Guess I'm Falling in Love with vocals!

[iaredatsun]

I think the slightly-out-of-synch (at times) nature of it fits with well that bleed-thru and distortion of the Wl/WH sessions, and I've used it for a playlist of an "alternate" Velvet Underground 2nd album:

Side 1
1 - White Light / White Heat
2 - Lady Godiva's operation
3 - Guess I'm falling in love (This new hybrid mix, of course..)
4 - Here she comes now
5 - I heard her call my name (the "balanced" mix, from 40th anniversary WL/WH)

Side 2
1 There is no reason (Demo, from 'Peel Slowly & See')
2 Sister Ray

It works pretty well

Thanks for the playlist. Which masterings of WLWH tracks would you use for the tracks? MFSL, Mono remaster or stereo remaster, for example?

[flippikat]

I think the slightly-out-of-synch (at times) nature of it fits with well that bleed-thru and distortion of the Wl/WH sessions, and I've used it for a playlist of an "alternate" Velvet Underground 2nd album:

Side 1
1 - White Light / White Heat
2 - Lady Godiva's operation
3 - Guess I'm falling in love (This new hybrid mix, of course..)
4 - Here she comes now
5 - I heard her call my name (the "balanced" mix, from 40th anniversary WL/WH)

Side 2
1 There is no reason (Demo, from 'Peel Slowly & See')
2 Sister Ray

It works pretty well

Thanks for the playlist. Which masterings of WLWH tracks would you use for the tracks? MFSL, Mono remaster or stereo remaster, for example?

To be honest, I just used the stereo mixes from the 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition - I was already using a rip of it for the alternate mix of 'I heard her call my name', so it was just convenient to grab from the same batch of files.

I think the lineup flows pretty well, alternating between intense and mellower songs.

Since 'The Gift' is pretty much the length of two songs, I had to add something along with 'Guess I'm falling in love'. The 1968 sessions didn't fit the feel of the album (too pop, too polished in their production) & would have been anachronistic anyway, having been recorded AFTER WL/WH was issued.

So I had to look at the early 1967 demos. The only one that made sense to add was 'There is no reason' - because basically 'It's alright (the way that you live)' or 'Sheltered Life' would sound ridiculous on the album.
It's sadness dovetails into 'Sister Ray' nicely too, and I can just imagine a proper studio take where that guitar solo has a noisier strumming part too - making 'There is no reason' a real exercise in quiet/LOUD/quiet dynamics.
(Anyone ever tried overdubbing that track with some fuzzy strummed guitar in the solo?)