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General Album Comments (Continued)

VeryInsane: As someone who nominated Doolittle and kinda recognize the same people liking/disliking both albums, I can see a bit of a comparison. Both albums are more well known for their influence and mix some gritty popish songs with some experimental songs that influenced future bands and genres.

I like Lou Reeds style and I like the honest brashness of the album, and as someone who has been learning to be a musician it allows me to realize there is more creativity to being a musician than just being really really good at your instrument a la a Hendrix or a Neil Peart. But thats just like my opinion man.

Mr Lasastryke: i agree with this. one of the reasons why i put european son (a track that most people in this topic seem to dislike) so high is that it reminded me that technically superior instrumentalists aren't necessarily superior period. i'll take this improvisation over any "technically flawless but boring as poop" yngwie malmsteen guitar solo.

MetalmindStats: I don't feel equipped to comment on this album for many reasons, but given the discussion, I wish to establish my personal appreciation for it. Even if I didn't exactly love it overall, there wasn't one song here I disliked.

ChichiriMuyo: I re-listened to Heroin since so many people are rating it so highly and I suspect I underrated it a great deal given the merits of its lyrics and its timing and such, but I'm going to let my rating stand. I'll be that outlier. I won't listen to the full album again to re-rank it. The fact is the song gave me a headache, and the album gave me a worse one. It was literally painful to listen to, and the pain keeps going even after I've stopped listening, and I just don't get how anyone could like that.

CasanovaZelos: Funnily enough, when I did my top 250 song project, I brought up how "Heroin" gave me a headache my first listen. It might be important to note that the name of the band is taken from a book on 'the sexual corruption of our age' with leather gear on the cover. "Venus in Furs" is explicitly about sadomasochism. So, to me, that first-time headache is part of the atmosphere that makes The Velvet Underground and Nico such a singular experience - this is a pain certain people are equipped to enjoy. That headache also went away with time; I think the album is a sonic encapsulation of the so-called deviancy of its time. It's messy, dissonant, sometimes painful, but the world of art opens up to so much more potential once you adjust to its existence.