The Velvet UndergroundBest The Velvet Underground Albums Ranked
9.0
Avg Score
28
Opinions
15
Albums
6
Reviewers
Summary from 28 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated The Velvet Underground's catalog across 15 albums from 28 opinions, with an overall average of 9.0/10. The top-rated The Velvet Underground album is The Velvet Underground (1969) with a 9.2/10 average from 5 ratings, followed by Loaded (Remastered) and 1969 Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed. The discography on Wavelength spans 1968 to 2015. Sweet Jane ranks as the highest-rated The Velvet Underground song on Wavelength with a 9.7/10 average.
Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition
“Originally released in 1970, the Velvet Underground’s fourth album, Loaded, is a perfectly conceived rock'n'roll album. Like the previous box sets in the Velvets’ current reissue campaign, this expanded 6xCD Re-Loaded collection is less about unearthing rare tracks than getting the story straight.”
The Velvet Underground
“Famous for hard drugs and harder sex, the Velvet Underground’s 1967 debut seems an unlikely candidate for a pricey double-disc presentation. This elegant set offers the familiar stereo mix of the album, along with the Velvets-written songs from Nico’s gorgeous solo album Chelsea Girl. For hardcore collectors, the second disc features the band’s own monaural […]”
White Light/White Heat (45th Anniversary Edition)
“When the Velvet Underground's second album descended on the world in January, 1968, nobody was ready for it. As the story goes, it was a relentless, screeching, thudding, scoffing assault on the pop sensibilities of its time. For its 45th anniversary it's been reissued in expanded, remastered form, and listening to White Light/White Heat now, it doesn't quite fit the template of its legend.”
Peel Slowly and See 1965-1969
“Peel Slowly and See, the long-awaited five-disc Velvet Underground box set, offers fresh perspectives and some hidden truths, even for longtime Velvets fans. None is brought home more vividly than this simple proposition: The Velvets were a band. It wasn’t singer/songwriter Lou Reed plus backing musicians, and it wasn’t just a laboratory for volatile interactions […]”
VU
“Reviled by their hippie contemporaries, barely acknowledged by their record company, pegged by the media as a pop nightmare sprung full-blown from the pasty forehead of Andy Warhol, the members of the Velvet Underground worked hard and paid heavily for their place in rock history. It seems incredible now that in the band’s troubled lifetime […]”
The Bootleg Series Vol.1 - The Quine Tapes (Live)
“In the more than three decades since Lou Reed left the band, the Velvet Underground's secured place in rock's canon has become pretty much watertight. Their towering reputation as rock legends is now irrefutable. Not too shabby for a band who, in their day, only sold a handful of records, and whose live shows were meagerly attended. The Velvets' current status has stemmed primarily from their four”
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