The Very Best of The Velvet Underground

There are Velvet Underground compilation albums with similar titles: The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed (1989) and The Best of The Velvet Underground: The Millennium Collection (2000).
The Very Best of The Velvet Underground
Greatest hits album by The Velvet Underground
Released March 31, 2003 (2003-03-31)
Recorded 1966–1970, New York City and Hollywood, United States
Genre Rock, art rock, experimental rock, folk rock
Length 74:29
Language English
Label Polydor
Producer Andy Warhol, Tom Wilson, The Velvet Underground, Geoff Haslam, Shel Kagan
The Velvet Underground chronology
Squeeze
(1973)
The Very Best of the Velvet Underground
(2003)
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The Very Best of The Velvet Underground is a compilation album by The Velvet Underground. It was released in Europe on March 31, 2003, by Polydor, the record label that oversees the band's Universal Music Group back catalog.

The Very Best of The Velvet Underground was released following a Hyundai television commercial, which featured the band's 1970 recording "I'm Sticking with You" from Loaded (Fully Loaded Edition). The version included in this compilation is from the 1969 VU album, despite a cover sticker's claim to the contrary.

Track listing

All tracks performed by The Velvet Underground except † The Velvet Underground & Nico. All titles written by Lou Reed except as noted.

  1. "Sweet Jane"
  2. "I'm Sticking with You" (1969 version)
  3. "I'm Waiting for the Man"
  4. "What Goes On"
  5. "White Light/White Heat"
  6. "All Tomorrow's Parties"†
  7. "Pale Blue Eyes"
  8. "Femme Fatale"†
  9. "Heroin"
  10. "Here She Comes Now" (Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison)
  11. "Stephanie Says"
  12. "Venus in Furs"
  13. "Beginning to See the Light"
  14. "I Heard Her Call My Name"
  15. "Some Kinda Love" (alternate take)
  16. "I Can't Stand It"
  17. "Sunday Morning" (Reed, Cale)†
  18. "Rock & Roll"

Tracks 3, 6, 8–9, 12, & 17 taken from The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967); Tracks 5, 10, 14 taken from White Light/White Heat (1968); Tracks 4, 7, 13, & 15 taken from The Velvet Underground (1969); Tracks 1 & 18 taken from Loaded (1970); Tracks 2, 11, & 16 taken from VU (1985).

Personnel

The Velvet Underground
Additional musicians
Technical staff

References

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