Match 13 of the First Round is between
Cool It Down (off Loaded / Final V.U.)
and
Love Makes You Feel (Ten Foot Tall) (off Loaded (Fully Loaded))
** V.U. Song Contest - First Round Match 13 **
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Pig Related
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I like both very much, but that run-through of 'Love Makes You Feel' has to be one of the most underrated Velvet Underground recordings. Yes it's rough, and very tentative, almost like the tape just happened to be rolling when they were running through it for the first time after the song had been written, but it's just got some sort of magic about it.
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iaredatsun
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Many of the extra songs on Fully Loaded were completely undeveloped and seemingly pretty week at that time and this just goes to show that you cannot neccessarily judge a song from a particular recording. If the velvets had gone on to work up Love Makes You Feel, Wild Child, Walk it, Lisa Says, Satellite into anything like the versions they were to become (on Reed's early solo albums) then those songs would have stood a better chances in this contest.
Ride Into The Sun exists as some half-developed ideas but if the beautiful instrumental version from Another View had had the vocals added I think we might re-address our opinions of it.
Whilst 'Love Makes You Feel' is probably not up there with the best I think that this does illustrate the point that we are probably basing our decisions on extant and particular VU recordings NOT the songs in themselves. This seems to support the idea that a song is not just the written music and lyric but is also tied to notions of performance and recording. Otherwise how could a beautifully written song like Beginining to See the Light lose out against the sonic delights of European Son which is actually probably much weaker (non-existant) as a song? (Imagine European Son played on acoustic instruments!) Of course, I voted for European Son, too, because its stunning piece of music/sound/art and captures an aspect made VU historically unique.
Ride Into The Sun exists as some half-developed ideas but if the beautiful instrumental version from Another View had had the vocals added I think we might re-address our opinions of it.
Whilst 'Love Makes You Feel' is probably not up there with the best I think that this does illustrate the point that we are probably basing our decisions on extant and particular VU recordings NOT the songs in themselves. This seems to support the idea that a song is not just the written music and lyric but is also tied to notions of performance and recording. Otherwise how could a beautifully written song like Beginining to See the Light lose out against the sonic delights of European Son which is actually probably much weaker (non-existant) as a song? (Imagine European Son played on acoustic instruments!) Of course, I voted for European Son, too, because its stunning piece of music/sound/art and captures an aspect made VU historically unique.
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That version does exist. It is included in the 1993 What Goes On box set and a snippet of it was up on my website when its match ran.iaredatsun wrote:Ride Into The Sun exists as some half-developed ideas but if the beautiful instrumental version from Another View had had the vocals added I think we might re-address our opinions of it.
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