The Velvet Underground-45th Anniversary

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The Velvet UndergroundThe Velvet Underground: 45th Anniversary Editionon 180g LP

Featuring the Remastered Stereo Mix by MGM House Engineer Luis Pastor Val Valentin

The Velvet Undergroundsclassic self-titled third album, released in March 1969 by MGM, was a departure from the bands 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 Velvet Undergroundwas the first album produced and arranged by the band themselves.
The record was also a stylistic leap, as Lou Reed describes it in Rolling Stone editor David Frickes 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, Reeds 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) will releaseThe Velvet Underground – 45th Anniversary Editionon180g vinyl featuring the remastered stereo mix by MGM house engineer Luis Pastor Val Valentin.
The Velvet UndergroundThe Velvet Underground – 45th Anniversary EditionTrack Listing:
1. Candy Says2. What Goes On3. Some Kinda Love4. Pale Blue Eyes5. Jesus6. Beginning To See The Light7. I’m Set Free8. That’s The Story Of My Life9. The Murder Mystery10. After Hours