This album is 50 years old today. What are your thoughts on it?

This album is 50 years old today. What are your thoughts on it?

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Their best album.

Their second-best album.

Its going to be weird when like my genoration is old and like we grew up playing sega and watching anime. and like the beatles will be 100 years old. and there will be old people who like death metal and gangsta rap and play yu gi oh cards

pretentious, unlistenable shit

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goddamn. right in the feels, user.
i don't want to be old. wat do?

die before then

kys

perfect rock album from the best rock lineup possibly ever

Masterpiece. One of the greatest albums of all time.

The best album

sucking on my ding dong

as good as they are, the bands they influenced were better than them. still appreciate them alot

As someone who thinks TVU were the greatest band ever, I wish this were true
Not that they didnt influence plenty of great bands, of course

>the bands they influenced were better than them.
Like who?

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>the bands they influenced
Name 5.

alternate cover used for a UK reissue

The Gift makes me profoundly uncomfortable, and I don't know why.

The only problem with that album is Sister Ray is the only really stand-out track. The rest is good but not great, if the album didn't have Sister Ray on it then nobody would really care about it.

loll

Imagine actually having this opinion

their best album. Sister Ray is one of my favourite songs ever.

Has a 50 yr old album ever been so timely?

-amphetamine abuse
-gf sleeps around when she goes to college
-tranny debauchery

It has everything

Waldo was a pitiful numale, Marsha did the right thing

>gf sleeps around when she goes to college

why is this literally such a fucking common thing

what the fuck

sometimes girls want to have sex too, y'know.

yeah i mean i don't usually condoning but with the number of guys who try and justify it they should hardly be surprised when their girls do it too

Fleetwood Mac. The influence isn't necessarily obvious at first, but they've said that VU's songwriting was a major influence on Rumours and Mystery to Me, among other albums of theirs.

cheating is bad

When you go to college, you're around people your age around your level of intelligence that are pursuing similar career paths as you. All the time. What kind of desperate retard wants to stay faithful to a girl in this predicament?

me in 2014, i guess

lol, that's the first thing that comes to your mind when thinking of bands inspired by VU?

Fleetwood Mac sucks

the song is a big redpill but you don't get it until you've already gone through it irl

Actually 10/10
Every song is just great and innovative
Their best album

CAN
Iggy and the Stooges
Yo la Tengo
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Sonic Youth
Joy Division
Talking Heads
The Flaming Lips

I think I'll play it later on.

I like it more than the banana, suck my dick Sup Forums

love it
have a cd

basically all the indeh, noise rock, even post-punk etc

one of my favourite albums ever. think its absolute brilliant

>Yo la Tengo
>The Jesus and Mary Chain
>Sonic Youth
>Joy Division
>The Flaming Lips

>better than VU

I'll never forget the first time I listened to this album. Because of the reputation behind it, I was honestly expecting some kind of weird 2deep4me protoprog or some shit, but instead it was just loud, punky, fun fucking rock music from start to finish. One of my favorites of all time, no other album has captured the energy of White Light/White Heat. The closest anyone has come was probably "The Classical" from The Fall in '82.

>Doctor is coming the nurse thinks SWEETLY
>Turning on the machines that NEATLY PUMP AIR
>The body lies bare
>Shaved and hairless what once was SCREAMING
>Now lies silent and ALMOST SLEEPING
>The brain must have gone away

What did he mean by this?

>it was just loud, punky, fun fucking rock music from start to finish
3 out of the 5 songs are not like this. Did you even paid attention to the album?

i never cared for the songs "here she comes now" and "i heard her call my name"

It's about someone getting a sex change.

Do you identify with the soyboy narrator who gets a cutter through the noggin?

Only when the man does it, user. It's 2018, get with the program.

You really think those are better than VU? Can and Stooges maybe but they started around the same time. If you really think Flaming Lips, Yo La Tango and Sonic Youth are better then you have some pretty shitty taste.

NEATLY PUMP AAAAIIIIIIIRRRRRR

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F Lips were really great until around 2006 and they became a redundant parody of themselves.

YLT... As a whole, I Can Hear The Heart... is equal to most of VU's discography and better than WLWH. Blue Line Swinger is a better song than anything VU ever did.

Agreed with Sonic Youth. Parts of Evol, Sister, DDN and Goo equal VU, but none of their albums as a whole equal anything in the VU discography.

Nah, lobotomy

sounds like a lobotomy / electro shock therapy

It was Mark E Smiths fav VU and in his opinion one of the greatest records ever made, he was not wrong.
Lou Reed was the only man he bowed to, literally.

the last two FLips albums are great, great pleb filters too

Embryonic(2009)
The Terror(2013)
Two of the best Lips albums came after 2006......

That thick bass noise at the end of the title track is the best thing ever

hes not the narrator you fucking cunt.

best album

The individual songs are all great but as an album I think it's repetitive. Even at five songs they have two long mid paced jam songs with narrative lyrics back to back, then two noisy jam songs back to back to end the album, 25 minutes in total. I wish the tracklisting was a little different but there aren't enough songs to work with.

me because I’m too autistic to get with even the sluttiest slut

a bit of trivia about the album cover:

>The tattoo was that of Joe Spencer, who played the lead role in Warhol's 1967 film Bike Boy. Spencer starred as a hustler in a motorcycle gang and is seen taking a shower in the movie. Although he wasn't credited for the cover design as with their debut album, it was Warhol's idea to use a black-on-black picture of the tattoo. Reed selected the image from the negatives from the film, and it was enlarged and distorted by Billy Name, one of the members of the Factory.

Also, the album cover looks pretty cool if you invert the colors

I like John Cale a lot
I'll be a bit sad when he dies
I'll probably cry

Why they never recorded a proper version of this for WL WH I will never know

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Too bluesy, Lou's rock n roll tendencies were his worst element and I'm glad he suppressed them until Loaded. WLWH at least sounds ironic with it's 50s sound combined with lyrics about heroin and that filthy bass tone

Some WL/WH covers:

Chapterhouse - Lady Godiva's Operation
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Nirvana - Here She Comes Now
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Galaxie 500 - Here She Comes Now
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David Bowie - White Light/White Heat
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Joy Divison - Sister Ray
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The Gift without the narrative
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That's probably true, but I'm sure Cale could have figured a way to spice it up a bit
That's great. Good to know that Warhol himself found that line as funny as many people on this board do lol

les rallizes denudes

Ehhh, the potential is there but I wish we could hear their songs on a legit studio album

FPBP as always