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Originally Posted by Mortte Jousimo

Have you heard 13th Floor Elevators, Red Crayola & Pink Floyd´s two first albums? I think those all have really same kind of aggression and darkness in their music as Velvet. Also, this quite rare album from 1967 is really Velvet-mood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM_mp9mWLJI

How Velvet differs those is lyrics, Velvet was the only who sing about S/M & heroin.

No, Sy is not poor man´s VU. They added into Velvet base lot more than JAMC. As I said, I like JAMC but never find them great. There are not very much variations in JAMC career (third album they invent machine drums into their music, that´s all). BTW I have seen JAMC, they were very drunk but still quite great! Very noisy!

About the importance of influences making to other bands, it has said everybody who bought V.U. & Nico album started a band, I think it´s true, but really don´t believe that happend to everyone who bought SY, JAMC or Spacemen 3 -albums.

Yeah, I'm very familiar with 13th Floor Elevators and early Ponk Floyd especially. Red Crayola, not as much.