What Goes On (box set)

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What Goes On
Box set by The Velvet Underground
Released	1993
Recorded	1966–1970, United States
Genre	Rock and roll
Label	Raven Records
Producer(s)	Various (see main text)
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
The Velvet Underground chronology
Chronicles (1991)	What Goes On (1993)	Live MCMXCIII (1993)

What Goes On is a box set by The Velvet Underground. It was originally released in 1993 by Australian record company Raven Records.

Contents 1 About the album 2 Track listing 2.1 Disc one 2.2 Disc two 2.3 Disc three 3 Personnel 3.1 The band 3.2 Additional musicians 3.3 Technical staff 4 External links

[edit] About the album

After The Velvet Underground's back catalogue had been re-issued, thanks to their rising popularity among the New Wave community, on vinyl and compact disc during the Eighties, the next logical steps were to issue a best-of album and a box set. Verve Records took care of the former by releasing The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed (1989) and the latter by compiling a box set simply called The Velvet Underground (1986). This box set came with an entire album's worth of unreleased material but quickly became inessential when that bonus album was issued separately later that same year as Another View.

Confident they could do a better job, the small, reissue-dedicated independent record company Raven Records requested and received permission from both Polygram and Atlantic Records to compile their own box set for the Australian market. Compiler Dominic Molumby took a documentary-like approach to the project, interspersing essential album cuts with rarities and spoken-word intermezzos. Because of the many rarities, the box set was a favourite on import of the Velvet Underground fan community.

Although largely superseded by 1995's Polydor box set Peel Slowly and See, What Goes On still houses tracks unique to this set (the documentary bits, the acetate version of "Ride into the Sun" and two 1969 live tracks, "After Hours" and "I'm Sticking with You").

[edit] Track listing

Tracks prefixed with * are spoken-word "documentary" bits. All musical tracks written by Lou Reed except as noted.

[edit] Disc one

1. *"Andy Warhol Presents"
2. "Melody Laughter" (live fragment) (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker, Päffgen)
3. "Heroin" (mono mix)
4. "I'm Waiting for the Man" (mono mix)
5. "Sunday Morning" (mono mix) (Reed, Cale)
6. "I'll Be Your Mirror" (mono mix)
7. "Run Run Run" (mono mix)
8. "All Tomorrow's Parties" (mono mix)
9. "Venus in Furs" (mono mix)
10. "Femme Fatale" (mono mix)
11. "It Was a Pleasure Then" (Reed, Cale, Päffgen)
12. * "From the Music Factory"
13. "White Light/White Heat"
14. "Lady Godiva's Operation"
15. "I Heard Her Call My Name"
16. * "Untitled (Index)"
17. * "EPI Ad"

(3-10) taken from The Velvet Underground and Nico; (11) taken from Chelsea Girl; (13-15) taken from White Light/White Heat.

[edit] Disc two

1. "Sister Ray" (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker)
2. "Here She Comes Now" (Reed, Cale, Morrison)
3. "Guess I'm Falling in Love" (instrumental version) (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker)
4. "Stephanie Says"
5. "Hey Mr Rain" (version two) (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker)
6. "Candy Says"
7. "Some Kinda Love"
8. "Pale Blue Eyes"
9. "Beginning to See the Light"
10. "I’m Set Free"
11. "The Murder Mystery"
12. "Foggy Notion' (Reed, Morrison, Yule, Tucker, Weiss)
13. "I Can't Stand It"
14. * "Radio Ad"

(1-2) taken from White Light/White Heat; (3, 5) taken from Another View; (4, 12-13) taken from VU; (6-11) taken from The Velvet Underground.

[edit] Disc three

1. "Ocean"
2. "One of These Days"
3. * "Introductions"
4. "It's Just Too Much' (live)
5. "Sweet Jane" (live)
6. "New Age" (live)
7. "Over You" (live)
8. "What Goes On" (live)
9. "After Hours" (live)
10. "I'm Sticking with You" (live)
11. "Train Round the Bend"
12. "Head Held High"
13. "Who Loves the Sun"
14. "Rock and Roll"
15. "Ride into the Sun" (acetate) (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker)
16. "After Hours" (live)
17. * "No More Reunions"
18. * "Thanks, Andy Warhol"
19. * "I Love the Velvet Underground"

(1-2) taken from VU; (4, 9-10, 15) first appearance; (5-8) taken from 1969: The Velvet Underground Live; (11-14) taken from Loaded; (16) taken from Live at Max's Kansas City.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] The band

• Lou Reed – vocals, guitar, piano
• Sterling Morrison – guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
• John Cale – vocals, bass guitar, viola, keyboards, backing vocals
• Maureen Tucker – percussion, vocals
• Doug Yule – vocals, bass guitar, backing vocals

[edit] Additional musicians

• Nico – vocals
• Billy Yule – drums
• Tommy Castanero – drums
• Adrian Barber – drums

[edit] Technical staff

• The Velvet Underground – producers
• Andy Warhol – producer
• Tom Wilson – producer
• Geoff Haslam, Shel Kagan and The Velvet Underground – producers
• Brigid Polk – engineer

[edit] External links

• The Velvet Underground Web Page
• Foggy Notion - a Velvet Underground Web Corner

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