Optimism is beautiful

I don’t know who wrote this blurb for the Velvets from Hullabaloo magazine, but they were unnecessarily upbeat about White Light/White Heat‘s commercial prospects, as that album notably appeared on the Billboard chart for just one week at position 199. With hindsight, of course, even that looks miraculous. There was no way in hell this album was ever going to make Lou and the gang pop stars, and if our author expected that to happen they were being deeply naive. Either that or they were being deeply sarcastic, of course, which the “happy sunshine” line suggests, cos if there are two words no one with any sense would associate with this album, those words are “happy sunshine”…