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Bela Bartok: The Wooden Prince/The Miraculous Mandarin
Concertos for Violin Strings & Harpsichord 2
Music: Voodoo [CD-single] [Import]
Don't Look the Other Way [CD-single] [Import]
Extreme Ways [CD-single] [Import]
Draw the Line [Import] [Original recording remastered]
Church of the Little Black Dog
Amazon.com essential recording
This comprehensive five-disc retrospective of the Velvet Underground chronicles the band from its earliest demo tapes, recorded in 1965, to Lou Reed's final work with band, in 1970. At their notorious peak, Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Mo Tucker epitomized the sound of intellectual art punks being spontaneously creative in Andy Warhol's Manhattan. Rock & roll has never been the same since Reed's gutter-rock observations and Cale's cool, droning electric viola blanketing the band's mysterious three-chord innovations. It's all here: loads of feedback, classic songwriting, and Reed's transformation from Dylan imitator to sonic-rock auteur. With previously unreleased gems, live performances, and other oddities, this is everything you wanted to know about the Velvets but were afraid to ask. --Mitch Myers