Look Alberto, while my friend and I were watching Sanremo (because Sanremo is Sanremo, unmissable, the manifesto of Italian cheesiness), we had fun voting for the singers, and when these guys played, I said it was the best song of the edition, and everyone laughed. I don’t know the record, but the fact that you spoke about it so positively perhaps confirms my thesis. I hope so.
Never liked them, and the name seems like an insult to the Velvet Underground. I’ll try to listen to it again, but I have serious doubts that my stance will change...
Forget about sleazy clubs, the Velvet have played and continue to do so at festivals and local fairs... (fixed fee without tickets...) I had the chance to listen to them in a remote town in Lucania where the audience was made up of girls under 16 and families, all at the expense of the municipality, and when the guy covered "Seek and Destroy" by the Stooges I was about to vomit... But what misunderstanding? If you sell out for money to the first major that offers you the "big contract" (becoming a puppet) and you frequent Festivalbar et similia deliberately eyeing a certain target, you must pay the relative consequences in terms of credibility... All this reminds me of a certain group called Dhamm and a certain Alessio Ventura who, after a binge of sales and appearances on TV, when the lean times came, was looking to recycle himself with new projects he claimed were committed (Sautiva or the more recent Db Boulevard).
I, out of curiosity, downloaded "Search & Destroy," the famous cover by the Stooges... a S C R A P! For the series "here's how to destroy a masterpiece," you might as well go die...
"Did you know that the lead singer of Velvet is dating an MTV VJ named Carolina?" Yes, it's La Peggio Baldracca who's in there. Maybe she should shave her mustache.
No no I said it right... Her name is Carolina, she hosted TRL, come on, the one who dresses like a 60s cloistered nun... Camila is the one from the Nescafé commercial, the one with the very high forehead...
Ok, I'll listen to it when I start listening to Nek and Le Vibrazioni too. For now, it seems to me like a pseudo little Italian rock band, fake alternative; they have talent, though. You can tell the singer is hooking up with Carolina from TRL, so he has plenty of talent.
nek has nothing to do with the vibes. I hate them, they get on my nerves, but they're good, incredibly good. Live, they're phenomenal; only Vasco's fans could throw bottles at them. The singles almost always suck, but I'm sure if they tried to pull a random track from their albums, the girls wouldn’t give a damn about it, and they don’t want that. nek is shit, end of story.
There are so many people in the world good at composing, writing, and playing, yet they don’t end up releasing singles that are terrible. They just don’t care. (about the singles and the girls)
Eh birobiro, I know, I would also like all groups to be like this, but unfortunately the god of money is stronger than anything else at the moment in the music world. This doesn't change my opinion on vibrazioni and velvet. Sure, if they stopped (especially vib) releasing crappy singles it would be better for everyone. I agree on the vj part, even though I think Valeria is a bit above Giorgia, but they’re both the best! :)
THE RECE is OK, BUT I WOULDN'T COMPARE THE VELVET WITH THE RED HOT AND U2... I DON'T KNOW, THE BAND YOU REVIEWED DOESN'T APPEAL TO ME, I FIND THE SINGER'S VOICE INSIGNIFICANT... ANYWAY, I’LL TRY TO LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM, FROM HOW YOU DESCRIBE IT, IT SEEMS NOT BAD..!!
Errore 404 - File non trovato where Valeria ended up.. never heard of these Velvet apart from boybands.. the Sanremo song wasn’t bad but it’s not my genre.. maybe I'll think about it.. they have to be better than Le Vibrazioni because you can't get more commercial than them..
The lyrics of the songs are appreciable; perhaps a bit less so their presence as a band. I would say they seem to be a little too full of themselves, especially the singer, who appears to consider himself on par with who knows who! Aside from personal opinions, their musical performance at Sanremo 2005 was quite well-received; a clear indication of this is that they were excluded quite early from the competition. That's how it works at Sanremo; catchy tunes often have the upper hand, or the same old mummies stubbornly return year after year, living off their previous fortunate or lucky victories.
I'll wrap up my comment by sharing this blog gem I stumbled upon while browsing through Google blogs; take a look and let me know if this girl isn't thinking about a bassist, perhaps even the one from Velvet—who knows? We might as well try asking:
great album, essential, dry lyrics, a bit of brit-pop and a lot of healthy Italian rock. The people who wrote the comments have never seriously listened to the Velvet. The band is not pretentious at all, have you tried to reach out to them? They are super available.
the problem isn't that they act all high and mighty... the problem is that they truly suck! britpop?!? aren't the Oasis enough of that crap? even the Italians who copy them... banal, commercial, I repeat, useless. exactly like Le Vibrazioni...
Hi, I've been following Velvet for about 2 years, since their first album "10 motivi c'è un abisso." Now we can say that they’ve started to create great songs. Not like the album "versomarte," the first one, which had some not-so-great tracks, except for a few. Then with the second album, they began writing serious songs like "funzioni primarie," "i miei desideri," and the Bennato cover, "una settimana un giorno." And with "10 motivi," they hit the peak with "luciano ti odio," "miele," "i tuoi guai," which really rocks live!!! Hats off to Velvet.
Oh my gosh, it feels like yesterday when I saw their first video, "Tokyo eyes." Great review, albertog. I agree with you. The rating is for their singles.
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9 sep 05I'll wrap up my comment by sharing this blog gem I stumbled upon while browsing through Google blogs; take a look and let me know if this girl isn't thinking about a bassist, perhaps even the one from Velvet—who knows? We might as well try asking:
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24 sep 05I've been following Velvet for about 2 years, since their first album "10 motivi c'è un abisso." Now we can say that they’ve started to create great songs. Not like the album "versomarte," the first one, which had some not-so-great tracks, except for a few. Then with the second album, they began writing serious songs like "funzioni primarie," "i miei desideri," and the Bennato cover, "una settimana un giorno."
And with "10 motivi," they hit the peak with "luciano ti odio," "miele," "i tuoi guai," which really rocks live!!!
Hats off to Velvet.
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1 feb 08Great review, albertog. I agree with you. The rating is for their singles.