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Velvet Underground — Sweet Jane
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craighoog
Posted: May 02, 2013 - 07:11
 
I agree with "dig", the original is excellent.

dig
Posted: Feb 28, 2013 - 17:14
 
Just relax everyone. The Cowboy Junkies did a fine job but they were fortunate to have such a great song to work with. As far as definative version - track one, Rock 'n Roll Animal.

dig
Posted: Feb 28, 2013 - 17:07
 
 merkin_muffley wrote:
Only gave this 4 as the live version is a 10. Twice as good and more, if that makes any sense.
 

Yes, the Rock'n Roll Animal version is a 10, but  don't  ya think 4 is a little harsh? The origanal version is so visceral, so real, so fucking good.

Elroweho
(Cheesehead in Paradise)
Posted: Jan 28, 2013 - 10:01
 
Ahh! This is just what the doctor ordered! Great classic tune! {#Dancingbanana_2}

For those of you who don't understand why I rate this a 9 see below:

{#Nyah} 

Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Jan 28, 2013 - 10:00
 

The phrase "velvet underground" refers to Marquis de Sade's description of the anus...  I would guess the band giggled all the time about it...

this song rocks...  love it...
 

rado
(New England coast)
Posted: Oct 26, 2012 - 08:18
 
You know how some songs can trigger a vivid memory? This song does that for me. I can picture exactly where I was and who I was with the first time I heard this song. I don't know the date exactly, but it was >40 yrs ago, the album was rather new, and I was an early teen. At that age of course I thought I knew everything; I think this song imprinted the memory because it was so different from what I *had* thought was "good music". Eye opening and transformative, it'll always be a 10 in my book.

midreaming
Posted: Sep 24, 2012 - 20:11
 
stellar.  ..just as it is. perfect, like the wildflowers in light reflected off broken glass of a city street. it's not smooth and shouldn't be cause it's rock an roll

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Aug 24, 2012 - 08:28
 
 PA1749 wrote:
Wow, compared to the Cowboy Junkies, this sucks.
 
Maybe to you it does.

azdcryan
(DC Metro)
Posted: Aug 24, 2012 - 08:23
 
LOVE the Velvet Underground...this hit me in the belly! Visceral & awesome, how pure their rock n' roll.

merkin_muffley
(Down the rabbit hole.....)
Posted: Aug 24, 2012 - 08:22
 
Only gave this 4 as the live version is a 10. Twice as good and more, if that makes any sense.

lily34
(lexvegas)
Posted: Aug 24, 2012 - 08:20
 
so awesome to hear VU on RP
it hardly ever happens.
thanks bill!

martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Aug 17, 2012 - 10:12
 
Love live version on Rock n Roll Animal  - Live album. Leaves CJ in the dirt. 

ArbiterOfGoodTaste
(Seattle, WA)
Posted: Jun 22, 2012 - 11:23
 
Where's that confounded bridge? This is the version which is missing it!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Jane

lennox60
Posted: Jun 22, 2012 - 11:21
 
 romeotuma wrote:


Love this song, but this is one of the rare cases where I love a cover even more—  the Cowboy Junkies make this song soooo smooth and sexy...

 
 

Agreed...

idiot_wind
Posted: Jun 22, 2012 - 11:21
 
Hey rotten,

Uh....do you like guitar in r n r songs?

Uh...maybe you want to listen to Reed playing it.

Some of the best.

rotten
Posted: May 21, 2012 - 15:56
 
 PA1749 wrote:
Wow, compared to the Cowboy Junkies, this sucks.
 
Mott the Hoople do the best version of this song.

Clark_Novato
(Novato, CA)
Posted: May 21, 2012 - 15:55
 
I've made sweet love to the CJ's version on many an occasion, so it holds a special place in my heart.  But the VU version is infinitely more seminal (forgive the pun).

rotten
Posted: May 21, 2012 - 15:55
 
There are so many great songs on this album, Head Held High, Train Round the Bend, Who Loves the Sun, New Age, Rock & Roll, Lonesome Cowboy Bill.

Giselle62
(many bear, big rock, estuary California)
Posted: May 21, 2012 - 15:53
 
A little sick of it; but it's a great song a a great album.

PA1749
(Room 106)
Posted: May 08, 2012 - 11:54
 
Wow, compared to the Cowboy Junkies, this sucks.

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Apr 19, 2012 - 22:22
 


Love this song, but this is one of the rare cases where I love a cover even more—  the Cowboy Junkies make this song soooo smooth and sexy...

 

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Feb 16, 2012 - 11:48
 
 crockydile wrote:

The only version that really sucks...I assume that's what you mean. {#Ask}

The Junkies version is THE definitive version, like All Along the Watchtower by Hendrix.

This is crap.

 

You are incorrect on an epic level.

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Feb 16, 2012 - 11:47
 
 rickhoran wrote:

F-U cowboy junkies! this is the only version.



 

{#Yes}{#Cheers}

mistabird
(frei republik allgäu)
Posted: Dec 15, 2011 - 00:00
 
das waren noch zeiten, ..  ..  .. wir hatten ZEIT  !!{#Chillpill}

treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)
Posted: Sep 05, 2011 - 16:52
 
 peter_james_bond wrote:

Blech, Smech! Still sweet after all these years. {#Razz}
 

Agreed.  And can't we get a few more VU cuts added here?  I listened to "Sunday Morning" yesterday (on Sunday morning), and it sounded GOOD!


mvanderford60
Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 14:35
 
 cc_rider wrote:

It's bad on purpose. That makes it 'art'.

But to be fair, nobody's ever accused VU of being stellar musicians. They practically created the DIY punk ethos.

 
John Cale is rather good - but he could only do so much with the others - interesting talk about those years and later collaborations with Eno at:
http://fora.tv/2010/01/15/Circa_1979_A_Signal_to_Noise_with_John_Cale



Dave_Mack
(Swimming Upstream)
Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 14:32
 
 rtrudeau wrote:
I'm partial to the Lou Reed cover, myself.
 
Yup, blows 'em all away.


jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 14:32
 
MUTE

cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Sep 29, 2010 - 13:11
 
 Bad_Art wrote:

Wow!  I had never heard VU's studio version of this.  Hard to believe how bad it actually is.  I mean it sounds like some high schoolers made this in the den by sticking a sony walkman on record.  It's off key, out of tune, and the sound is weak.  The singer sounds like he's reading.  How bad does something have to become before it achieves 'art?'

 
It's bad on purpose. That makes it 'art'.

But to be fair, nobody's ever accused VU of being stellar musicians. They practically created the DIY punk ethos.


katiediddler
(one of the dominoes, hopefully near the back)
Posted: Sep 29, 2010 - 13:08
 

Most of my heroes are flawed. Same goes for alot of my favorite songs. Can't engineer emotion.



xkolibuul
(Chuckanut sandstone)
Posted: Jun 25, 2010 - 16:35
 
Oh come on. Nobody has any grounds to complain about either one.  VU scored an instant classic, and CJ did a brilliant cover.  Plenty of bad music out there to put the artistry of both in proper perspective.

 crockydile wrote:

The only version that really sucks...I assume that's what you mean. {#Ask}

The Junkies version is THE definitive version, like All Along the Watchtower by Hendrix.

This is crap.
 


crockydile
(Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way)
Posted: Jun 25, 2010 - 16:30
 
 rickhoran wrote:

F-U cowboy junkies! this is the only version.

 
The only version that really sucks...I assume that's what you mean. {#Ask}

The Junkies version is THE definitive version, like All Along the Watchtower by Hendrix.

This is crap.


Fables85
(Not Here)
Posted: Apr 23, 2010 - 04:05
 
A "classic" (quotation marks indicating a particularly nasty and frowned upon word in my books). This is far from the Velvet's peak... (And don't get me started again on the appaling, bragging cliche of the "Rock 'N' Roll Animal" live album... Jeez.
 
Play more off the debut album or the third... Even better, if RP is feeling courageous, they could spin some "White Light/White Heat"!!! 'Sister Ray' maybe? Ha!


Albert1967
(Leusden, the Netherlands)
Posted: Apr 23, 2010 - 03:20
 
Always nice to share a moment with Lou.

Bad_Art
(Outa' Space -- EVE Online)
Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 12:55
 

Wow!  I had never heard VU's studio version of this.  Hard to believe how bad it actually is.  I mean it sounds like some high schoolers made this in the den by sticking a sony walkman on record.  It's off key, out of tune, and the sound is weak.  The singer sounds like he's reading.  How bad does something have to become before it achieves 'art?'

Such a contrast to the live versions I know: Live Lou Reed and Cowboy Junkies.





jersey_birdman
Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 12:44
 
Loaded with hits!  Killer album..  oh, i mean CD.

vit
Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 12:43
 
 rickhoran wrote:

F-U cowboy junkies! this is the only version.



 
Hell yah!


copymonkey
(in the northeast, but not near anywhere cool)
Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 12:42
 
 rtrudeau wrote:
I'm partial to the Lou Reed cover, myself.
 

huh?

rtrudeau
(Bay Area, California)
Posted: Feb 18, 2010 - 22:33
 
I'm partial to the Lou Reed cover, myself.

Bat
(Austin)
Posted: Jan 18, 2010 - 13:05
 

Doesn't this original version have the "Heavenly wine and roses, seem to wisper her name..." part?




rickhoran
(Eastern PA)
Posted: Dec 18, 2009 - 03:12
 

F-U cowboy junkies! this is the only version.




crockydile
(I miss Excelsior!)
Posted: Oct 16, 2009 - 06:25
 
 redstorm wrote:
Being from NYC, I'm obligated to like the VU,
 
Being from Texas, I'm afraid to think what I'm "obligated" to like. Screw that. I like what I like and I don't like VU. {#No}


peter_james_bond
(Lunenburg, NS)
Posted: Sep 14, 2009 - 17:35
 
 jagdriver wrote:
Blech!
 
Blech, Smech! Still sweet after all these years. {#Razz}

jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA)
Posted: Sep 14, 2009 - 17:06
 
Blech!

Couldn't stand 'em then and 40+ years has made no difference in my opinion. And AFA Andy Warhol goes, these folks have long had their 15 minutes.



rabaak
Posted: Sep 14, 2009 - 17:04
 
The version from Rock and Roll Animal tops this one and the one by the Cowboy Junkies by a long ways in my opinion

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Aug 14, 2009 - 05:15
 
Great song!

redstorm
(East Coast!........ Lou!)
Posted: Aug 14, 2009 - 05:08
 
Being from NYC, I'm obligated to like the VU, they bring the grit, and energy of the City to the rest of the world....not that you guys asked for it! {#Lol}

Wizzuvvoz
(Land of Nod. East of Eden on Route 66.)
Posted: Jul 13, 2009 - 13:50
 
 

The Postal Service - Such Great Heights; Witchcraft - Ultraviolet; Telepopmusik - Breathe; High Violets - Wheel; Mich Gerber - Eros; José González - Slow Moves; Breaks Co-op - The Sound Inside; Julie Miller - All My Tears; Echo & The Bunnymen - Evergreen

And then, Sweet Jane!!! Man, what a GREAT stretch of music!



Stave
(San Francisco)
Posted: Jul 13, 2009 - 13:49
 
 PacificNWPariah wrote:
Again, I prefer the Cowboy Junkies version better

 
Agreed, but this is still a classic.


MCKY
(PEI, Great White North)
Posted: Jul 13, 2009 - 13:49
 
I love this song more everytime I hear it. Captures an era so well.