The Velvet Underground - The Black Angel's Death Song

[onemancrew1]

The violin scream,like a broken soul..

[WorldOpener]

@onemancrew1

Electric viola. But yeah.

[mircea1910]

4 dislikes...I bet it's the Metallica members, as Lulu doesn't sound anywhere near as good as VU & Nico

[ZombiesWerePeopleToo]

there's a sitar-sounding guitar in the background playing a completely different thing, listen out for it

[jfitz1431]

this album is one of my favorite albums of all time. this is one of my favorite songs of all time

[yellabeanblackfish]

If you choose--try to lose. For the loss of remain, come and start--start the game.

Aye chi chi

Chi chi aye

Chi chi chi

Ka tai koh

Choose to choose, choose to go.

[TheBanj4010]

one of morrisey's favourite songs, 1 that he would take to his desert island !

[haupper]

'Have your head bobbed and weaved.' This song is all Lou trying to out-bob Dylan.

[bobinferno]

lasciai che incrementasse il mio senso di tristezza...la mia allora costante algofilia da pentagramma....Forse la loro più riuscita espressione....Un capolavoro!..una viola così non la si può dimenticare...

[garyw930]

May I recommend the book 'A Pop Revolution, the transatlantic music scene 1965 to 1969' by the invisible man. The author is a big fan of this track.

[MrGerbilGoof]

filler track, and its shallow

[JaackPat]

@MrGerbilGoof Uhm... no, it's not. This is the album's most lyrically complex song, and it's an early example of avant-folk. If there ever was a filler on & Nico it would be "Femme Fatale," but I don't even feel comfortable with assigning it that label.

[MrGerbilGoof]

@JaackPat so...its filler

[JaackPat]

@MrGerbilGoof Nice answer. Try to prove your point more intelligently and with facts next time...

[MrGerbilGoof]

@JaackPat I dont need to, it's filler. Get your common sense back

[doorman292]

@MrGerbilGoof alot of thought went in to the dissonance

[jfitz1431]

@MrGerbilGoof I am really sorry you feel that way. Because to ME, this song blows my mind and breaks my heart.

[TheFeralHeretic]

This song is like fine wine in organized sound form... I reckon.

[xmaggers]

This is a great song.

[bodsnvimto]

Love this song, if ever there was a good example of why VU were better with John Cale then this is it!

[louiseduvee]

@amoebahippie Probably not, lol

[MyBeautifulZygote]

The instrumentals sound a lot like My Bloody Valentine. They must have been very inspired by The Velvet Underground. Great bands, both of them.

[NWG92]

@MyBeautifulZygote Exactly! I always think of "I Only Said" when I listen to this song and vice-versa.

[311rockr]

love the poetics on this! who is the one fool who disliked this? i didnt know that is even possible!

[anthonyisgreener]

This song is about a man that has all the choices of the world all set out in front of him but he can't choose which one, he doesn't want to choose just one so the black angel weeps because she know he will end his own life and not her, because epiphany's terror reduced him to shame, because he saw that he wasn't meant for this world and all the things he could choose to choose, he knew the truth, not even the heroin could dull the pain so he chose to go

[RussMoxham]

@anthonyisgreener I think it's often unnecessary, at best, to try to make sense of the VU's poetry. This, to me, is the music of something like urban fragmentation.

[95TheDeftOne]

One hundred people only bought the Velvet Underground's first album, but today everyone of them is a musical critic or plays in a rock band [Brian Eno]

[zoeruls]

brilliant stuff!!! love them

[ahpap]

So... What's this song about? I think the only way I could understand it is by shooting myself with heroin.

[stanleysoldman]

such a good tune

[pluckdaduck]

Fucking amazing :D

[Tommyc1923]

Prolly my favorite Velvet Underground song. IDK, it just captivates me.

[Teutonic1250]

2:45 a real language or just jibberish? 

[goonodeath]

Who disliked this song? What a dick.

[Osthropek]

TSSSCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

the only lyrics you ever need

[WoodRatGirl]

Love the crazy violins.

[lestaleky]

@WoodRatGirl electric violas

[Gonzoroy]

choose again

[GROOVEYRECORDS]

Your driving me backwards

VU really new how to clear a room fast

Make friends and influence people

[robpallot88]

very dylan-esque

[coletonbailey]

Whenever I hear this song I crap my pants

[Juupp]

So you fly

To the cozy brown snow of the east

Gone to choose, choose again

[Virvellian]

got drunk last night and listened this song all the time. best thing ever

[12345dubi12345]

im angry and i dont wanna be but im old and i know how to deal im just angry for hours now i if i wanted to not be angry i could so i guess i dont really want to not be angry maybe i dont see anythin nothin nothin just insane empty words chucked like he was high and the noise of steroids drivvel in my pulse the saint another stain i ant a

[samtastic333]

@12345dubi12345 you know what makes me angry? punctuation. thank you for not using any. 

[free6your7mind0]

Andy Warhol

[Bumbumawangis]

Enough to scare the pants off most people.

[MegaLodewijk]

gone ssssssssssssst. mos bes' knivem trower h



[harryestonoesserio]

moola =)

[kenfig]

Bought this finally at the age of 16 in 1979 ; what a joy ; it blows my mind with it's power and intensity.Darker than anything the brilliant Stones did and this album definitely influenced the Stones 'mark 2' with stuff like Sister Morphine and other dark songs of theirs

[astroboirap]

what the hell... did they do that deinfalting sound effect with a balloon

[dreadmaniaco]

choose to choose... choose to choose... choose to go...

[LogInAnders]

What does G.T. mean?

[sekhmetraptah]

@LogInAnders

probably G. T. Miasnikov, a Bolshevist opposed to Lenin

[TehUltraChancellor]

Choose to choose...

[kenfig]

Seminal

[Cavenuke]

come again. choose to go.

[GnarButter90]

Take a look at our channel if you like this kind of sound. ♫

[jackhillty]

what have you to lose?

[Vesters1]

@JimShoes1 idiot... Velvet Underground is the beginning of punk, had nothing to with hippies....

[GregoryWonderwheel]

@Vesters1 The idiot is you.... as a 100% card burning conscientious objector hippie from high school graduation in 1967, I can testify that this album was an integral part of the psychedelic scene. There was not a hippie in sight who did not know this album. The light shows at VU concerts were every bit as tripping as at any Dead concert.

[areyoureceivingme]

Stunning track, forever.

[NormanSykes]

this is perhaps my favourite track from this classic album

[Hyperakusis1973]

Velvet Underground are a part of my all time favourites and this song is awesome!

[leonhazard5555555555]

kon madre

[adamwillb]

I bought this album a while ago and it actually has a peelable banana on the front cover! Genius, pure genius. I love lou reed and nico

[Doomhead22]

@adamwillb Thank Andy Warhol for the peeling banana

[ydrohoos7]

@Doomhead22 never really understood what exactly is the appeal of this banana to so many people.

In terms of inpspiration the album cover is insignificant compared to the music of the band.

But i guess it has always been cool to think and discuss with others of the genius of Andy Warhol...

Certainly a grossly overestimated eccentric...Can't really see much in his art at all.

No offense to anyone, thats just my opinion.

On the other hand, for me, this album is the BEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME

[JaackPat]

@adamwillb and... John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Mo Tucker. Nico had absolutely zero input in terms of the song composition and Lou Reed gets way too much credit for the band's sound.

[mikelovesdirts]

brilliant

[louiseduvee]

This made my early morning, thanks for posting it.