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The Velvet Underground - Caught Between The Twisted Stars (1993)

Track listing:
CD1
  1. Femme Fatale 2:48
  2. Venus In Furs 4:58
  3. Black Angels Death Song 4:12
  4. All Tomorrow's Parties 5:58
  5. Waiting For The Man 4:28
  6. Heroin 6:47
  7. Run Run Run 8:46
  8. Poor Richard's 9:56
CD2
  1. Nothing Song 28:44
  2. Venus/heroin 3:42
  3. Chic Mystique 26:13
  4. Train 'round The Bend / Oh! Sweet Nuthin' 19:09
CD3
  1. Sweet Sister Ray 39:35
  2. Sister Ray 24:32
  3. Hey Mr. Rain 7:10
  4. Heroin 6:36
CD4
  1. The Gift 12:11
  2. Run Run Run 8:51
  3. Guess I'm Falling In Love 5:13
  4. A Short-Lived Torture Of Cacophony 2:20
  5. A Distant Mirror 10:55

Notes

Disc One - Exploding Plastic Inevitable b/w Poor Richard's:

1 : Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1966 * OMITTED - on the 'Peel Slowly
& See' Box set, 2 to 8: Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1966 / 9 : Poor
Richard's Club, Chicago, Illinois, June 23, 1966. This track is actually Heroin and Venus
In Furs from Ronald Nameth's Andy Warhol's EPI film and ends with 1'17 of an unidentified
Sister Ray.


Disc Two - Chic Mystique Of Nothing Songs:

1 : Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1966. 2 : USA Artists, WNET TV, NYC,
February 7, 1966 / 3. The Dom, NYC, April 1966. / 4. Second Fret, Philadelphia, May, 1970.
This track ends with a 2'20 instrumental - same source as the hidden track on Ostrich/Hilltop
CD but longer excerpt.


Disc Three - Sweet Sister Rayn's Heroin:

1, 4 : La Cave, Cleveland, Ohio, April 28, 1968 / 2 : The Boston Tea Party, Boston,
Massachusetts, March 15, 1969 / 3. Wembley Arena, London, June 6, 1993.


Disc Four - Illuminations Of Atonality:

1 : Searchin', "Swan" mix, Mayfair Studio, September 1967 *OMITTED - from White Light, White
Heat/ 2 : mono mix, Mayfair Studio, September 1967 * OMITTED - from White Light, White Heat
/ 3 : Wembley Arena, London, June 6, 1993 / 4 : Hilltop Pop Festival, August 2, 1969 /
5 * omitted because although it's listed as "1968 live" this is really the same version as 1969
Live album / 6: The Gymnasium, NYC, April 1967. The track ends with a 1'00 instrumental excerpt
- same source as unlisted track on disc two / 7 : listed as "New York City 1965", actually a
part of Columbus '66 Melody Laughter recorded backwards... / 8, 9 * omitted because the 'Le
Bataclan, Paris, January 29, 1972' was releasedofficially in a limited run from Pilot Records
in 2004. / 10 : this is collage including the VU Rock & Roll Hall of fame introduction by Patti
Smith, the band accepting the award, the band playing Last Night I Said Goodbye To A Friend, then
Ghost Story from the Bataclan show, then 53 seconds of I'm Waiting For The Man from Max's Kansas
City '70 [ed. note: phew!].

Notes: the package is a CD size cardboard one, with 4 individual CD sleeves inside, each
made to look like a 45 RPM singles picture sleeve. There is a photo of the Trip Club poster,
Poor Richard's poster, Balloon Farm poster, and a few photos of the band and a photo of
Andy Warhol peeling a large banana on the back cover. The 64-page booklet includes a Sterling
Morrison interview with Greg Barrios, a review of VU & Nico album by Timothy Jacobs from
Vibrations No. 2, July, 1967, Chicago Happenings by Larry McCombes from Zig Zag, Vol. 5,
No. 1, April/May, 1974, New York Art And The Velvet Underground by Jonathan Richman from
Vibrations, September 1967, A Quiet Night at the Balloon Farm by Richard Goldstein, Problems
in Urban Living by Richard Somma, and another interview with Sterling, Reflections In
A Lone Star Beer.

This set is supposedly a limited edition of 500 copies.