White Light / White Heat (Half-Speed Master) (Vinyl LP) Folk & Americana

White Light / White Heat (Half-Speed Master) (Vinyl LP) Folk & AmericanaWhite Light White Heat is The Velvet Underground's second studio album. Released in 1968, and recorded in only two days, it was to be bassist, and founding member, John Cale's last with the band. Lyrical themes throughout the album are an eclectic mix including drug use and sexual references (embodied in "White Light White Heat" and "Lady Godiva's Operation" respectively) The album was ranked at number 293 on Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums Of All

while Christopher Guest provides mandolin on a song

here adds rough edges and flashes of mystery with his cutting protest rocker Long Time Gone and the exquisite art-folk of Guinnevere

The former's tight groove and yelpy vocals give it a slight Talking Heads vibe

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It contains a number of traditional songs

released in 1968

but rivals it in terms of scope

historic slab of mutant sound pressure realised in 1976 by pioneering sound artists and Fluxus affiliates Christina Kubisch and Fabrizio Plessi

released in July 1968 on Tetragrammaton in the United States and in September 1968 on Parlophone in the United Kingdom

This release opens with two consecutive covers

this is the point where priest put it all together

Originally released in 1978 on Philips-West African-Records