So you say y'all're getting into The Velvet Hush-hush after seeing the smashing new Todd Haynes documentary almost the ring on Apple Telly+. Hooray and welcome aboard! Now, get prepared for a mystery tour unlike any other band out at that place.
But I suspect at that place are some new listeners out at that place who have no idea where to commencement in building a drove of Velvet Undercover albums. Honestly, there aren't many of them but which ones you get first tin touch on your appreciation for the grouping. Plus, there are lots of odd compilations yous can find on the market which are OK only I feel they don't serve band well and are mostly for seasoned fans and hardcore collectors.
Given this is a new film, one of the things you lot tin can exercise if you wanted to but stick with the documentary is to get The Velvet Clandestine: A Documentary Movie Past Todd Haynes Soundtrack. Indeed, this ii-CD set offers a handy overview of the group, its origins and accomplishments. There are some nice rarities on information technology including Lou Reed's early band called The Primitives and their wanna-be-a-hit tape that never charted called "Exercise The Ostrich." Plus at that place are some rare mono mixes, live tracks and fun things like that. It is an interesting and useful overview.
If yous call up you might be ready for something a flake deeper, the good news is The Velvet Hole-and-corner's catalog is bachelor pretty much everywhere these days including on many streaming services. Accordingly, following is my list of 5 essential albums to best capeesh The Velvet Hush-hush, presented in order of priority:
#1. Sometimes referred to equally the "banana album," for most people The Velvet Underground's debut is the best starting indicate towards affectionate this band. It is a gloriously powerful listen, start to finish. This is the one with the suggestive peel-able banana embrace designed by Andy Warhol. It contains many classic tunes including "Heroin," "Dominicus Morning" and "I'm Waiting For The Man." It is also the merely Velvets album with Nico on vocals and her contributions are haunting.
#2: The eponymously titled third album The Velvet Underground contains some of Lou Reed's near poignant, powerful and beautifully recorded songs. This is home to "Candy Says," "What Goes On," "Pale Blueish Optics" "Beginning To See The Low-cal" and "I'm Set Free." 'Nuff said.
#3: 1969 Velvet Hush-hush Alive With Lou Reed is a keen concert recording issued in the mid 70s on Mercury Records when Lou was having a hit run of albums on the pop charts. An excellent snapshot of the ring recorded in Dallas and San Francisco, this has some really interesting and very different versions of songs which ended up on Lou's solo albums too every bit the final VU album, Loaded. Admittedly unlike than the early version of the band with John Cale, this incarnation no doubt had many powers evident on these recordings.
#iv: White Low-cal / White Heat is the 2d velvet cloak-and-dagger album and — depending on who y'all talk to — some say it is the band's best. It is certainly their edgiest. If you're a VU newbie, you need to go into this with really open ears because the album is a classic of proto-punk rock noise making (warning audiophiles: distortion ahead!). This album is beautiful and best appreciated played loud. Featuring classics like the epic near-side-long "Sister Ray," the hilariously goulish story-song "The Gift" and the storming title track, this album was all about pushing the ring's energy and recording levels into the red, capturing their essence basically alive in the studio in all of its distorted, overdriven assaultive glory.
#5: This terminal proposition is admittedly a crook as it isn't really a unmarried anthology and it is not on vinyl. But… it is i of the swell CD boxed sets that came out a number of years ago called Pare Slowly And See. In it, you get all the albums including the Velvet Underground's final LP Loaded. The reason I prefer this version of Loaded is that information technology gives you lot the full extended versions of some key songs which had been edited back in 1970 ("New Age" and "Sweetness Jane"). Loaded is one of the keen rock and roll albums of the early 1970s and in some means might be considered Lou Reed's first anthology. Either way, you lot should as well eventually become Loaded on vinyl. Merely, in this boxed set you got all sorts of bonus tracks including outtakes, demos, alternating mixes and other rarities. All in all information technology'southward a fantastic set and you can find it pretty reasonably these days on the used market.
Of class if you are streaming albums these days y'all can discover the VU itemize (including the new picture soundtrack!) on Tidal and Qobuz. Some of these sound quite nice especially when played through a good DAC that tin can evangelize the music your stereo in Hi Res and MQA formats. There are many VU albums to explore, many with bonus tracks and rarities on Tidal (click hither) and Qobuz (click hither) so if you have admission to those services there is much fun awaiting you.
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