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| White Light/White Heat | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Velvet Underground
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
Buy New: $5.38
You Save: $4.60 (46%)
Buy New/Used from $3.39
Avg. Customer Rating:  (164 reviews)
Sales Rank: 6308
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 531251
UPC: 731453125124
EAN: 0073145312512
ASIN: B000002G7E
Release Date: May 7, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 White Light/White Heat - Velvet Underground November 1, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a Velvet Underground/Lou Reed fan from the foggy sixties, I was very pleased to find this "album" still available. It is a perfect example of the raw, edgy, unsophisticated repetitious rock that drew such a loyal base. I attended a VU concert in a small, popular venue that packed us in shoulder to shoulder. VU came out, played out of key, out of tune and seemingly totally stoned, for a very short set. About a third of the audience left disgusted, leaving room, and comfort, for the remaining devotees. Reed came back on stage, scanned the remaining audience, and proceeded to apologize for the bad performance - then said, 'we saw how packed and uncomfortable it was, and played crappy on purpose to make room for our true fans'. They proceeded to play a super long, incredibly tight set, that blew us all away. Superb!
A Key Factor to the Punk Movement October 18, 2007
Something that needs to be be remembered about The Velvet Underground is their willingness to make each of their studio albums different from its predecessor. When you hear The Velvet Underground Nico, you hear different sounds and genres. Examples are the following: Pop-flavored sounds like in "Sunday Morning", Moderate sound, (neither too loud nor too soft) like in "I'm Waiting for the Man" and "There She Goes Again", Slow moving ballads like, "Femme Fetale" and "I'll Be Your Mirror", and finally, songs of intensity and dread, like "Venus in Furs", "Heroin", "All Tomorrow's Parties", and "European Son". With the album, White Light/White Heat, you get extreme loudness and intensity throughout just about all of the songs. In the title track, "White Light/White Heat", you hear a moderately loud tone and tempo, then towards the end, both the tone and tempo get much louder and faster. I'm not so sure what the subject matter of the song is. My guess is that it's about sex and drugs. But you the listener should make your own interpretation of it. In "The Gift", the band plays approximately at a walking tempo, and John Cale narrates a story about not so wonderful love relationship. A man named Waldo Jeffers decides to put himself in a postal package and mail himself to his ex-girlfriend, Marsha Bronson. Ironically, her best friend Sheila Klein takes a knife, plunges it straight into the package, and winds up having Waldo meet his demise. In "Lady Godvia's Operation", Lou Reed depcicts a woman named Godvia who is in tears beacuse she has to undergo surgery. Once the doctor starts to operate, he realizes, he did not give her enough anesthesia, because she wakes up yelling after having his scalpel inserted into her. Towards the end of the song, you hear strange sound effects. My interpretation is that it resembles sleeping and snoring during and operation. However, you should listen to the song yourself and draw your own conclusions. The song, "Here She Comes Now" tells about a woman who has a great form and fits a certain man's visual taste. The instruments are played in a not too loud tone. In the song, "I Heard Her Call My Name", a man laments over the death of a woman who cared about him to the extreme. You hear a fast tempo by Maureen Tucker and abstract guitar solos by Lou and Sterling Morrison. Finally, in the song "Sister Ray", you have different people in different verses being depicted. In each verse, you have certain people, committing certain sins. Most of these sins are either violent, or sexual, or both. Along with that, you have this imaginary nun, Sister Ray, permitting them and discussing with them on how to committ these sins. Once again, draw you own conclusions. The song at a moderate tempo with extreme loudness and distortion from the guitars. During the middle of the song, Mureen starts playing the drums faster and you hear it accelerating more towards the end. John plays effective organ chords and licks thoughout the song. This album has been I huge influence on the punk and heavy metal scene. I think that members were influenced by several tracks in The Velvet Underground Nico. However, most of their style is borrowed from the album, White Light/White Heat. This kind of music is not for everyone. But it is definitely an album that is beyond its time. You can hear its influence in groups like Black Sabbath, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Talking Heads, Judas Priest, Guns 'n' Roses, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Slayer, Nine Inch Nails,etc..
White Light/White Heat August 30, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Velvet Underground-White Light/White Heat *****br /br /br /The Velvet Underground as it has been said tons and tons of times are one of the greatest and most important bands of all time. They recorded three of the greatest albums of all time and a final fourth album while not as classic is a great rock n' roll album non the less. This album showed and really introduced a new side to the band which we didn't really know existed. Lou Reed really took over the band at this point writing almost all of the lyrics, and most of the music. The Velvet Underground became Lou Reeds backup band. Proto-punk was introduced here, jazz was brought mainstream slightly anyway, stripped down rock and roll was starting to make a comeback and it all started with this album. Nico was now out of the band and trying her luck at a successful but short solo career and the band fired Andy Warhol as their manager and producer.br /br /The title track to the album, 'White Light/White Heat' is one of the best songs the band ever recorded, and even managed to inspire David Bowie. I'm sorry but if you manage to inspire David Bowie, the person who inspires everyone else then you have created something special. The song was punk ten years before the whole movement even broke in New York and London. Think about it all the punks came from New York in America at first and The Velvet Underground was New York, talk about important. 'The Gift' is a spoken word track that clocks in at 8:16 and while the music in the back is good the poetry does become lost. It is a great set of lyrics but in Reeds rambling he trails of and mumbles. 'Lady Godivas Operation' is a nice little song. 'Here She Comes Now' would have been a shoe in for the debut album. 'I Heard Her Call My Name' is a great little rocker that really showed what was to come from Reed in the future, especially in his solo career during the 1970's. The album closes with what could be the very best thing Reed ever recorded with or with out The Velvet Underground. 'Sister Ray' which closes the album is an outstanding 17:27, sound outrageous, well it is but not how you think, this is out radius because the song never lets up and never becomes boring. Truly the perfect way to end the album. The lyrics are phenomenal and the performance in general is just amazing.br /br /White Light/White Heat depending o the person is either the greatest album The Velvet Underground ever made or it is quite simply the worst and was a major misstep. Well personally I don't think that White Light/White Heat is the best album the band ever made I think the self titled The Velvet Underground was the bands best album, then this, then the debut Nico, and finally Loaded. This is a very important rock n' roll album that all rock n' roll, punk, and alternative fans alike should own. Essential.
 Are you kidding me????? August 3, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Keep in mind that this album has the hallmarks of a low grade production. Vocals are muffled, guitars sound thin, there's hardly any bass, the drums are nowhere to be foud in the mix, and is ove-rmodulated as all hell. This album was designed to be listened to on an old cheap record player connected to cheap speakers. If your into collecting MFSL gold discs then this should be a nice addition in the "What Were They Thinking" file. Others save your money and just buy the standard aluminum disc.
Seriously Wonderful and Not Half as Scary as Some Would Suggest. May 22, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Most of the comments I've read about the Velvets on this site are surprisingly smart and well done, so check 'em out, particularly with reference to this album of the Velvet's, but I wanted to add a few things. br / br /When I first listened to this record about 16 years ago (at the age of 16) it freaked me out and I put it aside in favor of Loaded and ESPECIALLY the s/t record (their best, by far). Those records are comforting and oddly familiar (even on the first listen)... they're just plain brilliant and they are pretty easy to dig, and to get. But over the years I've come back to WL/WH again and again and it honestly keeps getting better and better and better.br /br /This is the most interesting and the most challenging record in the Velvet's catalog (not Lou Reed's--see Metal Machine Music) and for that reason I beseech you (if you have any interest in music that colors outside of the lines) to really listen to this, hard. It's not a perfect record, not sure it's even a "masterpiece", but it's remarkably f#@%^%G cool and it's fun to get lost in. I think of it as a document regarding a particular time in American musical history, one that gets ever more relevant as bands like Comets on Fire, Wolf Eyes, The Warlocks and so on and so on, head off deeper into the forest that the Velvets, I'd argue, seeded.br /br /And honestly, The Gift alone makes this record worthwhile--that you get Sister Ray and Lady Godiva's Operation as well makes it a no-brainer. br /br /
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