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The Velvet Underground

Pop/Rock

1960s - 1990s

The quintessential bohemian New York band of the '60s, the Velvet Underground fused art, rock, and poetry in a fashion that proved incalculably influential.

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Few rock groups can claim to have broken so much new territory, and maintain such consistent brilliance on record, as the Velvet Underground during their brief lifespan. It was the group's lot to be ahead of, or at least out of step with, its time. The mid- to late '60s was an era of explosive growth and experimentation in rock, but the Velvets' innovations -- which blended the energy of rock with the sonic adventurism of the avant-garde, and introduced a new degree of social realism and sexual kinkiness into rock lyrics -- were too abrasive for the mainstream to handle. ~ Richie Unterberger

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