17 enero 2008

655 - The Velvet Underground Heroine 1967

The Velvet Underground and Nico is the debut album by avant-garde rock and roll band The Velvet Underground and vocal collaborator Nico.
"Heroin" is one of the band's most celebrated compositions, overtly depicting heroin use and abuse. "Heroin" begins slowly with Lou Reed's quiet, melodic guitar and hypnotic drum patterns by Maureen Tucker, soon joined by John Cale's droning electric viola and Sterling Morrison's steady rhythm guitar. The tempo increases gradually, mimicking the high the narrator receives from the drug, until a frantic crescendo is reached, punctuated by Cale's shrieking viola and the more punctuated guitar strumming of Reed and Morrison. Tucker's drumming becomes hurried and louder. The song then slows to the original tempo, and repeats the same pattern before ending.



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