Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 26. Chapters: Metal Machine Music, The Raven, Loaded, 1969: The Velvet Underground Live, Peel Slowly and See, Live at Max's Kansas City, What Goes On, VU, The Best of The Velvet Underground: The Millennium Collection, Another View, Gold, The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed, The Very Best of The Velvet Underground, Sally Can't Dance, New York, Rock and Roll: An Introduction to The Velvet Underground, Coney Island Baby, Rock 'n' Roll Animal, Songs for Drella, Chronicles, New Sensations, The Blue Mask, Magic and Loss, The Velvet Underground Playlist Plus, The Bells, Street Hassle, Live: Take No Prisoners, Lou Reed Live, Set the Twilight Reeling, Le Bataclan '72, Rock and Roll Heart, Growing Up in Public, Mistrial, Hudson River Wind Meditations, Perfect Night: Live in London, The Best of Lou Reed & Velvet Underground, Legendary Hearts. Excerpt: Metal Machine Music, subtitled *The Amine Ring, is an album by Lou Reed. It was originally released as a double album by RCA Records in 1975. It was reissued on a single compact disc by BMG in 1997 and again by Buddah Records in 2000. As a radical departure from the rest of Reed's catalog, Metal Machine Music is generally considered to be either a joke, a grudging fulfillment of a contractual obligation, or an early example of noise music. The album features no songs or even recognizably structured compositions, eschewing melody and rhythm for an hour of over-modulated feedback and guitar effects, intricately mixed at varying speeds by Reed himself. In the album's liner notes he claimed to have invented heavy metal music and asserted that Metal Machine Music was the ultimate conclusion of that genre. The album made Reed a laughing stock in the rock industry while simultaneously opening the door for his later, more...