VARIOUS – Ill Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico – 2LP – Yellow Vinyl

LABEL: Virgin/UMC

CAT NO: 38200825

BARCODE: 0602438200825

Tracklisting:

01. Sunday Morning Michael Stipe02. Im Waiting For The Man Matt Berninger03. Femme Fatale Sharon Van Etten (w/ Angel Olsen on backing vocals)04. Venus In Furs Andrew Bird & Lucius05. Run Run Run Kurt Vile06. All Tomorrows Parties St. Vincent & Thomas Bartlett07. Heroin feat. Bobby Gillespie Thurston Moore feat. Bobby Gillespie08. There She Goes Again King Princess09. Ill Be Your Mirror Courtney Barnett10. The Black Angels Death Song Fontaines D.C.11. European Sun Iggy Pop & Matt Sweeney

VARIOUS ARTISTS Ill Be Your Mirror:
A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico

2LP Limited Edition Yellow Vinyl

A star-studded covers compilation featuring Iggy Pop & Matt Sweeney, St. Vincent & Thomas Bartlett, R.E.M.s Michael Stipe, Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen, The Nationals Matt Berninger, Courtney Barnett and more offering their renditions of each track from the bands all-timer of a 1967 debut album.THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: AN OVERVIEWThe Velvet Underground is regarded as one of the most influential bands in rock history.Their first 4 albums were included in Rolling Stones list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.Ranked 19th greatest artist by the same magazine and the 24th greatest artist in a poll by VH1.Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.Critic Robert Christgau considers them the number three band of the 60s, after the Beatles and James Brown and His Famous Flames.AllMusic wrote that Few rock groups can claim to have broken so much new territory, and maintain such consistent brilliance on record, as the Velvet Underground during their brief lifespan [] the Velvets innovations which blended the energy of rock with the sonic adventurism of the avant-garde, and introduced a new degree of social realism and sexual kinkiness into rock lyrics were too abrasive for the mainstream to handle.

See below for tracklisting