Talk:After Hours (The Velvet Underground song)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Miscrediting of After Hours on one Velvets collection
An album called “Velvet Underground: 1965-70 The Story The Lyrics,” includes a song as song called “After Hours” which is miscredited to Lou Reed. This “After Hours” is a jazz song written by Erskine Hawkins-Avery Parrish, but there are still sites, including AllMusic, that erroneously associate the song version and the Carol Lou Trio with the Velvets and Reed. I don’t know if the record label still sells this album, but if so it has apparently made no attempt to correct the error. The Carol Lou Trio’s version of After Hours was released as a juke box single in the 1970s. That single miscredits the composition to Lou Reed. Nicmart (talk) 16:36, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

"innocent and pure" quote
I can't find a citation for that. (Not saying there isn't one.) I found this Reed quote in Unterberger's book: "I originally figured on featuring myself doing it with ... y'know ... a spotlight and a gold lamé dress. But then I figured, well, you know, I don't know if they're going to accept that. So we got old Maureen out and figured, they'll believe her where they wouldn't believe me." Presumably he was talking about the cutesy sound, not the lyrics. There's nothing "innocent and pure" about partying all night, and "say hello to never" sounds almost suicidal. Unterberger mentions the song's "bittersweet edge." --Rosekelleher (talk) 19:07, 20 February 2015 (UTC)