VELVET UNDERGROUND WHITE LIGHT LP UK ORIG RARE PSYCH

	£		193
	$		256

Item :

VELVET UNDERGROUND ~ WHITE LIGHT WHITE HEAT LP

Original 1968 U.K. first issue mono pressing released on the Verve Records label VLP 9201. 

Description :

Very rare and hard to find Velvet's classic. Features the legendary "skull" laminated sleeve exclusive to the first pressings.

Following their debut album Velvet Underground & Nico the latter moved on and the band severed its relationship with Andy Warhol. Recording began on their second album in September 1967, White Light/White Heat, with Tom Wilson as producer.

The Velvet Underground performed live often, and their performances became louder, harsher and often featured extended improvisations. John Cale reports that at about this time the Velvet Underground was one of the first groups to receive an endorsement from Vox. The company pioneered a number of special effects, which the Velvet Underground utilized on the album.

Sterling Morrison offered the following input regarding the recording:

There was fantastic leakage 'cause everyone was playing so loud and we had so much electronic junk with us in the studio, all these fuzzers and compressors. Gary Kellgren, who is ultra-competent, told us repeatedly: "You can't do it, all the needles are on red." and we reacted as we always reacted: "Look, we don't know what goes on in there and we don't want to hear about it. Just do the best you can." And so the album is fuzzy, there's all that white noise.... we wanted to do something electronic and energetic. We had the energy and the electronics, but we didn't know it couldn't be recorded.... what we were trying to do was really fry the tracks.

The recording was raw and oversaturated. Cale has stated that while the debut had some moments of fragility and beauty, White Light/White Heat was "consciously anti-beauty." The title track and first song starts things off with John Cale pounding on the piano like Jerry Lee Lewis. The eerie, hallucinatory "Lady Godiva’s Operation" remains Lou Reed’s favourite track on the album. Despite the dominance of noisefests like "Sister Ray" and "I Heard Her Call My Name," there was room for the darkly comic "The Gift," a short story written by Reed and narrated by Cale in his deadpan Welsh accent.

The album was released on January 30, 1968, entering the Billboard Top 200 chart for two weeks, at number 199.

Condition ~ Vinyl :

The vinyl is in stunning NEAR MINT condition with just the odd very light surface hairline. 

Lovely copy that plays superbly throughout.

Condition ~ Sleeve :

The laminated flip-back "skull" sleeve is in VG++ condition showing only light creasing and a small area of scuffing on the rear towards the top edge. No splits or writing. 

Condition ~ Labels :

Both labels are nice and clean showing only light spindle wear. No writing.

Matrix Numbers :

Side one : V 5046 A-1

Side two : V 5046 B-1 

Miscellaneous :

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