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1969 - Live With Lou Reed, Vol 1
1/1/1969, LAUNCH, Bill Holdship

A documentation of the post-Cale lineup playing clubs in Texas and San Francisco. Originally released on vinyl as a double LP, Mercury has unfortunately released it as two...  more >

1969 - Live With Lou Reed, Vol 1
7/13/2005, AMG

The Velvet Underground were little more than a rumor when Lou Reed left the band in 1970, but by 1974, thanks to Reed's success as a solo artist, the Velvets had become a...  more >

1969: Velvet Underground Live, Vol. 2
1/1/1969, LAUNCH, Bill Holdship

A documentation of the post-Cale lineup playing clubs in Texas and San Francisco. Originally released on vinyl as a double LP, Mercury has unfortunately released it as two...  more >

1969: Velvet Underground Live, Vol. 2
7/13/2005, AMG

Maureen Tucker once said that one of her greatest regrets about her tenure in the Velvet Underground is that the band didn't record their shows, and while the live tapes...  more >

Another View
7/13/2005, AMG

After 18 years of having little or no idea of what to do with the Velvet Underground, sometime in 1985 it seems to have suddenly dawned on Verve Records that they had the...  more >

Best Of Velvet Underground: Words And Music Of Lou Reed
7/13/2005, AMG

The Best of the Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed is a 15-track summary of The Velvets' career, borrowing heavily from the debut (six tracks) and featuring...  more >

Live At Max's Kansas City
1/1/1972, LAUNCH, Bill Holdship

A cassette recording documentation right near the end (but still great), recorded, legend has it, by a messed-up Jim Carroll and Bridget...  more >

Live At Max's Kansas City
7/13/2005, AMG

There's a certain amount of disagreement among Velvet Underground scholars regarding whether or not this album, recorded by Andy Warhol associate and longtime fan Brigid...  more >

Live MCMXCIII
10/12/1993, LAUNCH, Bill Holdship

A live documentation of the European reunion. Strangely, Cale is the one who truly shines here. When did Lou even stop trying to sing? Hardly...  more >

Live MCMXCIII
7/13/2005, AMG

If you stepped out on your back porch one morning and saw Pegasus contentedly munching your crabgrass shortly before taking flight, you'd sound a bit churlish if you pointed...  more >

VU
1/1/1984, LAUNCH, Bill Holdship

A much-anticipated (at the time) disc of rarities and outtakes, some actually terrific (much of it now available on the Peel Slowly And See boxed...  more >

VU
7/13/2005, AMG

Composed principally of songs that would have appeared on the Velvet Underground's unreleased fourth MGM album, this is only slightly less impressive than their first three...  more >

The Velvet Underground
1/1/1969, LAUNCH, Bill Holdship

Or The Third Album. Softer than the rest, and perhaps more about the concept of redemption than any of their other LPs, as Reed is beginning to see the...  more >

The Velvet Underground
7/13/2005, AMG

Upon first release, The Velvet Underground's self-titled third album must have surprised their fans nearly as much as their first two albums shocked the few mainstream music...  more >

White Light/White Heat
7/13/2005, AMG

The world of pop music was hardly ready for The Velvet Underground's first album when it appeared in the spring of 1967, but while The Velvet Underground and Nico sounded...  more >

Peel Slowly And See
7/13/2005, AMG

Does this five-CD box set feature an abundance of essential material? Certainly. It has all four of the studio albums released by the Lou Reed-led lineup, and a wealth of...  more >

Loaded: Fully Loaded Edition
7/13/2005, AMG

This does include the original Loaded album, with full-length versions of "Sweet Jane," "Rock & Roll," and "New Age" replacing the earlier edited ones. But that's less than...  more >

The Velvet Underground & Nico (Remaster)
1/1/1967, LAUNCH, Bill Holdship

Beauty and darkness intermingle here. Perhaps the true birth of art-rock, Sgt. Pepper's be damned. A classic of the...  more >

The Velvet Underground & Nico (Remaster)
7/13/2005, AMG

One would be hard pressed to name a rock album whose influence has been as broad and pervasive as The Velvet Underground and Nico. While it reportedly took over a decade for...  more >

What Goes On
7/13/2005, AMG

Before the full resources of Polydor were marshaled behind the creation of the Peel Slowly and See box set, this three-disc Australian import was the cat's pajamas among...  more >

The Best Of The Velvet Underground: 20th Century Masters The Millenium Collection
7/13/2005, AMG

It seems rather silly for the ultimate cult band to have a volume of Universal's 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection series, since even if the Velvet Underground...  more >

Loaded
7/13/2005, AMG

After The Velvet Underground cut three albums for the jazz-oriented Verve label that earned them lots of notoriety but negligible sales, the group signed with industry...  more >

Velvet Underground & Nico: Deluxe Edition
7/23/2002, LAUNCH, Mike Lipton

Talk about influential records--released in 1967, the first Velvet Underground record featured Lou Reed, John Cale, and beautiful chanteuse Nico and is an absolute must-have...  more >

Velvet Underground & Nico: Deluxe Edition
7/13/2005, AMG

The "deluxe edition" of the Velvet Underground's classic debut album is somewhat disappointing in that it fails to offer any previously unreleased material, even as it...  more >

Live At Max's Kansas City
7/13/2005, AMG

The original 1972 release of Live at Max's Kansas City was a single LP, cobbled together from recordings that fabled Velvet Underground fan Brigid Polk made on her personal...  more >

Bootleg Series, Vol.1: The Quine Tapes
7/13/2005, AMG

Bootleg Series, Vol. 1: The Quine Tapes is a three-CD compilation of live performances from the Velvet Underground. This is likewise the first in presumably a series of...  more >

Gold
7/13/2005, AMG

At this point in music history, it's become a given that the Velvet Underground were one of the most important and innovative rock bands of their era, and that the four...  more >

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