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The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed






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There are Velvet Underground compilation albums with similar titles: The Best of The Velvet Underground: The Millennium Collection (2000) and The Very Best of The Velvet Underground (2003).
The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed
Greatest hits album by
ReleasedOctober 1989 (1989-10)
Recorded1966–1970, New York City and Hollywood, United States
GenreArt rock, proto-punk
Length61:43
LanguageEnglish
LabelVerve
ProducerVarious
The Velvet Underground chronology
Squeeze
(1973)
The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]

The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed is a compilation albumbyThe Velvet Underground. It was released in October 1989 by Verve Records.

The Best of The Velvet Underground concludes the mid-1980s re-issue series by Verve Records of their Velvet Underground material (the first three albums plus VU and Another View).

The record tried to capitalise on the new public awareness of Lou Reed,[citation needed] who had issued his critically acclaimed comeback album New York earlier that year. Accordingly, the record contains only songs written by Reed alone.

Track listing[edit]

All tracks were written by Lou Reed.

Side one
  1. "I'm Waiting for the Man"
  2. "Femme Fatale"
  3. "Run Run Run"
  4. "Heroin"
  5. "All Tomorrow's Parties"
  6. "I'll Be Your Mirror"
  7. "White Light/White Heat"
  8. "Stephanie Says"

Tracks 1–6 taken from The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967); Track 7 taken from White Light/White Heat (1968); Track 8 taken from VU (1985).

Side two
  1. "What Goes On"
  2. "Beginning to See the Light"
  3. "Pale Blue Eyes"
  4. "I Can't Stand It"
  5. "Lisa Says"
  6. "Sweet Jane"
  7. "Rock and Roll"

Tracks 1–3 taken from The Velvet Underground (1969); Tracks 4–5 also taken from VU; Tracks 6–7 taken from Loaded (1970).

Personnel[edit]

The Velvet Underground
Additional musicians
Technical staff

References[edit]

  • ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.

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