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I came here specifically hoping that someone had already mentioned the song "Heroin". I got chills the first time I heard it, and I still do. I think my favori
by chimeracoder 13y ago
I came here specifically hoping that someone had already mentioned the song "Heroin". I got chills the first time I heard it, and I still do.
I think my favorite Velvet Underground song would have to be "Here She Comes Now", because I get the same feeling from Kurt Cobain's cover of it[0].
> Over time it grew into one of my favorite songs in that I learned to find beauty in the clash of consonance and dissonance.
Do you listen to the Jesus and Mary Chain, by any chance?
[0] Perhaps blasphemous to mention a cover on a thread about Lou Reed's death, but hey, if it were't for VU, the cover would never have existed.
- jeanlucdiscard 13y agoIt took me a while until "Heroin" got under my skin, but when it did, it got all the way under. You have to listen to it as loud as you can possibly stand, and not repeat it too often or it will give you an immaculate headache.
- batbomb 13y agoJust Like Honey reminds me of VU. Heroin is great, but other songs like Pale Blue Eyes make me tingle more
- lennel 13y agoJesus and the mary chain is also hugely influential, do you listen to Spacemen 3 at all? Heroin took me years to appreciate, once I "snapped" that the dissonance is a metaphor for the addicts' life I fell in love with it.