Barnes Dream Pop Dream Syndicate Dreams So Real Dressy Bessy Drive-By Truckers Drug Cabin Ducks Ltd. Hell, truth be told, I listen to this far more often than the band's first two records.Д¦ths 70s Obscurities A Girl Called Eddy Action Adrian Belew Aerovons Aguaturbia Aimee Mann Alarm Alastair Riddell Alicia Witt Alvvays Amazing Ambient Ambulance LTD America American Dream Americana Amps Amy Rigby Andy Summers Anna Burch Anthony Phillips Any Trouble Apple Apples In Stereo Archies Area Arms of Someone New Asteroid #4 B-52's Bad Moves Bad Religion Badfinger Band of Horses Bangles Barbara Manning Baroque Pop Bats Be-Bop Deluxe Beach Boys Beach Slang Beachwood Sparks Beagle Hat Bears Beat Farmers Beat Of The Earth Beatles Beatlesque Bee Gees Ben Folds Five Ben Lee Ben Vaughn Best Coast Beths Bettie Serveert Beulah Big Audio Dynamite Big Star Billy Joel Bishop Allen Bjork Black Nasty Black Watch Blake Babies Blanketman Bleached Blossom Toes Blue Blue Cartoon Blues Bo Burnham Bob Dylan Bob Mould Bongos Bonny Doon Book Of Love Bootlegs Breeders Brewer & Shipley Brian Eno Brian Jonestown Massacre Brian Protheroe Brinsley Schwarz British Invasion Britpop Bruce Springsteen Bubblegum Buffalo Springfield Built To Spill Buzzcocks Byrds Camera Obscura Camper Van Beethoven Captain Beefheart Captain Beyond Captain Sensible Caravan Carpenters Cars Cat Stevens Charlatans Charly Bliss Cheap Trick Chesterfield Kings Children's Music Chills Chris Bell Chris Forsyth Chris Spedding Christmas Music Circles Around The Sun Clash Classic Rock Classical Music Clean Cleaners From Venus Cliff Hillis Close Lobsters Cocteau Twins Colleen Green College Radio Compilations Connections Connells Continental Drifters Cosmic Rough Riders Cotton Mather Courtney Barnett Creeper Lagoon CSNY Culpeper's Orchard Cure Curt Boettcher Damned Dan Lyons Dandy Warhols Daniel Johnston Danny & Dusty Darling Buds Dave Depper Dave Edmunds David Bowie David Crosby David Gilmour dB's Dead Milkmen Death Cab For Cutie Devo Died Pretty DIIV Dire Straits DM3 Dom Mariani Doors Doug Tuttle Dr. Several of the individual songs are among the band's best (I'm partial to 'She's My Best Friend' and 'Stephanie Says' in particular), while as a whole it sounds like a perfectly cohesive album that would have worked perfectly as either a predecessor or follow-up to Velvet Underground.

As a solid hour of music, I think it makes for a fifth proper Velvets album that is as much a part of the band's canon as the original releases. While VU in its original, belated incarnation is pretty great as is, I ended up building my own version, adding in a few additional tunes from VU and the later box sets.

A few of the tunes include original member John Cale, but most were recorded after he was replaced by Yule and intended as a follow-up to the Velvet Underground album. They were also later repackaged (with some additional tracks and alternative versions) on box sets and deluxe reissues of White Light and Velvet Underground. Most of these outtakes finally saw official light of day on 1985's VU collection (with a few holdovers on the following year's Another View). But the band also had another album's worth of material at least as worthy of attention which sat in the vaults for years, largely unheard (aside from bootlegs or the inferior reworked versions that showed up on Lou Reed solo albums). During their brief tenure, the Velvet Underground released 4 proper studio albums, each fantastic in a different way (the experimental, schizophrenic blend of dark chaos and pop on the debut album with Nico the unleashed sonic frenzy of White Light/White Heat the gentle beauty of the self-titled third the bid for a more classic-rock-friendly traditional rock sound on Loaded) (and, no, we're not including the comically mediocre yet not without merit Doug Yule solo album slapped with a Velvet Underground credit).

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