Another View
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- For the Maureen Tucker album, see Another View (Maureen Tucker album).
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| Compilation album by The Velvet Underground | ||
| Released | September, 1986 | |
| Recorded | 1967–1969, New York City, United States | |
| Genre | Rock and roll | |
| Length | 36:21 | |
| Label | Verve Records | |
| Producer(s) | The Velvet Underground | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| The Velvet Underground chronology | ||
| VU (1985) |
Another View (1986) |
The Best of The Velvet Underground (1989) |
Another View is an outtakes compilation album by The Velvet Underground. It was released in 1986 by Verve Records.
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[edit] About the album
When The Velvet Underground moved from Verve Records (who had released their first two albums) to parent company MGM Records, they signed a two-album deal, releasing their third and eponymous album The Velvet Underground in March of 1969. Later that same year, however, there was a management change and MGM Records' new CEO, Mike Curb, wanted to purge the record company of all acts he considered offensive to his moral standards. The Velvet Underground quickly became one of the groups blacklisted and were released from their contract. The band had, however, in the meantime recorded fourteen tracks for possible release as their second MGM album. All of these were shelved and forgotten by their record company until the early Eighties.
By then, many things had changed and The Velvet Underground had become a venerable institute, the alternative person's Beatles. As Verve (by then an imprint of Polygram) prepared to re-release the band's three Verve/MGM albums on vinyl and, for the first time, on CD, they found nineteen previously unreleased tracks: five Cale-era tracks and the fourteen "lost album" tracks, some of them in two-track mixdown format, some of them even on multitracks. The cream of the nineteen tracks was released in February of 1985 on VU; the rest remained for the time being in the vaults.
In 1986, Polydor decided to prepare a vinyl box set for European release. Simply titled The Velvet Underground, this box, which was released in July, consisted of the bands first three albums, VU, and an untitled bonus album containing the remaining nine tracks from Polygram's vaults. That untitled album was later separately released on vinyl and CD as Another View.
Since the best ten tracks had gone on VU, Another View suffers somewhat in both quality and coherence. Quality-wise, there are a number of leftovers, including three instrumental takes ("Guess I'm Falling in Love", "I'm Gonna Move Right In" and "Ride into the Sun") and two versions of the same song ("Hey Mr Rain"). Additionally, Another View suffers from the same lack of coherence as VU, in that the albums contain both Cale-era and Yule-era tracks. Nevertheless, lighter and simpler as Another View may be, it contains some fine songs that show the transition from the subdued less-is-more The Velvet Underground style to the more mainstream-oriented rock of 1970's Loaded.
As The Velvet Underground moved from MGM to Atlantic, they re-recorded two of the songs on Another View, "Ride into the Sun" and "Rock and Roll", for possible inclusion on Loaded. Only "Rock and Roll" made the grade, but two of the Another View songs would be recycled by Lou Reed during his early solo career: "Ride into the Sun" (on Lou Reed, 1972) and "We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together" (on Street Hassle, 1978).
Drummer Maureen Tucker believes there is still one "lost" song recorded during these sessions that was not included on either VU or Another View, titled "Lonesome Cowboys", which was based off of an Andy Warhol film. (not to be confused with "Lonesome Cowboy Bill", which was released on the Loaded album)
[edit] Track listing
All tracks written by Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker except as noted.
[edit] Side A
- "We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together" – 2:56 (Reed)
- "I'm Gonna Move Right In" – 6:30
- "Hey Mr. Rain" (version 1) – 4:56
- "Ride into the Sun" – 3:20
- "Coney Island Steeplechase" – 2:20
[edit] Side B
- "Guess I'm Falling in Love" (instrumental version) – 3:35
- "Hey Mr. Rain" (version 2) – 5:16
- "Ferryboat Bill" – 2:10 (Reed, Morrison, Yule, Tucker)
- "Rock and Roll" (1969 version) – 5:18 (Reed)
[edit] Personnel
[edit] The band
- Lou Reed – vocals, guitar, piano
- Sterling Morrison – guitar, backing vocals, bass guitar on "Hey Mr. Rain"
- Maureen Tucker – percussion
- John Cale – viola, bass guitar (A3, B1-2)
- Doug Yule – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals (A1-2, A4-5, B3-4)
[edit] Technical staff
- The Velvet Underground – producers
- Bill Levenson – executive producer
- J.C. Convertino – engineer
| The Velvet Underground |
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| 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 |
