1 I'm Waiting For The Man 4:47
2 Femme Fatale
Vocals – Nico (3)
2:38
3 Run Run Run 4:21
4 Heroin 7:11
5 All Tomorrow's Parties
Vocals – Nico (3)
5:59
6 I'll Be Your Mirror
Vocals – Nico (3)
2:10
7 White Light/White Heat 2:48
8 Stephanie Says 2:50
9 What Goes On 4:53
10 Beginning To See The Light 4:40
11 Pale Blue Eyes 5:41
12 I Can't Stand It 3:24
13 Lisa Says 2:57
14 Sweet Jane
Percussion [Assistance] – Adrian Barber, Bill Yule, Tommy Castanaro
3:16
15 Rock And Roll
Percussion [Assistance] – Adrian Barber, Bill Yule, Tommy Castanaro
4:37
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – PolyGram Records, Inc.
Copyright © – PolyGram Records, Inc.
Pressed By – Disctronics
Arranged By – The Velvet Underground (tracks: 1 to 6, 9 to 11)
Art Direction – Margery Greenspan
Compiled By – Bill Levenson
Conductor – The Velvet Underground (tracks: 9 to 11)
Cover [Front & Back Cover Collage] – Audrey Bernstein (2)
Liner Notes – Anthony De Curtis*
Mastered By [Digitally Mastered By] – Dennis Drake, Greg Calbi
Performer – Doug Yule, John Cale, Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker*, Nico (3), Sterling Morrison
Photography By, Design [Design Consultant] – Gerard Malanga
Producer – Andy Warhol (tracks: 1 to 6), Geoffrey Haslam (tracks: 14, 15), Shel Kagan (tracks: 14, 15), The Velvet Underground (tracks: 8 to15), Tom Wilson (2) (tracks: 7)
Written-By [All Songs Written By] – Lou Reed
1-6:
Taken from The Velvet Underground & Nico
Lou Reed / John Cale / Sterling Morrison / Maureen Tucker / Nico
Recorded June / July 1966
Produced by Andy Warhol
Arranged by The Velvet Underground
7:
Taken from White Light / White Heat
Lou Reed / John Cale / Sterling Morrison / Maureen Tucker
Recorded Summer 1967
Produced by Tom Wilson
8:
Taken from VU
Lou Reed / John Cale / Sterling Morrison / Maureen Tucker
Recorded February 1968
Produced by The Velvet Underground
9-11:
Taken from The Velvet Underground
Lou Reed / Sterling Morrison / Maureen Tucker / Doug Yule
Recorded November 1968
Arranged & conducted by The Velvet Underground
12:
Taken from VU
Lou Reed / Sterling Morrison / Maureen Tucker / Doug Yule
Recorded May 1969
Produced by The Velvet Underground
13:
Taken from VU
Lou Reed / Sterling Morrison / Maureen Tucker / Doug Yule
Recorded October 1969
Produced by The Velvet Underground
14-15:
Taken from Loaded
Lou Reed / Sterling Morrison / Maureen Tucker / Doug Yule
Percussion assistance by Tommy, Bill Yule & Adrian Barber
Recorded Spring 1970
Produced by Geoffrey Haslam, Shel Kagan & The Velvet Underground
12 page booklet included with liner notes, photographs and credits.
Barcode (Scanned): 042284116428
Barcode (Text): 0 422-841164-2 8
Price Code: POL 900
Label Code: LC 0383
Rights Society: B.I.E.M. STEMRA
Matrix / Runout: DISCTRONICS 8411642 09
Title (Format) Label Cat# Country Year
The Best Of The Velvet Underground (Words And Music Of Lou Reed) (LP, Compilation) Verve Records 841 164-1 US 1989
The Best Of The Velvet Underground (Words And Music Of Lou Reed) (CD, Compilation) Verve Records, PolyGram 841 164-2 US 1989
The Best Of The Velvet Underground (Words And Music Of Lou Reed) (LP, Compilation) Verve Records 841 164-1 Netherlands 1989
The Best Of The Velvet Underground (Words And Music Of Lou Reed) (Cassette, Compilation) Verve Records 841 164-4 Europe 1989
The Best Of The Velvet Underground (Words And Music Of Lou Reed) (CD, Compilation) Verve Records 9848984 Europe 1989
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The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed is a compilation album by The Velvet Underground. It was released in October 1989 by Verve Records.
The Best of The Velvet Underground concludes the mid-1980s re-issue series by Verve Records of their Velvet Underground material (the first three albums plus VU and Another View).
The record tried to capitalise on the new public awareness of Lou Reed who had issued his critically acclaimed comeback album New York earlier that year. Accordingly, the record contains only songs written by Reed alone.