The Velvet Underground (Super Deluxe 6CD)
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The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground (Super Deluxe 6CD)
[ Polydor / 6 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 5 December 2014
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The Velvet Underground's classic self-titled third album, released in March 1969, by MGM, was a departure from the band's first two albums in more ways than one. Gone was co-founding member John Cale, and in his place was a 21-year-old with Long Island roots named Doug Yule, who stepped right in. The record was also a stylistic leap, as Lou Reed describes it in Rolling Stone editor David Fricke's liner notes, "I thought we had to demonstrate the other side of us. Fricke calls it "a stunning turnaround… 10 tracks of mostly warm, explicit sympathy and optimism, expressed with melodic clarity, set in gleaming double-guitar jangle and near-whispered balladry. Or as the late rock critic Lester Bangs put it, "How do you define a group like this, who moved from 'Heroin' to 'Jesus' in two short years?"
How indeed do you describe an album which includes such classics as "Candy Says," Reed's ode to Warhol superstar Candy Darling; the aching love song "Pale Blue Eyes," allegedly inspired by a girlfriend at Syracuse University who got away, with lead vocals by Yule; the inspiring "Beginning to See The Light"; the spoken-word narrative and musique concrete of "The Murder Mystery," and the beautiful Maureen Tucker-sung "After Hours"?
Celebrating its enduring longevity, Polydor/Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) release The Velvet Underground - 45th Anniversary Edition as a Super Deluxe edition. This 64-track, six-CD package is housed in a case-bound book and features several different mixes including the remastered stereo mix by MGM house engineer Luis Pastor "Val" Valentin, a set of 1969 recordings, many of which were previously unreleased, from the Record Plant in New York City that were supposed to be the band's fourth album, several of which ended up on Loaded and Reed's first two solo releases, and unreleased live recordings from The Matrix in 1969.
Tracks:
Disc 1
1. Candy Says
2. What Goes On
3. Some Kinda Love
4. Pale Blue Eyes
5. Jesus
6. Beginning To See The Light
7. I'm Set Free
8. That's The Story Of My Life
9. The Murder Mystery
10. After Hours
Disc 2
1. Candy Says (Closet Mix)
2. What Goes On (Closet Mix)
3. Some Kinda Love (Closet Mix)
4. Pale Blue Eyes (Closet Mix)
5. Jesus (Closet Mix)
6. Beginning To See The Light (Closet Mix)
7. I'm Set Free (Closet Mix)
8. That's The Story Of My Life (Closet Mix)
9. The Murder Mystery (Closet Mix)
10. After Hours (Closet Mix)
11. Beginning To See The Light (Alternate Closet Mix)
Disc 3
1. Candy Says (Mono Version)
2. What Goes On (Mono Version)
3. Some Kinda Love (Mono Version)
4. Pale Blue Eyes (Mono Version)
5. Jesus (Mono Version)
6. Beginning To See The Light (Mono Version)
7. I'm Set Free (Mono Version)
8. That's The Story Of My Life (Mono Version)
9. The Murder Mystery (Mono Version)
10. After Hours (Mono Single)
11. What Goes On (Mono Single)
12. Jesus (Mono Single)
Disc 4
1. Foggy Notion
2. One Of These Days (2014 Mix)
3. Lisa Says (2014 Mix)
4. I'm Sticking With You
5. Andy's Chest
6. Coney Island Steeplechase (2014 Mix)
7. Ocean
8. I Can't Stand It (2014 Mix)
9. She's My Best Friend (Original Mix)
10. We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (2014 Mix)
11. I'm Gonna Move Right In
12. Ferryboat Bill
13. Rock And Roll
14. Ride Into The Sun (2014 Mix)
Disc 5
1. I'm Waiting For The Man (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
2. What Goes On (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
3. Some Kinda Love (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
4. Over You (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
5. We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
6. Beginning To See The Light (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
7. Lisa Says (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
8. Rock And Roll (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
9. Pale Blue Eyes (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
10. I Can't Stand It Anymore (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
11. Venus In Furs (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
12. There She Goes Again (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
Disc 6
1. Sister Ray (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
2. Heroin (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
3. White Light/White Heat (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
4. I'm Set Free (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
5. After Hours (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
6. Sweet Jane (Live In San Francisco / 1969)
