As a memorial to the death of Lou Reed today, I thought I’d rush this mix and post it immediately. This is a reconstruction of the fabled ‘lost fourth album’ by The Velvet Underground, recorded in-between 1969’s The Velvet Underground and 1970’s Loaded. Although much of this material has been released as the 1985 compilation album VU, the label made no attempt to reproduce that lost fourth album.

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In contrast to VU, this reconstruction attempts to be true to what the actual fourth Velvet Underground might have been like. I also utilized alternate sources of the songs from those contained on VU in order to include the longest edits of the songs as well as the best mastering available. By 1969, we have a completely different Velvet Underground. After recording an album intended to be the polar opposite of White Light/White Heat with John Cale’s more musically apt (albeit less experimental) replacement Doug Yule, the band enjoyed critical success with their The Velvet Underground album, even though commercial success still eluded them.

Ulead Video Studio 15 Full Crack here. Being tired of MGM Records—or perhaps reading the writing on the wall and anticipating a drop from the label due to a lack of commercial potential—the band continued recording a follow-up to The Velvet Underground while touring throughout 1969, biding their time until their management found a better label. This follow-up, once complete, was indefinitely shelved by MGM as The Velvet Underground was no longer on their roster anyways. It remained unheard until the tapes were accidentally found and released as the 1985 and 1986 compilation albums VU and Another View. Recorded at The Record Plant from May to October 1969, the actual band members have differing opinions on what the intent of these recordings was. In interviews, bandleader Lou Reed expressed that the 1969 Record Plant recordings were meant for their fourth album—specifically noting that “We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together” was meant as it’s ironic lead single.

Mo Tucker sides with Reed, in that she was under the impression they were recording a proper forth album, although she confusingly claims that The Record Plant recordings found on VU and Another View were not it. Doug Yule however claimed they were simply professionally-recorded demos for the album that would eventually be Loaded. Star Trac 4400 Manual more. Sterling Morrison offers a completely different explanation: that the recordings were simply “busy work”, a put-on so that MGM would not suspect the band as wanting out of their contract, and that these recordings were never even meant to see the light of day. Who are we to believe, if we believe any of this at all?

While we don’t know what exactly would have been on the “lost forth album”, we do have fourteen finished songs, recorded at a state-of-the-art recording studio from the exact same time period in question. Seems more than a coincidence! While the 1985 album VU also includes the unreleased single “Stephanie Says” and “Temptation Inside Your Heart”, we must resist the temptation inside our hearts (no matter what Stephanie says) to include these two songs as they were most likely not a part of this project. Of the fourteen tracks recorded in 1969, we will exclude the early version of “Rock and Roll”, since it later appears on Loaded; in contrast, although both “Ocean” and “I’m Sticking With You” were re-recorded for Loaded, they did not make that final cut and are thus free-game. With thirteen songs remaining, I simply dropped the two weakest tracks—the unnecessary filler “Ferryboat Bill” and the long and uninteresting “I’m Gonna Move Right In”.

The result is eleven solid tracks that run nearly 40 minutes: the typical format for a Velvet Underground album! Side A begins with Reed’s idea of an ironic and intentionally-inane single designed specifically to ‘give FM radio what it wants’, “We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together”. Although Reed later re-recorded this unreleased song for his 1978 solo album Street Hassle, this is the original Velvet Underground version taken from Another View. Following is the barroom snarl of “One of These Days”; this is the longer version found on the What Goes On boxset, that runs about five seconds longer than the typical VU version. “Andy Chest”, a song Reed re-recorded for is classic 1972 Transformer album, follows and is taken from the CD pressing of VU. Laytime Software on this page.