The Velvet Underground’s classic debut album, ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’, is set to be re-released as a six-disc package on October 1.
The reissue celebrates the 1967 album’s 45th anniversary. The six discs will include the original stereo and mono versions, as well as Nico’s ‘Chelsea Girl’ and two live discs taken from a show at the Valleydale Ballroom in Columbus, Ohio.
The tracklisting for the reissue of ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’ is:
Disc One – ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’ (Stereo Version)
Originally Issued As Verve V6-5008, March 1967
Plus Alternate Versions:
‘All Tomorrow’s Parties (Alternate Single Voice Version)’
‘European Son (Alternate Version)’
‘Heroin (Alternate Version)’
‘All Tomorrow’s Parties (Alternate Instrumental Mix)’
‘I’ll Be Your Mirror (Alternate Mix)’
Disc Two – ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’ (Mono Version)
Originally Issued As Verve V-5008, March 1967
Singles:
‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’
‘I’ll Be Your Mirror (Alternate Ending)’
‘Sunday Morning (Alternate Mix)’
‘Femme Fatale’
Disc Three – Nico: ‘Chelsea Girl’
Originally Issued As Verve V6-5032, October 1967
Disc Four – Scepter Studios Sessions
Acetate Cut On April 25, 1966
‘European Son (Alternate Version)’
‘The Black Angel’s Death Song (Alternate Mix)’
‘All Tomorrow’s Parties (Alternate Version)’
‘I’ll Be Your Mirror (Alternate Version)’
‘Heroin (Alternate Version)’
‘Femme Fatale 2.36 (Alternate Mix)’
‘Venus In Furs (Alternate Version)’
‘Waiting For The Man (Alternate Version)’
‘Run Run Run 4.23 (Alternate Mix)’
The Factory Rehearsals: January 1966 Rehearsal, Previously Unreleased.
‘Walk Alone’
‘Cracking Up / Venus In Furs’
‘Miss Joanie Lee’
‘Heroin’
‘There She Goes Again (With Nico)’
‘There She Goes Again’
Disc Five – Live At Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio
‘Melody Laughter’
‘Femme Fatale’
‘Venus In Furs’
‘The Black Angel’s Death Song’
‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’
Disc Six- Live At Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio
‘Waiting For The Man’
‘Heroin’
‘Run Run Run’
‘The Nothing Song’
