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Key Information:
45th Anniversary Edition, 180g, Vinyl LP
Cat No:
4703867
Barcode:
602547038678
Released:
12 March 2015
Description
Listening to The Velvet Underground can feel like walking into a small, late-night gathering with close friends: It’s warm, it’s fuzzy, it’s a little imprecise. But in that imprecision is a sense of quiet epiphany, the feeling of revelation that forms around moments you might otherwise miss. There’s laughter in it (“Beginning to See the Light”), and there’s tenderness, too (“Pale Blue Eyes”). But there’s also a reckoning with big questions about doubt (“I’m Set Free”), purpose (“Jesus”) and how we share our inner selves with the outside world (“Candy Says”) that runs deeper than the album’s sweetness lets on.
Lou Reed said that White Light/White Heat was, in part, a reaction to the delusions of hippie culture—the way free love led to broken hearts and supposedly innocent drug use devolved into people too disconnected from reality to function. But if the band has a psychedelic album—not in the carnivalesque sense, but in the sense of pointing one on a strange personal journey—this is it.
The shift is radical: After two albums of noise and rebellion, they sit down on the carpet and open themselves to quieter thoughts. Sterling Morrison said part of the change had to do with the departure of John Cale, which left Reed free to explore his sensitive side: If Morrison had written something as romantic as “Pale Blue Eyes”, he teased Reed, he wouldn’t have forced Reed to play it, but he also wouldn’t fight with him about it. He later described Reed’s original mix of the album (included on the deluxe 45th anniversary edition) as the “Closet Mix”, because it made the music sound like it was recorded in a closet: safe, private, secret. And Reed described “Some Kinda Love” as a conversation between two very drunk people who talk their way through the fog to some obvious conclusions. The Velvet Underground is music made at a close distance, but just out of focus enough to keep mystery intact. “I don’t know just what it’s all about,” he sings. “But put on your red pyjamas and find out.”
Lou Reed said that White Light/White Heat was, in part, a reaction to the delusions of hippie culture—the way free love led to broken hearts and supposedly innocent drug use devolved into people too disconnected from reality to function. But if the band has a psychedelic album—not in the carnivalesque sense, but in the sense of pointing one on a strange personal journey—this is it.
The shift is radical: After two albums of noise and rebellion, they sit down on the carpet and open themselves to quieter thoughts. Sterling Morrison said part of the change had to do with the departure of John Cale, which left Reed free to explore his sensitive side: If Morrison had written something as romantic as “Pale Blue Eyes”, he teased Reed, he wouldn’t have forced Reed to play it, but he also wouldn’t fight with him about it. He later described Reed’s original mix of the album (included on the deluxe 45th anniversary edition) as the “Closet Mix”, because it made the music sound like it was recorded in a closet: safe, private, secret. And Reed described “Some Kinda Love” as a conversation between two very drunk people who talk their way through the fog to some obvious conclusions. The Velvet Underground is music made at a close distance, but just out of focus enough to keep mystery intact. “I don’t know just what it’s all about,” he sings. “But put on your red pyjamas and find out.”
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track list
Side A
- 1. Sunday Morning
- 2. I'm Waiting For The Man
- 3. Femme Fatale
- 4. Venus In Furs
- 5. Run Run Run
- 6. All Tomorrow's Parties
Side B
- 1. Heroin
- 2. There She Goes Again
- 3. I'll Be Your Mirror
- 4. The Black Angel's Death Song
- 5. European Son
Side C
- 1. The Fairest Of The Seasons
- 2. These Days
- 3. Little Sister
- 4. Winter Song
- 5. It Was A Pleasure Then
Side D
- 1. Chelsea Girls
- 2. I'll Keep It With Mine
- 3. Somewhere There's A Feather
- 4. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
- 5. Eulogy To Lenny Bruce
Side E
- 1. White Light / White Heat
- 2. The Gift
- 3. Lady Godiva's Operation
- 4. Here She Comes Now
Side F
- 1. I Heard Her Call My Name
- 2. Sister Ray
Side G
- 1. I Heard Her Call My Name (Alternate Take)
- 2. Guess I'm Falling In Love (Instrumental Version)
- 3. Temptation Inside Your Heart (Original Mix)
- 4. Stephanie Says (Original Mix)
Side H
- 1. Hey Mr. Rain (Version One)
- 2. Hey Mr. Rain (Version Two)
- 3. Beginning To See The Light (Previously Unreleased Early Version)
Side I
- 1. Candy Says
- 2. What Goes On
- 3. Some Kinda Love
- 4. Pale Blue Eyes
- 5. Jesus
Side J
- 1. Beginning To See The Light
- 2. I'm Set Free
- 3. That's The Story Of My Life
- 4. The Murder Mystery
- 5. After Hours
Side K
- 1. Foggy Notion (Original 1969 Mix)
- 2. One Of These Days (2014 Mix)
- 3. Lisa Says (2014 Mix)
- 4. I'm Sticking With You (Original 1969 Mix)
- 5. Andy's Chest (Original 1969 Mix)
Side L
- 1. I Can't Stand It (2014 Mix)
- 2. She's My Best Friend (Original 1969 Mix)
- 3. We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (2014 Mix)
- 4. I'm Gonna Move Right In (Original 1969 Mix)
- 5. Ferryboat Bill (Original 1969 Mix)
Side M
- 1. Coney Island Steeplechase (2014 Mix)
- 2. Ocean (Original 1969 Mix)
- 3. Rock & Roll (Original 1969 Mix)
- 4. Ride Into The Sun (2014 Mix)
Side N
- 1. Hey Mr. Rain (Version One)
- 2. Guess I'm Falling In Love (Instrumental Version)
- 3. Temptation Inside Your Heart (Original Mix)
- 4. Stephanie Says (Original Mix)
- 5. Hey Mr. Rain (Version Two)
- 6. Beginning To See The Light (Early Version)
Side O
- 1. Who Loves The Sun
- 2. Sweet Jane
- 3. Rock & Roll
- 4. Cool It Down
- 5. New Age
Side P
- 1. Head Held High
- 2. Lonesome Cowboy Bill
- 3. I Found A Reason
- 4. Train Round The Bend
- 5. Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
