The Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat 45th Anniversary Deluxe

So I've pulled the trigger on this and ordered it. Double album on blue opaque 180g vinyl, Anyone else ordered it. And does anyone know about the mastering used on this release?

White Light/White Heat 45th Anniversary Deluxe (LIMITED EDITION)

 

No amount of mastering is ever going to improve the sound quality of this wonderful album. Vinyl, of course, is the only way to go to fully experience that nasty sound we all know and love (although the 8-track tape came close ).

 

I suppose what I meant about the mastering is, was this LP mastered and cut from digital files, or was it all analogue? I bought what i thought was a remaster last year only to find it was cut from the CD (Vinyl Lovers Release) so am looking at getting this pressing as an improvement on that crappy release. You're right, This album and the Warhol album are both wonderful landmark albums. I like the stereo mix of this album specifically because you can take the music out completely on The Gift and just hear John Cales story being told. Brilliant stuff.

 

I think can say with some confidence that this will be another digital cut same as the last 45th anniversary 2xLP. Hasn't 45th come and gone? Surely this is 50th.

It may be a new cut, though.

 

My mono UK original, fairly trashed but solid.

That's the best format!

 

And unobtainable by normal human beings.
Having said that I prefer the stereo, although Lady Godiva is interesting in the mono mix.

 

I hope you like this. Another option is to augment it with a 1985 pressing. That was analogue and well-respected.

 

Ah, I was lucky, got it for fairly cheap.

These days,...

I was going to point yz at discogs page for it but even they haven't got one.

 

I'm surprised you got one at all

 

It was the early days of e-bay, This and a Banana LP (different sale), back then it was a buyers market as there weren't many users and I don't think "notifications" had been invented, so you'd have to keep trying..

I'd tell you how much they cost, but you'd cry.

 

I used to have a mid 80's version... The one with the toy soldier cover..... Sold it years ago, so now replacing all the vinyl I sold.... Always hated that cover though

 

Yes, that was the Uk 70s cover on MGM gold and blue. It was a good pressing in the 70s and I think the cover (which I like) was maybe still in use through to the early 80s when you got it. But when they did the mid-80s VU re-issue program they went back to black. That is generally 1985 and 1986. There are pressings from US, UK, Germany, Holland, for example. I have the Dutch, the German and the USA one. Worth finding one. The copies I am talking about are on Polydor/Verve.

I think this is the UK mid-80s one I mean, although they have not dated it on Discsucks:

The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

 

This is the 84 pressing on Polydor/Verve label.... I definitely had the MGM pressing of both banana and WLWH

The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

 

Did anyone ever actually listen and compare the blue vinyl edition to other versions?
If so, what's the verdict?