The Velvet Underground
Peel Slowly and See
About this album
5CD box released in 1995. Chronicles/Polydor/Polygram 31452 7887-2.
Disc 1:
- Venus In Furs (demo)
- Prominent Men (demo)
- Heroin (demo)
- I'm Waiting For The Man (demo)
- Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (demo)
Disc 2:
- All Tomorrow's Parties (single version)
- Sunday Morning
- I'm Waiting For The Man
- Femme Fatale
- Venus In Furs
- Run Run Run
- All Tomorrow's Parties
- Heroin
- There She Goes Again
- I'll Be Your Mirror
- The Black Angel's Death Song
- European Son
- Melody Laughter (live)
- It Was A Pleasure Then
- Chelsea Girls
Disc 3:
- There Is No Reason (demo)
- Sheltered Life (demo)
- It's All Right (The Way That You Live) (demo)
- I'm Not Too Sorry (Now That You've Gone) (demo)
- Here She Comes Now (demo)
- Guess I'm Falling In Love (live)
- Booker T. (live)
- White Light/White Heat
- The Gift
- Lady Godiva's Operation
- Here She Comes Now
- I Heard Her Call My Name
- Sister Ray
- Stephanie Says
- Temptation Inside Your Heart
- Hey Mr. Rain (version one)
Disc 4:
- What Goes On (live)
- Candy Says
- What Goes On
- Some Kinda Love
- Pale Blue Eyes
- Jesus
- Beginning To See The Light
- I'm Set Free
- That's The Story Of My Life
- The Murder Mystery
- After Hours
- Foggy Notion
- I Can't Stand It
- I'm Sticking With You
- One Of These Days
- Lisa says
- It's Just Too Much (live)
- Countess From Hong Kong (demo)
Disc 5:
- Who Loves The Sun
- Sweet Jane (full length version)
- Rock And Roll
- Cool It Down
- New Age (full length version)
- Head Held High
- Lonesome Cowboy Bill
- I Found A Reason
- Train Round The Bend
- Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
- Satellite Of Love
- Walk And Talk
- Oh Gin
- Sad Song
- Ocean
- Ride Into the Sun
- Some Kinda Love (live)
- I'll Be Your Mirror (live)
- I Love You
Disc 1 consists of tracks recorded at Cale's apartment at 56 Ludlow Street in New York, July 1965.
Disc 2 contains an edited version of Melody Laughter. Originally it runs for about 30 minutes. Recorded live at the Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, november 4, 1966.
Note: numereous Velvet Underground bootlegs feature the whole thing.
Disc 3: first five tracks demo's recorded at Cale's apartment at 56 Ludlow Street in New York, early 1967.
Also on this disc a longer version of Booker T (a three minute excerpt was released on Paris s'eveille) and Guess I'm Falling In Love, both recorded live at the Gymnasium, New York, april, 1967. Rumour has it that Cale is the proud owner of a tape of the whole concert, but he refuses to release it.
Disc 5: contains a version of Ocean with Cale on organ. This claim was disputed by Doug Yule in the liner notes of the Fully Loaded 2CD. The Cale version is on that one, he says. Cale himself is not sure about what was kept.
Musicians:
John Cale: bass, keyboards, viola, vocals
Sterling Morrison : bass, guitar
Nico: chanteuse
Lou Reed: guitar, vocals
Maureen Tucker: drums
Doug Yule: guitar