The Velvet Underground

"Brian Eno famously quipped that everyone who bought The Velvet Underground & Nico started a band, but The Velvet Underground's stunning simplicity and unflinching honesty presented an even more accessible model of DIY aspiration, free of Warholian conceptualism and Cale's classically schooled chaos. The album remains both an open invitation and a dare-to face Reed's hard truths or, better yet, to reveal your own".

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"Forty quid or more for a box set in which three of the six discs are more or less unnecessary might seem a bit steep. After all, anyone likely to splash out on this edition of the third Velvet Underground album - the sedate, pensive one - might already have both the Val Valentin and "closet" mixes of the album from previous box sets and reissues, and a new third mono mix adds nothing of note. But that reckons without the confounding brilliance of the other three discs".

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" Few bands ever had a year like the Velvet Underground did in 1969. Even fewer have a set that documents a year like that as beautifully as this one".

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