56. The Velvet Underground and Nico. ( The one with the Banana on the cover)
Listen here . It's high time for another one. When I was in school, my roommate and I had a Lou Reed interview from one magazine or another taped to the wall adjacent to the toilet. Unfortunately, you could not read the entire interview in one sitting, as the pages were double sided. Every once in a while we'd turn them around to see what the other side of the page had in store for us. I remember him talking about Syracuse University and a fella that I believe was named Delmore Schwartz. Well, look at that, a quick Google of the name and we find out Delmore was a poet and a prof to Lou at Syracuse and that the track "European Son" on this record was apparently dedicated to hi...