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Given how relatively unnoticed The Velvet Underground went compared to how big their reputation became, it makes sense that the songs on 1985’s <i>VU</i> had been essentially lost for more than a decade following the band’s breakup. After all, what better way to honor something ahead of its time than to put it on a shelf until people are ready? Recorded between <i>The Velvet Underground</i> and <i>Loaded</i>, the music on <i>VU</i> represents the band’s softer, sweeter side—the sound of shy people turning rock ’n’ roll into a secret attic club. Even when they sound tough, they can’t help but make being tough sound goofy, whether it’s Lou Reed singing about living in a garbage can and getting beat up with a mop by his landlady (“I Can’t Stand It”) or taking a scene as violent as “Foggy Notion” (“they hit her harder, harder, harder”) and adding mention of calamine lotion for no other reason, seemingly, than that it rhyme. .

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