White Light/White Heat [Remaster] by The Velvet Underground

Pros: A Noisy, Abrasive Masterpiece from the Velvet Underground.
Cons: None, unless you're not into fractured, chaotic rock.

(This is part one of Kristinafh’s May Music Madness W/O for a review of a five-star album in part one of the W/O called “I Got The Music In Me”.)

When the Velvet Underground released their debut album with German singer Nico...

Pros: maybe their best album; mostly an absolute classic
Cons: coupla songs that aren't so great

This is the first review I've written, since my excesses of poorly-written work in 1999-2000, where I've simply sat down and spontaneously chosen to write, not structuring it in any way. What could be more appropriate for this album? I don't like "The ...

Pros: It starts with White Light/ White Heat and ends with Sister Ray
Cons: You will be unpopular with your next door neighbour

There are certain moments that gel in the memory. For some, it might just be the obvious joys in life, such as the first time we set fire to an orphanage or nuke an entire field of ostriches wearing just a tea cosy. For others, it could be when a famous ...

Pros: Creepy, disturbing, weird, low-fi, and brlliant.
Cons: It's easy to see where a listener could potentially find this abrasive.

It has been said---rumored, really---that Neil Young's 1990 record with Crazy Horse, Ragged Glory, was recorded in an unusual location. Any Neil Young fan is sure to already know that, to achieve a dirtier, more spontaneous sound, Young recorded...

Pros: Lou Reed, John Cale, Songwriting, Expieremental Noise, Raw Sound, Great Music
Cons: Poor Production, Song structures based around old rock

The Velvet Underground’s White light/White Heat, an overall amazing album for its time, and if it weren’t for the poor production, amazing now. The Velvet underground is a magical band, in that they provided the first avante garde material in ...

Pros: "White Light/White Heat"
Cons: Too many references to "sucking on my ding dong."

The second Velvet Underground record, "White Light/White Heat," makes the hair stand up on my cat's back.

"White light, goin' messing up my mind"

The second Velvet Underground record, "White Light/White Heat,"makes my wife want to...

Pros: Essential heavy-metal to make your ears bleed
Cons: Not good to have on a Walkman while in church

Unlike many bands whom choose to slowly take on new approaches and directions in creating their musical catalog, the Velvet Underground had a new approach for every new album in their oeuvre until they burnt out at the beginning of the seventies. That...

Pros: A free jazz approach to making rock and roll.
Cons: Extremely poor production makes pre-remaster material hard to listen too.

Sure, "The Velvet Underground and Nico" and "Loaded" are great albums, but if you really want to see what the big deal was about the Velvets, you should start right here. The Velvet Underground really got experimental with this one. The most excessive...

Pros: Innovative, fascinating, and LOUD.
Cons: sound not quite up to current standards

Back in the vinyl-only old days this record (the one pictured above!) had two sides. Side two opened with 'I Heard Her Call My Name'. On it, Lou Reed coaxes out of his guitar the most stinging, searing, disjointed, arrhythmic, and feedback-drenched...

Pros: musical influences for the ages
Cons: none if you don't appreciate good music culturing.

Once you tame this wild, noisy, amphetamine-fueled, out-of-control beast of an album, it will be your best friend for a lifetime. Few albums are as off-putting on initial hearing; fewer still will reward you more after hundreds of spins. Inexplicably,...