Velvet Underground

[Michael Bailey]

lovely song
nice version, too!

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Heikki Raudaskoski
<hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
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> 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:
>> >
>> >> 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
>> >
>> > 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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