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Artist:	VELVET UNDERGROUND, THE
Title:	Another View
Label:	4 MEN WITH BEARDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	4M 137LP

"Comprised of unreleased tracks recorded during The Velvet Underground's heyday (1967-1969), Another View was originally released in 1986. Contains the original versions of tunes like 'We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together,' and 'Ride Into The Sun' as well as an early version of the classic 'Rock & Roll' (from 1970's Loaded). While not as cohesive or fully formed as VU, Another View is no less essential to the true Velvets fan's collection."

Artist:	VELVET UNDERGROUND, THE
Title:	White Light/White Heat
Label:	4 MEN WITH BEARDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	4M 155LP

"If the Velvet Underground's debut record was a shot at the conventions of rock music, White Light/White Heat, released on Verve later that same year (1967), was a full-on nuclear blast. Relative to this record, The Velvet Underground & Nico was a gentle slab of folk-rock. From the amphetamine fueled and inspired opening of the title track to the the 17-minute assault that is 'Sister Ray,' White Light/White Heat hardly lets up for a second, with the haunting 'Here She Comes Now' being the album's only mellowing moment. One of the most difficult, challenging, and ultimately beautiful pop records of all time, considered by many to be the Velvets' greatest record." 180 gram virgin vinyl.

Artist:	VELVET UNDERGROUND, THE
Title:	The Velvet Underground
Label:	4 MEN WITH BEARDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	4M 156LP

"Following the departure of John Cale in 1968, and the addition of Doug Yule on bass, the Velvet Underground released this, their self-titled third LP in 1969. More subdued and lyrically compassionate than the first two records, it is nonetheless equally powerful and many consider 'The Couch Album' to be the Velvet Underground's finest work. The Velvet Underground certainly features some of Lou Reed's finest songwriting from the narcotic beauty of 'Candy Says' and 'I'm Set Free,' to the angular jangle of 'What Goes On' and 'I'm Beginning To See The Light.' In four short years, the Velvet Underground made as many stone cold masterpieces, no other band in history could claim such an accomplishment."

Artist:	VELVET UNDERGROUND, THE
Title:	Under Review
Label:	SEXY INTELLECTUAL
Format:	DVD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	SI 501DVD

"Velvet Underground Under Review is a 75-minute film reviewing the music and career of one of rock music's most influential collectives; a band which esteemed music journalist Lester Bangs claims started modern music. It features rare musical performances never available before as well as obscure footage, rare interviews and private photographs of and with Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, Sterling Morrison and John Cale. The film also features rarely seen promo films; material from Andy Warhol's private film collection; interviews with colleagues, producers, musicians and friends; TV clips; location shots and a host of other features." NTSC format, all regions, running time: 85 minutes.

Artist:	VELVET UNDERGROUND, THE
Title:	The Velvet Underground Singles 1966-69
Label:	SUNDAZED
Format:	7x7" Box
Price:	$46.00
Catalog #:	SC 7002BOX

Repressed. "The Velvet Underground Singles 1966-69, is a seven-disc box set honoring the legendary New York combo's 7" vinyl output in their rare mono versions. The set features exact reproductions of Velvet Underground singles, two of them with their original picture sleeves. The singles are packaged in a distinctively designed box, along with rare vintage photos and new liner notes by Rolling Stone's David Fricke (who also penned the acclaimed notes for the historic 1995 Velvets CD box set Peel Slowly and See). The Velvet Underground -- whose membership included Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker, Doug Yule and Nico -- introduced numerous sonic and thematic innovations that laid much of the groundwork for punk and alternative rock. Although they're now acknowledged as one of the most influential bands in rock history, during their existence the Velvets barely registered on mainstream radar, and were often reviled by mainstream observers as well as hippie-era arbiters of cool. But, as Fricke writes in the new set's liner notes, 'Somewhere, in another rock & roll universe, the Velvet Underground are more than a legendary band. They are stars, with hit singles -- the original seven-inch masterpieces inside this box.' Although they never came close to scoring a hit, the Velvet Underground was ideally suited to the 7" single format. 'The Velvet Underground were a great singles band,' David Fricke notes, adding that the Velvets 'invented modern rock with searing guitar distortion, throbbing improvisation and brutally realistic tales of life on the wild side. But they did it all in these classic pop songs -- compact miracles of raw drive, intimate beauty and Top 40 ecstasy, heard again in the original, thrilling mono single mixes.' The seven singles included in The Velvet Underground Singles 1966-69 comprise the four Velvets singles originally released in the U.S. on the Verve and MGM labels, plus an additional pair of singles that were prepared for release but never made it to the marketplace and a special radio-only promotional single. The singles feature alternate mono versions that differ in significant ways from the songs' better-known stereo album versions. For instance, the band's 1966 debut single 'All Tomorrow's Parties' appears here in a special mono edit that amplifies the song's melodic beauty and sonic tension, and a mono mix of their sophomore single 'Sunday Morning' emphasizes the song's haunting quality. Meanwhile, the mono single version of 'White Light/White Heat' exemplifies the vintage Velvets' stark, distortion-laden fury, while a mono edit of 'What Goes On' accentuates that song's inherent pop jangle. The Velvet Underground Singles 1966-69 also includes two unissued singles, one with a never-released pairing of 'White Light/White Heat' backed by 'I Heard Her Call My Name,' and the other with 'Temptation Inside Your Heart' and 'Stephanie Says,' recorded in the waning days of the band's classic Reed/Cale/Morrison/Tucker lineup and unheard by the public for nearly two decades thereafter. The set's seventh single is a reproduction of a vintage promotional disc, a two-and-a-half minute radio spot promoting the band's eponymous third album and featuring legendary disc jockey Bill 'Rosko' Mercer, with excerpts from 'I'm Set Free,' 'What Goes On' and 'Beginning to See the Light,' as well as a picture sleeve with an un-airbrushed variation on the album's iconic cover art. By presenting the Velvets as a singles band, The Velvet Underground Singles 1966-69 shows, in David Fricke's words, 'rock history the way it should have been: the Velvet Underground as the New York Beatles, guaranteed to blow up your radio and your mind.'"

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