VELVET UNDERGROUND GOLDEN ARCHIVE SERIIES RARE ORIG '70 MGM STEREO LP BEAUTIFUL

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·       VELVET UNDERGROUND - GOLDEN ARCHIVE SERIES - MEGA-RARE ORIGINAL 1970 MGM STEREO LP GAS-131

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       ORIGINAL GOLD AND TURQUOISE MGM RECORDS LABEL WITH THE 'ROARRING LION" MGM LOGO ON TOP

·       BELIEVED TO BE THE WEST COAST PRESSING.

·       The only anthology of the Velvet Underground issued while the band was still in existence!!!

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       THICK CARDBOARD COVER. AMERICAN STYLE.

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       THE RECORD HAS A DATE STAMP OF 8-18-1970 HAND-ETCHED IN THE TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX)

·       This album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other way, manner or format.

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MGM Records never seemed to know just what to make of the Velvet Underground. In 1967 and 1968 the pioneering New York band released two remarkable but poor-selling albums for MGM's Verve subsidiary, and in 1969 they were shuffled over to the main label, which lost interest after their more accessible third LP failed to make it on radio. MGM dropped the Velvets, and the group released its final studio album, 1970's Loaded, for the Atlantic-backed Cotillion label. Given that the very clean-cut Cowsills were MGM's cash cow act in the late '60s, it's no wonder Lou Reed's druggy and decadent visions were a bit much for the company. But when Loaded began earning positive press and a smattering of radio play, MGM saw a chance to finally make back a bit of their investment, and in the summer of 1970 they released Golden Archive Series (in fact, not. Golden Archive Series was released three months prior to Loaded -- op.ed.), part of a series of similarly packed compilations, which became the first VU "greatest-hits" album. (Other artists featured in the Golden Archive Series included Janis Ian, Wayne Newton, Tim Hardin, Connie Francis, Ian & Sylvia, and of course the Cowsills.) Given that Golden Archive Series was a cut-rate reissue tossed out with about three dozen similar albums at the same time, it's a welcome surprise that it's a pretty good sampler of the Velvet Underground's tenure with Verve/MGM. The album leans to the group's gentler side, as embodied by songs like "Sunday Morning," "Candy Says," and "Here She Comes Now," but "Heroin" and "White Light/White Heat" are on hand to represent their more challenging work, and the LP offers up fine tunes from all three MGM-controlled albums, making it a decent introductory sampler. MGM would release a few other VU collections (including the laziest compilation ever, 1974's Archetypes, which simply packaged White Light/White Heat in a new sleeve) before Polygram gained control of MGM's catalog and the floodgates truly opened. But Golden Archive Series was not just MGM's first stab at reexamining the Velvet Underground's first three albums, it was a fine collection that demonstrated just how diverse and listenable the band could really be, a notion that wasn't exactly conventional wisdom at the time.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY MARK DEMING, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

For its extraordinary contribution to the modern music, superb production, craftsmanship, fine musicianship, revolutionary significance and influence it exerted on numerous generations of musicians, writers and general public, or for some other innate quality, this album was voted one of top-200 albums of all time in one of the largest poll of critics, music reviewers, professionals and producers ever organized: the poll, which was conducted by Paul Gambaccini, legendary BBC Radio A&R man, surveyed more than 50 top music professionals (including Roy Carr, Jonathan Cott, Robert Christgau, Cameron Crowe, Chet Flippo, Ben Fong-Torres, Charlie Gillett, Greil Marcus, Murray the K., Lenny Kaye, Bruce Morrow (a/k/a "Cousin Brucie"), Tim Rice (of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita" fame), Lisa Robinson, Robert Shelton (who wrote liner notes for Bob Dylan's first album), Ed Ward, Joel Whitburn, Pete Wingfield, etc.). For more details, see: "Critics Choice: Top-200 albums" compiled by Paul Gambaccini, Omnibus Press, Library of Congress Catalog No.7855565 (or ►click here  for the complete album listing)

Track listing: Candy Says - Sunday Morning - Femme Fatale - White Light/White Heat - Jesus - Heroin - Beginning to see the light - I'm set free - Here she comes now - Afterhours.

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               THE RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL  AS  NEAR MINT. Some VERY LIGHT AND SUPERFICIAL abrasions – mostly sleeve scuffs -  are (barely) visible, but are probably inaudible,  and do not affect visual integrity or beauty of the vinyl. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)          The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(c)           Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·                               THE COVER

THE COVER IS ABOUT VERY GOOD+(+)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has a small cutout corner visible

-        Cover has some light ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 4 (front side) and 3 (back side)

-        Back cover has circular tarnish (grayish, dust-covered sections, which closely follow the contour of the record),  probably caused by friction or by rubbing against other covers during the storage. The tarnish is similar in appearance to a common ring wear, but, UNLIKE ring wear, these grayish areas may be possible to clean up with a minor effort and with a right cleansing solution.

-        Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on back side, apparently from aging.

-        Cover has a few tiny wrinkles (bubbles in paper slick) along the spine

-        Minor shelf wear noted on the seams (nothing significant)

-        Cover has a partially split bottom seam (less than 1 inch / 2.5 centimeters)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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