• 45th Anniversary Version
• Newly-Remastered from Original Tapes
• Original Artwork
• 180 Gram Heavyweight Vinyl
• Includes a voucher to download an MP3 version of the album
A1: Sunday Morning
A2: I'm Waiting For The Man
A3: Femme Fatale
A4: Venus In Furs
A5: Run, Run, Run
A6: All Tomorrow's Parties
B1: Heroin
B2: There She Goes Again
B3: I'll Be Your Mirror
B4: Black Angel's Death Song
B5: European Son
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?"
This album features the first professional line up of The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Maureen "Moe" Tucker, plus Nico singing on three tracks ("Femme Fatale", "All Tomorrow's Parties" and "I'll Be Your Mirror"). Most of the songs were recorded in April 1966 in a run-down recording studio before the band even had a contract.
Label: Verve Records – 371 710-8, Verve Records – 0602537171088
Series: Back To Black
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 45th Anniversary Edition,180g, Gatefold
Country: Europe
Released: 2015
Genre: Rock
Style: Art Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Experimental
| Model Number | L77901 |
|---|---|
| RRP | 69.00 |
