VELVET UNDERGROUND "White Light/White Heat" UK MGM MINT
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Sep 10, 2010
Sold Date
Aug 31, 2010
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Great Britain
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VELVET UNDERGROUND "White Light/White Heat" UK MGM MINT
BEAUTIFUL UNMARKED/UNPLAYED VINYL, 'SOLDIERS' SLEEVE
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
White Light/White Heat
UK MGM (2353 024 SELECT) LATE 70s PRESSING OF THE VELVET UNDERGROUND'S BLISTERING SECOND LP from 1968, "White Light/White Heat" - IN BEAUTIFUL, UNPLAYED CONDITION (no spindles or signs of use to the labels and pristine, unmarked vinyl surfaces) AND DELIVERING SENSATIONAL MINT AUDIO THROUGHOUT - EXCEPTIONAL COPY
THE RECORD HAS THE GOLD/TURQUOISE MGM LABELS
MATRIX: 2353024 A//1 420 11 14 / 2353024 B//1 420 12 3
AND IS HOUSED IN THE 'SOLDIER' COVER WHICH HAS A LIGHT GLOSSY FINISH, "Sleeve printed and made in England by Ackenmay Ltd" COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE
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
Track Listing:
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: The labels are clean, bright and unmarked with no spindles or signs of use - the spindle hole is still tight - beautiful copy - unplayed - MINT
VINYL Visual: The surfaces retain their original deep, like-new, glossy sheen and are pristine - completely unmarked - MINT
VINYL Audio: Outstanding audio throughout audio with a crystal clean, clean, sharp and vibrant sound - stunning LP. On playback at a loud volume (and even though I have listed this as unplayed I always listen to my records at a loud volume as even mint looking records can play with imperfections) there are no scratches, no sticks/jumps, no clicks or pops and no surface noise (the run-ins and track divisions are silent). A pristine copy which plays to the highest possible standard. Graded MINT for audio
SLEEVE: The cover is clean, sharp and fresh with hardly any wear to speak of - NEAR MINT
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