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The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground - Etc. (Mjg196 Needledrop)(Side A)

Track listing:
  1. Track 01 2:23
  2. Track 02 2:31
  3. Track 03 2:12
  4. Track 04 2:24
  5. Track 05 4:28

Notes


Sources: 1 : The Beachnuts, 1965 / 2, 3 : The Primitives 45, 1964 / 4 : The Rougnecks, 1965 / 5 : Index flexi, 1966 / 6-9 : rough mix demos, 1969 / 10 : The East Village Other LP, 1966.

Notes: this album offers a nice collection of pre-VU tracks, the 4 demos originaly available on the White Heat EP and a couple of 1966 VU-related recordings. Back cover has extensive liner notes by C. Walker. There are at least three different editions:

1. First edition (1979) has a silk-screened cover. Top-left corner of the back cover reads: "design & silk-screen printing"
2. The first reissue (1981) has an ordinary cover
3. Also exists as blue marble vinyl edition (1990)