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Originally posted by captain america and billy

I certainly can definitively state at least one thing. As time goes by, the demonstratively and in some places hauntingly beautiful psych-era masterpiece is fading more into not total obscurity but somewhat left or underneath the radar of the panels of critics assigned to contribute to best albums lists. At least here in America. More recent and bigger comercial releases tend more to find places more at the forefront of people's considerations. Strange,however,that this does not prevent Velvet Underground's first album from almost always placing in the top fifteen on most surveys. While it may be true that "Changes" may not have as much as a direct influence today as the Velvets obviously have had with the alternative and underground crowd, it has unquestionably had major impact in the areas of surrealism and cerebal pop philosophy. Much like the works of contemporaries like John Lennon and Bob Dylan,some of Arthur Lee's stanzas can be read as legitimate accapella poetry as well as heard as substantial musical prose.

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