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
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Greatest hits album by
ReleasedOctober 10, 1989 [1]
Recorded1966–1970, New York City and Hollywood, United States
Genre Art rock, proto-punk
Length61:43
Language English
Label Verve
Producer Various
The Velvet Underground chronology
Squeeze
(1973)
The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed
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The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed is a compilation album by The Velvet Underground. It was released in October 1989 by Verve Records.

Contents

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 ).

Track listing

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

The Velvet Underground
Additional musicians
Technical staff

References

  1. "Upcoming Releases". CMJ New Music Report. October 6, 1989. p. 64.
  2. Ruhlmann, William. The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed at AllMusic
  3. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.