So continues my assessment of 1992, a particularly strong year, for at least the top 20 albums or so. Many of these probably should be placed higher, honestly. Let’s dive...
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Singer and guitarist Lou Reed got his start in the Velvet Underground, alongside bass guitarist and violist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Maureen Tucker (plus, briefly, singer Nico)....
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Before he co-founded the Velvet Underground with Lou Reed, John Cale got his start in New York playing with avant-garde classical composers John Cage and LaMonte Young. Cage’s ideas of...
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The Modern Lovers, in one short album—recorded over a series of sessions for different labels, not compiled and released until three years after the recording was finished and two years...
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On the eve of the alternative rock explosion into the mainstream, some the elder statesmen who influenced the movement were enjoying revitalized careers—Neil Young, Lou Reed, John Cale, Brian Eno,...
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The German singer Nico got her start as a model and actress before turning to music, singing with the Velvet Underground for an album before embarking on a solo career....
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Alternative rock starts here. On the band’s debut The Velvet Underground & Nico, Lou Reed’s stark, matter-of-fact lyrics and delivery evoke a dark realism in tales of hustlers and addicts,...
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