm? well thats not entirely true because people give thanks, 'worship' through prayer, etc. but how does this mean that she couldn't have been praying insdtead of sucking dick? i mean no one ever says please to suck dick, that just sounds weird. i hear please in prayers and stuff.

[cubyman23]

Nope she's blowing people

[DaFawky]

@cubyman23 how do you know

[joshie92]

@DaFawky HAHAHAHAHAHAHA funny joke

[genericusername337]

lol, 7 thumbs down

that's kinda really funny

[MrRedtick]

great song

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

An honest and positive portrayal of prostitution is so refreshing to listen to. This song is not only ahead of it's time, but ours. Yet how ironic it is the world's oldest profession.

[ladyjanus]

WONDERFUL!

[Miiiiiwi]

nice song :)

[Miiiiiwi]

nice song ! :)

[enagyb]

you better hit him... bye bye bye bybybybybybyby babe

[11xzxzxz]

Great kick-ass song. Lou meant that she would get hit by her pimp. He wasn't in favor of it but just was relating honestly what he saw on the streets.

[Dubiousjohnny]

I don't think Lou Reed liked anybody let alone John Cale. It is true, without John Cale ''it'' was no longer a Velvet Underground sound, unique to the avantguard of New York then. The album is a fresh as ever.

[venisfurs]

one of my favorite velvet songs, you better hit her!

[plslvmn]

his later singing is just talking. his sixties work is by far the best. I'm really mad that he kicked John Cale out of the Velvets. They should have worked it out a little more. Maybe they would have made even more great music. And he didn't like Nico, for some reason.

[kaaskop14]

VU after Cale left, should have got another name. It  just isnt the same thing.

[louiecostello]

thats just simply not true pal

[Silentstep66]

His later work is very different... Lou has changed it up alot over the years and that is what makes him so good.. he has never kept the same sound.. every album post VU sounds completly different. He was a kid in the 60's.. New Sensations New York Songs for Drella ( with John Cale) The Blue mask Ecstasy Set the twillight reeling Magic and loss are all kick ass albums.. Yes Lou talks in alot of his songs.. but he does it so well, probably cant dance to it.. oh well lol

[ZombieHipHop2345]

Whaaat the - no mention of Berlin or Transformer? Those are by far his greatest two achievements post-VU. Transformer in particular is an absolute classic.

And it's always strange to read and hear about people complaining about how Reed's voice has changed over the years. With all the shit he involved himself with, especially in the 60's, and quite simply age it's perfectly natural that his voice (or anyone's voice) would change and lose some of it's range.

[Silentstep66]

Of course transformer and berlin are viewed by many as his "greatest achievements"

I enjoy his later stuff more.. its more political and by the mid 80's Lou had stepped out of the dark - Go listen to New Sensations... its about quitting drinking and how great it is to be sober for the first time in 20 years :)

[agentoranges]

best song about dating a hooker.

[bagok777]

Amazing song and album The velvet rock me encanta

[yokkachi]

"you better hit her" !!! lol

like to see someone get away with that line these days ..

[ghouluwant]

they keepin it real ^_~

but seriously... you really wouldn't hear that these days.

<3VU

[labambawatusi]

True, people mistake art for advice!

Tho' there's some pretty harsh stuff out there these days, just check what the children are listening to!

[aeschhere]

I should hope it would be taken to mean 'hit ON her' ,

[FunkyBass]

people like the shamwow guy. lol

[dylan300000]

One of the best albums in history, hands down.

[Firey216876Asia]

cool song but not many comment my dad yet likes this song loves the album

[nprenty12]

is this in kill bill

[afraasiab]

Luv the tune , luv the way Lou Reed talks about social taboos.. Its 2008 now and we are still listening to this 1965 song . It says it all as how great this music is. I bought velvet underground CD yesterday and am listening to it all day ( and night)

[the13er]

Reed has no shame to imitate Dylan every way.

I like the perfect syncro and ironic backing vocals.

[labambawatusi]

True, but it's still Reed. I like it better than his later "singing" which is all monotone.

[ghouluwant]

i agree w/ this comment, completely

[daverogers1988]

TUNE!

[IViewMusic]

mentioned by johnny marr. search: johnny marr detroit motown.. it's at the end