Velvet Underground - Squeeze - Little Jack

[TPAwavelink]

Yule basically had no choice in the matter. 'Snake' Sesnick was "managing" his and whoever remained in the VU's career at this point.He sent Moe back to NYC because she was to opinionated and he could'nt manipulate her.Ian Paice of Deep Purple is the drummer on this lp and Yule plays just about every other instrument. It is what it is..Yule has said if he could do it over again, he would do it much differently.

[simonsaintgilles]

If you consider the album a Yule solo effort and compare it with Berlin and Paris 1919, released the same year, I don't think this comes off too bad.

[gutternugget]

It's a decent record. Should've been billed as a solo album. i bet it would've done better. The songs aren't that bad. Some of them are pretty good. Just not the VU.

[xxDay27xx]

I thought they only released 4 albums, then i find this one.. are any of the original members in it here? :S

[L0os1]

@wcleighty

Your favorite Velvet Underground album? This must have been the only one you've listened to.

[vishano1234]

@L0os1 or not...

[toddgoodfellow]

I will have to say this album may or may not be a true velvets album but it sure as hell beats the garbage being produced and forced on the public in the last 15 or so years!

Its a rare find and we should appricate it for the fact that it was done by a Velvets member when Lou was stoned out of mind and re-hashing old Velvet chesnuts over and over! thank you foruploading!

[wcleighty]

My FAVORITE Velvets album, and I'm the Son of God, so there's not much more to say.

[zatbecrazy14]

Great song!!!

[tvisbad47]

no one complains about Fleetwood Mac going from Peter Green to a wimpy Stevie-Buckingham lineup. Stop bashing on this album.

[genesisrock43]

Pinball Wizard?

[clement3434]

IS NOT VELVET, IS YULE.

[DrEpic4181]

Why do people not like this album?

Lets see if you can distinguish a pattern:

Nico: 10

VU: 10

White Light/White Heat: 9.25

Loaded: 10

...Squeeze: 6

Its not bad, but a band who made 4 of the most influential and greatest albums of all time should not be releasing music like this.

[bubediscuss]

@DrEpic4181 Your forgetting 'the velvet underground' album, that was just as equally acclaimed as the rest. VU was released much later in the 80's.

[Tsugaheterophylla]

Well, this is pleasant pop music. If the album had been released as a Doug Yule solo album, nobody would be complaining. "Loaded" was a pop record too, this is just more of the same, though without Lou Reed's songwriting to distinguish it.

[russelgman]

This really isn't bad, but of course, the biggest complaint is it just doesn't sound like anything that the "real" VU would have done.

[roaristhesound]

this sounds like roxy music post eno

[alexsweeley]

I was expecting disaster as I couldn't imagine Velvet Underground without Cale let alone Reed, but this isn't bad. I would give this album a spin, but that's about it.

[Dudley1970]

This is probably the best song on "Squeeze" IMHO, and one of the few that could maybe be fit onto "Loaded" without too much fuss.

[homestarfan2008]

Ahh, Squeeze. The Star Wars Christmas Special of alternative music. Nobody wants to pretend it exists, but it's notorious for being terrible and thanks to the Internet, you can experience the crapfest firsthand.

[semprini20]

This is nice song, but this is NOT the Velvet Underground, this is 70's AOR. Kinda like "The Final Cut" by Pink Floyd, it's just a Roger Waters solo album using the band name.

[Dele12345]

@semprini20

Except that the final cut was a phenomenal album, with some of the most original music from pink floyd.

[AllTheNuttyBits]

Sounds alot like the Who's Pinball Wizard.

[jannyrcobs]

I've never understood how people can say that they hate Squeeze but love Loaded. The two go together as a suite, if you ask me--right down to the similar artwork on the front covers. Either Lou Reed really 'informed' the songwriting on Squeeze or Doug Yule had a greater hand in Loaded than what he's been generally credited with. Great LPs both.

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

@jannyrcobs What's funny is that the video for 'Who Loves The Sun' receives so many positive comments when it's below many of the stuff on Squeeze.

[russthelegend57]

Thanks for posting this 'controversia'l album! At the time of release I refused to buy it - this ain't the Velvets - I remember thinking at the time! Seems to me the problem is the VU tag but anyone with any sense can see that was a record lable/management decision. Just accept for what it is - a pretty nice album, worth having and worth listening to.

[AshleyMarkPomeroy]

You know, this sounds incredibly reminiscent of "Wild Winds are Blowing", a very early single by Slade (back when they had their skinhead look).

[jamer346634]

I don't know what's your problem people. This album is quite refreshing, Velvet Underground or not. Frankly, it is one of my favourite albums. It seems like you have some wire in brain wrongly fused.

[geschae]

ist doch total egal , wie die Jungfrau zum Kind kam ,

die Musik war ok , nur das zählt doch...

[jhillst]

In Doug Yule's defense, it was NOT his idea to record this album under the VU name.  Steve Sesnick (the manager) wanted to milk the name, and he even re-did many of Yule's arrangements against his will. So don't hate Doug for it.

[HamSandwich09]

The intro was awesome.  Everything after that, pretty crappy.

[vivoenomar]

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.

[L0os1]

This album isn't VU. Everybody who knows this album knows that. So stop criticizing it saying that it's a bad VU record.

[destr0yth3m]

It's not completely awful, just boring, and dishonest. Come to think of it, that may be more of an insult to the Velvets than just saying "It's terrible!"

[TheJacquesHappy]

who's the singer on this album?

sounds like ringo starr lol

[DarkeningSkies1]

So, in other words, if John Cale had recorded an album with Nico, Maureen Tucker & Sterling Morrison and called it Velvet Underground, that would also have been dishonest.. but not nearly as dishonest as this, which had no shot of being respected by anyone because of the attempted once over on the fans- Ian Paice of Deep Purple playin drums btw, NOT Mo.

[DarkeningSkies1]

People are ticked about this stuff not because it is that bad (it is pretty decent early 1970's rock), but because it was issued under the name "Velvet Underground"- Doug Yule is the only person who played in VU who is playing. He wrote it, sings it, and produced it. Had he been honest and put it out under his name, it would have been fine. But he tried to cash in by calling it VU. He wasn't even in the original band (he "replaced" John Cale).

[Wahoofuck]

the drummer was the only original member during this album

[Xcokedav096]

@Wahoofuck moe tucker didn't drum for this record, at this point none of the original VU members were in. just doug yule and two other guys.

[Maarttttt]

I like this song okay. Why does everybody hate this album? Because none of the original band members are playing?

[namcoshinAkuma]

@Maarttttt its just not VU

[Maarttttt]

@namcoshinAkuma It's just not Velvet Underground as you would like to see it. You might say the musicians aren't as talented as the original bandmembers. They might've been wrong putting it out as an VU album. (I don't know the bandmembers thoughts about this) This doesn't discredit the music in any way.

[homestarfan2008]

@Maarttttt People are mad because, if you've heard any other of the VU catalog, this isn't the VU. The band known for breaking all the rules of music and creating alternative music as we know it now sounds like everything on the radio.

[Maarttttt]

@homestarfan2008 With all respect to the album, I don't consider Loaded a very alternative album.

[TheMarkusrose]

@Maarttttt yeah, and because the Velvet Underground attracts more insufferable poser fans than any other group. I love the Velvets from A to Z.

[lalalalala5151]

Doug Yule who did what anyone else would have done, and just wanted to play and incidentally as much VU as Cale or Reed, also Sterling and Mo loved him and stayed with him as a front man so that says a lot, its more than just Lou Reed dissing him, also the irony is on Lous album Coney Island Baby it advertises bonus tracks feat "VU's Doug Yule" so that pretty much says this is a VU album cos he is a member of VU even to Lou Reed when hes shifting a few albums, just not when the awards come

[DJDansound]

This is no VU but it is alright. Its is just hard to listen to because of no original members

[Tonagamu]

OW my ears...

[sonofsilence]

the intro reminds me of The Who's Pinball Wizard.

[chadricka]

naw, its different. THeres a thousand songs that have the same chord play as other songs.

[Franky2balls]

er....pinball wizard?

[svaxelrod]

To hell with the Yule haters:  this is a great song no matter who did it. Thanks for the video!

[homofaglove]

@svaxelrod Who cares if the song is good or not, faggot pushed everyone out of their own band.

[Thomaspwgy]

Doug Yule - the Lucifer of Pop Music

[Awsumsongs912]

That's a bit harsh man

[Thomaspwgy]

It wasn't meant to be harsh!

He is luciferic in a strange sense - he ambitiously tried to restore the VU, although he failed and he became something of a scapegoat! He is a pariah of pop music!

[russthelegend57]

@Thomaspwgy Doug Yule - the Lucifer of Pop Music? Clearly, you haven't heard of Simon Cowell, Gary Glitter, Louis Walsh, Michael Jackson, Barry Manilow OR Michael Bolton! Get a life mate!

[Thomaspwgy]

@russthelegend57  hahahaha loser!

[russthelegend57]

@Thomaspwgy 'hahahaha loser'? That's really good, man, is there anything else you want to say or is that it?

[hermygagala]

@Thomaspwgy That was very uncalled for this is great music and a highly bashed album for no reason. I think it is great.

[TheMarkusrose]

@Thomaspwgy Doug Yule belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame you insufferable poser.

[Clayyyyyyyy]

Thank you good sir

<3

[Huddiethegreat]

holy crap, thanks for adding this