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Title: Blew Me Away
Review: You can read all the reviews you want to about this album; for me, anything with the Velvets boils down to feelings. I was 19 in 1971 when I heard this album for the first time, and it simply blew me away. I was into what I thought for the time "alternative" music: Doors, Iggy, MC5; and then out of the mainstream stuff: Blind Faith after Cream, Spooky Tooth, Jimi. When I heard this album for this time, it was like the gods slapping me out of a trance. I couldn't believe, that in the age of dysfunctional and psychedelic love, a band had the guts to write and play brilliant music about the decadent side of life. How does an album affect you? Does it kick you in the stomach and force you to see things in a different way? Does it make you reflect and reorganize? That's what this album did to me. Lou and the Velvets may have influenced the last 30 years of rock's punk, alternative, and whatever else. All I know is that they influenced me. And that's much more powerful.
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