1969: Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed
by The Velvet Underground

1969: Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed by The Velvet Underground
(Live album)
Year: 1974
Overall rank: 3,461st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 192 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1974 (55th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (602nd)
Award Best albums of all time (3,461st)

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The Velvet Underground bestography

1969: Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed is ranked 6th best out of 18 albums by The Velvet Underground on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Velvet Underground is The Velvet Underground & Nico which is ranked number 10 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 38,755.

The Velvet Underground album bestography « Higher ranked (2,607th)
VU
This album (3,461st)
1969: Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed
Lower ranked (11,339th) »
Live MCMXCIII

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Overall rank: 3,461st | 1970s rank: 602nd | 1974 rank: 55th
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2026 sssvnnnTop 100 Music Albums of 197417/1004
2026Exist-en-cielTop 100 Music Albums of 197468/1002
2026 Patman360Top 96 Music Albums of 19749/965
2026cicadelicTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s36/10013
2026 HaydenTop 100 Music Albums of 197435/1003
2026saltysurpriseTop 56 Music Albums of 197431/562
2026 swedTop 66 Music Albums of the 1970s63/661
2026javicho07Top 21 Music Albums of 19748/213
2026LittleM1971Top 61 Music Albums of 197423/613
2026javicho07Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s84/1003
2026cicadelicTop 76 Music Albums of 19745/765
2025 zags7000Top 100 Music Albums of 197495/1000
2025 slatsheitTop 64 Music Albums of 197414/644
2025C0NB9NNTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s22/10016
2025brent13Top 16 Music Albums of 197412/162
2025WayneMCTop 100 Music Albums of 19744/1005
2025amirmishaliTop 80 Music Albums of 197442/802
2025JohnnyoAlbums of the year 1974 by Acclaimed Music25/62 -
2025 NowhereManTop 17 Music Albums of 197416/171
2025mostlymorWe've Got A Live One Here - BEA's Favourite Live Albums59/100 -
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 100
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 429
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80/100 (from 192 votes)
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02/28/2026 18:43 DaveH68  Ratings distribution  1,36376/100
 
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10/02/2025 02:14 zags7000  Ratings distribution  20,41664/100

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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.5/100, a mean average of 78.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.0.

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From 05/10/2021 10:22 | #269546
This album might be the best live recording ever. You can really feel the dirty, magic, inebriating atmosphere in those clubs while the VU was playing. What goes on, New age... the band gave the songs a new level of epic and thats what makes a live session an eternal classic!
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From 03/19/2020 03:40 | #248860
This is not the VU with Nico and John Cale. This Unit is responsible for their self titled and Loaded albums. That being said this is an awesome live album full of different arrangements of some of their most well known material. I would say particularly the versions of Heroin (1st one) and Sweet Jane are better than the studio versions.
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90/100
From 05/18/2015 04:34 | #141718
favorite live album, everything that makes me love the vu
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70/100
From 07/31/2011 17:06 | #25350
Simply one of the greatest live albums ever produced capturing the band at their compulsive and visceral best. The epic brilliance of 'What Goes On' just has to be heard to be believed.
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From 01/24/2010 12:36 | #8586
"What Goes On" was already a great song, but at 8:50, the live is simply epic!
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