THE VELVET UNDERGROUND White Light/White Heat 1971 UK MGM - MINT
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£ 57
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Jun 27, 2016
Sold Date
Jun 17, 2016
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£ 24
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Great Britain
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THE VELVET UNDERGROUND White Light/White Heat 1971 UK MGM - MINT
THE VELVET UNDERGROUNDWhite Light/White Heat
1971 UK MGM (2353 024 SELECT) PRESSING OF THE VELVET UNDERGROUND'S SECOND LP from 1968
AN OUTSTANDING COPY - BARELY PLAYED AND DELIVERING FLAWLESS SOUND THROUGHOUT
PRESSED WITH THE GOLD/TURQUOISE MGM LABELS
MATRIX: 2353024 A//1 ▽ 420 11 1 / 2353024 B//1 ▽ 420 11 2
HOUSED IN THE MATT ’SOLDIER' COVER "Sleeve printed and made by MacNeill Press" WITH TOP AND BOTTOM ‘PINCHED’ SPINE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE - DATED ’0871’ (August 1971)
John Cale – vocals, electric viola, organ, bass guitar, Medical Sound Effects on Lady Godiva's Operation
Sterling Morrison – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, Medical Sound Effects on Lady Godiva's Operation
Lou Reed – vocals, guitar, piano
Maureen Tucker – percussion, drums
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 like an open challenge to conventional notions of what rock music could sound like (or what it could discuss), 1968s White Light/White Heat was a no-holds-barred frontal assault on cultural and aesthetic propriety.
Recorded without the input of either Nico or Andy Warhol, White Light/White Heat was the purest and rawest document of the key Velvets lineup of Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker, capturing the group at their toughest and most abrasive.
The album opens with an enthusiastic endorsement of amphetamines (startling even from this group of noted drug enthusiasts), and side one continues with an amusing shaggy-dog story set to a slab of lurching mutant R&B ("The Gift"), a perverse variation on an old folktale ("Lady Godiva's Operation"), and the album's sole "pretty" song, the mildly disquieting "Here She Comes Now."
While side one was a good bit darker in tone than the Velvets' first album, side two was where they truly threw down the gauntlet with the manic, free-jazz implosion of "I Heard Her Call My Name" (featuring Reed's guitar work at its most gloriously fractured), and the epic noise jam "Sister Ray," 17 minutes of sex, drugs, violence, and other non-wholesome fun with the loudest rock group in the history of Western Civilisation
Side One:
White Light/White Heat (2:44)
The Gift (8:14)
Lady Godiva's Operation (4:52)
There She Comes Now (2:00)
Side Two:
I Heard Her Call My Name (4:05)
Sister Ray (17:00)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels with just a couple of light spindle traces
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both surfaces are unmarked and look new
VINYL Audio: MINT
My play-check at volume found nothing to fault - flawless throughout
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Crisp, sharp and fresh
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: FREE (2nd class standard)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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