<story><title>The strangely successful history of people mailing themselves in boxes (2015)</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-strangely-successful-history-of-people-mailing-themselves-in-boxes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>technotarek</author><text>Velvet Underground anyone? Slightly less successful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skinnymuch</author><text>First thought. For people not into music or this sort of indie rock music. The song is worth a listen for its innovation and sleekness at the time. The song, The Gift, is from Velvet Underground’s 2nd album in 1968. It’s long and is all spoken word. The story comes out of the left speaker and the rock music comes from the right speaker.&lt;p&gt;The song is influential. The more contemporary ‘Undone – The Sweater Song’ by Weezer in 1994 is influenced by The Gift. Also has sleek rock music and a lot of spoken words.</text></comment>
<story><title>The strangely successful history of people mailing themselves in boxes (2015)</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-strangely-successful-history-of-people-mailing-themselves-in-boxes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>technotarek</author><text>Velvet Underground anyone? Slightly less successful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>technotarek</author><text>Here’s the song: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;mI-YiaWDgB4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;mI-YiaWDgB4&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>