The Velvet Underground & Nico with its iconic peeling banana album cover designed by Andy Warhol came out fifty years ago today. This Sunday morning, with it being Daylight Savings Time, things might seem a little hazier than normal for some of us… About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. It’s almost as if within the first few minutes of waking up on ‘Sunday Morning’ there is a haze of hopefulness of a life ahead before reality sets in.” Sometimes the subtleties of change make it hard to see how quickly time passes by, but the stark brightness of the morning contrasting a night of intoxication can create a strangely sobering yet nostalgic feeling. I wanted to play with that fluidity of time and personify the day and the night and use their relationship to tell a simple story. The way something can feel so far away when it was only the night before. “For me one of the biggest takeaways of ‘Sunday Morning’ is the relationship that Lou Reed has with time. James Eads had this to say about the piece: I didn’t realize the last time this discussion came up in the Halls of Rock was prior to the launch of the public blog. Now the pair has teamed up for an animated music video for “Sunday Morning” by the Velvet Underground and Nico. There’s something extremely calming and mesmerizing about the illusions, there is magic is in the subtlety.” And I think other people can feel that, and when they come across one of these illusions they pause and allow themselves to get lost in it. It’s a place of refuge where we can breathe and take in the world and in return give back some peace. My work started coming to life.” McDaniel feels that their collaboration is, for both of them, a form of meditation. It was originally written for Nico’s stern baritone, but Reed sang it instead, lending it a more laid-back feel, while John Cale’s celeste, piano, and viola overdubs made it the closest thing to chamber pop the band would ever render.When illustrator James Eads saw the morphing gifs Chris McDaniel (aka TheGlitch.og) made from his work, he described the result as not “moving so as much as breathing. The Velvet Underground & Nico 45th Anniversary (LP) Art.Nr. For all of producer Tom Wilson’s considerable avant-garde cred, the business-minded side of his brain told him the Velvets would need a radio song, so he pushed Lou Reed’s deceptively pretty ode to early-morning paranoia to the fore. But it was actually the last thing recorded for the record. Sunday MorningĮxhibit A is the opening track on their 1967 debut album. Listen to The Velvet Underground’s ballads on Apple Music and Spotify. sunday morning, praise the dawning its just a restless feeling by my side early dawning, sunday morning its just the wasted years so close behind watch out, the worlds behind you theres always. So how did The Velvet Underground manage to create some of the most beautiful ballads of the 60s in between all the bad vibes and valentines to vice? Let’s dig in. Reed wrote this for Nico but then decided not to let the German ex-model sing it. Andy Warhol, who helped finance the album, suggested he write a song about the paranoia associated with the effects of a drug wearing off. Their songs about S&M, heroin addiction, and racial tension made the band the poison apple at Snow White’s hippie happening. The Velvet Underground Sunday Morning (Live) Sunday morning rain is falling. Songfacts: Lou Reed wrote this on a Sunday morning around 6 a.m. When the airwaves were full of paeans to peace, love, and San Francisco sunshine, this transgressive troop was lurking around the gritty streets of the Lower East Side and haunting Andy Warhol’s factory in Hell’s Kitchen, digging the decadence. There was nothing warm and fuzzy about The Velvet Underground.
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