229,500+ hits. Amazing, for one vinyl LP.
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Technically it isn't vinyl, it is accetate. "One of". Not a pressed record.
THAT said, as a rarity it ISN'T so rare. There are other VU accetates in existence.
The most IMPORTANT one was the one that wound up in David Bowie's hands BEFORE the first VU album came out. It inspired him, got him to change his music, and he was even covering an Underground song live before the album was released.
David Bowie has always been incorporating things from other musicians in his work. The name "Ziggy Stardust" came from The Legendary Stardust Cowboy. I'm not sure, but the same music industry guy may have given Bowie both of those records.
Later he worked with Iggy Pop and even Stevie Ray Vaughn.
Maybe this was "the first" recording but it didn't change the course of music. The band would be recorded again and again. Bowie's accetate DID change a course of music.
Well, I had the store-bought version of the LP. Sadly it is not in my box of vinyl anymore.
Actually, "Sunday Morning" was chosen by the record company as a single. They even brought in Tom Wilson, who remastered and added electric instruments to make "The Sound of Silence" a hit, to produce that track.
Didn't care for "White Light White Heat," a subpar effort and a disappointing follow-up to the first album. Reed was smart to redo the title track on "Rock and Roll Animal."
On a final note, I had two encounters with Lou Reed in my life: when I was 20, he and Laurie Anderson stood next to me on the corner of Houston and 6th and, when I was in grad school, I sold a coffee machine to him.