The Gift (track)
by The Velvet Underground
Year: 1968
From the album White Light/White Heat (track #2)
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The Gift appears on the following album(s) by The Velvet Underground:
- White Light/White Heat (track #2) (this album) (1968)
- Live MCMXCIII (track #9) (1993)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 03/06/2026 16:56 | stareaterogni0n | 5,678 | 70/100 |
| ! | 02/08/2026 13:00 | kinginsomniac12 | 6,024 | 100/100 |
| ! | 01/27/2026 04:00 | MrOlan | 6,966 | 79/100 |
| ! | 01/17/2026 11:11 | Robert_fripp | 899 | 86/100 |
| ! | 01/05/2026 15:09 |  swed | 3,689 | 88/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 3% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 82.9/100, a mean average of 81.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 15.6.
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After listening to this song, no one should ever attempt to mail themselves.
This song perfectly epitomizes the atmosphere of White Light...surprised to see it rated so low.
I’m surprised this song is at the bottom of the song rankings of this album. The music this story is set to is enough to make you give a damn about the meandering drivel. The rough musical interjections punctuating the story are what I really love most
poppmusic 09/01/2015 04:30 | #149003
This still freaks me out
GandalfORiley345 02/23/2015 22:35 | #135532
Someway I appreciated, even when not being the kind of things I like to hear, it's Underground's magic
Vocals on the left ear, music on the right. That is ahead of it's time for 1968.
Cymro2011 09/24/2013 13:06 | #86725
not stoned, just welsh. We all talk like that.
Mother Nature's Son 02/24/2013 16:50 | #65995
The groove sounds like a driving locomotive (just like most of the album), the voice-over sounds stoned too. Can't find out if I like it or not, the feedback is a bit unpleasant, but at least it's original!
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