LOU REED | LAURIE ANDERSON | JOHN ZORN : The Stones-Issue Three (2008) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

A special concert to benefit The Stone by three legends of the New York Underground! Indisputably one of the greatest and most influential musicians in Rock History, Lou Reed has been exploding and exploring new sounds since the mid sixties. Always with a connection to the avant-garde, Lou here teams up with maverick composer/performer John Zorn for a series of improvisations and sound compositions that will surprise and startle even their hardcore fans. With a special appearance by Laurie Anderson, one of the most original voices of this or any other century, this is one of the most unusual and legendary meetings in the New Music scene. Available online only through the Downtown Music Gallery and Tzadik, all proceeds from the sale of this limited edition CD will go directly to support The Stone. Only with your help can we keep The Stone alive, so be sure to buy all three volumes of these limited edition benefit cds before they go out of print! TZADIK
Tracklist :
1    Part 1    22:40
2    Part 2    13:04
3    Part 3    12:37
Credits :
Electric Guitar – Lou Reed
Producer, Saxophone – John Zorn
Violin, Electronics – Laurie Anderson

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - White Light / White Heat [1968] FLAC / 1986

The world of pop music was hardly ready for The Velvet Underground's first album when it appeared in the spring of 1967, but while The Velvet Underground and Nico sounded like an open challenge to conventional notions of what rock music could sound like (or what it could discuss), 1968's White Light/White Heat was a no-holds-barred frontal assault on cultural and aesthetic propriety. Recorded without the input of either Nico or Andy Warhol, White Light/White Heat was the purest and rawest document of the key Velvets lineup of Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker, capturing the group at their toughest and most abrasive. The album opens with an open and enthusiastic endorsement of amphetamines (startling even from this group of noted drug enthusiasts), and side one continues with an amusing shaggy-dog story set to a slab of lurching mutant R&B ("The Gift"), a perverse variation on an old folktale ("Lady Godiva's Operation"), and the album's sole "pretty" song, the mildly disquieting "Here She Comes Now." While side one was a good bit darker in tone than the Velvets' first album, side two was where they truly threw down the gauntlet with the manic, free-jazz implosion of "I Heard Her Call My Name" (featuring Reed's guitar work at its most gloriously fractured), and the epic noise jam "Sister Ray," 17 minutes of sex, drugs, violence, and other non-wholesome fun with the loudest rock group in the history of Western Civilization as the house band. White Light/White Heat is easily the least accessible of The Velvet Underground's studio albums, but anyone wanting to hear their guitar-mauling tribal frenzy straight with no chaser will love it, and those benighted souls who think of the Velvets as some sort of folk-rock band are advised to crank their stereo up to ten and give side two a spin.

Tracks

1. White Light/White Heat 2:44

2. The Gift 8:14

3. Lady Godiva's Operation 4:52

4. There She Comes Now 2:00

5. I Heard Her Call My Name 4:05

6. Sister Ray 17:00

Lou Reed - vocal, guitar, piano

John Cale - vocal, electric viola, organ, bass guitar

Sterling Morrison - vocal, guitar, bass guitar

Maureen Tucker - percussion

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