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The amalgamation of everything vile and corrosive about the band. There are no tunes like "I'll Be Your Mirror" or "Sunday Morning" here for you catch your breath in - just an unrelenting, pure 'rock and roll' vibe, with no production value or pretense. They simply take the formula that 70s rockers (Journey, AC/DC) would dilute and ruin and play it in an uncompromising way; and somehow, behind the chaos, distortion and disgust, there is beauty.
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Yeah, this is kind of the way I view Velvet Underground's harsher stuff, and in particular the majority of White Light. Interesting comparison to bands like Journey and AC/DC though, I've never looked at VU from that angle.
While VU is definitely not my most listened to band, the fact that they were able to produce beautiful ideas out of ugly conceptions is what makes them so extraordinary in my opinion.
I still prefer & Nico though, if anything just for those moments of respite haha