The Velvet Underground and Nico - White Light / White Heat (1968)

 

Side A:
1. White Light/White Heat

2. Lawns of Dawns

3. Lady Godiva's Operation

4. Here She Comes Now

5. Facing the Wind

6. I Heard Her Call My Name

Side B:
7. Stephanie Says

8. Julius Caesar (Memento Hodié)

9. Temptation Inside Your Heart

10. Evening of Light

11. The Gift

Last year I listened to the unreleased fourth Velvet Underground album but didn't think I could change it beyond the track listing I found for it online. However in the comment section of a different post, I saw someone propose a question, "What if Nico never left The Velvets?" Well this is an interesting one because was Nico ever really in the Velvets? She was brought in by Andy Warhol to be a chanteuse but he also wanted to be their producer and manager. She only sang on three of the songs but after the album became a commercial flop, Warhol was fired as manager and Nico became a solo artist, and she left the group as casually as she entered it. 

The year before the unreleased album though both the Velvets and Nico recorded an album. The Velvets released White Light / White Heat and Nico released The Marble Index. WLWH had a couple long tracks that I could take out and I can also include both sides of a single that I couldn't on the other album. And Nico's album is only half an hour long so I thought I could use a couple tracks from her album and combine them with the Velvets album.