Defend the Indefensible: SQUEEZE by the Velvet Underground

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Has anyone actually got this? I only know it as 'an embarrassing footnote'. I bet it's great.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 21 June 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

um, squeeze named themselves after this one ... and squeeze was pretty good (for their first few records, anyway).

wasn't squeeze pretty much deleted from the back catalogue not soon after it was released? i never actually heard it ... but its reputation ain't so good. "the yule log," was what one acquaintance who has heard it called it.

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 21 June 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I downloaded it somewhere along the way . . . and it's actually not that bad. It just isn't the Velvets in any way shape or form. If Doug Yule had just changed the name and moved to California, this would have been timely SoCal country rock. The songs aren't terribly memorable, but they're enthusiastically performed and pleasant enough.

― J (Jay), Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Man that's so weird, I just suddenly got interested in this yesterday, and downloaded it. And now it shows up here.

Anyway, it's not nearly as bad as some people are saying. It's clearly a different band, a more generic one, some may say. But it has its charms. I don't see how anyone could HATE it. it's just not memorable. it wouldn't be an AMG one-star album if it was by, say, Boston or something.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Saturday, 21 June 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I seem to recall saying basically the same thing in another thread, but I've got a copy of it. And yeah, what J said above.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 22 June 2003 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

ten years pass...

lol the velvet underground without lou reed? kind of like the smiths without morrissey.

― OutdoorFish, Monday, 4 November 2013 10:42 (eleven years ago)

or T-Rex without Marc Bolan..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Finn's_T-Rex

or "Mickey Finn's T-Rex" without, um...

― Mark G, Monday, 4 November 2013 11:30 (eleven years ago)

doug yule WANTED to change the band's name given that he was embarrased to be billing yule + moe tucker (for a while, anyway) + some other dudes as "the velvet underground." but he was already booked on a (UK? european?) tour as "the velvet undergound," and the record company similarly put the screws to him so we have the fifth and by far most marginal "VU" album.

it's not a bad album, though.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 4 November 2013 11:53 (eleven years ago)

w/ Deep Purple's Drummer.

― Mark G, Monday, 4 November 2013 12:13 (eleven years ago)

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