I like VU a lot but

Me too; when I was studying art A level, I often spent up to 10 hours at a stretch in the art department over the weekend making silk-screen prints... we had just a battered old record deck with autochanger, and in some strange postmodernist creed of yuff angst, we used to put the Velvets on and just let it repeat all day! The almost hypnotic effect is still woven deep into my brain, such that my fingers start twitching to wield a palette knife whenever I hear one of the so-familiar tracks...