250 Albums- An Arbitrary Rumble Through My Record Collection # 96 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

 

'Candy says. I've come to hate my body...'

It's all there on the Velvet Underground . It was made and released in 1968. But it describes the modern condition. It came out when I was two. I bought it when I was twenty. I'm listening to it now I'm 60. I'm only really beginning to appreciate it now. It has Doo Wop. It does Rock & Roll. There's energy. Poetry. Sin. Soul. Confusion. You might like it. I do. 

I bought this in the Christmas break in my first year at university. They seemed like significant purchases then and they still feel like that now. Planting flags in the turf. The Midnight Cowboy soundtrack. Television's second album Adventure. The Velvet Underground's third album. This. Candy Says, Pale Blue Eyes, Jesus, Beginning To See The Light. God knows, all of it.

It's not a record you would want to play to your mother. But strangely when I played it this morning it seemed to glow in a gas blue spiritual phosphorescence. I felt religious. Uncanny. Lou knows. Sterling , Doug, Lou and Mo understand..