***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 its 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. Pressed on purple vinyl.
LP $33.35
08/20/2021
***THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, live at The Boston Tea Party on July 11th, 1969. The Boston Tea Party was the leading underground rock club, and something of a home from home for the Velvet Underground. LOU REED even described it as his favorite place to play in the late '60s. This superb live set was taped there on Friday, July 11th, and finds the quartet performing numerous tracks from their recently released third album (1969), as well as epic renditions of "Run Run Run" and "Sister Ray"—an essential document of a great band at their peak. The entire set is presented here, remastered, with background notes and images. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl in gatefold sleeves.
2XLP $25.85
06/04/2021
***BACK iN STOCK!!! 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 its own, with no artistic visionary interfering or trying to create a soundtrack for his pop art, and the VELVET UNDERGROUND 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. Includes three bonus tracks.
LP $33.25
12/22/2015