104 The Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat

The second album is a visceral audio assault of overdriven instruments, and lyrics about methamphetamine abuse, botched medical procedures violence and of course heroin-dealing drag queens. Cale recalled “The first one had some gentility, some beauty. The second one was consciously anti-beauty.”

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