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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Velvet Underground is the eponymous third studio album by The Velvet Underground, released in 1969. It is their first album without founding member John Cale, who chose to leave the band after White Light/White Heat from the previous year due to Creative Differences with frontman Lou Reed; it is also their last studio album to feature Maureen Tucker, as due to her pregnancy, she was unable to appear on Loaded from the following year. This album is the first featuring Cale's replacement Doug Yule, who would take over the band in the future.With his main rival within the band now gone, Reed was able to make his own ideas and tastes more dominant. The result was a less Avant-garde Music sound compared to their previous two albums The Velvet Underground & Nico from 1967 and White Light/White Heat. Most of the songs are straightforward rock songs such as "Candy Says", "What Goes On" and "Pale Blue Eyes", which remained audience favourites over the years.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) |
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The Cynic |
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The Cynic: "I'm Set Free" "That's the Story of My Life" |
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Face on the Cover |
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Face on the Cover: This was the first album to feature the band members on the cover. Features a hilariously clean-cut Lou Reed. |
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New Sound Album |
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New Sound Album: Compared to their earlier albums they are almost unrecognizable, save for "The Murder Mystery". |
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Mythology Gag |
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Mythology Gag: The album cover is a deliberate nod to the cover of White Light/White Heat immediately before it, featuring the band name in the exact same font and a similar position, again against a black backdrop, but with a photograph of the band in place of the skull tattoo. |
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Alliterative Title |
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Alliterative Title: "The Murder Mystery". |
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Miniscule Rocking |
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Miniscule Rocking: The 1:59 "That's the Story of My Life" and 2:07 "After Hours". |
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Boring, but Practical |
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Boring, but Practical: "Some Kinda Love" |
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Properly Paranoid: "Candy Says" |
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Counting to Three |
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Counting to Three: Tucker does this at the start of "After Hours". |
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Downer Ending |
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Downer Ending: "After Hours" is a pretty dark ending to the album. |
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God-Is-Love Songs |
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God-Is-Love Songs: "Jesus", a song where Reed asks the Messiah for salvation. Complicating the matter is that, well, Reed was Jewish. This has led to a number of conflicting interpretations. |
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Step Up to the Microphone |
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Step Up to the Microphone: Drummer Maureen "Moe" Tucker sings lead vocals on "After Hours". Bass player Doug Yule performs the lead vocals on "Candy Says" and co-lead vocals on the choruses of "Jesus". All four band members perform lead vocals on "The Murder Mystery" (Morrison and Reed during the verses, which are spoken-word; Yule and Tucker during the choruses, which are sung). This is Morrison's only lead vocal credit on a Velvet Underground album, though he did provide backing vocals quite often. |
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Gratuitous Panning |
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Gratuitous Panning: "The Murder Mystery", which has different vocals from different band members in each channel. Reed would later call this a failed experiment. |
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Non-Appearing Title |
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Non-Appearing Title: The album title does not appear in any of the lyrics. |
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Epiphany Therapy |
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Epiphany Therapy: "Beginning to See the Light". |
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Anti-Love Song |
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Anti-Love Song: "Pale Blue Eyes" |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations: "The Murder Mystery" features all four band members' voices. During the verses, Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison each recite different verses of poetry simultaneously, with each track panning strictly to the left and right. For the choruses, Maureen Tucker and Doug Yule sing different lyrics and melodies at the same time, also separated left and right. |
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Epic Rocking |
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Epic Rocking: The 8:55 "The Murder Mystery". |
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Real Life Writes the Plot |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: "Candy Says" was about Andy Warhol model Candy Darling, who would later be referenced again in Reed's song "Walk on the Wild Side" from Transformer. |
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Black-and-White Morality |
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Black-and-White Morality: A huge theme on the album. In "That's the Story of My Life" the difference between wrong and right is said to be "dead". In "Beginning to See the Light" Reed asks: "Here comes two of you, which one will you choose? One is black, one is blue. Don't know just what to do?" and in "Jesus" he asks Jesus to help him. |
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Spoken Word in Music |
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Spoken Word in Music: "The Murder Mystery" alternates Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison speaking in one channel with Doug Yule and Moe Tucker singing in the other. |
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Continuity Nod |
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Continuity Nod: "Candy Says" would receive a Call-Back with "Caroline Says Part II" on Berlin by Lou Reed. |
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One-Man Song |
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One-Man Song: "Jesus". |
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One-Woman Song |
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One-Woman Song: "Candy Says". |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: An instrumental version of "Pale Blue Eyes" was used in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. "Some Kinda Love" inspired the dEUS song "What We Talk About (When We Talk About Love)" from Pocket Revolution (2005). The distorted organ sound heard at the end of Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime" from the Remain in Light album (1980) was inspired by "What Goes On". "The Murder Mystery" references The Beach Boys' "Caroline, No". "Candy Says" was written with Andy Warhol protégé Candy Darling in mind. |
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Self-Titled Album |
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Self-Titled Album: The Velvet Underground. |
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Perishing Alt-Rock Voice |
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Perishing Alt-Rock Voice: The Trope Codifiers at work. Notably, Reed's voice is even more perishing here than it usually is; a listener could be forgiven for thinking Yule sings lead vocals on tracks like "I'm Set Free" and "That's the Story of My Life". |
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Lighter and Softer |
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Lighter and Softer: Compared to their last two albums this record is much more minimalist and intimate. The only real Avant-garde Music track is "The Murder Mystery". |
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Cover Version |
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Cover Version: Bryan Ferry covered "What Goes On", which also interpolated "Beginning to See the Light", for 1976's The Bride Stripped Bare. |
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Deliberately Monochrome |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The album cover is in black and white. |
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Innocent Blue Eyes |
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Innocent Blue Eyes: Subverted in "Pale Blue Eyes". The mellow and soothing music leads one to think that this trope is in play, and from the lyrics you can tell that the narrator wants to believe this — but he can't, because the relationship can't last, because she's cheating on her husband with him. |
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Lyrical Dissonance |
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Lyrical Dissonance: Despite the incredibly dissonant lyrics, "After Hours" has a jaunty melody with an innocent vocal delivery from Tucker. |
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Avant-Garde Music |
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Avant-garde Music: "The Murder Mystery" is the sole track that fits this genre. |
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Despair Event Horizon |
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Despair Event Horizon: "After Hours" |
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A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read |
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A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: "Candy Says" "What Goes On" |
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Word Salad Lyrics |
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Word Salad Lyrics: "The Murder Mystery" consists mostly of a series of nonsensical words and phrases, most of them spoken by different people at the same time. Many lyrics are difficult to decipher at first. This is lampshaded in "Some Kinda Love": |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song: "After Hours", much thanks to Maureen "Moe" Tucker's vocal delivery. Reed admitted that he gave it to her on purpose because if he'd sung it, it wouldn't have sounded as innocent. Around two-thirds of the album qualified by the band's standards at the time. There are a few rockers such as "What Goes On", "Beginning to See the Light", and "The Murder Mystery", but by the standards of a band known for experiments like the viola freakout of "The Black Angel's Death Song" and the seventeen-and-a-half-minute noise jam "Sister Ray", the meditative ballads that make up the majority of this album were a major sonic departure. |
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Hair of the Dog |
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Hair of the Dog: "Beginning to See the Light": |
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