White Light/White Heat (track) by The Velvet Underground
Year: 1968
From the album White Light/White Heat (track #1)
White Light/White Heat appears on the following album(s) by The Velvet Underground:
- 1969: Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed (track #16) (1974)
- White Light/White Heat (track #1) (this album) (1968)
- Peel Slowly And See (track #29) (compilation) (1995)
- The Very Best Of The Velvet Underground (track #4) (compilation) (2003)
- Live MCMXCIII (track #15) (1993)
- Velvet Underground (track #4) (compilation) (1970)
- 1969: Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed Vol. 2 (track #7) (1979)
- Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes (track #13) (compilation) (2001)
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85/100  | 09/09/2025 11:48 |  Rockdrigo | | 83/100 |
100/100 | 08/21/2025 01:22 | C0NB9NN | | 87/100 |
100/100 | 08/14/2025 22:11 | siripii | | 80/100 |
100/100 | 06/28/2025 20:05 |  Martini | | 95/100 |
90/100 | 06/05/2025 14:24 | ShenBapiro | | 79/100 |
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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 88.2/100, a mean average of 87.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.4.
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GandalfORiley345 02/23/2015 22:33
Epic classic, Underground always genius
Avant-garde opener to an Avant-garde album. The lyrics seem to reference drugs.
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