Sugartown – I’m Set Free (The Velvet Underground cover) Their cover of “Beginning to See the Light” sounds like it would make a better fit on the VU’s second album than their third. Factrix – Beginning to See the Light (The Velvet Underground cover)įactrix was a California band of the postpunk years bands would emulate their experimental industrial sound without realizing it was Factrix they were emulating. The jazz saxophonist performed this instrumental cover on 1991’s Another Hand, and if the song was an unexpected presence on a jazz album, Sanborn made it sound like it belonged there. Mission accomplished, thanks to David Sanborn. In fact, the challenge here became tracking down another cover and finding it worthy. David Sanborn – Jesus (The Velvet Underground cover) The song has the intensity of a gathering storm, and is just as likely to linger on. The Kills’ cover has a little more aggression to it, but that’s truly truly not a sin. The Kills – Pale Blue Eyes (The Velvet Underground cover)Īrguably the centerpiece of The Velvet Underground, “Pale Blue Eyes” tells the story of an adulterous affair with true delicacy, and ranks as one of Reed’s finest songs. Reminiscent of the “closet mix” of the original, it will make your eyes moist more than it will make you recoil.
Fortunately, it didn’t lead to any lessening of the quality of her work, as her cover of “Some Kinda Love” proves.
The damage it did to her ears left her having to create at a slower and quieter pace. In 2008, Toronto’s Annabelle Chvostek took a blast of feedback during a soundcheck. Annabelle Chvostek Ensemble – Some Kinda Love (The Velvet Underground cover) Their cover is just too big to stand in anyone’s shadow. It takes some guts to do a live cover of it, but the Scottish band Texas has guts to spare. On the 1969: Live with Lou Reed album, “What Goes On” is nine minutes of transcendence (if you’ve never heard it, enjoy).
Texas – What Goes On (The Velvet Underground cover) Result: Candy moves from NYC to the midwest, without once sounding a thousand miles away from home. For instance, Blind Melon gave it an alt-country lope, with Shannon Hoon in peak keening form. “We look in the mirror and we don’t like what we see…I don’t know a person alive who doesn’t feel that way.” This may account for why the song sounds as good as it does in whatever threads it tries on. Sung by Yule, the song uses the voice of Warhol superstar Candy Darling to express “a universal feeling I think all of us have at some point,” said Reed. “Candy Says” begins The Velvet Underground not with a bang, but with a whisper. Blind Melon – Candy Says (The Velvet Underground cover) While there, more than a few have taken the opportunity to pay their respects to a band that dared to strike out on their own path, in their own fashion. (Quick aside: Happy birthday to Maureen Tucker, who turns 77 today, and a moment of silence for Sterling Morrison, who was born one August 29 and died one August 30.)ĭespite not making the Billboard charts until sixteen years after its release – and even then, only getting as high as #197 – The Velvet Underground has proven its value to be enduring, connecting with its listeners for over half a century and continuing to send many of them down the path to performing their own songs in the studio and elsewhere. With Doug Yule replacing the singular John Cale, and with Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker both as simpatico with bucolic Lou as brusque Lou, the band was more united than ever, and just as powerful in a whole new way. A complete one-eighty from White Light / White Heat, the album that preceded it, The Velvet Underground saw Lou Reed embracing his inner balladeer, writing and playing slower and so much sweeter. Of course, they’ve never left the annals of influence – not since all those few who bought their first album went out and formed bands.īut it’s their third album we’re going to look at today. The Velvet Underground are making one of their regular visits to current-events music magazines, what with the Todd Haynes documentary that wowed Cannes and the impending Hal Willner tribute album.
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