There’ll be a special, 45th anniversary edition of the Velvet Underground‘s self-titled third album to get your hands on next month.
November 24th will see the release of a new, six-disc version of the album totaling 65 tracks with the original LP remastered along side alternate mixes, live recordings from The Matrix in San Francisco and a book with liner notes written by David Fricke. The Guardian reports a previously unreleased album, recorded by the band in the hope of being released from their MGM contract, is also included.
This issue is following similar revisits of ‘White Light/White Heat’ and ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico‘. On the latter, Live4ever’s Early Dawning feature begins:
“Some of the great musical works of our time are canonized for associations; cultural importance and gallant artistic ambition, but rarely are they primarily championed for the strength of their content alone.”
“Truly classic albums are strident works of perfection that balance this strength of composition with an often Herculean influence on what followed, shattering everything that came before and after, of which one such; ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico‘, we are still yet to fully recover from today.”