Tracklist

Exploding Plastic Inevitable (b/w Poor Richard's)
1-1	Melody Laughter	30:02
1-2	Femme Fatale	2:48
1-3	Venus In Furs	4:58
1-4	Black Angels Death Song	4:12
1-5	All Tomorrow's Parties	5:59
1-6	Waiting For The Man	4:29
1-7	Heroin	6:47
1-8	Run Run Run	8:46
Poor Richard's	(9:56)
1-9a	Heroin	5:16
1-9b	Venus In Furs	3:24
1-9c	Sister Ray	1:16
The Chic Mystique Of Nothing Songs
Nothing Song	(28:43)
2-1a	Radio Ad For The EPI At The Trip	0:14
2-1b	Nothing Song	28:29
2-2	Venus/Heroin	3:43
2-3	Chic Mystique	26:13
Train 'Round The Bend / Oh! Sweet Nuthin'	(19:09)
2-4a	Train 'Round The Bend / Oh! Sweet Nuthin'	16:40
2-4b	Sister Ray	2:28
Sweet Sister Rayn's Heroin
3-1	Sweet Sister Ray	39:33
3-2	Sister Ray	24:31
3-3	Hey Mr. Rain	7:11
3-4	Heroin	6:36
Illuminations Of Atonality
4-1	Sister Ray	17:25
4-2	Lady Godiva's Operation	4:53
4-3	The Gift	12:11
4-4	Run Run Run	8:51
4-5	What Goes On	8:55
4-6	Guess I'm Falling In Love	5:13
4-7	A Short Lived Torture Of Cacophony	2:21
4-8	Black Angel's Death Song	3:39
4-9	The Biggest, Loudest, Hairiest Group Of All	3:31
A Distant Mirror	(10:55)
4-10a	VU Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Introduction By Patti Smith	4:25
4-10b	Last Night I Said Goodbye To A Friend	2:41
4-10c	Ghost Story	2:55
4-10d	I'm Waiting For The Man	0:54

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Valleydale Ballroom
• Recorded At – Poor Richard's
• Recorded At – 2nd Fret
• Recorded At – Gymnasium, New York
• Recorded At – La Cave
• Recorded At – The Boston Tea Party
• Recorded At – Wembley Arena
• Recorded At – Mayfair Studios
• Recorded At – Hilltop
• Recorded At – Le Bataclan
• Recorded At – Max's Kansas City
• Recorded At – The Dom, New York
• Recorded At – WNET Studios
• Glass Mastered At – Ritek – 518666
• Glass Mastered At – Ritek – 518658
• Glass Mastered At – Ritek – 518656
• Glass Mastered At – Gramofonové Závody – J70931

Credits

• Bass – Doug Yule
• Bass, Organ, Viola, Vocals, Other [Mephistophelean Aura] – John Cale
• Chanter [Chanteuse] – Nico
• Guitar [Lynchpin], Other [Ironic Raconteur] – Sterling Morrison
• Guitar [Ostriche], Guitar [K-9], Vocals – Lou Reed
• Liner Notes – Jonathan Richman, Larry McCombes, Nick Modern, Richard Goldstein, Robert Somma, Timothy Jacobs
• Other [Factotum] – Andy Warhol
• Other [Muse] – Edie Sedgwick
• Other [Snap, Crackle, Pop] – Gerard Malanga, Mary Woronow
• Percussion, Other [Dream Theorist] – Angus MaClise*
• Percussion, Other [Olatunjian Diddleyisms] – Moe Tucker

Notes

CD1
1-8: Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1966
9: Poor Richard's Club, Chicago, Illinois, June 23, 1966 [This track is actually Heroin and Venus In Furs from Ronald Nameth's Andy Warhol's EPI film and ends with 1'17 of an unidentified Sister Ray]

CD2
1: Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1966 [Begins with the radio ad for the EPI at The Trip]
2 : New York City, December 1965 [Actually USA Artists, WNET TV, NYC, February 7, 1966]
3: Delmonico's Hotel, New York City, January 8, 1966 [Actually The Dom, NYC, April 1966. Instrumental used as film soundtrack in Jonas Mekas' Walden]
4: Second Fret, Philadelphia, May, 1970 [Ends with an unlisted 2:20 Instrumental - same source as the hidden track on Ostrich/Hilltop CD but Longer - probably excerpt from Sister Ray live at The Gymnasium in April 1967].

CD3
1,4: La Cave, Cleveland, Ohio, April 28, 1968
2: The Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts, March 15, 1969
3. Wembley Arena, London, June 6, 1993.

CD4
1: Listed as Searchin', actually Sister Ray, "Swan" mix", Mayfair Studio, New York City, September 1967
2: mono mix, Mayfair Studio, New York City, September 1967
3: recorded live at Wembley Arena, London, June 6, 1993
4: Hilltop Rock Festival, Ringe, New Hampshire, August 2, 1969
5: 1968 live [this is really the same version as 1969 Live album]
6: recorded live - Gymnasium, NYC, April 1967 (early set) [The track ends with a 1:00 excerpt from Sister Ray also live at The Gymnasium April 1967]
7: New York City 1965 [actually a part of Columbus '66 Melody Laughter recorded backwards...]
8, 9: Le Bataclan, Paris, January 29, 1972
10: this is collage including the VU Rock & Roll Hall of fame introduction by Patti Smith, the band accepting the award, the band playing Last Night I Said Goodbye To A Friend, then Ghost Story from the Bataclan show, then 53 seconds of I'm Waiting For The Man from Max's Kansas City '70.

The package is a CD size cardboard one, with 4 individual CD sleeves inside, each made to look like a 45 RPM singles picture sleeve. There is a photo of the Trip Club poster, Poor Richard's poster, Balloon Farm poster, and a few photos of the band and a photo of Andy Warhol peeling a large banana on the back cover.
The 64-page booklet includes a Sterling Morrison interview with Greg Barrios originally printed in Fusion, March 6, 1970, a review of VU & Nico album by Timothy Jacobs from Vibrations No. 2, July, 1967, Chicago Happenings by Larry McCombes from Zig Zag, Vol. 5, No. 1, April/May, 1974, New York Art And The Velvet Underground by Jonathan Richman from Vibrations, September 1967, A Quiet Night at the Balloon Farm by Richard Goldstein, Problems in Urban Living by Robert Somma, and another interview with Sterling, Reflections In A Lone Star Beer by Nick Modern, et al.
This set is supposedly a limited edition of 500 copies.

Tracks duration from pc.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (CD 1): VU001 518666
• Matrix / Runout (CD 2): VU002 518658
• Matrix / Runout (CD 3): VU003 518656
• Matrix / Runout (CD 4): GZ J70931 ILLUMINATIONS
• Mastering SID Code (CD 1, CD 2, CD 3): IFPI L601
• Mould SID Code (CD 1, CD 2): IFPI IC70
• Mould SID Code (CD 2): IFPI IC24
• Mould SID Code (CD 4): IFPI 5J10

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