The first record by The Velvet Underground
was the poorest selling album of it's time.
It was so lo-fi that it was scary, the songs
were so honest about drugs, nihilism and fear,
that album could not be played in broad daylight.
The lyrical themes on the record aptly reflected
their sickly vampire of a manager, Andy Warhol.
Upon release it became the nightmare
compared with slick psychedelia
that was The Beatles 'Sargent Pepper'.
It was an absolute financial failure.
But in 1982 Brian Eno said
'of the 30,000 copies it sold
in it's first five years every purchaser
formed their own band and set out
to make their own music.'
Who then has had the greater influence?
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