| Product Code: | 2351 027 |
| Artist: | Velvet Underground The |
| Origin: | New Zealand |
| Label: | MGM Records (1971) |
| Format: | LP |
| Availability: | Enquire Now |
| Condition: |
Cover: VG+
Record: NM (M-)
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| Genre: | Pop , Rock U |
Extremely rare smart NZ pressed clean vinyl with a nice crisp cover.
White Light/White Heat is the second studio album by American rock band the Velvet Underground, released in 1968 by record label Verve. It was the band's last studio recording of new material with bassist and founding member John Cale.
In 2003, the album was placed number 293 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The album was recorded in just two days, and with a noticeably different style than The Velvet Underground & Nico. John Cale described White Light/White Heat as "a very rabid record... The first one had some gentility, some beauty. The second one was consciously anti-beauty."[citation needed] Sterling Morrison said: "We were all pulling in the same direction. We may have been dragging each other off a cliff, but we were all definitely going in the same direction. In the White Light/White Heat era, our lives were chaos. That's what's reflected in the record." During the recording of "Sister Ray", producer Tom Wilson reportedly left the studio rather than endure the cacophony
