The Pizza Underground were doused in beer and booed offstage in Nottingham sometime in 2014, and little has been heard from them since. The Pizza Underground was a silly way for a former child star to slip back into the public consciousness, and thanks to blogs like this one, they entered one of those goofy and irrelevant hype cycles that makes sincere people irrationally angry. The Velvet Underground have changed more lives than all of Culkin’s roles combined, and many would argue that their status makes them untouchable. By re-working “Beginning To See The Light” into “I’m Beginning To Eat The Slice,” or “Candy Says” into “Papa John Says,” and replacing an iconic album cover with the image of a yellow anchovy (Anchovy Warhol, get it?), the Home Alone star was making a mockery of a canonical band. A lot of people hated it, and rightfully so. In 2013, Macaulay Culkin gave the world something it didn’t need: a parodical Velvet Underground tribute band called the Pizza Underground. I think everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band. The sales have picked up in the past few years, but I mean, that record was such an important record for so many people. I was talking to Lou Reed the other day and he said that the first Velvet Underground record sold 30,000 copies in the first five years.
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