A hand-me-down dress from who knows where

Found this via Twitter. Someone’s taken the various attempts at “All Tomorrow’s Parties” from the 1965 Velvet Underground home demo and synced them up. Kind of like how, when the band recorded “What Goes On” for the third record, they used all of Lou Reed’s different guitar solos together, but also… not. The remarkable thing is that the different takes actually come together more than they don’t (third verse is a little wobbly where they haven’t quite decided on the lyrics), they’re actually remarkably consistent, and brought together in stereo like this they sound pretty big. And John Cale probably benefits even more than Lou does; the mix kind of embiggens them both in a really nice way.

Author: James R.

The idiot who owns and runs this site. He does not actually look like Jon Pertwee.