After Hours (track)
by The Velvet Underground
Year: 1969
From the album The Velvet Underground (track #10)
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After Hours appears on the following album(s) by The Velvet Underground:
- The Velvet Underground (track #10) (this album) (1969)
- Live At Max's Kansas City (track #10) (1972)
- Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes (track #8) (compilation) (2001)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 08/30/2026 07:56 | Siromynian | 20,223 | 71/100 |
| ! | 08/20/2026 06:22 |  nextorgd | 357 | 97/100 |
| ! | 07/21/2026 12:11 | stareaterogni0n | 6,919 | 69/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 89.1/100, a mean average of 88.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.4.
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flamingyesdept TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/11/2016 14:06 | #179880
When I first heard this song I was extremely confused. This is hardly typical Velvets, and indeed it sounds like it could have been released this year. But it is pretty much as perfect a pretty song as you can get. Yet with a tinge of unsettledness - as if a massive coronavirus pandemic was just a couple years off the horizon. (Edited)
nachosbob 11/05/2014 00:00 | #126181
This is quite possibly my favorite song of all time (Edited)
M42K0 03/24/2016 03:25 | #162400
How is this song so likable!? Incredible... (Edited)
