Song · The Velvet Underground
“All Tomorrow's Parties” by The Velvet Underground
From the album The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
“All Tomorrow's Parties” by The Velvet Underground appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2019 and 2023. It was first released in 1967 on the album The Velvet Underground & Nico. Its best result is #696 on the WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,378 indie & aaa song of all time.
Lou Reed built "All Tomorrow's Parties" out of what he saw watching Andy Warhol's circle at the Factory, and on The Velvet Underground & Nico, the band's 1967 debut, it plays like a dressed-up procession of the Factory's beautiful people, with Warhol taking the producer credit and Nico singing lead in that cool, unbending voice. It was the band's first single and Warhol's own favorite Velvets song, and it has been singled out as an early pop use of prepared piano.
John Cale later tied it to one woman: Darryl, a petite blonde and mother of three who had two of her children taken away. The title has since been borrowed by a music festival, a William Gibson novel and a film by Yu Lik-wai.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 696 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 696 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2020 | 1338 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2023 | 802 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time | 909 |
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