Tracks:
1. Little Jack: 5/10 this one just exists, drifting into one ear and out through the other without evoking so much as a shrug. It's perfectly OK, but it starts the album off with a whimper instead of a bang.
2. Crash: 4/10 well, at least try and put some effort in!
3. Caroline: 5/10 this one is essentially saved by having a decent beat. Otherwise it'd pretty lame.
4. Mean Old Man: 4/10 aside from its catchy moments, this is just bland and utterly vanilla.
5. Dopey Joe: 4/10 it may have its peaks, but it's just lazy.
6. Wordless: 5/10 at least this one has a bit more effort to it.
7. She'll Make You Cry: 5/10 some good instrumental moments don't stop one from thinking longingly of the nihilism of The Velvet Underground's first album or the insane experimentation of their second.
8. Friends: 6/10 uninspired but at least it makes you feel something.
9. Send No Letters: 4/10 woefully weak lyrically, but it does have a beat you can nod along to.
10. Jack and Jane: 5/10 whatever.
11. Louise: 5/10 it can be catchy but it shouldn't be stretched to nearly 6 minutes.
Best song: Friends
Worst song: Crash
Summary: Despite the toxic reputation of this album, it's not actually as awful as all that. Why has it been reviewed so badly? Because they called it a Velvet Underground record, not a Doug Yule one. This has about as much in common with a Velvet Underground record as a Rihanna YouTube playlist, but it's mediocre rather than awful; its songs are too bland and average to hurt one's ears particularly. Generic though pleasant, uninspired though inoffensive, this pleasantly brief album isn't the best but if it was seen as a Doug Yule album, it'd just be regarded as another album, mediocre but hardly awful.
Final rating: 5/10
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