The Velvet Underground "White Light / White Heat" alternative Features original drummer Billy Murcia

Features original drummer Billy Murcia and production by famed punk/new wave producer Marty Thau (The Ramones

each album peeling back a layer of the onion to glimpse at past and future alike

In the purest form possible

Raekwon and Cappadonna share the rapping with Ghostface as the soul/blaxploitation samples fly across "All That I Got Is You" (featuring Mary J

' and 'Sloop John B' (the last of which wasn't originally intended to go on the album) are the well-known hits

The Velvet Underground "White Light / White Heat" alternative Features original drummer Billy MurciaRecorded without the input of either Nico or Andy Warhol, White Light White Heat was the purest and rawest document of the key Velvets lineup of Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker, capturing the group at their toughest and most abrasive. The album opens with an open and enthusiastic endorsement of amphetamines (startling even from this group of noted drug enthusiasts), and side one continues with an amusing shaggy dog story set