Rocktober Deep Cut V: "The Black Angel's Death Song" by The Velvet Underground

For "V," I was initially inclined to go with something from Van Halen, but I couldn't think of a Van Halen deep cut more appropriate for Halloween week than The Velvet Underground's "Black Angel's Death Song."

It should come as no surprise to you that The Velvet Underground had some weird songs.  "The Black Angel's Death Song" –- the penultimate song on the group's debut album, 1967's The Velvet Underground & Nico -- might be the weirdest.  If I had to sum the song up in one word, it would be "disorienting."  John Cale's electric viola screeches throughout the song, and there are random feedback-filled hisses, also courtesy of Cale.  Meanwhile, Lou Reed talk-sings lyrics from the perspective of the grim reaper.  As I have described the song in the past, while I have never done acid, I assume this song is what a bad acid trip would have sounded like in Victorian England.  It's a perfect song for a haunted house, or if you want to creep out trick-or-treaters, or for a scene in a movie where Jack the Ripper walks through Whitechapel, chooses a prostitute, escorts her to the single room house in which she lives and entertains clients, and closes the door, and then all you hear are screams and you see blood splatter on the white curtains that cover the room's only window.  Aaaaaannnnd scene.