White Light/White Heat (track)
by The Velvet Underground
Year: 1968
From the album White Light/White Heat (track #1)
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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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| ! | 05/19/2026 21:31 | Leginlists | 615 | 84/100 |
| ! | 05/06/2026 17:58 | jonasolsson363 | 4 | 1/100 |
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Avant-garde opener to an Avant-garde album. The lyrics seem to reference drugs. (Edited)
GandalfORiley345 02/23/2015 22:33 | #135531
Epic classic, Underground always genius (Edited)
