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The new boxset of the Velvet Underground's self-titled third album features an additional 'lost' fourth record.
Commemorating the 45th anniversary of the band's third LP, the deluxe edition comprises six CDs, featuring 64 tracks including outtakes, alternative mixes and live versions. The collection also features liner notes by Rolling Stone's David Fricke and will be released on 24 November on Poldor.
According to The Guardian, one particular highlight is an unreleased album the band recorded at the Record Plant in New York City in a bid to get out of their contract with MGM. It features 10 unheard mixes, four vintage and six brand new, including “Lisa Says”, “I Can’t Stand It”, and the original version of “Ocean”, as well as "Andy's Chest" (which you may recognise from Transformer) and 'Rock & Roll' (later redone for Loaded)
Fricke in the liner notes calls the album “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." Legendary rock critic Lester Bangs memorably described how it defined the Velvet Underground's extraordinary range: “How do you define a group like this, who moved from ‘Heroin’ to ‘Jesus’ in two short years?”
The final two discs promise live recordings handpicked from the band’s stint at San Francisco’s The Matrix on 26 and 27 November1969.
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