Veruca Salt

      
Named after Veruca Salt, the spoiled rich girl from the children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, Veruca Salt was formed in Chicago by Louise Post (guitar/vocals) and Nina Gordon (guitar/vocals). Post and Gordon were introduced through mutual friend and actress Lili Taylor, and began playing music together. They wrote songs for a year and a half before being joined by Gordon's brother, Jim Shapiro, on drums and Steve Lack on bass guitar.


Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is perhaps better known as "Willy Wonka."  Roald Dahl is the author of many popular children's books including Fantastic Mr Fox, Boy, Danny the Champion of the World, James and the Giant Peach (Puffin Modern Classics), Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, The "Witches": Plays for Children and The Bfg.

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Veruca Salt Music
Eight Arms to Hold You
American Thighs
Resolver (Parental Advisory)
IV
Born Entertainer
Officially Dead Ep
Blow It out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt

Blow It out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt [Vinyl]
Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things
Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things

The Velvet Underground

      

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND was a 1960's experimental band associated with pop artist Andy Warhol. Their name came from a paperback book they found on the street. The book was about sex in America and just hit them as sounding right.

This New York group was the most seminal band in alternative rock music. Their first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967), is now widely considered to be one of the most important albums in the history of rock music.

The Velvet Underground were managed by renowned pop-artist Andy Warhol, who designed the now-iconic 'peeling banana' cover for the album, and insisted his German model protégé Nico was to sing on three songs. Her unique, deep voice and Lou Reed's deadpan vocals discussed taboo themes over John Cale's droning viola and deliberately detuned guitars, for a distinctive sound that pre-empted various strands of alternative rock by at least a decade.

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MUSIC
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground & Nico
White Light/White Heat
The Very Best of the Velvet Underground
Loaded
VU
Peel Slowly and See
Loaded (2-CD Fully Loaded Edition)
1969: Velvet Underground Live, Vol. 1
1969: Velvet Underground Live, Vol. 2
The Singles 1966-1969
The Velvet Underground - Velvet Redux: Live MCMXCIII


BOOKS
The Velvet Underground: New York Art
The Velvet Underground: An Illustrated History of a Walk on the Wild Side
All Yesterdays' Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print, 1966-1971
Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story
c/o The Velvet Underground, New York, NY
The Velvet Underground: Deluxe Edition
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground Companion
The Rough Guide to the Velvet Underground
The Complete Guide to the Music of the Velvet Underground


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