Sunday, June 7, 2020

Stranded - Rock and Roll for a Desert Island # 6 The Velvet Underground - Golden Archive Series 1967 - 1969 - Chosen by Ellen Willis


An odd choice this one. Not one of the original Velvets albums but a compilation of the best of their first three LPs. Ellen Willis's article about it and them is dense and overlong but does make some interesting and valid points:

'The Velvets were the first important Rock and Roll artists who had no real chance of attracting a mass audience...... (their)  music was too overtly intellectual, stylized, and distanced to be commercial.'



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