The Velvet Forum

Broome Street? where did I get that from? O's site and everyone else says the stuff was recorded at Ludlow St. Sorry for adding confusion. No, you're right. Or maybe the facts are confusing. From O's site: "According to Sterling Morrison, these songs were recorded in an unheated studio on Broom St....

I certainly have those alternate Ludlow St demos somewhere - not sure that they were on the 22 demos tape though. I rather made that assumption because I knew they were around in the early 80's and hence thought they must be from a tape as non of the vinyl boots seemed to have featured them. The "F...

re broome street acetate - they were on lurid_uk's tape, but the only bits not released officially are alt takes of Here She Comes Now and a flubbed Sheltered Life, they are not that interesting. Broome Street? I am mistaken in calling them Ludlow Street demos? I know they're not essential but I qu...

I certainly have those alternate Ludlow St demos somewhere - not sure that they were on the 22 demos tape though. I rather made that assumption because I knew they were around in the early 80's and hence thought they must be from a tape as non of the vinyl boots seemed to have featured them. The "F...

I'm gobsmacked that Oh Sweet Nuthin' even made it this far. What was it up against before - a song from Squeeze? Anyway the poor darling didn't stand a chance. I like the organ on What Goes On (the one time Doug Yule didn't make a complete arse of himself on that instrument). But when I hear the Liv...

In my opinion this is competition is going to get very silly. Here we are comparing chalk and cheese. Venus in Furs - wonderful song and arrangement with Murder Mystery - a sound-art-poetry experiment. What is the point?

This is really the best of the rough mixes I think - it came from a cassette loaned by Lurid_uk, a guest in these parts who acquired it in the early 80s. This is great. Thank-you. I compared it with the Foggy Notion EP and Etc. and like someone else says those seem to be mono. This is much much bet...

Just for reference. Does this mean that for example Ocean(1969/V.U.) will be voted on and not Ocean(P.S.A.S.) even though they're lyricly different No, it's the (admittedly Platonic ideal form of the) song that's voted on. Think of its best/most appealing form when you're voting, whether that be th...

Many of the extra songs on Fully Loaded were completely undeveloped and seemingly pretty week at that time and this just goes to show that you cannot neccessarily judge a song from a particular recording. If the velvets had gone on to work up Love Makes You Feel, Wild Child, Walk it, Lisa Says, Sate...

Maybe I'm being picky but can Melody Laughter really be called a song? Isn't it a piece of free improv? I wonder if it and things like Booker-T should be included.