White Light / White Heat / Here She Comes Now

by The Velvet Underground

White Light / White Heat / Here She Comes Now cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: November 1967
  • Label: Verve
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 4:44
  • Community rating: 4.24/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An uncompromising slab of proto-punk aggression detailing the rush of intravenous amphetamines. John Cale's heavily distorted, relentlessly pounding piano and Lou Reed's overdriven rhythm guitar created a template for noise rock that was completely antithetical to the era's emerging Summer of Love aesthetic.

Genres

Descriptors: drugs, lo-fi, noisy, hedonism, distorted

Tracklist

  1. White Light/White Heat (2:44)
  2. Here She Comes Now (2:00)

Credits

  • The Velvet Underground - primary artist
  • Lou Reed - written-by
  • John Cale - written-by
  • Sterling Morrison - written-by

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