Velvet Underground

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

A most English - and also most sublime - composition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kp1n1tveCI&feature=related

The station is a remarkably gloomier place for Pirate and Scorpia Mossmoon:
"He left her at Waterloo Station. A gala crowd was there, to see Fred
Roper's Company of Wonder Midgets off to an imperial fair in Johannesburg,
South Africa. Midgets in their dark winter clothes, exquisite little frocks
and nip-waisted overcoats, were running all over the station, gobbling
their bonvoyage chocolates and lining up for news photos. Scorpia's
talc-white face, through the last window, across the last gate, was a blow
to his heart." (GR 37)

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, rich wrote:

> one could argue that one of the reasons for the Kinks lower profile
> than the beatles, stones or the who was their designation as being too
> overly British, at least to American audiences.so i've been told
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> On 4/28/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> I just had the "Who or Kinks" debate at a band rehearsal. Ironcally, I
> >> as songwriter came down on the Who side. The lead guitarist was firmly
> >> in the Kinks camp. But then again, he is John Felice
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> > Kinks, and I'm a HUGE Who fan, I've put vintage Rickenbackers through
> > speakers in St. Townshend's name an' ev'rything, but ... but Los
> > Brotehrs Davies et al. simply held up better for longer, more
> > consistnetly and more brilliantly.  But then again, I think teh real
> > question is, The Beatles or The Kinks?  Except The Beatles beat all
> > comers, so ...
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