The Velvet Underground
Track 4
1) Discovered at the Bizarre
2) Screen Test No. 4
3) Exploding Plastic Inevitable
4) Peel Slowly and See
5) Sister Ray's Sermon
6) Cale Exits Stage Left
7) Pale Blue Eyes
8) Sweet Jane's Last Dance
9) Unsung and Unplayed
10) Yule Tide Fading
11) Drella's Ghost
About The Velvet Underground Track 4
What happens when the most influential band nobody bought gets the polka treatment? Track 4 swaps feedback for oom-pah on this twelve-song concept album, telling the Velvet Underground story in the Dutch Hop Polka style of the Volga-German dance halls of Colorado and Nebraska. Piano accordion, dulcimer, and trombone carry the whole tale. Follow the band from a Greenwich Village dive where Andy Warhol wandered in, through a peeled banana, a seventeen-minute sermon, a diner breakup, and a record loaded with hits that its writer left behind. Every song is packed with puns, wordplay, and true history, all of it delivered with a wink and a downbeat. It closes with a warm roll call for the friends and bandmates no longer with us, because even the strangest family deserves a proper send-off. Grab a partner, pour a beer, and peel slowly.
