1969: Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed
by The Velvet Underground
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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 38,586.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| 04/06/2026 17:21 | Olli | 7,263 | 62/100 | |
| 02/28/2026 18:43 | DaveH68 | 1,363 | 76/100 | |
| 01/20/2026 01:04 | BorderFreeAndrew | 15,339 | 74/100 | |
| 12/29/2025 19:38 | Exist-en-ciel | 9,753 | 70/100 | |
| 12/05/2025 22:50 | MaxStorm98 | 3,798 | 89/100 |
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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 79.4/100, a mean average of 78.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.0.
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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!
Brandon8 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.
favorite live album, everything that makes me love the vu
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.
CellarDoor 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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