Syd Midnight Well, there's the edgy artsy VU with John Cale, and there's the happy ballady VU with Doug Yule. They're almost 2 different bands. It would be like if Lennon left the Beatles and was replaced by Ringo's cousin Nigel.
John Holmes Motherfucker The Velvet Underground is a respectable answer. Would also accept the Ramones, New York Dolls, the MC5, CCR, Buffalo Springfield, Pere Ubu, The Stooges, CSNY, or ? and the Mysterians.
I think I would vote for the Ramones, because they sounded so great live.
Randroid I used to have the first album in the CD-ROM in lieu of the original cd's soundtrack while playing "Hardwar" and this somehow made sense. Thanks for posting this.
Keefu VU is by far not one of my favorite bands ever, but I can respect the influence.
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