The Velvet Underground - Chelsea Girls

[localcassanova]

La Dolce Vita - highlight of her career!

[MowgliX]

Love it!

[hiimnickful]

that fucking violin makes me orgasm

[123jsbach]

@hiimnickful as long as youre enjoying yourself! ;)

[MiaoPurrington]

@hiimnickful Well that violin made Nico cry. The flute actually. She hated the flute.

[DRAGKINGSF]

make this available on mobile!

[SuperAbsoluteFreak]

;)

[trzak001]

this is best!!!

[daven58100]

Not sure about the flute. Maybe some cowbell, or a little steel drum.

[SmurfAndBuffalo]

Technically it should be filed under 'Nico', not 'The Velvet Underground'. Just sayin'

[DiZBlOwZ]

her voice is haunting...i loovvee iitt..nd shes very good looking

[blackiemanson]

i love this song so much, reminds me when i was 15, the voice of Nico is the best female voice for me, is so soft and relieving, Nico is my muse.

[michaelleyland]

It would sound bare without the flutes, it would ruin the strings too!

[MichaelLawlorRojas]

Before I knew much about this album, I thought the flutes really went well with this song.

[Vomtu100]

i know i'll get alot of flak for it but i like the flute

[marmaladekamikaze]

@Vomtu100

The Flute is awesome!

[MichaelinSF]

THANKS! I love how The Velvets (Nico) Glamorized the Chelsea. I hung there for a while, bizzare days. Not unlike any other residential hotel, except for the Warhol crowd.

BTW, For some reason I was unsubbed to your channel. I had to subscribe again. Have your subscriptions been going down for no reason?

[reccosevil]

"Her perfect love's don't last, Her future died in someone's past."

[paolosilv]

This is the most beautiful song in the world!

[franzchick66]

I think the flute misleads people about the song, it demonstrates innocence and romance even though the song is not about that but I also like that it depicts sadness and new york city at a particulat time in the day

[elleisimo]

@franzchick66 i see what you mean but I think it sounds quite haunting! i like how often with velvet underground songs they sound quite sweet but then have very dark meanings :)

[MegaSmashly]

shits tight

[mwendyc]

"She wants another scene

She wants to be a human being."

[ilford6x6]

Nico's sexy voice makes me melt

[ilford6x6]

Nico has such a sexy voice

[Kellogs43able]

back when new york city was cool...now, it's been disneyfied and bloomberg-fied

[vincerjn]

Whatever. Love this song!

[shoekstra1419]

what a nice voice.

i actually like the flute, sounds very floaty....

[HearMySinging]

The flute isn't that bad. It's only that it blasts out a bit, the melody is quite pretty. 

[manatomicfluid]

One of the rooms should have been Room 101 from George Orwell's 1984

[jacksterner]

I love this song. I like the flute. And this song is a fucking crack-up.

[poeticjournalism]

ummmm NOT velvet underground. nico. just nico.

[goldflakedpaint123]

@poeticjournalism hahahahaha thats the album. velvet underground is the album! and two people liked this.

[poeticjournalism]

@goldflakedpaint123 no. chelsea girl is the album. nico's first solo album.

[NoRulesInNam]

And I actually like the flute.

[NoRulesInNam]

So god damn beautiful.

[ASpanishguy]

i like the flute, maybe nico doesnt like cause she has another idea of what she wants to express, and the flute doesnt fit to her idea, but that doesnt mean the flute is wrong, maybe the song is not what it should be, but its great, and i think id prefer it with flute than without it.

[MalquiLans]

Flute n all it's a great track

[mountainenergei1]

Nico cried when she heard the record. She cried because of the flute: "There should be a button on record players, a ‘No Flute’ button.”

Lol, one of the best quotes ever, and hopefully the guy that ruined this track is in hell.

[fandecuneytarkin]

This is not a Velvet song per se, though it was written by Sterling Morrison and Lou Reed who also play the guitar and are for that matter the only "original" performers on the track. It is the same producer and record company as for Velvet Undergroung and Nico. Notably too, John Cale also played the viola and co-wrote a few songs on the album.  If not for the songs written by Brown and the one by Dylan, it is very much the same line-up as the then Velvet given that there is no drums at all.

[davilio91]

Nico no tiene una voz genial, pero si tiene una voz especial, sombria, energizada, es una verdaera artista no por sus atractivos sino por su ser... nico es una great girl...

[ab77blues]

God, I wish the Velvets HAD done this with Nico!

[hendrixrocks4]

i really think nico was a bad choce to add. i Think she has no emotion at all.

[molecularash]

@hendrixrocks4 she was blank like warhol, but that's why i like her

[druidbloke]

Nico was right the flutes should have gone, they're distracting.

[franzchick66]

Beautiful song, her sad voice telling the story of the chelsea girls, and the flute enhancing the song to be even more forlorn and at one point pensive, like when you are in a secluded natural place and you rethink your life or take in the natural aura of the place to be in a solitary peaceful moment in a fast world. Great song, love Nico's solo album.

[d1sintegration]

this is not by the velvet underground..... it's a nico solo recording

[pipette1001]

not that my opinion matters, but i like the flute

[katscave7171]

Nico is a real Goddess

[Havenscope]

Guys, this isn't the Velvet Underground. This is from Nico's first solo album, called Chelsea Girl.

[sgtpepper1101]

what album is this on? someone please tell me

[rkingscar]

idiotic comments by idiotic people who claim goodness knows what. The song is just a song, not some sort of Star Trek thing that requires to be understood more than its content. If you like it, enjoy it. if not, do not.

[Steemonia]

Love The Velvet Underground. The Best and most influencial rock band of all times.

[BVODDBALL]

chelsea girl??? it's a hotel in N Y CITY

fill in the blanks.... now do you get it ?

chelsea girl??? they filled him with milk !!!! get it !

[majicray2112]

What is it about Nico? She can't sing,--yet I could listen to an entire cd of her singing? Her spirit lives on in gothic music.

[hueldereich]

whats a chelsea girl??? hollocaust victims?

im not trying to offend ANYONE

[broadwaymelody33]

The title of the song (and of the album itself) is referential to the 1966 Andy Warhol film, Chelsea Girls, which Nico starred in herself. The film was an experimental reality movie that focused on the various residents of the Hotel Chelsea during Warhol's Factory days; many of them were Bohemian artists, drop outs, and drug addicts, which is depicted in the lyrics of the song.

[AnaFitzBeaumont]

I'm a Chelsea girl.  :-))

[Ihuffglue91]

id love to hear it the way Nico had intended. RIP.

[lvgrl90]

I actually like the flute

[sebsdadez]

here they bake now, see the brown now, see them rise now, chelsea buns

[loganwer30]

wouldnt they rise before they bake?

[sebsdadez]

tbh idk m8 don't really do much bakin'

[skullyj2002]

This was written by Lou Reed & Sterling Morrison, who also play the guitars. This is from Nico's 1st album "Chelsea Girls" from 1967. It's also on the VU boxset, but technically it's not a VU song.

[riquelmemuse8]

pfff no mmn

esta rola esta de no

mms no me no mms sin palabras

simplemente es magnificaaa

wooow pff la escucho y kisiera salir de este

mugre mundooo!!!

velvet undergraound i love!!!

desearia qe regresara esa epoca tan perfecta!

[pipette1001]

excuse me for my ignorance, but what exactly is this song about?

[ToEatForeignWorlds]

It's about Warhol's factory in the 60s.

[Ihuffglue91]

@ToEatForeignWorlds isn't it about the chelsea hotel?

[samkenny]

@Ihuffglue91 t's about girls who are associated with chelsea hotel, but yeah warhol made a film with this title.

[samkenny]

@ToEatForeignWorlds It's about girls who are associated with chelsea hotel, but yeah warhol made a film with this title about the hotel girls.

[verajirak]

Now I have looked in Wikipedia and I must say that I was not right first, sorry!

This song is from the album Chelsea Girls and The Velvet Underground is playing on this album. I was right when I sad that Andy Warhol has made movie Chelsea Girls, thogether with Nico, and the song is also in the movie.

[verajirak]

This is the song from movie "Chelsie Girls", has nothing to do with Velvet Underground, only with Nico and Andy Warhol, who maked this movie.

[KarolusMagnus]

I read that Nico said that when she first heard the completed album she cried because she hated it so much, especially the flute parts...

[taty4ever]

you billed this wrong... This isn't the velvet underground.... it's Nico. From her solo album.

[EMPower08]

@taty4ever even though it is nico's first album the velvet underground play on some of the songs... i guess you could say it's nico.. i tend to look at it more as the band.. i guess your right

[fickdichbitte]

the flute is beautiful

[Fatherflot64]

Nico was not British. She was born in Germany and her birth name was Christa Päffgen.

[oscarxsu]

Fools! Imbeciles!! Nico, wish you were here, you sexy british diva, so Dragesque-a-licious. I would love to have been a pube on Nicos vagina anytime anyday...Rock on in the great sky of velvety love darlin...rock on...

[DePapironi]

Quanti ricordi belli e brutti mi porta alla mente questa canzone.......

Grazie per averla inserita.

[conesuela1]

I love the flute, at least it detracts from the fact that Nico had the worst voice in the history of popular music!

[meleethe13]

I totally agree with you conesuela1 :) The flute piece is quite alright.However her singing voice is freaking ugly!

[lemirierdo]

So naive...

[mbreeson]

yes the flute was a bad decision I agree. The rest of the song was brilliant.

[cancerbero8]

if Nico had said that the flute was the best part of the song, people would be praising the flute, but since she said she hated it, now everyone says they hate it.

[taty4ever]

there's a live verison of this song... Without the flute and i prefer it.... The flute sorta slows it down. It seems out of place that's why i don't like it.

[sonicrussia]

@cancerbero8

well i never ever knew about what she said so my opinion is pure... i don't particularly like it either. but the song is just lovely and it's not played badly, just compared to the rest of VU sounds a bit muzak-y

[AngieEnz84]

@cancerbero8 I love the flute and the strings. It emphasizes the sadness of the lyrics.

Plus, I just think flutes and strings are really pretty :).

[poleonil]

@cancerbero8 And now, since the top rated comment makes people think about the place of the flute in this song, they are suddenly enlightened and start praising the flute.

That's how people work, they don't usually have an opinion, even when they think they do.

[Vwoop]

@cancerbero8 But... I like the flute. :(

[mbreeson]

Not so. I personally find the flute distracting. My opinion has nothing to do with Nico's comment. And I find her voice interesting. I like the string arrangement. I think that works well. I wish I could get a hold of the tracks and omit the flute and remix the song myself.

[lemirierdo]

I agree.. I like the flute. But I think it should be much softer. I think it makes it a little harder to listen to the lyrics.

[nauort23]

I think she was right.  That flute is so Room 222.

[genericusername337]

I don't understand people who hate Nico's voice. I love her.

[pocho205]

This song reminnds me a clockwork orange scene, in which alex returns to home after stolen the old guy, and walk to him building home.

[crazypanda1994]

A clockworth orange is the shit.

This song is great!

[amiry8]

sooo sad. DDDDDDD:

[ZenPapageno]

I have to say that she was great but inconsistent. There's a number on this album that I like a lot - Fairest of the Seasons, an arty-folky thing with Simon & Garfunkel type arrangement.

[lemirierdo]

That's a beautiful song.

[rozz669]

this song makes me giddy and happy

[Joystar234]

that's a little cause odd cause if you look at the lyrics... they arent about happy things

[greenpuppet43]

Damn flute!

[Timmybear]

Well, it's Nico, Lou and possibly John (and co-written by Sterling). Except for Moe, every Velvet (okay, except Angus and Billy and Doug :) ) is involved. ;)

[Geisttanzer]

I think this song is not by The Velvet Underground, it's from Nico's album, Chelsea Girl...

[boonjah]

great tune.

[nuckingfigg3r]

Great Song. All that needs to be said.