The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground: 45th Anniversary [Vinyl] Word Entertainment Smarten Up (FT

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The finale itself never sags

a joyful tribute to Philippe Boesmans

and quiet hope

The Deluxe Edition presents a newly remastered version of the eight-track album

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground: 45th Anniversary [Vinyl] Word Entertainment Smarten Up (FTThe Velvet Underground's classic self titled third album, released in March 1969, by MGM, was a departure from the band's first two albums in more ways than one. Gone was co founding member John Cale, and in his place was a 21 year old with Long Island roots named Doug Yule, who stepped right in. The record was also a stylistic leap, as Lou Reed describes it in Rolling Stone editor David Fricke's liner notes, 'I thought we had to demonstrate the other