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''VU'' is an Outtakes Compilation Album by The Velvet Underground . It was released in February 1985 by Verve Records . ABOUT THE ALBUM When The Velvet Underground moved from Verve Records (who had released their first two albums) to parent company MGM Records , they signed a two-album deal, releasing their third and eponymous album '' The Velvet Underground '' in March of 1969. Later that same year, however, there was a management change and MGM Records' new CEO , Mike Curb , wanted to purge the record company of all acts he considered offensive to his moral standards. The Velvet Underground quickly became one of the groups blacklisted and were released from their contract. The band had, however, in the meantime recorded fourteen tracks for possible release as their second MGM album. All of these were shelved and forgotten by their record company until the early Eighties . By then, many things had changed and The Velvet Underground had become a venerable institution, the alternative person's format, some of them even on Multitracks . The cream of the nineteen tracks was released in as ''VU''; the rest was released as '' Another View '' in 1986. As ''VU'' contains the best and most of the unreleased 1969 tracks, it is often referred to as "The Lost Album". Listeners should bear in mind, however, that ''VU'' is a relatively random selection from the tracks and also that it includes two previously unreleased Cale-era tracks, "Temptation Inside Your Heart" and "Stephanie Says", which muddles the view. Since most of the material was available on multitrack (only "Ocean" is included in its original 1969 mix), engineers were able to clean up and remix the tracks. This led to criticism in some quarters, especially regarding the drum sound, which some considered too Eighties (lots of Reverb ). Otherwise, the album contains material that many fans feel is equal in quality to anything on the "regular" studio albums. Drummer Maureen Tucker believes there is still one "lost" song recorded during these sessions that was not included on either ''VU'' or ''Another View'', titled "Lonesome Cowboys", which was based on an Andy Warhol Film (not to be confused with "Lonesome Cowboy Bill", which was released on the '' Loaded '' album). As The Velvet Underground moved from MGM to Atlantic, they re-recorded two of the songs on ''VU'', "Ocean" and "I'm Sticking with You", for possible inclusion on '''', 1972; "Andy's Chest" on '' Transformer '', 1972; " Stephanie Says " (became "Caroline Says II") on '' Berlin '', 1973; and "She's My Best Friend" on '' Coney Island Baby '', 1976. It peaked in the U.S. at #85, the band's best placing. TRACK LISTING All tracks written by Lou Reed except † (Reed, Morrison, Yule, Tucker, Weiss) Side A # "I Can't Stand It" – 3:21 # " Stephanie Says " – 2:49 # "She's My Best Friend" – 2:47 # "Lisa Says" – 2:53 # "Ocean" – 5:10 Side B
# "Temptation Inside Your Heart" – 2:30 # "One of These Days" – 3:50 # "Andy's Chest" – 2:49 # "I'm Sticking with You" – 2:26
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