The Velvet Forum

TERRIBLE album, especially compared to the previous three (talk about coitus interruptus). Just be thankful he played something from New Sensations instead of sticking with Mistrial for both numbers. Actually, to be fair, Mistrial does have three good tunes. "No Money Down," "Mama's Got A Lover ...

SNL is usually 90 minutes, but syndicated reruns on cable are edited down to an hour. Usually they cut out one of the musical numbers to accommodate the shorter time. This was a pretty bad episode of SNL, but Lou was entertaining. Pretty slick, VERY 80's, but Lou was having fun and even though the ...

If you live in the U.S., NBC broadcasts really old reruns of Saturday Night Live around 2 to 3 a.m. early Sunday morning (check your local listings). Tonight (or tomorrow morning, depending on how you look at it), they're showing one with Lou Reed. It's from 1985/1986, and it's hosted by the late ...

I'll take an mp3 (better than nothing). Can you encode it at 192 kbps (using plain old 'stereo' and NOT 'joint stereo')? That would be great if you could!

easytorrent isn't taking any new registrations. Can we post it here for downloading, or maybe set up a Yahoo account like we did for the others?

How 'bout posting some recs for all the artists, for those who are unfamiliar with the nominees? The Modern Lovers (Jonathan Richman) There's only one studio Lp for the original line-up, the one where the VU influence really comes through, though there have been numerous reissues (the Rhino CD was ...

I agree that Reed should reissue two-disc anniversary editions like Bowie has with his key albums, assuming there are worthy goodies to put on a second disc (I hope there are), but I hope the albums don't get mastered the way Bowie's CD's are. Reed has often worked closely with Bob Ludwig as ...

If you put a store bought CD in your player, the times will also vary from the tracklist's. Each device (car player, computer, discman) reads the tracks slightly differently. Some devices actually count several seconds into the following track. Though I'm just starting to explore the Velvet ...