{"id":11275,"date":"2014-01-06T16:41:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=11275"},"modified":"2014-01-06T16:41:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:41:58","slug":"record-of-the-issue-velvet-undergrounds-another-view-previously-unreleased-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/record-of-the-issue-velvet-undergrounds-another-view-previously-unreleased-recordings\/","title":{"rendered":"Record of the Issue: Velvet Underground’s *Another View: Previously Unreleased Recordings*"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RecordPLAINheader_noname\"<\/a>Having waited until Lou Reed<\/strong>\u2019s death to review some Velvet Underground<\/strong> seems clich\u00e9 and for that, Lou, I apologize. I am merely re-polishing what is already golden. I still remember the first time hearing the Velvet Underground. Shacked up in the cluttered bedroom of my best friend, who also happened to be the pastor\u2019s son, we had just watched SLC Punk<\/em> as we shared a pair of shitty headphones plugged into the box set television. There was a tension in the room, anxious of Brother Jerry marching in, asking, \u201cWhat the hell are you kids up too?\u201d But as SLC Punk<\/em> drew to the credits and Velvet\u2019s \u201cRock and Roll\u201d ensued, I forgot everything I had ever known. It may not have been much for a fourteen year old, but that\u2019s not the point here. This isn\u2019t about me, or Brother Jerry, or God. It\u2019s about much more; it\u2019s about The Velvet Underground. <\/span><\/p>\n

With an opening track full of beach groove and na-na-nas, you\u2019ll wonder why these tracks went unreleased, knowing immediately you\u2019re in for a good time. This is reinsured by the song title, \u201cWe\u2019re Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together.\u201d The next track up-shifts into an improv jazz session, with a grungy undertone. \u201cHey Mr. Rain\u201d manages to shift the album back down to an \u201cAnother Side of Bob Dylan\u201d feel. The song winds down with a scorching wail of viola. It sends chills down your spine from its sinister and its beauty, which transitions nicely to the end of Side A, as it drifts into \u201cRide Into The Sun.\u201d While it is voiceless (instrumental) the song holds a kind of triumph or victory with spacey synthesizer solos and deep guitar bends from way down under. <\/span><\/p>\n

Side B brings out all the classic punk rock, lo-fi we all know and love. What is so great about Another View<\/em><\/strong> is the track layout. It is introduced to the listener slowly with care and consideration, like a new friendship or lover. This seems strategic with following titles such as, \u201cWe\u2019re Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m Gonna Move Right In,\u201d and \u201cGuess I\u2019m Falling In Love.\u201d Then we are brought to the final track, \u201cRock and Rock,\u201d and I\u2019m taken back over a decade. There\u2019s Lou, singing his own anthem and there I am, in awe, sitting too close to that old box set. Now, I didn\u2019t know it at the time, but while I was running late for Sunday school, I was being saved by \u201cRock and Roll.\u201d In a lot of ways, those SLC Punk<\/em> credits will never stop rolling, \u201cRock and Roll\u201d will never end, and Lou Reed will never die.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information on The Velvet Underground, buy out The End of All Music<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s stellar used <\/span>selection. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having waited until Lou Reed\u2019s death to review some Velvet Underground seems clich\u00e9 and for that, Lou, I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"featured_media":11277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-records"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JosephClimerRecord194feat.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}