Side A
Artist	Song
The Beachnuts (Lou Reed)	Cycle Annie
The Dream Syndicate (Cale/Conrad/MacLise/Young/Zazeela)	Day Of Niagra 1965 (excerpt)
The Velvet Underground	I'm Waiting For The Man
The Velvet Underground	I'll Be Your Mirror
The Velvet Underground	Heroin
The Velvet Underground	Venus In Furs
The Velvet Underground	All Tomorrows Parties
The Velvet Underground	Sister Ray
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
The Velvet Underground	Guess I'm Falling In Love
The Velvet Underground	White Light/White Heat
The Velvet Underground	Sheltered Life
The Velvet Underground	Here She Comes Now
The Velvet Underground	I Heard Her Call My Name
The Velvet Underground	Stephanie Says
The Velvet Underground	What Goes On
The Velvet Underground	Foggy Notion
The Velvet Underground	I Can't Stand It
The Velvet Underground	Pale Blue Eyes
The Velvet Underground	Some Kinda Love
The Velvet Underground	I'm Sticking With You

Comment:

Reams of copy have been written about The Velvet Underground's impact on music. Briefly here is the scoop. The band was formed when Pickwick staff songwriter Lou Reed hooked up with John Cale, who was part of minimalist composer LaMonte Young's combo--The Dream Syndicate. Lou brings his old pal Sterling Morrison on board and Cale invites beatnik drummer Angus MacLise and call themselves first, The Warlocks, then The Falling Spikes before settling on the name, The Velvet Underground, after old Dream Syndicate buddy Tony Conrad finds a trashy novel of the same name. Angus leaves because he thinks art should not be for sale and performing for money violates his ethics. Maureen Tucker comes on board in his place. The LaMonte Young connection has them noticed in the Andy Warhol circle and under his guidance they are teamed with German ice princess, Nico in his Exploding Plastic Inevitable Media Show, which was a multi-media psychedelic show, staged in New York in 1966. They release a debut record, which went against the grain the tangerine sunshine sound that was popular at the time. The record failed to make a popular impact. Warhol lost interest after the first album and pulled his financial support and the band was free of Nico as well. The resulting second album was a decibel happy fuck-you sonic assault. The record failed to make a popular impact. Soon after it's release, Cale departed the group. He is replaced with Doug Yule. Their equipment is stolen and a "quiet" 180-degree change resulted in the third record. The band's repeated changes in style had left their audience way behind and this album failed to make a popular impact. Mid-1969 saw them without a record contract, but in 1970 they recorded Loaded, generally regarded as a dynamic rock'n'roll album. Unfortunately, Reed quit a month before its release, when the band, benefiting from a renewed wave of public interest, appeared on the brink of achieving commercial success. Cale and Reed later achieved the success that eluded them with The Velvets, through a series of solo albums. Nico also released three solo albums with assistance from Cale before emigrating to Paris in 1971. In retrospect, The Velvets' first album, with its harsh loud music and its lyrical obsession with decadence, was probably the most significant album of this era in that it previewed the aggressive punk sounds to emerge in the late seventies.

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