All four studio albums have also been released and rereleased many times over in different configurations with different numbers of CDs at different price points - I have used the “45th Anniversary Super-Deluxe” versions for this episode, but for most people the standard CD versions will be fine. Note that the digital version of the album as sold by Amazon for some reason doesn’t include the last disc - if you want the full box set you have to buy a physical copy. The definitive collection of the Velvet Underground’s music is the sadly out-of-print box set Peel Slowly and See, which contains the four albums the group made with Reed in full, plus demos, outtakes, and live recordings. I also referred to the Criterion Collection Blu-Ray of the 2021 documentary The Velvet Underground. I used Draw a Straight Line and Follow it by Jeremy Grimshaw as my main source for La Monte Young, The Roaring Silence by David Revill for John Cage, and Warhol: A Life as Art by Blake Gopnik for Warhol. Information on Nico came from Nico: The Life and Lies of an Icon by Richard Witts. Information on Cale mostly came from Sedition and Alchemy by Tim Mitchell. The other was Lou Reed by Anthony DeCurtis. I also used Joe Harvard’s 33 1/3 book on The Velvet Underground and Nico.īockris also wrote one of the two biographies of Reed I referred to, Transformer. Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story by Victor Bockris and Gerard Malanga is the best book on the group as a group. No Mixcloud this week, as there are too many songs by the Velvet Underground, and some of the avant-garde pieces excerpted run to six hours or more. Also, I refer to Cale and Conrad as the other surviving members of the Theater of Eternal Music. They played at least one gig there in 1967, but did generally avoid the city. I say the Velvet Underground didn’t play New York for the rest of the sixties after 1966. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at and ![]() Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Patreon backers also have a twenty-three minute bonus episode available, on “Why Don’t You Smile Now?” by the Downliners Sect. This is a long one, lasting three hours and twenty minutes. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Download file | Play in new window | Recorded on April 3, 2023Įpisode 164 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “White Light/White Heat” and the career of the Velvet Underground.
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