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The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed

1989 greatest hits album by The Velvet Underground

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.

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).
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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).

The record tried to capitalise on the new public awareness of Lou Reed,[citation needed] who had issued his critically acclaimed comeback album New York earlier that year. Accordingly, the record contains only songs written by Reed alone.

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
  • Nico – vocals on "Femme Fatale", "I'll Be Your Mirror" and "All Tomorrow's Parties"
  • Adrian Barber – drums on "Sweet Jane"
Technical staff

References

  1. [1]
    Ruhlmann, William. The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed at AllMusic
  2. [2]
    Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
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