The Velvet Underground - Ultra Rare Trax Volumes 1 - 4

Tracklist:

CD1:
01 - Sister Ray
02 - Who loves the Sun
03 - Beginning to See the Light
04 - Some Kinda Love
05 - Who Loves the Sun
06 - I Found a Reason
07 - Walk and Talk
08 - Ride Into the Sun
09 - Ride Into the Sun
10 - It's Just Too Much
11 - Oh Mickey
12 - radio ad.

CD2:
01 - I Love You
02 - Wild Child
03 - Ride Into the Sun
04 - Lisa Says
05 - She's My Best Friend
06 - Hanging 'Round
07 - Walk On the Wild Side
08 - kid
09 - What Goes On
10 - Sheltered Life
11 - Sheltered Life
12 - Here She Comes Now
13 - Here She Comes Now
14 - Temptation Inside Your Heart
15 - I'm Gonna Move Right In
16 - Rock And Roll
17 - Andy's Chest
18 - index

CD3:
01 - Andy Warhol speaks
02 - Venus In Furs
03 - Heroin
04 - Guess I'm Falling In Love
05 - Heroin
06 - Venus In Furs
07 - White Light Whit Heat
08 - Jesus

CD4:
01 - radio ad.
02 - What Goes On
03 - Jesus
04 - All Tomorrow's Parties
05 - These Days
06 - I'll Keep It With Mine
07 - Little Sister
08 - All Tomorrow's Parties
09 - I'll Be Your Mirror
10 - Femme Fatale
11 - I'll Keep It With Mine
12 - Jessie James
13 - Little Queenie
14 - Little Sister
15 - All Tomorrow's Parties
16 - Somebody
17 - Child's Christmas in Wales
18 - Chelsea Girls

Download It Here

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Thanks Camden Falcon

The Velvet Underground: Foggy Notion

Listen/Download:
"Foggy Notion"
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From Dead Flowers to SXSW

Here's a cool development: Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth fame played the 'new' Velvet Underground song, "I'm Not a Young Man Anymore" at South by Southwest. The song was originally brought to wider attention on this very blog in February. You have to love technology.

Listen to "I'm Not a Young Man Anymore":

[Download the MP3 Here]
[See the Original VU 'Live at the Gymnasium' Post]
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Lou Reed, Nico, and John Cale: Live at Le Bataclan '72

With the enormous interest generated by the Velvet Underground bootleg I posted a few weeks ago, "Live at the Gymnasium 1967" (Link), I thought I would post another show. This one isn't quite as rare, but it's just as interesting. In it, Lou Reed, John Cale, and Nico have a semi-reunion and play VU songs alongside their own solo work. You could kind of say it's the VU "unplugged". Here's the tracklist:

1 I'm Waiting for the Man
2 Berlin
3 The Black Angel's Death Song (Reed, Cale)
4 Wild Child
5 Heroin
6 Ghost Story (Cale)
7 The Biggest, Loudest, Hairiest Group of All (Cale)
8 Empty Bottles (Cale)
9 Femme Fatale
10 No One Is There (Nico)
11 Frozen Warnings (Nico)
12 Janitor of Lunacy (Nico)
13 I'll Be Your Mirror
14 All Tomorrow's Parties (encore)

[Download the whole show]

Listen to "Heroin":

[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Wiki]

Waiting for the Man:


Berlin:

The Velvet Underground: Live at the Gymnasium, NYC

Furious Wank writes on the Libertines Forum:

The Gymnasium, NYC

I'm not into VU bootlegs really, but apparently this is a big deal. It's the ONLY available live stuff from 1967 and has only become available in literally the last two days. Recorded just after the release of The Velvet Underground And Nico and featuring the debut performance of Sister Ray (19 mins long) and the *previously unheard* song I'm Not A Young Man Any More. That's right, A NEW VELVET UNDERGROUND SONG. And it's fucking good too. This version of Sister Ray absolutely shreds and is what the Velvet Underground are all about.

I'm just listening now and i can already say that, in addition to the historical importance of these five recordings, this thing rocks like a motherfucker.

DOWNLOAD IT NOW:

1. I'm Not A Young Man Anymore (previously unheard VU song)
2. Guess I'm Falling In Love
3. I'm Waiting For The Man
4. Run Run Run
5. Sister Ray (debut live performance)

(feel free to pass this link around all you like - i think a lot of people are gonna be excited to hear this)

Repost/Update 8/7/08: Since there's still a lot of traffic to this post, I've put up individual mp3s of all the tracks for your listening pleasure. Enjoy.

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Movie Music: "The Royal Tenenbaums"The Velvet Underground: Stephanie Says

Listen:

[Download the MP3 Here]
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[Movie Wiki]