The Velvet Underground's classic self-titled third album, released in March 1969, by MGM, was a departure from the band's first two albums in more ways than one. Gone was co-founding member John Cale, and in his place was a 21-year-old with Long Island roots named Doug Yule, who stepped right in. The record was also a stylistic leap, as Lou Reed describes it in Rolling Stone editor David Fricke's liner notes, 'I thought we had to demonstrate the other side of us. Fricke calls it 'a stunning turnaround… 10 tracks of mostly warm, explicit sympathy and optimism, expressed with melodic clarity, set in gleaming double-guitar jangle and near-whispered balladry. Or as the late rock critic Lester Bangs put it, 'How do you define a group like this, who moved from 'Heroin' to 'Jesus' in two short years?' Celebrating its enduring longevity, Polydor/Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) will releases The Velvet Underground - 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition. This 64-track, six-CD package is housed in a case-bound book and features several different mixes including the remastered stereo mix by MGM house engineer Luis Pastor 'Val' Valentin, a set of 1969 recordings, many of which were previously unreleased, from the Record Plant in New York City that were supposed to be the band's fourth album, several of which ended up on Loaded and Reed's first two solo releases, and unreleased live recordings from The Matrix in 1969.

In the 1970s lower Manhattan's Max's Kansas City was the place to be, a perpetual meeting place for scene-makers and their satellites. In the summer of '70, The Velvet Underground was the house band, and their nightly gigs, propelled by Lou Reed's mesmerizing vocals, are the stuff of legend. Documented on a cassette player by one of the Velvet's entourage, this recording has since become the most famous "bootleg" ever, capturing one of Reed's last-some say final-performances with the band before going solo. It both immortalizes a precise moment in pop culture history, and also spotlights one of rock's most influential bands at the peak of their extraordinary powers.

this is a bootlegged copy of the acetate version of the Velvet Underground's first record.

1988年美国Verve MGM Polygram首发CD，翻自1968年的黑胶唱片，封面采用全黑设计，没有黑色骷髅图案。

也是日本「後黑王」，很正的VU Unreleased Tracks!

地下丝绒的第三张专辑，由于录音前期发生设备遗失的事故，以及创团成员John Cale的离开，这张专辑的声音平静内敛富有张力

这是“地下丝绒”的第一张专辑，也是摇滚乐历史上的一张划时代的经典之作。从专辑的名称上面可以清 楚地看到，这张专辑的诞生与西方现代艺术史上的伟大人物安迪·沃霍尔是密切相关的。这张“地下丝绒”的处女专辑就是由安迪·沃霍尔担任制作人的，而且专辑的名称也署上了他的大名。 在这张专辑里面，主唱卢·里德以他那干涩、沙哑的犹如破碎的玻璃一样的嗓音将1960年代美国青年对于现实的迷茫、反叛的态度表达得淋漓尽致，同时也对当时的社会现实作出了深刻的揭露。如在《我正在等待那个男人》这首歌里面，讲述的就是一个关于进行非法的海洛因交易的故事，把吸毒作为歌曲的主题，这在他们之前的乐队里面是非常罕见的，因此可以看出他们在音乐表达题材上面的大胆。而《星期天的早晨》这首歌则讲述了一个偏执狂在理想与现实之中挣扎的现实，他就像那个可怜的西西弗斯一样奔波在希望与绝望之间，这可以说是当时青年内心生活的真实写照。在《穿裘皮的维纳斯》这首歌里面，则表达了一个更为离经叛道的主题，那就是“性倒错”，他们以超越道德观的态度表达了自己对于“同性恋”这个当时还是一个禁忌的话题的看法。可见，他们在自己的音乐里面充分的体现了“自由”的精神，而这正是摇滚最为重要的精神财富。 在专辑之中担任了两首歌曲的主唱的女歌手尼柯，曾经主演过安迪·沃霍尔制作的几部电影，由于他的介绍，才成为了“地下丝绒”的一员。尼柯那种冷漠、飘忽，充满着厌世的没落气息的声音深刻地影响了后来无数的女歌手。