The Velvet Underground - I'm set Free

[DrSquidley]

what the hell? people are commenting about how great the guitar solo is ands its probably the worst part of the song?

[NoRosesForMe]

@DrSquidley hahahah!! I love this song. DONT get me wrong. I had the album years ago . I love the box set....etc etc.....and the "solo" is ....um....pretty good?......but I swear to gawd I was just sittin here thinking.."there really IS no solo...are people deef or do they not know about guitars??" ...Thank you. I could just hug ya for cheerin me up. Its not the worst part of the song. There is no worst part. Just not much of a "solo". xx

[james00021]

sijsdkijdijd

[james00021]

They do yeah!

[hazuinf]

One of THE best solos ever!

[poolsk]

I'm sorry for my ignorance, but who does the lead vocals in this song? Yule or Reed?

I've always thought it was Reed, but sometimes i think it could be Yule...

[arandall333]

@poolsk Reed

[pieter18061971]

im set free today!!!!

[hazuinf]

beautiful solo

[MyDamagedBrain]

I'm high and this is fucking awesome. The guitar solo is just incredibly beautiful.

[CarpeDiemBaby7891]

One of the best guitar solos i ever heard. Really

[TheEnchantingWizard1]

@CarpeDiemBaby7891 Same here bro! Virtual high-five

[gnowave]

WTF? what is this crap below about chi;lli peppers? theres no similarity at all. totally diferent end of music spectrum.

peppers are far too sterile to have the guts to do anything remotly un-rock/pop.

just leave this stuff for the freak bands to play. thats how this stuff ALWAYS works best, from a professional amateur approach. not with trained rock musicians.

[Ghoono]

2:10 - 2:48

<3

[james00021]

It does sound similar to the chili peppers yeh.

[gnowave]

@james00021 WHAT?  dont talk wet... chilli peppers wish... they'd be too scared to break a string or play a bum note.

[sretchin]

One of my favorite Velvet songs.

[DNKOTOR]

Damn, Chili Peppers should've done a cover of this...great song!

[gnowave]

@DNKOTOR  NO WAY! they'd pro-tool it to death and turn it into that bland stevie wonder sound they seem stuck on.

[Lordinfamous1986]

foo said "if" of course yer gonna die

[gremby]

BEST SONG EVER

[MegaLodewijk]

Just me and me Sister....

[AICSLUDGE]

that solo is amazing!

[jczother]

@AICSLUDGE Breaks perfect as well as mo's drum!

[cristirna2]

undergroud live peter pan!

[hermygagala]

One of the greatest songs ever made. What would I have done without youtube. I never heard a single word about this band until I discovered them in the suggestions column for me. I can't understand how I was able to survive without this band as well as Nazareth. You never hear anything about musical genious like this in the real world. After I've heard this song I can't imagine it not existing.

[jczother]

@hermygagala Wow, congratulations one of the all time greats. Such an influence through my years!

[vegimite2010]

iam free !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!

[Broblem12]

A song that is perfect to listen to, get to know and then sing along to passionately. A wonder of all the elements that make a song timeless and precious.

[astroboirap]

yo la tenga version sucked balls

[Juupp]

" I'm set free to find a new illusion" and we'll find it right?

[blurrylyghts]

take flight

[discomadame]

the most beautiful song ever made

[geniusgza7]

amaazing song when it gets to the guitar solo just magic!

[tickntimebombfun]

This is why i love the velvets every song is just gem waiting to be discovered

[soulseeker300]

"If I ever die" lol

[dahhum]

from 2:10-2:50 i was set free

[nilbog44]

lou reed being a christian hymnist makes about as much sense as paul simon playing for the lakers

[witchgreens]

lovely. feels like amazing grace kinda. lou reed shouldve been a hymnist. just a thought.

[RussMoxham]

@witchgreens A CHRISTIAN hymnist?!

[DaDa2Phlux]

Fantastic

[richgriffin77]

Year in, year out, this song does it for me.

[jackal59]

Possibly my favorite drumming performance from Moe Tucker, who knows how to make each stroke count.

[centipeid]

@jackal59 I couldn't agree more. I think the drums really make this song, but whenever I here a cover of it they never do the drums justice.

[Benjabola]

rip kurt cobain... i mean lou reed... i mean FUCK

[eightpeoplex]

@Benjabola Yeah.......Lou Reed is still alive retard.

[ALICEcupofjuceyjayy]

velv<333

[gleb202]

This sounding drives me crazy

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

I always thought it was "I've been blinded by all I can see".

[azurenscens]

yo la tengo's version of this is incredible too.

[chitarraro92]

this song makes cry..

[iceybleu]

@chitarraro92 does it truly?

[consityis1]

Ah fuck i wish i had weed tonite aw well tomorrow

[missmurla]

love it.

[mikool123123]

I'm a guy, no homo, this song makes me happy.

Death shouldnt be feared, its a transformation.

[Timmybear]

@mikool123123 - I'm a guy and a homo. :) (but i agree with everything else you say)

[TheMasterOfSounds]

@mikool123123 Death will always be feared, cause theres a chance its not a transformation. Do you think animals go around thinking that theyll live forever? no, only humans, we are so up our own asses that we think that we think that we are in the middle of the universe, i really dont hope that i live forever, really really dont hope that my soul last forever. If theres is nothing but darkness when i close my eyes the last time, it would be a beatiful death.

[makespeaches]

i wonder if Lou Reed ever heard of release from samsara, and Vedic religions in general.

[RussMoxham]

@makespeaches I think it's more likely he just met someone he liked and scored some good methamphetamine with them

[MassiveKiller2]

Best Solo EVER

[SkullxCrossbone]

always gives me the chills.

[TheAmbitiousOutsider]

my favourite Velvet song...amazing..

[Saladrazalahalahaz]

This planet needs a musical awakening. With stuff like this becoming known by more people... like it deserves.

[BBalmost]

listening to this while high is just pure bliss pure blisssss

[tinchoguitar5]

V.U. is the most important music legacy of the united states.

the solo and the whole song proves the huge talent of sterling morrison and lou reed and company.

[Hamsaouahamsine]

less than 1.000.000 views?!!... we're living in a very strange planet

[neto4346]

@Hamsaouahamsine It's selected music for selected people.....

[MorningShot4]

One of the best, if not the best, sophisticated and optimistic album I have ever been blessed to hear.

[TheUndergrnd]

man where are songs like this nowadays. there is nowhere you can go to get this emotion from music nowadays.

[grenna2010]

Top song

[BeLiketheSquerrl]

i always forget how good the solo is until it comes on

[ivancesarg]

I bought this album years ago, and not untill today did I realize this is 1 of my favorite songs on here, or of them period !

[tinchoguitar5]

lou reed s craftsmanship.awesome sterling morrison on the solo.

[SuicideWaffle]

BLAST IT

[ryanmul1]

one of my all time favz from one of the best and insporational bands of all time

words cannot express how good this band trualy is

[NicoDraak74]

If I ever die, I want this song at my funeral

[rdv1982]

Figured out a way to live forever that the rest of us hasn't learned? "If I ever die....".

[NicoDraak74]

Alive and kicking since 1374

[JacquesBrel11]

good idea

[ytzuigt]

"If I ever die,"

that's great

[lemonlorry]

"If I ever die"

I'm sorry to have to tell you that that is a strong possibility Nico.

[Timmybear]

I don't know why, exactly, but I always find the combination of the drumming and the guitar on the solo to be utterly sublime. :)

[Timmybear]

@NicoDraak74 - which, of course, you will. Good choice. :)

[MorningShot4]

@NicoDraak74 same here

[neto4346]

@NicoDraak74 Sweet dude...

[4thekingdom100]

@NicoDraak74 Yeah me too!! This song is great! It makes me feel some kind of peace!

[stoprejectingmynames]

@NicoDraak74 I like how you said IF I die.

[farfegnugens]

@NicoDraak74 you wont.

[MowgliX]

@NicoDraak74 Oh, I think you will. I think I will die too.

[spinkwotzer]

@NicoDraak74 IF you ever die? Hoping you might live forever, are you?

[rogums]

@spinkwotzer let the man dream, who knows :)

[arsen66]

@NicoDraak74 , im pretty sure you will, as most people do

but i agree

[wyantizer89]

@NicoDraak74 If you ever die?



[itreporcelli]

@wyantizer89 He is Chuck Norris.

[wyantizer89]

@itreporcelli lol

[pattonPwr]

@NicoDraak74 we'll all die someday

[CharlesDangerfield]

@pattonPwr

Prove it

[hermygagala]

@pattonPwr I doubt it. 

[jimmyhayers]

@NicoDraak74 If?!

[VinkoGable]

@NicoDraak74: If? :D 

Good choice anyway.

[BrotherURD]

@NicoDraak74 Christian go find your new illusion

[soulseeker300]

@BrotherURD you have the illusion if you believe that you have any what happens when you die.

[NicoDraak74]

@BrotherURD Nah dude, I aint no christian. I just have this feeling I might not die. I live healthy and all, just quit smoking and stuff.

[azurenscens]

i like yo la tengo's cover of this a whole lot. i strongly suggest it to be listened by any VU fans.

[couloure]

this is one of their many songs that proves that they are musical geniuses

[namcoshinAkuma]

@couloure to the general music audience

[Nobodie92]

@couloure I'm thoroughly convinced that they are. In a lot of there albums they have hints of all sorts of genres. I'm pretty sure they paved the way for, Noise, New Wave and Lo-Fi just to name a few.  The funny thing to is that they really didn't put an incredible amount of effort into there songs. It just kind of gelled.

[Syst3mDowngrade]

@couloure i think it was just lou

[vinco99]

God... I love Mo Tucker.

[NicoDraak74]

Who doesn't?

[HumanistChucker]

this is the best song. i have it.

[MFJVIDEO]

must be