Review the famous album Banana Velvet is difficult, as the influence of the disc on the contemporary rock is big, almost impossible to measure. At first glance, this disc has everything to be hateful (as it seems Lou Reed's reputation in the middle). The Velvet seems to be a group fabricated by Andy Warhol, musicians sound like beginners, the cover is all he will more arty and the intention is to end super unhealthy end, pulling the noodle in Maximum disturbing subjects that can be ignited scandal your grandmother (the topics range from drugs and its dependence on sadomasochism and bondage) ... In short, everything to say that the album is unnecessarily excessive representing the ultimate in New Yorkean hype of the moment. To this, many columnists does have so not understood what one has well have find this disc, they come in to attribute him a pointed zero. Here, there is nothing to understand: everything is subjective. For my part, I make tip the balance completely the other side being forwarded a pointed 20/20 ... for exactly the same reasons, but of a radically different view. "The Velvet Underground & Nico» obsessed me a whole period, and I in today detain several striking elements. First, it comes of a courageous disk, which well qu'excessivement hired as an anti-Flower manifest Pop a bit ridiculous, goes to tips of his obsessive thematic by creating a musical atmosphere totally in phase with the About . The minimum arrangements, for example, give a visual aspect to the skeleton of addicted junkie to heroin in "I'm Waiting For The Man". Physical sensations (the progressive acceleration of the heart rhythm representative battery during the bite of heroine, the viola caring for the brain blood to influx) recreated by music in "Heroin» are undeniable. Then, the record transcribed wonderfully some urban oppression and nightlife of New York through this stringy music, his sound experiments (avant-garde), its rhythms enchanting and unique intensity. The Velvet is "Underground", master aboard his underground kingdom; the white and livid face of rock, with for epicenter New-York City. This can certainly not be ignored. And to finish with the famous formula that he knows "there were a thousand people who bought this album to release, but all formed a group," we note the curious power of this disc have inspired lots of different people (this is no further demonstration) but not only. "The Velvet Underground & Nico" seems to have been for many a first step towards a thirst for knowledge of America in many areas (urban literature, in particular). And all doubt deserves reverence.
