The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) 6CD (2014) [Box Set]

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?'


Celebrating its enduring longevity, Polydor/Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) will releases The Velvet Underground - 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition. This 64-track, six-CD package is housed in a case-bound book and features several different mixes including the remastered stereo mix by MGM house engineer Luis Pastor 'Val' Valentin, a set of 1969 recordings, many of which were previously unreleased, from the Record Plant in New York City that were supposed to be the band's fourth album, several of which ended up on Loaded and Reed's first two solo releases, and unreleased live recordings from The Matrix in 1969.

TRACKLIST

CD1 The Val Valentin Mix
1. Candy Says
2. What Goes On
3. Some Kinda Love
4. Pale Blue Eyes
5. Jesus
6. Beginning To See The Light
7. I'm Set Free
8. That's The Story Of My Life
9. The Murder Mystery
10. After Hours

CD2 The Closet Mix
1. Candy Says
2. What Goes On
3. Some Kinda Love
4. Pale Blue Eyes
5. Jesus
6. Beginning To See The Light
7. I'm Set Free
8. That's The Story Of My Life
9. The Murder Mystery
10. After Hours
11. Beginning To See The Light (Alternate "Closet Mix")

CD3 Promotional Mono Mix
1. Candy Says
2. What Goes On
3. Some Kinda Love
4. Pale Blue Eyes
5. Jesus
6. Beginning To See The Light
7. I'm Set Free
8. That's The Story Of My Life
9. The Murder Mystery
10. After Hours
11. What Goes On
12. Jesus

CD4 1969 Sessions
1. Foggy Notion (Original 1969 Mix)
2. One Of These Days (New 2014 Mix)
3. Lisa Says (New 2014 Mix)
4. I'm Sticking With You (Original 1969 Mix)
5. Andy's Chest (Original 1969 Mix)
6. Coney Island Steeplechase (New 2014 Mix)
7. Ocean (Original 1969 Mix)
8. I Can't Stand It (New 2014 Mix)
9. She's My Best Friend (Original 1969 Mix)
10. We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (New 2014 Mix)
11. I'm Gonna Move Right In (Original 1969 Mix)
12. Ferryboat Bill (Original 1969 Mix)
13. Rock & Roll (Original 1969 Mix)
14. Ride Into The Sun (New 2014 Mix)

CD 5: LIVE AT THE MATRIX – November 26 & 27, 1969 (Part 1)
1. I'm Waiting For The Man
2. What Goes On
3. Some Kinda Love
4. Over You
5. We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together
6. Beginning To See The Light
7. Lisa Says
8. Rock & Roll
9. Pale Blue Eyes
10. I Can't Stand It Anymore
11. Venus In Furs
12. There She Goes Again

CD 6: LIVE AT THE MATRIX – November 26 & 27, 1969 (Part 2)
1. Sister Ray
2. Heroin
3. White Light/White Heat
4. I'm Set Free
5. After Hours
6. Sweet Jane