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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Venus in Furs - (previously unreleased, demo)
2. Prominent Men - (previously unreleased, demo)
3. Heroin - (previously unreleased, demo)
4. I'm Waiting For the Man - (previously unreleased, demo)
5. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams - (previously unreleased, demo)
6. All Tomorrow's Parties - (previously unreleased, demo)
DISC 2:
1. All Tomorrow's Parties - (mono single version)
2. Sunday Morning
3. I'm Waiting For the Man
4. Femme Fatale
5. Venus in Furs
6. Run Run Run
7. All Tomorrow's Parties
8. Heroin
9. There She Goes Again
10. I'll Be Your Mirror
11. Black Angel's Death Song, The
12. European Son
13. Melody Laughter - (previously unreleased)
14. It Was a Pleasure Then
15. Chelsea Girls
DISC 3:
1. There Is No Reason - (previously unreleased, demo)
2. Sheltered Life - (previously unreleased, demo)
3. It's All Right (The Way That You Live) - (previously unreleased, demo)
4. I'm Not Too Sorry (Now That You're Gone) - (previously unreleased, demo)
5. Here She Comes Now - (previously unreleased, demo)
6. Guess I'm Falling in Love - (previously unreleased)
7. Booker T. - (previously unreleased)
8. White Light/White Heat
9. Gift, The
10. Lady Godiva's Operation
11. Here She Comes Now
12. I Heard Her Call My Name
13. Sister Ray
14. Stephanie Says
15. Temptation Inside Your Heart
16. Hey Mr. Rain (Version One)
DISC 4:
1. What Goes On - (previously unreleased)
2. Candy Says - (closet mix)
3. What Goes On - (closet mix)
4. Some Kinda Love - (closet mix)
5. Pale Blue Eyes - (closet mix)
6. Jesus - (closet mix)
7. Beginning to See the Light - (closet mix)
8. I'm Set Free - (closet mix)
9. That's the Story of My Life - (closet mix)
10. Murder Mystery, The - (closet mix)
11. After Hours - (closet mix)
12. Foggy Notion
13. I Can't Stand It
14. I'm Sticking With You
15. One of These Days
16. Lisa Says
17. It's Just Too Much - (previously unreleased)
18. Countess From Hong Kong - (previously unreleased, demo)
DISC 5:
1. Who Loves the Sun
2. Sweet Jane - (previously unreleased, full length version)
3. Rock and Roll
4. Cool It Down
5. New Age - (previously unreleased, full length version)
6. Head Held High
7. Lonesome Cowboy Bill
8. I Found a Reason
9. Train Round the Bend
10. Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
11. Satellite of Love - (previously unreleased)
12. Walk and Talk - (previously unreleased)
13. Oh Gin - (previously unreleased)
14. Sad Song - (previously unreleased)
15. Ocean - (previously unreleased)
16. Ride Into the Sun - (previously unreleased)
17. Some Kinda Love - (previously unreleased)
18. I'll Be Your Mirror
19. I Love You - (previously unreleased)
| Details | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
PEEL SLOWLY AND SEE includes complete and digitally remastered versions of all four of the band's studio albums, 25 previously unreleased tracks and an 88-page booklet.
Velvet Underground: Lou Reed (vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano); John Cale (vocals, acoustic & electric violas, sarinda, piano, organ, celeste, bass); Doug Yule (vocals, guitar, piano, organ, bass); Sterling Morrison (vocals, guitar, bass); Maureen "Moe" Tucker (vocals, percussion); Billy Yule (drums).
Additional personnel: Nico (vocals).
Producers: Andy Warhol, Tom Wilson, The Velvet Underground, Geoffrey Haslam, Shel Kagen
Compilation Producer: Bill Levenson.
Engineers include: Omi Haden, Norman Dolph, John Licata.
Recorded between July 1965 and August 23, 1970. Includes liner notes by David Fricke.
Released some thirty years after the band first emerged from the streets of New York City, PEEL SLOWLY AND SEE is the definitive documentary of the Velvet Underground, undeniably one of the most influential bands of the 1960s. Its five discs weave in and out of studio material, live nuggets and some unreleased songs that place the band's innovations and evolution within a career-long context, and are sure to make even the surliest VU completist smile.
Perhaps what is most surprising about PEEL SLOWLY is the earliest, pre-Maureen Tucker material. For the multiple demos of "Venus In Furs," John Cale sings over a sparse acoustic guitar, but his delicate pronunciation and Reed's coarse phrasing are less noticeable than Tucker's conspicious absence. Without her deliberate pounding VU was a thoroughly different band. Also of interest is the insight we get into Reed's studio demeanor. Through a number of excrutiating demo takes of "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams," Reed's impatience and domineering attitude become obvious--it was his show from the beginning.
By the second disc, the band we know and love begins to take on a familiar shape. Tucker's human metronome qualities ricochet off Cale's grating electric viola sounds, and the band sounds super-charged, ready to take on the world. Whereas on the demos Reed's sing-song qualities came across as a New York-y Bob Dylan (complete with harmonica), by the time of the first album Reed is all menace, with no acoustic guitar or harmonica to serve as a buffer. The chugging rhythms spurt out like strangled blues, and on moments like "All Tomorrow's Parties" and "Venus In Furs," the remastered sound quality is unreal--it's as if one has never heard these songs before. Also of interest to Velvet Underground fanatics are the unabridged versions of the LOADED sessions. Songs like "Sweet Jane" are extended to their true length (some thirty seconds were lobbed off in the final mix), making Reed and Morrison's guitar phrasing that much more eloquent.
Industry Reviews
Included in Rolling Stone's Essential Recordings of the 90's.
Rolling Stone (05/13/1999)
Ranked #7 on NME's `Compilations Of The Year' list for 1995.
...in splendid isolation, it not only eclipses the competition, it raises itself to heights which few (if any) rock boxes have ever attained...
Alternative Press (12/01/1995)
...The meat of the package is breathtaking....No other band wrote about the things they did in the '60s,...no other band wore black or took the piss so royally. They changed people's attitudes towards music forever and wrote some fantastic songs about bad things in the process...
NME (09/23/1995)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...All of this fantastic music...very often sheer genius....mind-boggling....The Velvet Underground changed people's values about music...
Q (10/01/1995)
...corroborates the notion that the Velvets were big-hearted art fucks perceptive enough to trust the logic of blue-collar ethics....Heard with modern ears, their grizzled guitar extrapolations didn't strive for escapism, they burrowed into and boldly italicized the most interesting cultural anomalies of the day....Value? Immeasurable...
Musician (11/01/1995)
9 - Near Perfect - ...The demo makes a valuable and even touching point about this great band....they started out as fakes, which puts them in good rock'n'roll company--from the Stones to Dylan himself. Modern acolytes with nothing to lose but their pretensions should take heart from knowing that, in its recklessly early days, even the Velvet Underground wasn't the Velvet Underground...
Spin (11/01/1995)
5 Stars - Classic - PEEL...offers fresh perspectives and some hidden truths, even for longtime Velvets fans...their sonic minimalistic aesthetic...their all-around grasp of rock's roots, vocabulary and resources...[makes this] some of the most inspirational and ultimately timeless music you'll ever hear...
Rolling Stone (11/30/1995)
Ranked #1 on the Reissues list of Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.
Village Voice (02/20/1996)
...The meat of the package is breathtaking....No other band wrote about the things they did in the '60s,...no other band wore black or took the piss so royally. They changed people's attitudes towards music forever and wrote some fantastic songs about bad things in the process...
NME (09/23/1995)
9 - Near Perfect - ...The demo makes a valuable and even touching point about this great band....they started out as fakes, which puts them in good rock'n'roll company--from the Stones to Dylan himself. Modern acolytes with nothing to lose but their pretensions should take heart from knowing that, in its recklessly early days, even the Velvet Underground wasn't the Velvet Underground...
Spin (11/01/1995)
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