Another View

Another View is an outtakes compilation album by The Velvet Underground. It was released in 1986 by Verve Records and is composed of material recorded between 1967 and 1969.

Composition and collection

When the Velvet Underground moved from Verve Records (who had released their first two albums) to parent company MGM Records, they signed a two-album deal, releasing their third and eponymous album The Velvet Underground in March 1969. Later that same year, however, there was a management change and MGM Records' new CEO, Mike Curb, was brought in to try to rescue the financially struggling label. He decided to purge the record company of its many controversial and unprofitable acts. The Velvet Underground quickly became one of the groups blacklisted and were released from their contract. The band had, however, in the meantime recorded fourteen tracks for possible release as their second MGM album. All of these were shelved and forgotten by their record company until the early 1980s.

As Verve (by then an imprint of Polygram) prepared to re-release the band's three Verve/MGM albums on vinyl and, for the first time, on CD, they found nineteen previously unreleased tracks: five Cale-era tracks and the fourteen "lost album" tracks, some of them in two-track mixdown format, some of them even on multitracks. The cream of the nineteen tracks was released in February 1985 on VU; the rest remained for the time being in the vaults.

In 1986, Polydor decided to prepare a vinyl box set for European release. Simply titled The Velvet Underground, this box, which was released in June, consisted of the band's first three albums, VU, and an untitled bonus album containing the remaining nine tracks from Polygram's vaults. That untitled album was later separately released on vinyl and CD as Another View.

An acetate-sourced alternate mix of this album's version of "Ride into the Sun", featuring vocals by Lou Reed, has appeared on bootlegs and on the Australian box set What Goes On.

As the Velvet Underground moved from MGM to Atlantic, they re-recorded two of the songs on Another View, "Ride into the Sun" and "Rock and Roll", for possible inclusion on Loaded. Only "Rock and Roll" made the grade, but two of the Another View songs would be recycled by Lou Reed during his early solo career: "Ride into the Sun" (on Lou Reed, 1972) and "We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together" (on Street Hassle, 1978).

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Track listing

All songs written and composed by Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker, except where noted.

Side One
No.	Title	Original Recording Date	Length
1.	"We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together" (Reed)	September 30, 1969	2:56
2.	"I'm Gonna Move Right In"	September 27, 1969	6:30
3.	"Hey Mr. Rain (Version I)"	May 29, 1968	4:56
4.	"Ride into the Sun"	September 5, 1969	3:20
5.	"Coney Island Steeplechase"	May 6, 1969	2:20

Side Two
No.	Title	Original Recording Date	Length
6.	"Guess I'm Falling in Love" (Instrumental version)	December 5, 1967	3:35
7.	"Hey Mr. Rain (Version II)"	May 29, 1968	5:16
8.	"Ferryboat Bill" (Reed, Morrison, Yule, Tucker)	June 19, 1969	2:10
9.	"Rock and Roll" (Reed)	June 19, 1969	5:18

Personnel

The Velvet Underground

John Cale – viola on "Hey Mr. Rain" (version one) and "Hey Mr. Rain" (version two), bass guitar on "Guess I'm Falling in Love"
Sterling Morrison – guitar, backing vocals, bass guitar on "Hey Mr. Rain"
Lou Reed – vocals, guitar, piano
Maureen Tucker – percussion
Doug Yule – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals

Technical staff

The Velvet Underground – producers
Bill Levenson – executive producer
J. C. Convertino – engineer

The Velvet Underground

John Cale Lou Reed Sterling Morrison Maureen Tucker Doug Yule Willie Alexander Angus MacLise Nico Walter Powers Billy Yule

Studio albums	The Velvet Underground & Nico White Light/White Heat The Velvet Underground Loaded Squeeze

Live albums	Live at Max's Kansas City 1969: The Velvet Underground Live Live MCMXCIII Final V.U. 1971–1973 The Quine Tapes

Box sets and out-takes	VU Another View Peel Slowly and See

Compilations	Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground Featuring Nico The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed The Best of Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground The Best of The Velvet Underground: The Millennium Collection The Very Best of the Velvet Underground Gold

Songs	"After Hours" "All Tomorrow's Parties" "European Son" "Femme Fatale" "Here She Comes Now" "Heroin" "I Heard Her Call My Name" "I'll Be Your Mirror" "I'm Waiting for the Man" "Lady Godiva's Operation" "New Age" "Pale Blue Eyes" "Rock & Roll" "Run Run Run" "Sister Ray" "Stephanie Says" "Sunday Morning" "Sweet Jane" "The Black Angel's Death Song" "The Gift" "There She Goes Again" "Venus in Furs" "White Light/White Heat"

Tribute albums	Heaven & Hell Fifteen Minutes

Related articles	Discography Songs A Symphony of Sound Walter De Maria Exploding Plastic Inevitable Steve Sesnick Andy Warhol Tom Wilson Songs for Drella

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