US $25,200.00 - 0.75 = $25,199.25 for Mr. Hill! Sold for 33,599 times the amount he paid for it.
Which would have gotten a lot of headlines if only that fake crap hadn't happened last week. Now, it's "only 25,200"
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 21 December 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
This is amazing: http://open.spotify.com/user/andyzax/playlist/7Gk5LAmxjb92qrJtnwTueK"I Couldn't Hit It Sideways: 12 Excruciatingly Bad Velvet Underground Covers" - a Spotify playlist
― tylerw_sandbox, Friday, 30 December 2011 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― nuhnuhnuh, Friday, 30 December 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
dave navarro - venus in furs
yeeeeeeeeeeecchh
― nuhnuhnuh, Friday, 30 December 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
Best part of that list is that one of my favorite albums from 2010 in on it: The Voices Factory. Dude who made the list (and those who hear it) can think what they want, but I've been saying for a while that this Italian group has made the best Velvets tribute ever. So, um, fuck you Spotify Playlist idiot.
Sometimes they're better than the originals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAP6rACzWsU&feature=fvsr
...and have the good sense to cover some of the best VU songs that nobody ever bothers with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX9wV1ePgPk&ob=av2e
Seriously, I played this album more than anything but Fucked Up in 2011. So there.
― dlp2917, Saturday, 31 December 2011 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
The Bettie Serveert all-VU covers album is worth tracking down too.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 31 December 2011 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
I'm pretty passionate about the Voices Factory thing, actually. Like it's allowed me to genuinely enjoy the VU catalog for the first time in years. I think at this point it's almost impossible for an American male to cover VU and do anything distinctive. Voices Factory hit it from this almost 1st-album-Slapp-Happy perspective that really kills. The band is far from perfunctory, and you never get a sense that they don't get it, or that they're being condescending. Song selection is generally perfect. They even do something worth hearing with Sister Ray. They ought to be getting awards, rather than snark...
― dlp2917, Saturday, 31 December 2011 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
I couldn't listen to it sideways
Forgot about that Bettie Serveert album
― P-Moose (Wants To Get Moosed Up) (James Redd), Saturday, 31 December 2011 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
They ought to be getting awards, rather than snark...
http://www.imprintitems.com/sitewide/images/products/prodbigimgs/5860403.jpg
― Mordy, Saturday, 31 December 2011 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/713EH3EFSSL._SL500_AA300_.gif
― P-Moose (Wants To Get Moosed Up) (James Redd), Saturday, 31 December 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
Anyway, this reminded me that I had a great album with some cool covers cued up on spotify Count's Rock Band: Do Not Listen If You Hate Coltrane or Maggot Brain
― P-Moose (Wants To Get Moosed Up) (James Redd), Saturday, 31 December 2011 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
doug yule's tide
― t. silaviver, Saturday, 31 December 2011 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think there's anything else i once liked that looking back brings me more shame than that dave navarro album. ta be fair to me i was 16 and a slow developer. can't remember if i liked the venus in furs cover in particular, but i did think it was cool he was covering the vu.
― m. yeux, Saturday, 31 December 2011 06:10 (twelve years ago) link