Only the Velvet Underground could provide such bare contrasts between their world of lacerating noise and squalid cityscapes, and many of their peer musicians’ worlds of rainbows and escapist indulgences. Yet even as the Velvet Underground’s career as a group was drawing to a close in the early 1970′s, they coolly concluded that “it was alright”.
And that is our conclusion as well regarding the increasingly wearying on-premise/cloud debate, one also....