The Velvet Forum

lostblues wrote:my personal VU-Cover Fav. is "Ride Into The Sun" by Luna.
It's on an EP afaik...
It starts with the vocals version and has an extended instrumental part at the end. Love that!

Very good!

Another one I like:

"I'm Set Free", covered by Yo La Tengo.

jimjim wrote:Roadrunner by JR...nuff said...

jimjim,
I can think of a better one by the Modern Lovers - "She Cracked".

'Course any song on the Bettie Serveert live album, Plays Venus In Furs... ! "Run, Run, Run" and "Heroin", done by Echo And the Bunnymen, live, on disc four of their Crystal Days anthology. As noted above about Bryan Ferry, the lead singer for ETB takes tremendous liberties with the lyrics in the ...

Kinda related to my other post. I really get into "tributes" and covers of Velvet Underground songs. There are literally thousands of them, but I have a couple favorites: "What Goes On", done by the Dictators; it's one of their extra tracks on the live album New York, New York , on which they also ...

How many Jim Carroll Band songs can you guys see the Velvets playing? "People Who Died" Well, funny you should say that but Cale's soundtrack version of this from about 11 years ago did feature a Lou-less version of the VU on it..along with others. It's a cool version! Got to find that somewhere ...

So, a Velvets-sounding song............

One of my many nominees:

"Patrick Ewing" - an instrumental by Space Needle, from Voyager, which see.