Come in Furs

Venus in Furs is a song of the group of American rock'n'roll The Velvet Underground, written and composed by Lou Reed. It appears on their first album, The Velvet Underground and Nico , left in 1967. Inspired by the book éponyme of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (in French, Venus with the fur ), the song has as subjects the Sado-masochisme, the Bondage and the tender.

Recording

Venus in Furs is one of the three songs (with Heroin and I' m Waiting for the Man ) to be re-recorded with the T.T.G. Studios of Hollywood before appearing on the final version of The Velvet Underground and Nico . The music is remarkable for the cacophonous viola of John Cale and the Guitare Ostrich of Lou Reed (a guitar of which all the cords are on the same note).

Alternate versions

Ludlow Street Loft, July 1965

Venus in Furs is one of the songs recorded by Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison in their loft of Ludlow Street, with Manhattan, during the month of July 1965. This version has arrangements completely different from those which appear on the album and finishes on what David Fricke described, in the booklet of the box Peel Slowly and See where this recording appears, like a “arid lamentation, near of the folk old English”.

Scepter Studios, April 1966

Another catch was first of all recorded in Scepter Studios, with New York, before the song is re-recorded in Hollywood. This catch has a rate/rhythm more supported and the words vary slightly those of recording T.T.G.

Recoveries and re-uses

Lou Reed recorded several Reprise again S of this song, and John Cale the cheek also with its group. Other artists took it again, of which the Niagara, The Melvins, The Smashing Pumpkins, Christian Death, Rosetta Stone, Bettie Serveert, Dave Navarro, Hugh Cornwell, Krieg, Monster Magnet, DeVotchKa, Chuck Dukovski Sextet and the group French Marc Seberg.

Venus in Furs was employed in the films The Doors of Oliver Stone (1991 with the cinema) and Last Days of Gus Van Sant (2005).

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