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The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat (LP Vinyl)

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Est. 1974, Curated by Heads
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Recorded in a single day in September 1967, White Light/White Heat captured the Velvet Underground at their most confrontational, a band actively resisting any notion of commercial appeal. The 17-minute closer "Sister Ray," with its locked groove of distortion and Lou Reed's deadpan narrative of sailors and drag queens, remains one of rock's most uncompromising statements, influencing noise rock, punk, and no wave for decades to come.

Vinyl Lovers present a reissue of The Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat, originally issued in 1968. While 1967's Velvet Underground & Nico was a part of Andy Warhol's global artistic vision, 1968's White Light/White Heat was free of all Warholian influence, so in a way it could be thought of as another debut album. Here the music was left to fester on it's own, with no artistic visionary interfering or trying to create a soundtrack for his pop art, and the Velvets filled that void with an album that is an aural subway car full of drunkards, junkies and whores rumbling through the bowels of NYC with a one way ticket to oblivion. Purple vinyl.

Tracklist

Side A

1. White Light/White Heat (2:44)
2. The Gift (8:14)
3. Lady Godiva's Operation (4:52)
4. There She Comes Now (2:00)

Side B

1. I Heard Her Call My Name (4:05)
2. Sister Ray (17:00)

UPC: 8013252990045
Label: Vinyl Lovers
Release Date: 7.22.08
Format: LP Vinyl