Rock and Roll: an Introduction to The Velvet Underground

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Rock and Roll: an Introduction to The Velvet Underground
Rock and Roll: an Introduction to The Velvet Underground cover
Compilation album by The Velvet Underground
Released July 2, 2001
Recorded 1966–1969, New York City, Hollywood and San Francisco, United States
Genre rock and roll
Length 63:50
Label Polydor
Producer(s) Andy Warhol, Tom Wilson, The Velvet Underground
Professional reviews
The Velvet Underground chronology
The Best of The Velvet Underground: The Millennium Collection
(2000)		 Rock and Roll: an Introduction to The Velvet Underground
(2001)		 Final V.U. 1971-1973
(2001)


Rock and Roll: an Introduction to The Velvet Underground is a compilation album by The Velvet Underground. It was released for the European market by Polydor on July 2, 2001 as part of their "An Introduction To" series of budget compilations.

Contents

[edit] About the album

Rock and Roll, named after one of the band's best-known songs, is a regular best-of album that consists mainly of songs off their three albums for Verve/M·G·M. Additionally, it features tracks from the 1985 outtakes compilation VU and two live tracks from the 1974 Mercury release 1969: The Velvet Underground Live. The two live tracks, "Sweet Jane" and "Rock and Roll" itself, stand in for their corresponding Loaded studio counterparts. These tracks could not be included since that album was released by another, non-Universal Music Group company, Atlantic Records, and the budget approach did not allow for licensing.

Apart from the fact that Loaded tracks could not be used, the compilation is a balanced affair that includes tracks both of the heavier avant-garde and the more accessible folk-pop sides that The Velvet Underground is known for, and includes tracks sung by Nico, Doug Yule and even John Cale.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks performed by The Velvet Underground except "I'll Be Your Mirror" performed by The Velvet Underground and Nico. All tracks written by Lou Reed except as noted.

  1. "Temptation Inside Your Heart" – 2:30
  2. "Rock and Roll" (live) – 6:03
  3. "Lady Godiva's Operation" – 4:54
  4. "Candy Says" – 4:03
  5. "I'll Be Your Mirror" – 2:08
  6. "Foggy Notion" – 6:38 (Reed, Morrison, Yule, Tucker, Weiss)
  7. "Pale Blue Eyes" – 5:41
  8. "White Light/White Heat" – 2:46
  9. "Sweet Jane" (live) – 3:57
  10. "Here She Comes Now" – 2:03 (Reed, Cale, Morrison)
  11. "Some Kinda Love" – 3:38
  12. "Stephanie Says" – 2:48
  13. "There She Goes Again" – 2:37
  14. "Run Run Run" – 4:20
  15. "What Goes On" – 4:33
  16. "Venus In Furs" – 5:11

(1, 6, 12) taken from VU; (2, 9) taken from 1969: The Velvet Underground Live; (3, 8, 10) taken from White Light/White Heat; (4, 7, 11, 15) taken from The Velvet Underground; (5, 13-14, 16) taken from The Velvet Underground and Nico.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] The band

[edit] Additional musicians

  • Nico – lead vocal on "I'll Be Your Mirror"

[edit] Technical staff

[edit] External links

The Velvet Underground
John Cale | Sterling Morrison | Lou Reed | Maureen Tucker | Doug Yule
Willie Alexander | Angus MacLise | Walter Powers
Discography
Studio albums: The Velvet Underground and Nico | White Light/White Heat | The Velvet Underground | Loaded | Squeeze
Live albums: Live at Max's Kansas City | 1969 | Live MCMXCIII | Final V.U. | The Quine Tapes
Box sets and outtake compilations: VU | Another View | What Goes On | Peel Slowly and See
Selected best-of compilations: Rock and Roll | The Very Best of The Velvet Underground | Gold
See also
Chelsea Girl | Exploding Plastic Inevitable | Lou Reed | Nico | Steve Sesnick | Songs for Drella | Andy Warhol | Billy Yule
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