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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
I'm still confused by your post because I think that you might be talking about the lost fourth album from when they got dumped by MGM. VU and Another View contain the majority of the tracks from that album, but also some Cale-era unreleased tracks, but I'll double-check with the lovely people from The Velvets forum. You might mean that the songs listed are mostly demos that were meant for the second record but didn't make it, am I right?
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No, no, no. They begun a record that would have taken its place between the official first and second albums. The five tracks I listed above comprised the initial demo, collected on the box set. Apparently, the project was abandoned for unclear reasons.
The fourth album is contained on
VU, with the exceptions of 'Sad Song' (earlier version than the one recorded for
Loaded, by some accounts), 'Stephanie Says' (later version recorded after Cale left), and 'Lonesome Cowboys' (unreleased). This is according to Maureen Tucker, by the way, as quoted in
Up-tight: The Velvet Underground Story by Victor Bockris and Gerard Malanga (essential book for Velvet fans!--rarely has there been a rock bio that contains so much vital info in so few pages).
In terms of source tapes,
Another View is all over the place.