Velvet Underground

[Henry Musikar]

I love Ode to Nappy!  Sprechstimme at its best!  When I ran the record
department in a department store, I used to play the Rolling Stones' "Star
Star," which was about a groupie, and should have been title "Star-fucker,"
as that was the word repeated in the refrain.  I was betting on, and was
correct that the people who would be offended by the word would also dislike
the music enough to not listen carefully enough to discern the word.

Speaking of music... it's easier than ever to listen to KCUF on any computer
that has Flash and an internet connection:
http://www.shoutcast.com/shoutcast_player?stationid=109516 

Henry Musikar
Sr. IT Consultant
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20/ 
http://tinyurl.com/342april09/ 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Robin Landseadel
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 10:35 AM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: Velvet Underground

On Apr 26, 2009, at 7:18 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Robin Landseadel
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" ...
>
> Note that CDs can't replicate that final locked groove on the LP, and
> I've yeat to hear it even simulated well digitally ...

On a late Saturday morning back in the mid-seventies, working for the  
now-de-funk-ed "Wherehouse" chain, we had a little contest to see what  
sort of music would most quickly clear out the store. It was "Metal  
Machine Music" vs. a Nonesuch issue of Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon  
Bonaparte" featuring music critic Bernard Jacobson as narrator/ 
reciter. Interestingly, there were a few folks that stuck around for  
"MMM"