The Velvet Underground – Who Loves The Sun

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  General Comment:I don't think this song is any way a rebuke of the Beatles' 'Here Comes The Sun' but the songs are funny contrasts as while both have uplifting melodies – the sun in Harrison’s song represents hope after a literal or metaphorical ‘long cold lonely winter’ while Reed’s sun represents just another essential element (it makes plants grow!) that doesn’t matter when you’re suffering from a broken heart. I like both songs but Reed’s sun song warms my cold heart more. It’s an interesting bookend with I’ll Be Your Mirror from the 1st album as that song has the love-seeking narrator quote “I’ll be the wind, the rain, and the sun” and Who Loves The Sun‘s love-lost narrator doesn’t care about any of the three. (kitchensnark.com/2010/entertainment/rock-snob-sommelier-velvet-underground/)

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  General Comment:I had never thought that it was a burn on the Beatles but now that you mention it...
  
  I had always thought they were making fun of the Beach Boys for some reason but The Beatles makes much more sense. Love this song, the cough freaks me out and the chorus is so great.

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  General Comment:Wow, what can you say? Another amazing track written by Lou Reed, and he doesn't even bother to sing it. In fact, has he ever even performed it post-VU? Just shows what a great cache of songs he had in his back pocket back then.
  
  As others have said, its real brilliance lies in just how sad the lyrics are, set to such an upbeat melody. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. That's all I can say.

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  General Comment:a sunshiny blast of revenge!

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  General Comment:I reckon whatadrag has it bang on. The Velvets have created an unsettling disjunction between the jolly tune & the depressed lyrics. It's a poppier version of what they tried on Murder Mystery (where you get a sad lyric in one ear & a happy one in the other). The idea is you don't know whether to laugh or cry.

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  General Comment:when i first heard this song i played it over and over again in the car whenever we went anywhere and then as soon as we got home! im finally starting to get over it - but i dont get why everyone keeps saying its pessimistic, like poprocksck said its tongue in cheek and done in the cheesey love song sorta style. but isnt it just great LOVE THE VU FOREVER!!!!!!!!!

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  General Comment:yeah, i guess you're right. i should stop posting in a bad mood.

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  General Comment:i think its on the same level as venus in furs, but a completely different song. i listened to this song for like a week straight all the time after i first heard it. what a fucking chorus!

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  General Comment:thank you poprocksck. jeez.
  
  best VU song? you're kidding right? THIS is better than venus in furs?

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  General Comment:I kind of disagree that the songwriter himself is being pessimistic here. I think it's more of a tongue-in-cheek message about how some people are only concerned with their own problems when they have a broken heart.

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