What Goes On (Velvet Underground song)
| "What Goes On" | |
|---|---|
| Single by The Velvet Underground | |
| from the album The Velvet Underground | |
| B-side | "Jesus" |
| Released | 1969 |
| Recorded |
November – December 1968 T.T.G. Studios,[1] Hollywood |
| Genre | Rock; art rock; experimental rock |
| Length | 4:55 |
| Label | MGM Records |
| Writer(s) | Lou Reed |
| Producer(s) | The Velvet Underground |
"What Goes On" is a song by the Velvet Underground. It was the only single released from their 1969 eponymous third album.
In their double, live album 1969: The Velvet Underground Live, a concert performance of the song is included, with Doug Yule on keyboards.[2]
Cover versions
The "What Goes On" organ riff was used in the Talking Heads song "Once in a Lifetime," featured on their 1980 album Remain in Light.[3]
Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry on his 1978 solo album The Bride Stripped Bare performed "What Goes On," with elements of "Beginning to See the Light".
It has been recorded by the Feelies on their 1988 album Only Life, Elizabeth Mitchell on her 2006 album You Are My Little Bird, and the Dils on numerous live albums.
Jim Kerr recorded it as the B Side to "Shadowland" in 2010 and, later on, included it on the B Side to a 7" record titled Jet Black The Night, released alongside a special edition of the Lostboy! AKA Jim Kerr CD album.
Toy performed "What Goes On" for a Radio 6 Music session in 2012 and featured it on their Make It Mine EP released later that year. The Screaming Trees' version was included in the 2009 compilation album Unpiecing the Jigsaw - A Tribute to The Velvet Underground.[4]
Fanzine
In 1978, aficionados Mike "MC" Kostek and Phil Milstein started the Velvet Underground Appreciation Society, which collected, cataloged and made available various rarities.[5] They also published a fanzine titled "What Goes On", and later on a newsletter titled "What Goes On Jr."[6]
References
- ↑ Discogs - T.T.G. Studios (Hollywood) profile and discography
- ↑ Unterberger (2009)
- ↑ "Once in a Lifetime" National Public Radio broadcast, 27 March 2000 The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century
- ↑ "Unpiecing the jigsaw: A Tribute to The Velvet Underground" by Dave Thompson, AllMusic.com
- ↑ Zak (1997)
- ↑ Le Velours Souterrain
Further reading
- Le Velours Souterrain, Velvet Underground fanzines
- Unterberger, Richie. White Light/White Heat The Velvet Underground Day By Day ; Jawbone Press; June 1, 2009; ISBN 9781906002220
- Zak, Alban.The Velvet Underground Companion: Four Decades of Commentary; Schirmer Trade Books; November 1, 1997; ISBN 9780028646275
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