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I’ll Let You Be in My Dream I’ll Let You Be in My Dream
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I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass
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The Real Song, Or I ’ll Be Your Mirror The Real Song, Or I ’ll Be Your Mirror
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Coda : I’d Love to Turn You on Coda : I’d Love to Turn You on
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Abstract
This chapter presents the author’s reflections about the rock band, Velvet Underground. The Velvets were eclectic: their music and sensibility suggested influences as diverse as Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol, Peter Townshend and John Cage; they experimented with demented feedback and isolated, pure notes and noise for noise’s sake; they were partial to sweet, almost folk-like melodies; they played the electric viola on Desolation Row. But they were basically rock-and-roll artists, building their songs on a beat that was sometimes implied rather than heard, on simple, tough, pithy lyrics about their hard-edged urban demimonde, on rock-and-roll’s oldest metaphor for modern city life—anarchic energy contained by a tight, repetitive structure. Some of their best songs, especially “Heroin,” redefined how rock-and-roll was supposed to sound.
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