The Velvet Underground (Album)

Occupation

• Vocals, guitar: Lou Reed
• Bass, guitar, organ, vocals: Doug Yule
• Bass, guitar, vocals: Sterling Morrison
• Drums, Vocals: Maureen Tucker

The Velvet Underground was the third album by the band The Velvet Underground and the first production in which Doug Yule took the part of John Cale. Cale had left the band after differences with Lou Reed ado. The album was recorded in autumn 1968 in the TTG Studios in Hollywood and released by MGM's sub-label Verve. After the departure of Cale, the music was a radical change in the sound, was more moderate, accessible and audience friendly. Reed put in this album less emphasis on experiments, the more he focused on the lyrics. Thus faded the Nimbus to be an avant-garde band a little. Reed was now the only creative force of the band and felt accordingly as a bandleader. However, he soon got fresh competition in-house: The young talent Yule, who took over as the " man for all seasons " both the bass part by John Cale and partial second lead guitar playing and backing vocals took over, made himself indispensable. Despite all the changes in the band The Velvet Underground concept is still one of the authentic VU albums.

The Music

The songs on The Velvet Underground bribe by a particular melancholy beauty. With two exceptions, the influence of Andy Warhol's Factory and the connections to the scene were almost entirely cut off: The album cover was designed again by Warhol employee Billy Name. The opening track Candy Says is about Candy Darling, who once again came later in Lou Reed's worldwide hit Walk on the Wild Side honor. A novelty for VU is the track After-hours, the first Moe Tucker sings. The album was produced by the band and mixed in two different stereo mixes: A version was from the engineer Val Valentin, the other by Lou Reed in synchronization with a "closet mix" of Sterling Morrison. The term "closet mix" ( a play on the words "closed " and " Privy " ) arose because Morrison was of the opinion Reeds mix to it a little cramped, introverted, one-sided sound. In addition, Reed Takes were shorter than that of Valentin. While Valentin presented example, drums and percussion in the middle of the sound, put Reed in the style of many 60s recordings on a channel page. This is striking when comparing the two recordings of Some Kinda Love: The inclusion of Valentin is 20 seconds longer and still has a few other differences. The 1985 reissue of the album used the Valentin mix; other recordings vary. Use the CD - productions, with one exception, the Valentin mix; the 1995 CD box set Peel Slowly And See included on CD 4, however, the Lou Reed- mix.

The album The Velvet Underground reached # 314 in Rolling Stone magazine 's 500 greatest albums of all time ranking.

Title list

All tracks were written and arranged by The Velvet Underground by Lou Reed. The specified track - times refer to the 1996 remastered on CD Valentin mix.

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