Why do the Velvet Underground never get played by classic rock radio? They're popular and they're classic rock...

Why do the Velvet Underground never get played by classic rock radio? They're popular and they're classic rock, what's the deal?

*glass breaks*

There's almost no radio appeal to their music.

This. Radio, even classic rock radio is meant for normies.

Sweet Jane gets classic rock airplay.

idk man why don't YOU phone up 99.9 the home of classic rock and see how far into european son or venus in furs you get before the change it

I'm waiting for the man.

The man that'll play this on his radio station.

They weren't popular back in the day (at least not huge like The Beatles or The Stones). But Sweet Jane and Rock Roll did get some radio airplay.

Btw Loaded is the vastly inferior VU album, if you think it's the best you should re think your life

It's better than self titled.

classic rock is stuff that was popular back then. TVU only got popular in the 2000s

TVU started being heavily romanticized around 1976.

You act like those songs are inaccessible

TVU&N is what I play for my friends who are not music autists, and they still "get" Venus in furs and European son
>"but dude violas"
sit down lad

yeah. the most uncommercial song i've ever heard a classic rock station play is probably The End by the doors. or like karn evil 9 from brain salad sugery

>classic rock is stuff that was popular back then. TVU only got popular in the 2000s
I know it's only Monday (for me), but this is the dumbest post I've read all week

Maybe because their music is garbage?

but dude the radio relies on people with short attention spans looking for something to make their car ride less monotonous. having a 7+ minute song on your radio isn't a lot of fun to most radio consumers, especially ones that aren't used to the "harshness" that songs like european son have to offer. Venus in Furs was just a filler example, but the only time i ever heard heroin on the radio was a live lou reed solo version and it was nowhere near as harsh.

So why wouldn't Sunday Morning or I'll Be Your Mirror work out?

As another user mentioned, I heard Sweet Jane on the radio last week. TVU is not as obscure or abrasive as you like to think.

when i think of radio i think of lunch breaks, construction workers and receptionist lobbies. they have time for free bird and stairway to heaven and bohemian rhapsody and dream on and war pigs, why not something outside the normal playing field

yeah but thats off loaded. not the album in question
and i don't like to think they're that abrasive. i wish people didnt think they were because i like their music

so is classic rock
so is all rock for that matter

i hear them on classic rock and general rock radio all the time as well as pop and indie stations

>OP:Why do the Velvet Underground never get played by classic rock radio?
Why does it have to be a song off TVU&N now?

Nobody thinks their music is abrasive, besides kids on Sup Forums who try to keep their special snowflake persona intact

so is all music

This guys right here obviously by the way

>Venus in Furs was just a filler example

lmao it's the beat song from the album

Because they're every kind of rock except classic.

Absolutely not, the self tilted has personality, Loaded is just VU trying to be a pop rock band

Mate do you seriously think the type of people who would listen to classic rock radio want to hear Nico singing?

Anyways I played this album for my dad once, who likes Lou Reed but didn't know what the velvet underground was. He fucking hated it. He got up and left the room during the screeching guitars in Black Angels Death Song and said "This shit is way too left bank"

You have to understand that stuff is very foreign/unpleasant to the ears of people who are used to lame blues scales and Joe Cocker vocals.