The Velvet Underground

This exhaustive and fascinating collection gathers all of the group's four albums and throws in dozens of extra tracks. You get the embryonic folk of their earliest days, live cuts, different mixes, an assortment of brilliant outtakes, and a body of work that will change your life (if it hasn't already).

Peel Slowly and See," the long-awaited five-disc Velvet Underground box set, offers fresh
perspectives and some hidden truths, even for longtime Velvets fans. None is brought home
more vividly than this simple proposition: The Velvets were a band. It wasn't
singer/songwriter Lou Reed plus backing musicians, and it wasn't just a laboratory for
volatile interactions between Reed's literacy and street sensibilities and John Ca... More >