I Heard Her Call My Name

I Heard Her Call My Name

Song infobox
Name = I Heard Her Call My Name


Artist = The Velvet Underground
Album = White Light/White Heat
Released = January 30, 1968
track_no = 5
Recorded = September 1967, Scepter Studios, New York City, New York
Genre = Rock
Length = 4:38
Writer = Lou Reed
Composer = Lou Reed
Label = Verve Records
Producer = Tom Wilson
Tracks =
#"White Light/White Heat"
#"The Gift"
#"Lady Godiva's Operation"
#"Here She Comes Now"
#"I Heard Her Call My Name"
#"Sister Ray"

"I Heard Her Call My Name" is a song by American avant-garde rock band The Velvet Underground. It is the fifth track from the band's second album, "White Light/White Heat". It is a particularly loud, brash and aggressive song that features a pair of guitar solos performed by Lou Reed. The heavy levels of guitar distortion is often attributed to have influenced punk music and heavy metal. Indeed, Zyklon-B Zombie by Throbbing Gristle uses the same rhythm and high levels of distortion, complete with the line "And then my head split open!"

Reed's vocals are especially unintelligible and enthusiastic. He further accents his lyrics by singing them in a purposely off-key voice, often adding exclamations of "eehee!" and the like. The lyrics contain some intimation of necrophilia in the lines "Still I know she's long dead and gone,/I heard her call my name..."

In their biography "Uptight", the band claimed they were unhappy with the recording of "I Heard Her Call My Name", saying that the recording was a poor attempt to capture the energy of live versions of the song.

Personnel

* Lou Reed - lead vocals, lead guitar
* Sterling Morrison - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
* John Cale - bass guitar, backing vocals
* Maureen Tucker - percussion


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