1582 - The Velvet Underground Sunday Morning 1966

"Sunday Morning" is a song by the Velvet Underground. It was requested by Tom Wilson, who thought their first album needed another song with lead vocals by Nico with the potential to be a successful single. Wilson brought the band into a New York City recording studio in November. The song was written with Nico's voice in mind by Lou Reed and John Cale on a Sunday morning. The band previously performed it live with Nico singing lead, but when it came time to record it, Lou Reed sang the lead vocal. Nico would instead sing backing vocals on the song.

1282 - The Velvet Underground What Goes On 1969

Although "What Goes On" was recorded in Los Angeles for The Velvets' third album in 1969 with Doug Yule on bass and organ, the band performed the song live with John Cale on organ regularly, until his departure from The Velvets in September 1968. By all accounts Cale's rendition of "What Goes On" on organ was legendary and that's why John Cale appears in this video instead of Doug Yule who actually played (what sounds like) a Vox Continental organ on this song. One of the most amazingly awesome classic songs ever, a veritable masterpiece.

655 - The Velvet Underground Heroine 1967

The Velvet Underground and Nico is the debut album by avant-garde rock and roll band The Velvet Underground and vocal collaborator Nico.
"Heroin" is one of the band's most celebrated compositions, overtly depicting heroin use and abuse. "Heroin" begins slowly with Lou Reed's quiet, melodic guitar and hypnotic drum patterns by Maureen Tucker, soon joined by John Cale's droning electric viola and Sterling Morrison's steady rhythm guitar. The tempo increases gradually, mimicking the high the narrator receives from the drug, until a frantic crescendo is reached, punctuated by Cale's shrieking viola and the more punctuated guitar strumming of Reed and Morrison. Tucker's drumming becomes hurried and louder. The song then slows to the original tempo, and repeats the same pattern before ending.