White Light/White Heat
White Light/White Heat is The Velvet Underground's second album.
Recorded relatively rapidly in a period of a few days in late 1967, the record eschewed the more pop sensibilities of their first record, as well as that record's guest vocalist Nico. Distorted, driven by feedback and roughly recorded, the album became one of the prototypes for the early punk of The Stooges.
It contains unorthodox tracks such as "White Light/White Heat", "Lady Godiva's Operation" and "The Gift", the latter featuring a heavy rock rhythm mixed into one stereo speaker and a Lou Reed short story -- laconically narrated by John Cale -- in the other. The centrepiece, however, is the lengthy, improvised murder tale "Sister Ray", based on some of Reed's near-perennial concerns -- drug abuse, violence, homosexuality and transvestism.
Referenced By
1960s in music | John Cale | List of rock and roll albums in the 1960s | List of songs by name: W | Music of the United States (1960s and 70s) | Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars | The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars | The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars | The Velvet Underground | Timeline of trends in music (1960-1969) | Velvet Underground | Viola | Ziggy Stardust
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