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The Velvet Underground · 1981 · Vinyl-LP · AU · FIRST-1

[Uncredited infos:] A1, A4: pre-VU, from [m674859] (1965). A2, A3: pre-VU, from [r4337816] (1964). A5: One-sided 7 inch cardboard picture (portrait of Lou by Billy Name on the play side) record, part of Andy Warhol's Index book, a multimedia package (1966). B1 to B4: rough mix demos from 1969, originally available on the EP [r670929] (1976). B5: from [m54737] (1966). There are at least three different editions: 1. [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/6165099]First edition[/url] (1979) has a silk-screened cover. Left hand corner of the back cover reads: "design & silk-screen printing". 2. This 1981 reissue has a standard cover with black on white "numbers" labels identical on both sides. Others include standard cover with [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/6079048]white on black[/url] "numbers" labels identical on both sides; [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/382252]white labels[/url] or [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/9040635]purple labels[/url]. 3. Later reissue in [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/5348642]blue marble vinyl edition[/url] (1990).