Gold (Velvet Underground album)
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{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
| Name = Gold
| Type = [[Compilation album]]
| Artist = [[The Velvet Underground]]
| Cover = VUGold.jpg
| Released = [[June 14]], [[2005]]
| Recorded = 1966–1969, [[United States]]
| Genre = [[Rock and roll]]
| Length =
| Label = [[Universal Music]]
| Producer = [[Andy Warhol]], [[Tom Wilson (producer)|Tom Wilson]], [[The Velvet Underground]]
| Reviews =
*[[Allmusic]] {{rating-5|4}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kbfrxq8sldhe link]
*[[Pitchfork Media|Pitchfork]] (9.3/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22944-gold 6/21/2005]
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| Last album = ''[[The Very Best of the Velvet Underground]]''<br />(2003)
| This album = ''Gold''<br />(2005)
| Next album =
| Misc = {{Extra album cover 2 |
| Upper caption = Alternate covers
| Type = Compilation album
| Cover = VUStory.jpg
| Lower caption = ''The Velvet Underground Story'', European re-issue
}}
}}
'''''Gold''''' is a 2CD [[compilation album]] by [[The Velvet Underground]]. It was released for the [[North America]]n market on [[June 14]], [[2005]], by [[Polydor]], the [[record label]] that oversees the band's [[Universal Music Group]] back catalogue.
==About the album==
The album is a regular best-of compilation, drawing from the band's first three albums, two outtake compilation and [[live album]] on [[Polydor Records]] and several co-owned labels ([[Verve Records|Verve]], [[MGM Records|MGM]] and [[Mercury Records|Mercury]]). It is notable for including four live tracks (previously available on ''[[1969: The Velvet Underground Live]]''), which most other compilations shied away from, but is unbalanced by the absence of ''[[Loaded (album)|Loaded]]'' and ''[[Squeeze (Velvet Underground album)|Squeeze]]'' tracks.
''Gold'' does include two Nico solo tracks, co-written and played by Velvet Underground members [[Lou Reed]], [[John Cale]] and [[Sterling Morrison]], taken from her 1967 debut album for Polydor, ''[[Chelsea Girl (album)|Chelsea Girl]]''. Perhaps to lure fans who already own most of the material present, two songs off ''[[VU (album)|VU]]'' are included in their previously unavailable original 1968 mixes.
On [[May 29]] [[2006]], the album was re-issued in Europe as '''''The Velvet Underground Story''''' with different art work but featuring the same track listing.
==Track listing==
All tracks performed by The Velvet Underground except † performed by The Velvet Underground and Nico and ‡ performed by Nico. All titles written by Lou Reed except as noted.
===Disc one===
# "I'm Waiting for the Man"
# "Femme Fatale" †
# "Venus in Furs"
# "Run Run Run"
# "All Tomorrow's Parties" †
# "Heroin"
# "There She Goes Again"
# "I'll Be Your Mirror" †
# "Sunday Morning" (Reed, Cale) †
# "Chelsea Girls" (Reed, Morrison) ‡
# "It Was a Pleasure Then" (Reed, Cale, [[Nico|Päffgen]]) ‡
# "White Light/White Heat"
# "I Heard Her Call My Name"
# "Sister Ray" (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker)
(1-9) taken from ''[[The Velvet Underground and Nico]]''; (10-11) taken from ''[[Chelsea Girl (album)|Chelsea Girl]]''; (12-14) taken from ''[[White Light/White Heat]]''.
===Disc two===
# "Temptation Inside Your Heart" ''(alternate, original mix)''
# "Stephanie Says" ''(alternate, original mix)''
# "Hey Mr. Rain" ''(version one)'' (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker)
# "Candy Says"
# "What Goes On"
# "Some Kinda Love"
# "[[Pale Blue Eyes]]"
# "Beginning to See the Light"
# "Foggy Notion" (Reed, Morrison, Yule, Tucker, [[Hy Weiss|Weiss]])
# "I Can't Stand It"
# "One of These Days"
# "Lisa Says"
# "New Age" ''(live)''
# "Rock and Roll" ''(live)''
# "Ocean" ''(live)''
# "[[Sweet Jane]]" ''(live)''
(1-2) first appearance, regular mixes available on ''[[VU (album)|VU]]''; (3) taken from ''[[Another View]]''; (4-8) taken from ''[[The Velvet Underground (album)|The Velvet Underground]]''; (9-12) taken from ''[[VU (album)|VU]]''; (13-16) taken from ''[[1969: The Velvet Underground Live]]''.
==Personnel==
===The band===
* [[Lou Reed]] – [[singer|vocals]] except as noted, [[guitar]]; [[piano]] on "Sunday Morning" and "White Light/White Heat"
* [[Sterling Morrison]] – guitar, [[bass guitar]], [[backup singer|backing vocals]]
* [[Maureen Tucker]] – [[percussion instrument|percussion]]
* [[John Cale]] – [[viola]], [[bass guitar]], [[keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[celesta]] (disc 1; disc 2: 1-3)
* [[Doug Yule]] – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals; lead guitar on "One of These Days" (disc 2: 4-16)
===Additional musicians===
* [[Nico]] – lead vocals on "Femme Fatale", "All Tomorrow's Parties", "I'll Be Your Mirror", "Chelsea Girls" and "It Was a Pleasure Then", backing vocals on "Sunday Morning"
===Technical staff===
* [[Andy Warhol]] – [[record producer|producer]] (disc 1: 1-8)
* [[Tom Wilson (producer)|Tom Wilson]] – producer (disc 1: 9-14)
* The Velvet Underground – producers (disc 2)
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