Monday 28 October 2013

Fun Online Polls: Plebgate & The Velvet Underground

The results to last week's Fun Online Poll are as follows:

Plebgate: Who is lying?

Andrew Mitchell - 2%
The police - 36%
Probably both - 60%
What is "Plegbate"? - 2%


A good turnout, thanks to everybody who took part. Glad to see I'm with the majority on this one.
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Everybody has turned out in force to sing the praises of Lou Reed (1942 - 2013), and rather irritatingly, the BBC kept playing Perfect Day which was a relatively unknown Lou Reed song (and deservedly so) until they brought out that ghastly everybody-join-in version for Children In Need. Playing a quarter of an hour of Sister Ray would have been a lot funnier and more to the point.

But his solo albums were pretty inconsequential as a whole, the good ones were the Velvet Underground albums, of which most people only know the first one.

So that's this week's Fun Online Poll: "Apart from The Velvet Underground & Nico, which are your favourite Velvet Underground albums?"

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

His largely unrecognized collaboration with Mrs. Mills in the early seventies, largely consisting of a mix of jazz fusion, well known popular pub classics and post sixties rock and roll was a tour de force.

NickM said...

Well, it certainly wasn't a "Perfect Day" for Lou Reed was it.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Anon, yes, Mrs Mills' thumping piano on I'm Waiting For My Man was awesome, but that's still not a pukka VU album.

NM, too true.