The Velvet Underground is a weird band. Within the depths of their distinctive altrock style are some strange creations. Yes, they may have been doing "drugs" or whatever, but there is more to their music than a night of hedonism. Murder Mystery was a song that I felt highlighted the band's oddities. This music requires headphones.
They have two speakers going on at once. Each side has a distinctive rhythm - polyrhythms in speaking parts, in 196whatever. We as listeners can't comprehend what is going on, hence the "mystery." We can assume that all the details to the murder are within the song, but it needs to be solved. These peculiarities mixed with their usual raw-sounding recordings and mind-dulling instrumentation makes for a straight up weird song. Not necessarily good, but definitely a weird push in a cool direction creatively.
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Album: The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
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