The Velvet Underground

The innovation and musical revolution brought about by the VU have very few equals, and it could only be this way, considering the genius minds that were part of it. VU & Nico is simply an album from a desert island, one of those that comes out every 100 years, and White Light/White Heat is even more abrasive, neurotic, abyssal. They remain excellent even after Cale's departure, although something is lost, particularly in the roughness and paranoia depicted in music.