If I were to record an album and legally change my name to "The Velvet Underground", it would be just as much of a real Velvets album as this abomination.
Jeez, lighten up, people. Doug Yule was the only person left after everybody else quit. Put yourself in his place: he's asked to make an album and there's nobody else around anymore so he gives it his best shot. It's not like he was cashing in on the VU's massive reputation; the other albums were all flops, that's why everybody quit. I agree the album would be more accurately labeled a Doug Yule solo album, but we have the advantage of 40 years of hindsight.
@Tsugaheterophylla Wrong! Mo Tucker was still in the band, but she wasn't allowed to drum (management's orders) on this album. They toured sporadically as the Velvet Underground, Yule and Tucker, with two other guys from 1972 to 1974 or `75.
Shut up, Metal Machine Music was completely different. I respect Doug Yule, and his vocals are excellent (especially next to Lou's), but if he did make this album all by himself and call it a Velvet Underground album, then it's wrong. As for me, I just heard of this album like 35 seconds ago when I clicked on the song. Anyhow, Metal Machine music was a statement, a contractual obligation, that turned out pretty damned trippy.
@mussman717word I really love "Metal Machine Music" and this album too. If you've only heard of this album 35 seconds ago then what authority does it give you to speak out whether this is a real Velvet or not. Free Doug Yule you tyrants! Peace.
Oh, if you really love Metal Machine Music, why didn't you say so? That was the only reason I really bugged you. As far as my only hearing 35 seconds of the song, my eyes slipped upon Thunkercankles' comment, and the 9 people who voted it up... which is why I said "IF he did make this album all by himself and call it a VU album, then it's wrong," yatta-yatta-yatta. Doug Yule wasn't a founding member, so I'd see it as unethical. That's all, but IDK. Forget I said anything.
I think that if Doug Yule released this as a solo album, It would have been much better recieved by the public and critics. The songs aren't really that bad, it just isn't VU :(
Actually this album was meant to a Doug Yule album. Lou Reed actually left VU in the middle of the tour prior leaving Doug Yule to cover all vocals. After that tour Doug Yule went back in the studio to start work on a new album. The label made him make it a VU record cos they wanted to literally 'squeeze' out one last VU album. Partly it was out of Doug Yule's control. Ian Paice (Deep Purple) played drums and Doug Yule covered everything else.
Actually this album was meant to a Doug Yule album. Lou Reed actually left VU in the middle of the tour prior leaving Doug Yule to cover all vocals. After that tour Doug Yule went back in the studio to start work on a new album. The label made him make it a VU record cos they wanted to literally 'squeeze' out one last VU album. Partly it was out of Doug Yule's control.
this is hippy honky tonk! doug..after playing with one of the masters..this is all you could churn out..and i am big upping the phrase churn here to describe the cany ass ..no enuch on parade..no ..too cool ..lets say ..banal drivel ..
My god guys, this is pure genius. I have lived that life in the 70's. I only wish I could describe what it is like to CRASH from speed (speeding everywhere) and live on peanut butter. It really isn't fair to compare this to the Beatles and their hippy ideals. There IS NO comparison.
I am lucky that I didn't end up like Crash McBean, even tho I have had a few Molly's faces gone green on me. This is an intense song, even tho it sounds like a cute lil ditty. Thanks for listening to me!
@MichaelinSF dOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HUNDREDS OF HOURS OF QUINE TAPES, SOE OF WHICH WERE TO BE RELEASED? THOSE 3 ARE SOME OF THE BEST VU, AND THERE COULD BE SO MANY MORE..
Eh, it makes me mad that Doug Yule would title it a Velvet album when he was the only member that worked on the album. It should have just been called DOUG YULE: SQUEEZE.
@Thundercankles And to think he wasn't even much of a member, in my eyes anyway, he was just a replacement, and had little involvment in the song-writing for the two true VU albums so he's really just a mockery.
Is that really from the V.U.'s Squeeze album? I'd never heard anything off of it. Man, that's terrible. Doug Yule should take the walk of shame for even intimating that his band in 1973 had anything remotely to do with what Lou Reed and John Cale were up to in 1966.
You're right- he wasn't trying to imitate the early Velvets, but I probably wouldn't have minded if he did... it's just that the music seems so anodyne. Kind of like The Archies or something.
I'm not sure Doug Yule really wanted to do this album that much...it was more or less their manager's idea to milk the VU name one more time. So don't blame Doug for thinking that he could "imitate" the Velvets.
that's not the Velvet Underground, that's balls.
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dirtynuke 1 week ago
sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick
nicorigo 2 weeks ago
If I were to record an album and legally change my name to "The Velvet Underground", it would be just as much of a real Velvets album as this abomination.
UncleErnie71 3 weeks ago
this isn't the glorious velvet, it`s only shit, only shit , fuck you doug...
londinium7 1 month ago
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londinium7 1 month ago
Sounds like a mix of Martha My Dear by the Beatles and that song Santas Super Sleigh from the movie About a Boy lol
Gabe511 1 month ago
just love the cover, don't like much the music. A VU fan
freudastaire 7 months ago
I don't like it much, but thanks for posting, I never heard it before.
amarch8 9 months ago
Sounds like some Lou Reed solo songs.
the13er 9 months ago
oh my god
Slopies 10 months ago
A truly boring album that only garners interest as an oddity. It deserves not to be re-released.
ConnieLynchitz 10 months ago
Who cares who's singing? I don't. I like it.
heyjude97 11 months ago
Jeez, lighten up, people. Doug Yule was the only person left after everybody else quit. Put yourself in his place: he's asked to make an album and there's nobody else around anymore so he gives it his best shot. It's not like he was cashing in on the VU's massive reputation; the other albums were all flops, that's why everybody quit. I agree the album would be more accurately labeled a Doug Yule solo album, but we have the advantage of 40 years of hindsight.
Tsugaheterophylla 1 year ago 4
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Well said!
tony0000 8 months ago
@Tsugaheterophylla Wrong! Mo Tucker was still in the band, but she wasn't allowed to drum (management's orders) on this album. They toured sporadically as the Velvet Underground, Yule and Tucker, with two other guys from 1972 to 1974 or `75.
MrJohndoakes 1 month ago
THIS IS NOT THE VELVET UNDERGROUND!!!! This is a knock off with Doug yule in it. And a dude from deep purple! I'm disappointed!
Heytrigger 1 year ago
Give Doug Yule a break. This is better than Lou Reeds album "Metal Machine Music"
LogInAnders 1 year ago
@LogInAnders
Shut up, Metal Machine Music was completely different. I respect Doug Yule, and his vocals are excellent (especially next to Lou's), but if he did make this album all by himself and call it a Velvet Underground album, then it's wrong. As for me, I just heard of this album like 35 seconds ago when I clicked on the song. Anyhow, Metal Machine music was a statement, a contractual obligation, that turned out pretty damned trippy.
mussman717word 1 year ago
@mussman717word I really love "Metal Machine Music" and this album too. If you've only heard of this album 35 seconds ago then what authority does it give you to speak out whether this is a real Velvet or not. Free Doug Yule you tyrants! Peace.
LogInAnders 1 year ago
@LogInAnders
Oh, if you really love Metal Machine Music, why didn't you say so? That was the only reason I really bugged you. As far as my only hearing 35 seconds of the song, my eyes slipped upon Thunkercankles' comment, and the 9 people who voted it up... which is why I said "IF he did make this album all by himself and call it a VU album, then it's wrong," yatta-yatta-yatta. Doug Yule wasn't a founding member, so I'd see it as unethical. That's all, but IDK. Forget I said anything.
mussman717word 1 year ago
@mussman717word Forget I said anything too. Enjoy! :)
LogInAnders 1 year ago
I think that if Doug Yule released this as a solo album, It would have been much better recieved by the public and critics. The songs aren't really that bad, it just isn't VU :(
BeatleFloydZeppelin 1 year ago 2
This is a historical JOKE!WTF?Yeah,I might as well call my band The Velvet Underground!
SHOEGAZEFAN73 1 year ago
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well....the velvet underground without reed, cale, moe tucker, morrison....and without Rock & Roll....Sucks
neto4346 1 year ago
well....the velvet underground without reed, cale, moe tucker, morrison....and without Rock & Roll....Sucks
neto4346 1 year ago
Actually this album was meant to a Doug Yule album. Lou Reed actually left VU in the middle of the tour prior leaving Doug Yule to cover all vocals. After that tour Doug Yule went back in the studio to start work on a new album. The label made him make it a VU record cos they wanted to literally 'squeeze' out one last VU album. Partly it was out of Doug Yule's control. Ian Paice (Deep Purple) played drums and Doug Yule covered everything else.
vivoenomar 1 year ago
Actually this album was meant to a Doug Yule album. Lou Reed actually left VU in the middle of the tour prior leaving Doug Yule to cover all vocals. After that tour Doug Yule went back in the studio to start work on a new album. The label made him make it a VU record cos they wanted to literally 'squeeze' out one last VU album. Partly it was out of Doug Yule's control.
vivoenomar 1 year ago
this is hippy honky tonk! doug..after playing with one of the masters..this is all you could churn out..and i am big upping the phrase churn here to describe the cany ass ..no enuch on parade..no ..too cool ..lets say ..banal drivel ..
stankler 1 year ago
@SOMOGYI8230 u have got to be kidding me, plenty of white album tracks are brilliant, such as blackbird, dear prudence, and happiness is a warm gun
beatlemaniac1966 1 year ago
What the fuck were they doing? Lou Reed would have punched Doug Yule, for this piece of shit.
phoneix91 2 years ago
A blasphemy to Velvets music, my god :puke: !
Nostalgico80 2 years ago
My god guys, this is pure genius. I have lived that life in the 70's. I only wish I could describe what it is like to CRASH from speed (speeding everywhere) and live on peanut butter. It really isn't fair to compare this to the Beatles and their hippy ideals. There IS NO comparison.
I am lucky that I didn't end up like Crash McBean, even tho I have had a few Molly's faces gone green on me. This is an intense song, even tho it sounds like a cute lil ditty. Thanks for listening to me!
MichaelinSF 2 years ago
@MichaelinSF dOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HUNDREDS OF HOURS OF QUINE TAPES, SOE OF WHICH WERE TO BE RELEASED? THOSE 3 ARE SOME OF THE BEST VU, AND THERE COULD BE SO MANY MORE..
JTerrible63 2 years ago
Doug Yule, a victim or bad choices and timing, remains quite overlooked.
WDockery 2 years ago 2
I love Doug Yule. A couple of songs on this album are really good.
BipolarPics 2 years ago 2
How did you find this?
cannibaljuice 2 years ago
white album is one of the most futuristic album ever.
MargusKiistheCritic 2 years ago
The white albums great because of the way it's structured into an album along with the songs being great.
DaisyTwinklePuffs 2 years ago
Eh, it makes me mad that Doug Yule would title it a Velvet album when he was the only member that worked on the album. It should have just been called DOUG YULE: SQUEEZE.
Thundercankles 2 years ago 11
It' wasn't Doug Yule's idea, it was the manager's.
I agree, it would have fared better as a Doug Yule solo album (though some of it sounds similar to Loaded.)
jhillst 2 years ago 2
@Thundercankles Yeah but the billy corgan project, i mean uh Smashing Pumpkins are cool!
iceguy0077 1 year ago
@Thundercankles And to think he wasn't even much of a member, in my eyes anyway, he was just a replacement, and had little involvment in the song-writing for the two true VU albums so he's really just a mockery.
KingOfUm 9 months ago
Sounds like a shoddy version of the Beatles' "Martha My Dear" to me.
Pudgyplumber 3 years ago 26
@Pudgyplumber and who was around FIRST?
rainspirit100 1 year ago
@Pudgyplumber Spot on. It sounded super familiar but i couldn't place the tune
TWAANX 10 months ago
@Pudgyplumber thats right, &i'd just happened to be listening to Martha My Dear before this
JayDR69138 1 month ago
bullseye
slightlyperturbedmax 3 years ago
Guys, check Lou`s Transformer and compare. Not very different one.
MargusKiistheCritic 3 years ago
Would I like this song if Lou Reed had written it? Lou Reed wrote some of Kiss's album Music From the Elder, so there's yer answer to that.
The seventies were bad for a lot of people, for a lot of reasons. Bad Quaaludes and cough syrup I think.
Greggo2 3 years ago
Is that really from the V.U.'s Squeeze album? I'd never heard anything off of it. Man, that's terrible. Doug Yule should take the walk of shame for even intimating that his band in 1973 had anything remotely to do with what Lou Reed and John Cale were up to in 1966.
Greggo2 3 years ago
That's harsh. Doug Yule was talented and it doesn't sound to me like he was trying to imitate the early Velvets at all.
greenpuppet43 3 years ago
You're right- he wasn't trying to imitate the early Velvets, but I probably wouldn't have minded if he did... it's just that the music seems so anodyne. Kind of like The Archies or something.
Greggo2 3 years ago
Kinda reminds me of Martha My Dear. Not bad.
slightlyperturbedmax 3 years ago
I'm not sure Doug Yule really wanted to do this album that much...it was more or less their manager's idea to milk the VU name one more time. So don't blame Doug for thinking that he could "imitate" the Velvets.
jhillst 3 years ago 3