The Velvet Underground

The Velvet Underground - cult U.S. rock band the 1960's and 1970's who founded the alternative music. The name is often reduced to VU or The Velvets. Key players Velvet Underground - Lou Reed and John Keil, on the continued successful solo career after leaving the group.

Despite the fact that the plates are sold by small groups of numbers, Velvet Underground had a tremendous impact on the fate of rock in the second half of XX century. Good shows the influence of Velvet Underground-known phrase (often attributed to Brian Ino) that few people bought Velvet Underground records when they left, but everyone who bought, founded his own group. Critics agree that the creative team was a turning point in the history of rock music. Velvet Underground were one of the first groups to experiment in the direction of vanguard. The complexity and experimental sound, and realistic texts Lou Reed, influenced the development of punk, noise-rock and alternative rock. Meditation, malleability first album of compositions influenced the formation of post-punk. Experiments with Feedback and noise on the second album - to the noise-rock, especially at the primary group of noise-pop Jesus And Mary Chain.