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Originally Posted by elphenor
In response to Lou Reed solo vs. VU
Have you guys just never heard WLWH
MM is like an okay avant album where as WLWH is like the greatest album ever maybe
Transformer is one of my personal favorite albums of all time though
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White Light White Heat is easily my least favorite Velvet Underground album. Just like Metal Machine Music is easily my least favorite Lou Reed album.
It's not that I just dislike avant-garde stuff or noise (rock) or Cree improv or anything like that in principle, but I'm probably a lot pickier when it comes to that stuff. And for one, I tend to only prefer avant-garde stuff that displays a lot of technical and compositional skill as well as compositional subtlety, sophistication and (varied) complexity. For example, Zs is one of my favorite artists on that end of the spectrum. Art Ensemble of Chicago, too. And I like a lot of classical like Stockhausen, George Crumb, etc.