Heston and Marky's Friday Top 5

[Heston]

I love Where Have All the Good Times Gone and Sorrow but in most cases prefer the originals.

[Marky Dread]

Top 5 tracks from "The Velvet Underground & Nico" - The Velvet Underground.

1. I'm Waiting for the Man
2. There She Goes Again
3. Heroin
4. Sunday Morning
5. European Son

[Dr. Medulla]

1. All Tomorrow's Parties
2. Waiting For the Man
3. European Son
4. Heroin
5. Venus in Furs

The distance between #1 and #5 is pretty infinitesimal.

[Marky Dread]

1. All Tomorrow's Parties
2. Waiting For the Man
3. European Son
4. Heroin
5. Venus in Furs

The distance between #1 and #5 is pretty infinitesimal.

It's an album that even after all those listens it still holds a strange quality. My choices fluctuate more on this album than any other. Never disappoints.

[Dr. Medulla]

1. All Tomorrow's Parties
2. Waiting For the Man
3. European Son
4. Heroin
5. Venus in Furs

The distance between #1 and #5 is pretty infinitesimal.

It's an album that even after all those listens it still holds a strange quality. My choices fluctuate more on this album than any other. Never disappoints.

The worst I can say about it is that I don't care as much for the "prettier" songs anymore. It's not that they're bad or out of place, only that there's far more interesting sounds elsewhere on the record.

[JoseUnidos]

1. All Tomorrow's Parties
2. Waiting for the Man
3. Venus in Furs
4. Heroin
5. Run Run Run

You could randomly shuffle the order of 2--5 and I'd be okay with it but ATP stays at the top - it's probably my favorite song from the 1960s.

[JennyB]

1. Waiting for the Man
2. All Tomorrow's Parties
3. Sunday Morning
4. Heroin
5. Venus in Furs

[Marky Dread]

1. All Tomorrow's Parties
2. Waiting For the Man
3. European Son
4. Heroin
5. Venus in Furs

The distance between #1 and #5 is pretty infinitesimal.

It's an album that even after all those listens it still holds a strange quality. My choices fluctuate more on this album than any other. Never disappoints.

The worst I can say about it is that I don't care as much for the "prettier" songs anymore. It's not that they're bad or out of place, only that there's far more interesting sounds elsewhere on the record.

Thing for me is how much of those "prettier" songs you can hear in the 80s indie pop acts like The Primitives (Name connection there) and The Darling Buds and then how much you hear those "noisier" sounds in the Jesus and Mary Chain and early Banshees etc.

The album has those two main styles that influences post punk right across the board. Incredible really.

[Flex]

goddammit, i'd co-sign anyone's offered top 5 so far. it's such a brilliant album. Hmmmmm....

1. All Tomorrow's Parties
2. Heroin
3. European Son
4. Sunday Morning
5. Venus on Furs

I think like Doc, I mostly gravitate towards the "noisier" tracks (tho I included something from the other side in my top 5 as my heart feels torn by the album's tendencies) but I love all of them near equally.

[Dr. Medulla]

1. All Tomorrow's Parties
2. Waiting For the Man
3. European Son
4. Heroin
5. Venus in Furs

The distance between #1 and #5 is pretty infinitesimal.

It's an album that even after all those listens it still holds a strange quality. My choices fluctuate more on this album than any other. Never disappoints.

The worst I can say about it is that I don't care as much for the "prettier" songs anymore. It's not that they're bad or out of place, only that there's far more interesting sounds elsewhere on the record.

Thing for me is how much of those "prettier" songs you can hear in the 80s indie pop acts like The Primitives (Name connection there) and The Darling Buds and then how much you hear those "noisier" sounds in the Jesus and Mary Chain and early Banshees etc.

The album has those two main styles that influences post punk right across the board. Incredible really.

So many bands get the hyperbolic treatment in terms of influence, but it really is undeniable how much was realize in so many cool bands of the 80s and beyond that we can hear on the first record. There's something satisfying in a "fuck you, Boomers" way that it was a commercial dud.

[matedog]

1. Heroin - One of the five or six perfect songs in existence
2. I'm Waiting for the Main
3. Venus in Furs
4. Sunday Morning
5. Black Angel's Death Song

Nico's songs can GTFO though Tomorrow's Parties is the best of the bunch. Cale's influences are really what elevate the material for me and make the album so distinct, unique, and wonderful. Also, it took me awhile to appreciate Sunday Morning, but what really sells me on it is the first verse vocals being super dry and then the remaining verses/choruses just being drenched in reverb. Such a great touch. As is Cale's celesta playing.

*Femme Fatale also has a nice chorus.

[Kory]

1. Venus in Furs
2. I'm Waiting for the Man
3. Heroin
4. Sunday Morning
5. The Black Angel's Death Song

[matedog]

1. Venus in Furs
2. I'm Waiting for the Man
3. Heroin
4. Sunday Morning
5. The Black Angel's Death Song

Nice, we had the same, just 1 and 3 switched.

[Kory]

1. Venus in Furs
2. I'm Waiting for the Man
3. Heroin
4. Sunday Morning
5. The Black Angel's Death Song

Nice, we had the same, just 1 and 3 switched.

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[Marky Dread]

Top 5 tracks from "Zen Arcade" - Hüsker Dü

1. Turn On the News
2. Pink Turns to Blue
3. Never Talking to You Again
4. Standing by the Sea
5. Somewhere