Album 18 / 100: The Velvet Underground & Nico

A legendary art folk punk record with incredible highs, but it veers off track once it leaves song structure behind. When tracks erode into screeching noise and feedback like in 'European Son', it loses all momentum. I've noticed a clear pattern for my own taste: when structured songs turn free form, I start to lose interest. The exception for me is jazz, but even there I gravitate toward less all out free form. As crazy as it sounds, you can genuinely hear how many drugs they were on while making this. I mean, there is literally a song called 'Heroin' on the album.