European Son

European Son

Song infobox
Name = European Son


Artist = The Velvet Underground
Album = The Velvet Underground and Nico
track_no = 11
Released = March 1967
Recorded = April 1966, Scepter Studios, New York City
Genre = Avant-garde rock and roll
Length = 7:46
Writer =
Composer = Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker
Label = Verve Records
Producer = Andy Warhol
Tracks =
#"Sunday Morning"
#"I'm Waiting for the Man"
#"Femme Fatale"
#"Venus In Furs"
#"Run Run Run"
#"All Tomorrow's Parties"
#"Heroin"
#"There She Goes Again"
#"I'll Be Your Mirror"
#"The Black Angel's Death Song"
#"European Son"

"European Son" is a song written and performed by the American rock and roll band The Velvet Underground. It appears as the final track on their 1967 debut album "The Velvet Underground and Nico". It's also the album's longest song at more than seven and a half minutes.

"European Son" is dedicated by the band to Delmore Schwartz, a literary mentor of singer Lou Reed's. Wanting to dedicate a song to Schwartz, "European Son" was chosen because it had the least amount of lyrics (rock-and-roll lyrics being something Schwartz abhorred).cite book |last=Harvard |first=Joe |title="The Velvet Underground and Nico" |origyear=2004 |series=33⅓ |year=2007 |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group |location=New York, NY |isbn=0-8264-1550-4 |pages=132 / 136] The song is sometimes referred to as "European Son to Delmore Schwartz". [cite book |editor= Clinton Heylin |title= All Yesterday's Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print 1966-1971 |edition= first edition |year= 2005 |publisher= De Capo Press |location= United States |isbn= 0-306-81477-3 |pages=200, 251]

The song could be seen as a precursor to the band's next album "White Light/White Heat" and certainly to the song "Sister Ray", a seventeen-minute-long rock improvisation.

Recording

The song begins with two stanzas of lyrics sung by Lou Reed, then a loud crash is heard (caused by John Cale hitting a stack of plates with a metal chair) after the first minute or so. Afterward, the song becomes improvisational for six minutes. It makes particular use of distortion and feedback. The song's manner of dissonant ensemble improvisation can be compared to the free jazz of Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler.

Trivia

A slowdowned version of the songs bassline appears on Moby Octopad by Yo La Tengo

References


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