The Velvet Underground-White Light/White Heat

i agree completely.

yeah, it was the biggest mistake Lou ever made

i think it's cos for some odd reason their music only appeals to a few people. Or at least there r only a few people who can listen to their music and realise how truly magnificent it is You have to admit, some of their songs can sound pretty ordinary, even worse than ordinary, to the average joe if ure just listening to the music and you don't think about the story behind the music and then realise WHY they did what they did to the music and made it sound that way and why it's also so brilliant

When I first listened to this album, I was stoned out of my mind.

what does that have to do with Rolling Stone's bias in ranking artists? i suppose it would be near impossible to print that kind of magazine without repeatedly running "best of" lists, and they always change throughout the years so it doesnt matter anyway, but one thing that reallyy pisses me off about RS: they consistently rank Sgt. Pepper's as the greatest album of all time. give it up already... and check out Robert Christgau's review of it, it's bang on, and not influenced by Beatlemania.

i agree

it is

b0ssh0gg Why are you upset....Do you think they should be higher or lower than #13? Myself...I think higher..thats just my opinion though.

To Bosshogg: ROLLING STONE is the reason I found this music in the eighties. Nobody had told me about the Velvets and I never heard anything like this music until I got the Banana album home one day and put it on my turntable. Once I did, of course a lot of other music made more sense to me from Bow & Talking Heads to Husker Du and the Meat Puppets.

what is it about the velvet underground? to the average joe they are often nothing special, but to me and countless others, they are the band we have been waiting to hear our whole lives.

i don't think i'll find another band that embodies my personal musical ideals like they do.