"All Tomorrow's Parties"
Song by The Velvet Underground
from the album The Velvet Underground and Nico
Released	March 1967
Recorded	April 25, 1966 Scepter Studios, New York City
Genre	Avant-garde rock and roll
Length	6:00
Label	Verve Records
Writer(s)	Lou Reed
Composer(s)	Lou Reed
Producer(s)	Andy Warhol
The Velvet Underground and Nico track listing
"Sunday Morning" "I'm Waiting for the Man" "Femme Fatale" "Venus In Furs" "Run Run Run" "All Tomorrow's Parties" "Heroin" "There She Goes Again" "I'll Be Your Mirror" "The Black Angel's Death Song" "European Son"
The Velvet Underground singles chronology
	"All Tomorrow's Parties" / I'll Be Your Mirror (1966)	"Sunday Morning" / "Femme Fatale" (1966)

"All Tomorrows' Parties" is a song by The Velvet Underground, written by Lou Reed and released on the group's 1967 debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico. Image File history File links Album cover of the Velvet Undergrounds Velvet Underground and Nico This image is the cover of an album or single. ... [[ For other uses, see Song (disambiguation). ... The Velvet Underground and Nico was The Velvet Undergrounds influential 1967 debut album. ... April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Verve Records is an American Jazz record label, founded by Norman Granz in 1956, which absorbed the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records (founded 1953). ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... Lewis Allen Lou Reed (born March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Lewis Allen Lou Reed (born March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist associated with the definition of Pop Art. ... The Velvet Underground and Nico was The Velvet Undergrounds influential 1967 debut album. ... Sunday Morning is a song by The Velvet Underground which is the opening track on their first album The Velvet Underground and Nico. ... Im Waiting for the Man is a song by the American rock band The Velvet Underground. ... Femme Fatale is a song by The Velvet Underground which appears on their first album The Velvet Underground and Nico, a collaboration with singer Nico. ... Venus in Furs is a song by The Velvet Underground, originally released on the album The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967). ... Run Run Run is a song by The Velvet Underground originally released on the bands 1967 debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico. ... Heroin is a song by The Velvet Underground, released on their 1967 debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico. ... The Velvet Underground and Nico was The Velvet Undergrounds influential 1967 debut album. ... The Velvet Underground and Nico was The Velvet Undergrounds influential 1967 debut album. ... The Black Angels Death Song is a song by The Velvet Underground, from their debut album The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967). ... The Velvet Underground and Nico was The Velvet Undergrounds influential 1967 debut album. ... The Velvet Underground and Nico was The Velvet Undergrounds influential 1967 debut album. ... Sunday Morning is a song by The Velvet Underground which is the opening track on their first album The Velvet Underground and Nico. ... Femme Fatale is a song by The Velvet Underground which appears on their first album The Velvet Underground and Nico, a collaboration with singer Nico. ... The Velvet Underground (sometimes abbreviated as The Velvets or VU) was an American rock band first active from 1965 to 1973. ... Lewis Allen Lou Reed (born March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... The Velvet Underground and Nico was The Velvet Undergrounds influential 1967 debut album. ...

Inspiration for the song came from Reed's observation of the Warhol clique; according to Reed, the song is "a very apt description of certain people at the Factory at the time. ... I watched Andy. I watched Andy watching everybody. I would hear people say the most astonishing things, the funniest things, the saddest things." ^[1] Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987) was an American painter and major figure in the pop art movement. ... The Factory was Andy Warhols original New York City studio from 1963 to 1968, although his later studios were known as The Factory as well. ... Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist associated with the definition of Pop Art. ...

The song features a piano motif played by Cale (initially written as an exercise) based largely on tone clusters, and guitar by Reed. It was one of the first pop songs to make use of prepared piano^[2] (a chain of paper clips were intertwined with the piano strings to change their sounds). A tone cluster, in music and in Western tuning, is a chord or simultaneity comprised of consecutive tones separated chromatically. ... A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sound altered by placing objects (preparations) between or on the strings or on the hammers or dampers. ... Metal paperclip A paperclip is a device which holds several sheets of paper together by means of pressure: it leaves the paper intact and can be easily removed. ...

Nico provides lead vocals. The song was originally recorded with only one track of Nico's vocals; they were later double-tracked for the final album version. ) Most versions of the album use this version of the song, though the initial 1987 CD release uses the original mix without the double-tracking. For the prequel to Ico, see Shadow of the Colossus. ...

An edited version was released as a single. It did not chart.

The song has lent its name to both an avant-garde music festival and a William Gibson novel. All Tomorrows Parties is a music festival which takes place in the United Kingdom at Camber Sands holiday camp in East Sussex and the United States in Los Angeles, CA. Named after a song by The Velvet Underground, it was founded by Barry Hogan and Helen Cottage in 1999... William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948, Conway, South Carolina) is an American-born science fiction author resident in Canada since 1968. ... All Tomorrows Parties is the third book in William Gibsons Bridge trilogy. Like its precessors, All Tomorrows Parties is a science-fiction novel set in a postmodern, dystopian, cyberpunk future. ...

Other versions

Both Nico and Lou Reed have recorded solo versions of the song. Other artists who have covered it include Apoptygma Berzerk, the Ass Ponys, Buffalo Tom, Japan, Jeff Buckley, Icehouse, Los Tres Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the Oysterband, Rasputina, Tom Robinson Simple Minds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, June Tabor, For the prequel to Ico, see Shadow of the Colossus. ... Lewis Allen Lou Reed (born March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... Apoptygma Berzerk is a Norwegian synthpop/EBM/futurepop musical group. ... Ass Ponys are an indie rock band based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. ... Buffalo Tom is a rock band from Boston, Massachusetts that was formed in the 1980s. ... Jeff Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), born Jeffrey Scott Buckley and raised as Scotty Moorhead,[1] was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... Icehouse is an Australian band, originally billed as Flowers, best known in Australia in the late 1970s Sydney pub scene and later in the early to mid 80s for more mainstream success and radio airplay. ... The image above is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. ... Oysterband is a British folk-rock band formed in Canterbury in the mid-1980s. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Tom Robinson (born June 1, 1950, in Cambridge) is an English songwriter and broadcaster probably best-known for the UK hit songs 2-4-6-8 Motorway (1977), Sing If Youre Glad To Be Gay (1978) and War Baby (1983). ... Simple Minds are a rock band from Scotland in the United Kingdom, who had their greatest worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early-1990s. ... Siouxsie and the Banshees are a British gothic rock band. ... June Tabor (born 1947) is an English folk singer. ...

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