VELVET UNDERGROUND What Goes On 3 CD BOX SET *rare*

 THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - WHAT GOES ON 3 cd box set. 

Cd's are in excellent condition.  The box is in good condition, but the booklet, which was staples to the box, has come loose.  Not that big of a deal, though, and is complete.  It was bad design to staple the booklet into the box, the set was well cared for, I assure you.

This is a great, hard to find release from the VU.  Australian import . Released by Raven Records 1993.

Before the full resources of Polydor were marshaled behind the creation of the Peel Slowly and See box set, this three-disc Australian import was the cat's pajamas among Velvet Underground anthologies, rounding up such then-legendary oddities as the mono mix of the band's first album, the so-called "closet" mix of their third, plus highlights from both the band's regular album catalog and the manifold rarities that drift around the collectors' market. Despite the fact that all are spoken-word cuts, it is the latter that remain What Goes On?'s greatest attraction -- at least for devotees. Less-convinced ears will probably be less impressed. The opening cut, "Andy Warhol Presents...," is, in fact, Warhol's own original announcement regarding the new band he was "sponsoring," taken from a WNET interview in February 1966. From there, listeners drift through the four minutes of chatter that appeared as a "soundpage" flexi-disc within the long-out-of-print book Andy Warhol's Index, eavesdrop on a conversation between Lou Reed and producer Tom Wilson taken from the 1968 MGM promotional Music Factory #3 album, and wrap it all up with excerpts from a 1990 interview discussing the band's reunion that was previously available only on a flexi-disc free with the What Goes On fanzine. Elsewhere, there is nothing here that either the box set or Rhino's "ultimate edition" of Loaded would not later make available, but that, of course, was a circumstance that Raven could never have predicted. As of 1993, this well-packaged box set had no peers and few fears of ever being usurped, and it's a sign of just how sensibly it was compiled that anybody seeking a simple best-of the band, one that goes beyond the four or five tracks that everyone thinks of as the "classics," would still be better off seeking this collection out than leaping into any more complete package.

Tracks

Title Composer Time     1   Andy Warhol Presents Reed :53     2   Extemporisation (Melody Laughter?) Cale, Morrison, Nico, Reed ... 8:32 Composed by: Cale, Morrison, Nico, Reed, Tucker   3   Heroin Reed 7:09   4   I'm Waiting for the Man Reed 4:43   5   Sunday Morning Cale, Reed 2:54     6   I'll Be Your Mirror Reed 2:54     7   Run Run Run Reed 4:23   8   All Tomorrow's Parties Reed 5:57   9   Venus in Furs Reed 5:08   10   Femme Fatale Reed 2:37     11   It Was a Pleasure Then Cale, Nico, Reed 8:02     12   From the Music Factory Reed 3:58 13   White Light/White Heat Reed 2:45     14   Lady Godiva's Operation Reed 4:54   15   I Heard Her Call My Name Reed 4:38     16     4:25 Composed by: Performed by: Lou Reed, Nico, John Cale   17   Sister Ray Cale, Morrison, Reed, Tucker 17:27   18   Here She Comes Now Cale, Morrison, Reed, Tucker 1:58     19   Guess I'm Falling in Love Cale, Morrison, Reed, Tucker 3:51     20   Stephanie Says Reed 2:50     21   Hey Mr. Rain [Version 2] Cale, Morrison, Reed, Tucker 5:27   22   Candy Says [Alternate Mix] Reed 4:05   23   Some Kinda Love [alternate take] Reed 3:40 24   Pale Blue Eyes [Alternate Mix] Reed 5:42     25   Beginning to See the Light [Alternate Mix] Reed 4:47     26   I'm Set Free [Alternate Mix] Reed 4:04   27   The Murder Mystery [Alternate Mix] Reed 8:57   28   Foggy Notion Morrison, Reed, Tucker, Weiss ... 6:51 Composed by: Morrison, Reed, Tucker, Weiss, Yule     29   I Can't Stand It Reed 3:23   30   Ocean Reed 5:12     31   One of These Days Reed 3:57     32   Introductions :48     33   Too Much Reed 3:51 34   Sweet Jane [Original Version] Reed 4:01   35   New Age [Original Version] Reed 8:34     36   Over You Reed 2:18   37   What Goes On Reed 8:48     38   After Hours Reed 2:51   39   I'm Sticking With You Reed 2:39     40   Train Round the Bend Reed 3:15     41   Head Held High Reed 2:52     42   Who Loves the Sun Reed 2:44 43   Rock & Roll Reed 4:37     44   Ride into the Sun [Demo, from Acetate, With Vocal] Cale, Morrison, Reed, Tucker 3:00     45   After Hours Reed 2:42     46   No More Re-Unions :27     47   Thanks Andy Warhol

(allmusic.com)

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