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Velvet Underground

BAND RANKINGS:

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All Time

of 150,006

36
Decades
- 1960s
  
  of 431
  
  13
- 1980s
  
  of 1,418
  
  2
- 1990s
  
  of 7,254
  
  21
- 2000s
  
  of 10,561
  
  475
Genres
- Alternative Rock
  
  of 5,292
  
  2
- Classic Rock
  
  of 841
  
  59
- Miscellaneous
  
  of 2,544
  
  12
- Pop
  
  of 13,662
  
  4
- Rock
  
  of 8,167
  
  3

CAREER SPAN:

Decade

Album Score

# Albums

1960s

4.0000

1980s

3.7207

1990s

3.5610

2000s

2.3853

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.

Overall Band Score: Velvet Underground is ranked overall as 3.4437 out of 4 stars

3.4437

Velvet Underground Biography

Formed:

1964

Disbanded:

1973

Genres:

Alternative Rock, Miscellaneous, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock

Labels:

Atlantic/q Records, Dark Matter Distribution, Fontana, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Msi Music, Musicrama/koch, Phantom Sound & Vision, Polygram, Polygram Label Group, Rhino Records, Universal Music Group, Warner/reprise/maverick

Band Members:

Willie "Loco" Alexander

Sterling Morrison

Doug Yule

History:

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, their 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 ...more

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