VU covers

[Scarfe2024]

Hey all,

Not sure if anyone would be interested but my wife and I recently covered 'Chelsea Girls'. Wanted to make it different from Nico's version - to the point it felt like a new song almost - but obviously respecting Lou's / Sterling's ideas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5lLDty0M-o

Would love to hear your thoughts on it anyway.

Alex

[dial4]

Very good cover, really. Thanks for posting.

[mangue]

Heard this one a few days ago in a record shop, really liked it, so asked what they were playing.
Appeared to be The Raveonettes, vaguely knew their name, but never heard them before [afaik...]

Checked them out and they just released an album with covers, though not all as overwhelming as what I had heard in the shop:

The Raveonettes Sing... Venus In Furs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9bkTHb ... qXpDOaZux0

PS: really like the female voice and also the breaks in their version are pretty neat...

[dial4]

They also covered 'The end' (without the offensive part) with a good chorus. The guy actually looks a bit like young Lou, the girl like Nico or even Brian... They also did 'Shakin' all over', attributed on the front cover to Vince Taylor...
Good band, as Gina X said in the last century, the time is ripe for re-creation.

[mangue]

On their, The Raveonettes, 2nd album [2005] Moe did some drumming.
Acc.discogs on 4 tracks, see https://www.discogs.com/release/521903- ... y-In-Black

Don't know from who come the initiative, if they asked Moe, or Moe offered her rhythmic services to them...

[falconwhit]

Maybe related to this thread?
Here's a list I made one day when I was bored... a lit of albums that contain bu VU covers
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/falconwh ... te-albums/

Please let me know if I missed any others
Thaks

[dial4]

Thanks to both of you for the links, The Corona Underground Vol. 1 and 2 are free download on bandcamp.

[taxine]

Yes,The Raveonettes is great band and amazing cover almost miss it.thanks for posting

Thanks for tip about Moe,have no idea,brilliant.

[iaredatsun]

Alan Jenkins

'The Kettering Vampires perform Nico & The Velvet Underground'

Just noticed this by accident. I'm always suspecious of this kind of thing. But the writer (Henry Cow's Chris Cutler rermegacorp) is usually very careful what he recommends but he seems to give this a big thumbs up. And it feels like it might to be more than a gimmick.

I'm trying it. I should point out it's Surf genre. All instrumental. Inventive non-obvious arrangements. The guitarist seems pretty good.

Genius. Essentially a meta-revision: the VU and Nico album, extended and re-envisaged - either by tapping into one of those parallel universes in which things didn’t pan out in quite the same way as in this one, or otherwise by running aesthetically backwards and forwards at the same time. How would the Shantays have played this? How would the Velvets have approached it 5 years earlier if they’d been British? How would a band today - assuming everything after the end of the 60s had gone differently - work with this material? Or Faust? Time and musical languages get shuffled, but the songs (all instrumentally realised) only benefit. It’s not a simple record and It’s shockingly well produced in a don’t-care kind of a way. Inspired arrangements help, and great playing. Few original things pass my desk. This is one of them. With sleeve notes to treasure. Pure genius.



https://www.discogs.com/release/1291881 ... nderground

Rear cover art quite funny

[threechordwonder]

'The Kettering Vampires perform Nico & The Velvet Underground'

Good find, it's been around for a few years already and it's all on YouTube if you want to "try before you buy".

Not for me though, I'll stick to The Vitamin String Quartet.

It seems we all need to be glued to every media stream in the whole world or reissues/reinventions/covers/etc slip by unnoticed. I just don't have the wherewithal any longer.