The Velvet Forum

i never have anyone around me to talk about good bands like this. amazing. im in high school . i like venus in furs, heroin, and the black angels death song. Interestingly, when I was in high school in the 70s (Catholic school no less, jacket & tie), I found another student who dug Lou Reed. We had ...

The clear winner for me: Ocean Yep, one of the greats but which version? The VU/Live 1969 versions are very different from the Fully Loaded one... The 1970 version has that great lead guitar line that the '69 version lacks but this song needs Moe on drums to really scale the heights. Funny how Lou ...

The clear winner for me:

• Ocean

Runners up:

• Hey Mr. Rain
  Melody Laughter
  Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
  All Tomorrow's Parties
  Candy Says
  I Can't Stand It

Wanted to Edit that last post a little further, but I was logged out for some reason. ...JMC. Great band although being hard-nosed Scots I'm sure they might object to being called 'British'! ;) Whoops. Sorry Scotland! Thanks for correcting me on this, jimjim. I must have been thinking of The Strokes ...

How 'bout posting some recs for all the artists, for those who are unfamiliar with the nominees? The Modern Lovers (Jonathan Richman) In interviews Richman says he took the "Road Runner" guitar line from "Sister Ray". Cool points for getting Sister Ray on the radio (can't remember if it was the ...