Caturday Covers: The Velvet Underground Part I

Posted: July 17th, 2010 | Author: BPB | Filed under: Caturday Covers | No Comments »

And now for my most ambitious maneuver to date: The entire Velvet Underground debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico (a.k.a. the Andy Warhol album), as rendered in cover form. This is made slightly less ambitious by the fact that I stole most of these files from some dude who already did this, and simply replaced the songs I didn’t like. I’m not including links to the originals, because if you don’t have this album already you’re a dick, but you can become less of a dick today for the low low price of clicking here.

1. Sunday Morning, covered live by Belle and Sebastian. Sung, unfortunately, by the one nobody likes.

2. I’m Waiting For My Man, covered live by David Fucking Bowie.

3. Femme Fatale. Everyone has covered this song. Here is REM’s totally sweet, plodding version with weird harmonies, off of Dead Letter Office. Here is a version by Big Star, because it is not a Caturday if I don’t give you a link to a Big Star song, you dick.

4. Venus in Furs, covered by DeVotchKa. I can never get the capitalization of this band name right.

5. Run Run Run, performed live by Echo and the Bunnymen

6. All Tomorrow’s Parties, performed by Calexico with Iron & Wine. Also performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, but it’s kind of a lame performance and a shitty recording.

7. Heroin, performed live by Echo and the Bunnymen. Also covered by something called The String Quartet.

8. There She Goes Again. Another cover by REM off of Dead Letter Office.

9. I’ll Be Your Mirror, covered, inevitably, as a country song by Clem Snide.

10. The Black Angel’s Death Song. This is maybe my favorite Velvet Underground song, so I’m including the original, because even if you’re so much of a dick that you ignored my link above you should at least listen to this song and think, “Ah, now I understand why this is his favorite Velvet Underground song. It makes perfect sense, and also I hate him.” Covered by Bettie Serveert (remember them?) on an album of VU covers. Unfortunately this is the only one I can find, so it’s not a great cover.

11. European Son, covered by Olivia Tremor Control. Totally whoa, right?

Not pictured: A mid to late 90’s appearance of Evan Dando on (I think) MTV’s 120 minutes, where he plays a few lines of Femme Fatale and goes, “It’s the Velvets, kids. The Velvets!” and I was like “Damn, girl” [mimes spending the next week trying to find a band called The Velvets].

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