Foggy Notion

"Foggy Notion" by The Velvet Underground is a sneaky candidate for greatest rock'n'roll song of all time. Listen to the original version at (1:13) - Lou Reed and the gang had been playing the song since '66, finally recorded it in '69, but it wasn't released until 1985! We discuss the song in its context of Warhol's Factory and the Second Generation of New York School poets, but we also just love the Beat, the Beat, the Beat! Those Boston boys, Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers knew the song through live performances, so we listen to their own live take on the song from 1971 (1:17:48). Get ready to dance fast! Another band of Boston bootleggers produce the third in our batch: The Count, aka  Joe Viglione, and his Massachussets minions (1:44:27). How 1978 is this version?: warbling vocals, motorik drums, and spectral organ hit you harder, harder, harder! Do it again!!