Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Once The Velvet Underground are in play you can’t just skip it and move on. It’s pivotal and essential. Punk, post-punk, the dark side of psychedelia, caustic guitar work, all of that is at stake. There’s no validity in dismissing that record... only loss. I don’t want her growing up without Coltrane and Schoenberg, neglected without the care of the masters, and potentially end up lost, like you. I care.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.