The Velvet Underground (Remastered) The Velvet Underground & Nico

• 1 Candy Says 04:04
• 2 What Goes On 04:55
• 3 Some Kinda Love 04:03
• 4 Pale Blue Eyes 05:42
• 5 Jesus 03:22
• 6 Beginning To See The Light 04:40
• 7 I'm Set Free 04:04
• 8 That's The Story Of My Life 02:04
• 9 The Murder Mystery 08:53
• 10 After Hours 02:07
• Total Runtime 43:54

Info zu The Velvet Underground (Remastered)

Velvet Underground's self-titled third album seemed like the debut of a new band. John Cale had left (replaced by Doug Yule) and the group became, for all intents and purposes, Lou Reed's back-up band. The songs actually sounded like rock music and John Cale's screeching musicality was reworked into songs that featured Sterling Morrison's most eloquent guitar accompaniment. Reed's songwriting moved beyond the armed-to-disarm approach of the previous two albums towards a spiritual level of empathy with the human race--a change that wouldn't go unnoticed. The man who once begged someone to 'nullify [his] life' ('Heroin') was now asking 'Jesus' to 'help me find my proper place,' and whooping his way through the equally inspiring 'Beginning To See The Light.'

With Cale departed for a solo career, Reed really starts to deepen his songwriting. 'Pale Blue Eyes' and 'Beginning To See the Light' reveal the compassion and insight behind his skeptical, world-weary stance.' (Rolling Stone)

Lou Reed, guitar, keyboards, vocals
Sterling Morrison, guitar, vocals
Doug Yule, bass, organ, keyboards, drums, vocals
Maureen Tucker, drums, percussion, vocals

Recorded 1969 at TT & G Studios, Los Angeles, CA.
Engineered by Val Valentin
Mixed by Lou Reed
Produced and arranged by The Velvet Underground

Digitally remastered

The Velvet Underground
were an avant-garde New York City band whose unconventional and screeching sounds paved and shaped the roads of “underground” Rock and Roll. Beginning in small clubs and bars around NYC, the band originally enjoyed a cult like following of dedicated fans, who rejoiced in a sound that, at the time, was deemed “undanceable” and ludicrous by mainstream media. Eventually, the band emerged from the cracks and shadows of Greenwich Village to form a union with the infamous Andy Warhol, whose notoriety catapulted the group of experimentalists to new and unseen heights. As they linked up to travel the Unites States, they overwhelmed audiences everywhere with a surreal concoction of images, films, lighting effects, and music, known as The Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour. Warhol also introduced the band to the young Nico, creating a partnership that went on to produce the coveted “The Velvet Underground & Nico” album, which is considered one of the most influential albums of all time. Fifty years later and The Velvet Underground’s works continue to inject their nonconformist and unique sounds into the ears of indie kids around the globe. With not only a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction under their belt but also four albums in the Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of all Time, The Velvet Underground still influences a younger generation of artists, who one can only hope will uphold the underground’s tradition of challenging and piercing the conventional boundaries of not only music, but creativity as a whole.

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