![]() With tracks by them in question, Bo Diddley, The Primitives and The Diablos, this OST helps colour that picture, and era, properly. Using interviews with surviving members Cale and Tucker, alongside archive footage, music and other material, it paints a vivid portrait of an equally vivid band. This usually wouldn't be an issue but the song (1) is VERY DOPE. Todd Haynes' highly recommendable documentary charts at least some of that story in a commendable way, more so when you consider it arrived around 50 years after the original lineup disbanded. Just a heads up, on 'The W' download (like many other internet rips) contains no song on 1 (Shaolin Finger Jab/Chamber Music) only the short intro. And, listening back to any of their records now, the music itself isn't just a significant bookmark theoretically: it all still sounds incredible today. The Andy Warhol-managed and produced cult rock icons helped lay the foundations for New Wave and punk about a decade before either sound really started to make inroads in any circles, let alone commercial ones. Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale, Doug Yule, Maureen Tucker and - a little later - Nico broke the mould with their efforts as The Velvet Underground.
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