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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26506

    I have never heard a note of (the) Velvet Underground...

    Also to pick up mercia's point (although his post, which I saw at some point last night, now seems to have disappeared ), why was green particularly associated with Satie? As that is what 'viridescent' means... Am I missing a link here (apart from the general 'colourful' point rubbers makes)?
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • vinteuil
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 12761

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      I have never heard a note of (the) Velvet Underground...

      You might have if you have seen the advertisement on the telly the other year for - I think - Toyota (?) - which used the hypnotic VU track "I'm sticking with you ('cos I'm made out of glue...)" [Maureen Tucker, lead vocal] ...

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      • Angle
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 724

        Erik Satie's velvet suit was green. It was a bit of an indirect clue which rubberneck hit on immediately.

        As for his poser, I am less than sure. I know that Berlioz once addressed a letter, "Dear Lazybones". Where's the W in that ?

        Now for the day.

        Anna was in Liverpool yesterday and I doubt if she could have had better weather. I hope she was pleasantly surprised by all that she saw and experienced. We shall know soon.

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        • rubbernecker

          Originally posted by Angle View Post
          As for his poser, I am less than sure. I know that Berlioz once addressed a letter, "Dear Lazybones". Where's the W in that ?
          Nowt to do with Berlioz, but W is a composer.

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26506

            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
            You might have if you have seen the advertisement on the telly the other year for - I think - Toyota (?) - which used the hypnotic VU track "I'm sticking with you ('cos I'm made out of glue...)" [Maureen Tucker, lead vocal] ...
            Well I haven't seen the advert but Good Lord is that song theirs? I know it very well indeed, as it is the main song in the soundtrack of one of my favourite films of recent years, "Juno", watched 4 or 5 times. (Anyone who hasn't seen it and wants 2 hours of high quality pleasure: do watch it!). It is indeed very catchy. I had no idea that's what Velvet Underground sounded like - I assumed it was altogether more dark and sleazy.

            As our French cousins say (but in French): I shall go to bed tonight less stupid. (I often think that about the AA thread )

            And trust smarty-pants rubberknickers to know the colour of Satie's smarty pants and jacket

            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • Tapiola
              Full Member
              • Jan 2011
              • 1688

              Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
              ...er, hello and goodbye, Taps. I thought the Floyd were your No.1?
              The Floyd are way up there, rubbers, but the Velvets just edge it, on the strength of Sister Ray :cool2:

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              • Tapiola
                Full Member
                • Jan 2011
                • 1688

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                It is indeed very catchy. I had no idea that's what Velvet Underground sounded like - I assumed it was altogether more dark and sleazy.[/COLOR]
                I'm sticking with You is one of their lighter tracks, Caliban, and a rare vocal for Ms Tucker. You will be pleased to hear that much of their output IS dark and sleazy. You would definitely know Venus in Furs I imagine - often used to accompany adverts, documentaries etc.

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                • rubbernecker

                  Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                  You would definitely know Venus in Furs I imagine - often used to accompany adverts, documentaries etc.
                  Of course, he does, Taps! Shiny boots of leather... right up his street!

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26506

                    Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                    Of course, he does, Taps! Shiny boots of leather... right up his street!
                    Yes you taught me everything I needed to know, duckie
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • Tapiola
                      Full Member
                      • Jan 2011
                      • 1688

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                      • rubbernecker

                        Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                        but the Velvets just edge it, on the strength of Sister Ray :cool2:
                        A track which doesn't figure on Lou Reed's Rock n Roll Animal, which is a favourite from my student days. Very uncool, I realise, and frowned on by VU fans, but what fantastic live musicianship! And coincidentally there's another link to my W...

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                        • mercia
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920

                          Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                          W is a composer.
                          Wagner?

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                          • mercia
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                            another link to my W...
                            Dick Wagner?

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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                              an idyll?
                              Siegfried Idyll?

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                              • rubbernecker

                                You're certainly getting warm, Mercia, although it's not Dick, or Richard...

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