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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), 1968's 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 open and 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 Civilization as the house band. White Light/White Heat is easily the least accessible of The Velvet Underground's studio albums, but anyone wanting to hear their guitar-mauling tribal frenzy straight with no chaser will love it, and those benighted souls who think of the Velvets as some sort of folk-rock band are advised to crank their stereo up to ten and give side two a spin.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
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Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer - Gary Kellgren, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1968 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sterling Morrison, ComposerLyricist - John Cale, ComposerLyricist - Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer - Maureen Ann Tucker, ComposerLyricist - Gary Kellgren, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1968 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer - Gary Kellgren, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1968 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sterling Morrison, ComposerLyricist - John Cale, ComposerLyricist - Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer - Maureen Ann Tucker, ComposerLyricist - Gary Kellgren, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1968 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer - Gary Kellgren, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1968 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sterling Morrison, ComposerLyricist - Maureen Tucker, ComposerLyricist - John Cale, ComposerLyricist - Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer - Gary Kellgren, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1968 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sterling Morrison, ComposerLyricist - John Cale, ComposerLyricist - Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, Producer, MainArtist - Maureen Ann Tucker, ComposerLyricist - Bill Levenson, Producer
℗ 1986 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - MICHAEL BARBIERO, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - The Velvet Underground, Producer, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1985 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - MICHAEL BARBIERO, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - The Velvet Underground, Producer, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1985 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sterling Morrison, ComposerLyricist - John Cale, ComposerLyricist - Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - John Convertino, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - The Velvet Underground, Producer, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Maureen Ann Tucker, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1986 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sterling Morrison, ComposerLyricist - John Cale, ComposerLyricist - Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, Producer, MainArtist - Maureen Ann Tucker, ComposerLyricist - Bill Levenson, Producer
℗ 1986 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
DISC 2
Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sterling Morrison, ComposerLyricist - John Cale, ComposerLyricist - Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer - Maureen Ann Tucker, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sterling Morrison, ComposerLyricist - John Cale, ComposerLyricist - Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer - Maureen Ann Tucker, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sterling Morrison, ComposerLyricist - Maureen Tucker, ComposerLyricist - John Cale, ComposerLyricist - Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sterling Morrison, ComposerLyricist - John Cale, ComposerLyricist - Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer - Maureen Ann Tucker, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sterling Morrison, ComposerLyricist - John Cale, ComposerLyricist - Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer - Maureen Ann Tucker, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sterling Morrison, ComposerLyricist - John Cale, ComposerLyricist - Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer - Maureen Ann Tucker, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
DISC 3
Sterling Morrison, ComposerLyricist - John Cale, ComposerLyricist - Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, Producer, MainArtist - Maureen Ann Tucker, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sterling Morrison, ComposerLyricist - Maureen Tucker, ComposerLyricist - John Cale, ComposerLyricist - Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sterling Morrison, ComposerLyricist - John Cale, ComposerLyricist - Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, Producer, MainArtist - Maureen Ann Tucker, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sterling Morrison, ComposerLyricist - Maureen Tucker, ComposerLyricist - John Cale, ComposerLyricist - Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sterling Morrison, ComposerLyricist - John Cale, ComposerLyricist - Lou Reed, ComposerLyricist - The Velvet Underground, Producer, MainArtist - Maureen Ann Tucker, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
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), 1968's 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 open and 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 Civilization as the house band. White Light/White Heat is easily the least accessible of The Velvet Underground's studio albums, but anyone wanting to hear their guitar-mauling tribal frenzy straight with no chaser will love it, and those benighted souls who think of the Velvets as some sort of folk-rock band are advised to crank their stereo up to ten and give side two a spin.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
About the album
- 3 disc(s) - 30 track(s)
- Total length: 03:07:40
- Main artists: The Velvet Underground
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Verve
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2013 UMG Recordings, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 2013 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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