1969 Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed

by The Velvet Underground

1969 Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1974
  • Label: Mercury
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:42:23
  • Community rating: 4.05/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Compiled from multiple Texas and California gigs in late 1969, this posthumous double-live release finally showcased the band's softer, remarkably conversational live dynamic to a wider audience. The stripped-down performances emphasize Lou Reed's nuanced, deeply poetic songwriting and the group's surprisingly gentle, hypnotic vocal harmonies.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, lo-fi, drugs, hedonism, noisy

Tracklist

  1. Waiting For My Man - Live At End Of Cole Avenue, Dallas, TX / 1969 (7:00)
  2. Lisa Says - Live At The Matrix, San Francisco, CA / 1969 (5:51)
  3. What Goes On - Live At The Matrix, San Francisco, CA / 1969 (8:51)
  4. Sweet Jane - Live At The Matrix, San Francisco, CA / 1969 (3:57)
  5. We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together - Live At The Matrix, San Francisco, CA / 1969 (3:13)
  6. Femme Fatale - Live At End Of Cole Avenue, Dallas, TX / 1969 (3:04)
  7. New Age - Live At The Matrix, San Francisco, CA / 1969 (6:36)
  8. Rock And Roll - Live At The Matrix, San Francisco, CA / 1969 (6:03)
  9. Beginning To See The Light - Live At The Matrix, San Francisco, CA / 1969 (5:26)
  10. Ocean - Live At The Matrix, San Francisco, CA / 1969 (10:51)
  11. Pale Blue Eyes - Live At End Of Cole Avenue, Dallas, TX / 1969 (5:51)
  12. Heroin - Live At The Matrix, San Francisco, CA / 1969 (9:44)
  13. Some Kinda Love - Live At End Of Cole Avenue, Dallas, TX / 1969 (4:47)
  14. Over You - Live At The Matrix, San Francisco, CA / 1969 (2:16)
  15. Sweet Bonnie Brown / It's Just Too Much - Live At The Matrix, San Francisco, CA / 1969 (7:54)
  16. White Light White Heat - Live At The Matrix, San Francisco, CA / 1969 (8:32)
  17. I'll Be Your Mirror - Live At End Of Cole Avenue, Dallas, TX / 1969 (2:18)

Credits

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