This is sound opinions and Greg we are going to blow out the entire next hour to discuss

the Velvet Underground and Nico, the most influential, and certainly a record that means

more to us than any in rock history.

No doubt Jim, I think this is the most influential band in rock history and this is where it all starts

for me in a lot of ways.

Different album Lou Reed sang this line years later on Loaded talking about Jenny this

mythical young girl on Long Island, discovering rock and

her life was saved by rock and roll. I feel that way about this album, The

Velvet Underground and Nico. I know you do.

For those who don't know this record, we are going to make the case at the end of it

about why they need it in their life, as urgently today as they did in 1967.

Who were the musicians that make this record? Lou Reed, first and

foremost singer and songwriter. He is born in Brooklyn but moves to

Freeport Long Island at age 11 with his quintessentially middle-class

Jewish American family. He's a troubled kid Lou you know there were pictures of

him playing sports in high school kind of standard upbringing, but he had wild mood swings.

There was depression.

His father, in particular, subjected him to electroshock therapy, something Lou never got over addresses it in the song

Later Kill Your Sons, comes out of Creedmoor State Psychiatric Hospital in 1959

and goes on to Syracuse University.

Lou is enamored of the beat poets.

And he develops a relationship with the poet Delmore Schwartz

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