Rainy Day - I'll Be Your Mirror (The Velvet Underground Cover) video free download

From '' Rainy Day ''

Label: Llama Records -- 4996, Enigma Records -- E 1024

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album

Country: US

Released: 1984

Tracklist

A1 I'll Keep It With Mine

Guitar, Tambourine -- David Roback

Violin -- Will Glenn

Vocals -- Susanna Hoffs

Written-By -- Bob Dylan

A2 John Riley

Guitar [Acoustic 12-string] -- Matthew Piucci

Guitar, Vocals -- David Roback

Written-By -- Bob Gibson, Ricky Neff

Drums -- Dennis Duck

Vocals, Bass -- Michael Quercio

Violin, Vocals -- Will Glenn

A3 Flying On The Ground Is Wrong

Guitar -- David Roback

Vocals -- Kendra Smith, Susanna Hoffs

Written-By -- Neil Young

A4 Sloop John B.

Guitar -- David Roback

Vocals, Bass, Percussion -- Michael Quercio

Drums -- Dennis Duck

Keyboards -- Ethan James

A5 Soon Be Home

Tambourine -- Spock

Bass, Drums -- Michael Quercio

Vocals -- Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson

Vocals, Guitar -- David Roback

Written-By -- Pete Townshend

B1 Holocaust

Piano [Backwards] -- Ethan James

Written-By -- Alex Chilton

Guitar -- David Roback

Vocals -- Kendra Smith

Cello, Violin -- Will Glenn

Piano -- Steven Roback

B2 On The Way Home

Vocals, Guitar -- David Roback

Written-By -- N. YoungNeil Young

B3 I'll Be Your Mirror

Vocals, Guitar -- Susanna Hoffs

Written-By -- Lou Reed

Vocals -- Kendra Smith

Guitar, Bass, Tambourine -- David Roback

B4 Rainy Day, Dream Away

Bass, Keyboards -- Ethan James

Written-By -- Jimi Hendrix

Guitar -- Karl Precoda

Percussion -- David Roback

Vocals -- Michael Quercio

Drums -- Dennis Duck

Artwork By -- Kendra Smith

Engineer -- Ethan James

Mastered By -- Eddy Schreyer

Producer -- David Roback

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"I'll Be Your Mirror" is a song by The Velvet Underground.

It appeared on their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico.

It also surfaced as a single a year earlier with "All Tomorrow's Parties" in 1966.

Lou Reed wrote the song for Nico, who provides lead vocals.

Inspiration for the song apparently came about after Nico approached Reed after a show in 1965 saying, "Oh Lou, I'll be your mirror."

The song is a favorite of Reed's and The Velvet Underground & Nico engineer, Norman Dolph.

Recording

"I'll Be Your Mirror" was the most difficult for Nico to record, as the band wanted her to provide slender, delicate vocals for the song, yet she would sing louder, more aggressive vocals take after take. Sterling Morrison described the ordeal in an interview:

" She kept singing "I'll Be Your Mirror" in her strident voice. Dissatisfied, we kept making her do it over and over again until she broke down and burst into tears. At that point we said, "Oh, try it just one more time and then fuck it — if it doesn't work this time, we're not going to do the song." Nico sat down and did it exactly right. "

The members of the band enjoyed her particular performance on the song so much that after she left the band in late 1967, live vocals for the song were done imitating Nico's accent.

Mentor and manager Andy Warhol suggested that the album have a built-in crack in it so the line "I'll be your mirror" would repeat infinitely on a record player until the listener moved the needle themselves, but nothing ever came of this idea.

Alternate versions

Scepter Studios, April 1966

A different mix of the song appears on the acetate cut of the Scepter Studios session, with an alternate track of more aggressive lead vocals by Nico.

She also sings "to show that you're home" at the end of the second verse rather than "so you won't be afraid".

The backing vocals that sing "reflect what you are" also are almost inaudible on this version of the song, and the guitar is louder.

Single version, July 1966

A 45 rpm single version of the song was released in July 1966 with "All Tomorrow's Parties".

The single is identical to the album cut except that it does not fade out at the end. Instead, it goes on for about five seconds ending with a guitar chord.

This version of the song later became available in 2002 on the "Deluxe Edition" of The Velvet Underground & Nico.

Covers

Massachusetts songwriter Stuart Ferguson covered this song on his 2008 album Shackles & Ties.

Clem Snide covered this song on their 2004 EP A Beautiful EP.

A cover by The Primitives (named for Cale & Reed's earlier band) appears on the CD version of their 1989 album Pure.