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# Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series)

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Review: Outstanding - My favorite 33 1/3 book. What I really like is the discussion of living a life that makes a good story vs merely just telling good stories. Lou Reed obviously did both as did the other VU members. So, the author is a musician has both lived a life that is pretty interesting and can write. He inserts personal local color w/o making the book about him. Re VU in particular he has done readers a service in actually verifying quotes and providing citations rather than repeating other people's stories w/o verifying them. The descriptions of the scene and music are fascinating. You can roughly read the sections on the songs in about the time it takes to listen to them.
Review: A Brief Moment of Perfection - This 33 & a third text spells out the conflicts and tensions inherent in the VU's original coming together--Lou Reed hated Nico (as a singer, we don't know what he thought of her sexually)--Andy's attempts to form the VU in his image vs. Reed and Cale's vision--The fact, which is hard to get across these fifty-plus years later to young folks, that the VU was disliked, especially in NY, and was not popular with the music world, not for some time after they disbanded and became a pervasive influence on rock and roll in the nineties and on--This unstable concoction produced a fragile beauty in some songs and a rough-trade junkie assault in others--I would argue that White Light White Heat is probably more influential as an LP on future music than was the VU & Nico--Such an exquisitely self-undermining work, reflected its moment, never to be repeated, even though we think we remember our history--Harvard reminds us how things were.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #690,821 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,197 in Music History & Criticism (Books) #1,505 in Rock Music (Books) #1,694 in Popular Culture in Social Sciences |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (97) |
| Dimensions  | 5 x 0.5 x 6.5 inches |
| Edition  | 0 |
| ISBN-10  | 0826415504 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0826415509 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Part of series  | 33 1/3 |
| Print length  | 152 pages |
| Publication date  | March 31, 2004 |
| Publisher  | Continuum Intl Pub Group |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Outstanding
*by D***H on August 4, 2019*

My favorite 33 1/3 book. What I really like is the discussion of living a life that makes a good story vs merely just telling good stories. Lou Reed obviously did both as did the other VU members. So, the author is a musician has both lived a life that is pretty interesting and can write. He inserts personal local color w/o making the book about him. Re VU in particular he has done readers a service in actually verifying quotes and providing citations rather than repeating other people's stories w/o verifying them. The descriptions of the scene and music are fascinating. You can roughly read the sections on the songs in about the time it takes to listen to them.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Brief Moment of Perfection
*by S***E on July 29, 2020*

This 33 & a third text spells out the conflicts and tensions inherent in the VU's original coming together--Lou Reed hated Nico (as a singer, we don't know what he thought of her sexually)--Andy's attempts to form the VU in his image vs. Reed and Cale's vision--The fact, which is hard to get across these fifty-plus years later to young folks, that the VU was disliked, especially in NY, and was not popular with the music world, not for some time after they disbanded and became a pervasive influence on rock and roll in the nineties and on--This unstable concoction produced a fragile beauty in some songs and a rough-trade junkie assault in others--I would argue that White Light White Heat is probably more influential as an LP on future music than was the VU & Nico--Such an exquisitely self-undermining work, reflected its moment, never to be repeated, even though we think we remember our history--Harvard reminds us how things were.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A good read for non-VU freaks
*by R***. on June 12, 2013*

I'm a VU fan, but not a VU freak. As such, I liked this book a lot. Plenty of background on the making of the album, analysis of the songs, etc. I've read another review complaining that all the info in this book can be found in the "Peel Slowly And See" box set booklet. If that's true, than I can see this book being a disappointment. But I don't own that boxset, so I really can't compare. Personal complaint-I like this book, but would rather have read a 33 1/3 book on "White Light/White Heat." I think that album is miles better than this one, which suffers from being over-exposed. I realize the importance of the album, but I'd rather hear more about the story of WLWH. Having been to the 33 1/3 site and seeing what their criteria is for recommending a book, and having read several books in this series, I sort of understand why this album was chosen (as it is their most influential album-not to mention this was an early entry in the series.) But is there a rule that each band only gets one album in the series? Even if only for financial considerations? Because there are several bands with other albums worthy of this sort of analysis. Examples: there are many great Beatles albums, but the only one with a book is "Let It Be." The only Stones album is "Exile." Sonic Youth-"Daydream Nation." Led Zeppelin-"4". Black Sabbath-"Master Of Reality" The Smiths-"Meat Is Murder." Don't these bands have other albums also worthy of consideration for this series? And unless I'm overlooking something, why isn't there a book on any of the 3 great studio LPs (pre-reunion) by The Stooges?

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