Chronicles (Velvet Underground album)

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Chronicles
Compilation album by The Velvet Underground
Released	1991
Recorded	1966–1969, New York City, Hollywood and San Francisco, United States
Genre	Rock and roll
Label	Mercury Records
Producer(s)	Andy Warhol, Tom Wilson, The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground chronology
The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed (1989)	Chronicles (1991)	What Goes On (1993)

Chronicles is a compilation album by The Velvet Underground. It was initially released for the Australian market by Mercury Records in 1991 as part of their "Startrax" series of budget compilations. The album was also made available in Europe.

Contents 1 About the album 2 Track listing 3 Personnel 3.1 The band 3.2 Additional musicians 3.3 Technical staff 4 External links

[edit] About the album

Chronicles is a straightforward, budget-priced compilation drawn from the studio albums the band recorded for Verve Records and MGM Records and their one live album for Mercury Records (all of which by the time of compilation resided under the Polygram umbrella). The budget series approach left no scope for licensing tracks off the band's fourth studio album, Loaded, which was recorded for Atlantic Records. The live versions of "Sweet Jane" and "Rock and Roll" were used instead.

In the early Nineties, demand was high for Velvet Underground compilations thanks to Lou Reed's creative renascence. Because of the budget pricing of the compilation, Chronicles was more popular than the contemporary full-price American/European Verve compilation The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed (1989).

[edit] Track listing

All tracks performed by The Velvet Underground except † performed by The Velvet Underground and Nico. All tracks written by Lou Reed except "Sunday Morning" written by Lou Reed and John Cale.

1. "Pale Blue Eyes" – 5:39
2. "Beginning to See the Light" – 4:37
3. "What Goes On" – 4:51
4. "White Light/White Heat" – 2:45
5. "Sunday Morning" – 2:50 †
6. "I'm Waiting for the Man" – 4:45
7. "Femme Fatale" – 2:36 †
8. "Venus in Furs" – 5:05
9. "Run Run Run" – 4:19
10. "All Tomorrow's Parties" – 5:57 †
11. "Heroin" – 7:09
12. "I Can't Stand It" – 3:22
13. "Stephanie Says' – 2:50
14. "She's My Best Friend" – 2:45
15. "Andy's Chest" – 2:48
16. "Sweet Jane" (live) – 3:59
17. "Rock and Roll" (live) – 6:04

(1-3) taken from The Velvet Underground; (4) taken from White Light/White Heat; (5-11) taken from The Velvet Underground and Nico; (12-15) taken from VU; (16-17) taken from 1969: The Velvet Underground Live.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] The band

• Lou Reed – vocals, guitar, piano on "Sunday Morning" and "White Light/White Heat"
• Sterling Morrison – guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
• Maureen Tucker – percussion
• John Cale – viola, bass guitar, piano, celesta, backing vocals (4-11, 13)
• Doug Yule – bass guitar, backing vocals, organ on "What Goes On", lead vocals on "She's My Best Friend" (1-3, 12, 14-17)

[edit] Additional musicians

• Nico – lead vocals on "Femme Fatale" and "All Tomorrow's Parties", backing vocals on "Sunday Morning"

[edit] Technical staff

• Andy Warhol – producer (6-11)
• Tom Wilson – producer (4-5)
• The Velvet Underground – producers (1-3, 12-17)

[edit] External links

• The Velvet Underground Web Page
• Foggy Notion - a Velvet Underground Web Corner

The Velvet Underground
John Cale | Sterling Morrison | Lou Reed | Maureen Tucker | Doug Yule
Willie Alexander | Angus MacLise | Walter Powers
Discography
Studio albums: The Velvet Underground and Nico | White Light/White Heat | The Velvet Underground | Loaded | Squeeze
Live albums: Live at Max's Kansas City | 1969 | Live MCMXCIII | Final V.U. | The Quine Tapes
Box sets and outtake compilations: VU | Another View | What Goes On | Peel Slowly and See
Selected best-of compilations: Rock and Roll | The Very Best of The Velvet Underground | Gold
See also
Chelsea Girl | Exploding Plastic Inevitable | Lou Reed | Nico | Steve Sesnick | Songs for Drella | Andy Warhol | Billy Yule