{"id":44704,"date":"2015-06-19T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T13:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/?p=44704"},"modified":"2015-06-19T16:33:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T14:33:51","slug":"johnny-marr-om-vu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/johnny-marr-om-vu\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Marr om VU"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hvem skulle have troet at The Smiths’ musikalske mastermind og guitar-es Johnny Marr er\u00a0besat af det ‘glemte’ Velvet Underground-album VU<\/em>, der udkom til stor overraskelse i 1985?! Endda til et punkt hvor han n\u00e6vner\u00a0det som hovedinspiration for hans musik til The Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead<\/em>. P\u00e5 det engelske website The Quietus fort\u00e6ller Marr i denne uge<\/a> om sine 13 favorit-albums. Her er hvad han har at sige\u00a0om VU<\/em>:<\/p>\n

When VU came out in 1985, everyone I knew had absorbed the official Velvets albums from the late 60s and early 70s, and had listened to all the bootlegs they could get their hands on. We had heard in the press mention of lost recordings and there were a couple of those songs on bootlegs that were hard to get.<\/p>\n

So, when this album came out it was like finding The Commandments 11 to 20. I almost didn’t want to get my hopes up too much as it promised amazing things. When I did get it, I couldn’t believe how good it was. It has a particularly important part in my life, in that The Smiths were already going at that point and we were a successful band. To be hit by something as a fan of music when you are already number one in the album charts yourself – I think Meat Is Murder had just come out at that point – was an utterly brilliant thing. It dropped into my life like a ton of inspiration. I was obsessed with it and, in particular, the versions of ‘I Can’t Stand It’ and ‘Foggy Notion’. I couldn’t understand why that version of ‘Ocean’ hadn’t come out before as it was easily the best one.<\/p>\n

I played ‘I Can’t Stand It’ so many times that it stuck in my subconscious and that came out as the inspiration for the rhythm part on the song ‘The Queen Is Dead’. So, the VU album was what I was listening to almost exclusively before I started writing the album The Queen Is Dead. The earlier Velvets albums are so revered that to better them is quite a feat. I have been in many an argument with people who think I am insane for preferring this record. When you take away the reverence for the early albums – which are undeniably incredibly important – VU is my favourite listen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hvis du ikke kender albummet, s\u00e5 ogs\u00e5 en anbefaling herfra. Der er en vital crispness og friskhed over disse VU<\/em>-indspilninger, som er ret utrolig. At sangmaterialet er voldsomt\u00a0st\u00e6rkt og Lou Reed 100% tilstedev\u00e6rende i sin levering, g\u00f8r dette post-Velvet Underground-sammensatte v\u00e6rk til noget af en lost classic. Men bedre end samtlige\u00a0de oprindelige Velvet-albums, som Marr siger? Tre’eren sl\u00e5r den IMO ikke, og bananpladens ikoniske status er sv\u00e6r at blive stillet op imod. Men d\u00f8m selv. VU<\/em> er klart det album hvor The Velvet Underground lyder mest som et toptunet rocknroll-band.<\/p>\n

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Hvem skulle have troet at The Smiths’ musikalske mastermind og guitar-es Johnny Marr er\u00a0besat af det ‘glemte’ Velvet Underground-album VU, der udkom til stor overraskelse i 1985?! Endda til et punkt hvor han n\u00e6vner\u00a0det som hovedinspiration for hans musik til The Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead. P\u00e5 det engelske website The Quietus fort\u00e6ller Marr i … L\u00e6s videre Johnny Marr om VU<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n