What Goes On (Velvet Underground song)

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"What Goes On"
Single by The Velvet Underground
from the album The Velvet Underground
B-side"Jesus"
ReleasedMarch 1969 (1969-03)
RecordedNovember - December 1968 at T.T.G. Studios, Hollywood
GenrePop rock, garage rock
Length4:55
LabelMGM
Songwriter(s)Lou Reed
Producer(s)The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground singles chronology
"White Light/White Heat"
(1968) 		"What Goes On"
(1969) 		"Who Loves The Sun"
(1971)

"What Goes On" is a song by the Velvet Underground. It was the only single released from their 1969 eponymous third album.

The song was recorded in 1968 at T.T.G. Studios in Hollywood.[1]

A concert performance of the song, with

live album 1969: The Velvet Underground Live.[2]

Personnel

Yule, Morrison (back) and Reed (front) in a magazine advertisement for the single
  • Lou Reed – lead vocals, multi-tracked electric & acoustic guitars (including solo)
  • better source needed
    ] backing vocals
  • Sterling Morrison – multi-tracked electric guitars (including solo)
  • Maureen Tucker
    – drums

Cover versions

The Doctors of Madness used to play this song live in 1977–1978. Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry performed "What Goes On" (with elements of "Beginning to See the Light") on his 1978 solo album The Bride Stripped Bare.

The "What Goes On" organ riff was used in the Talking Heads song "Once in a Lifetime," featured on their 1980 album Remain in Light.[4]

It was also recorded by

The Screaming Trees on the 2009 compilation album Unpiecing the Jigsaw - A Tribute to The Velvet Underground[5] and the Dils
on numerous live albums.

Jim Kerr recorded it as the B-side to "Shadowland" in 2010, and later included it on the B-side to a 7" single included with the special edition of the Lostboy! AKA Jim Kerr CD.

Radio 6 Music
session in 2012 and featured it on their Make It Mine EP released later that year.

Fanzine

In 1978,

aficionados Mike "MC" Kostek and Phil Milstein started the Velvet Underground Appreciation Society, which collected, cataloged and made available various rarities.[6] They also published a fanzine titled "What Goes On", and later on a newsletter titled "What Goes On Jr."[7]

References

  1. ^ Discogs - T.T.G. Studios (Hollywood) profile and discography
  2. ^ Unterberger (2009)
  3. ^ "Robert Caruso". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  4. National Public Radio
    broadcast. 27 March 2000. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Unpiecing the jigsaw: A Tribute to The Velvet Underground" by Dave Thompson, AllMusic.com
  6. ^ Zak (1997)
  7. ^ Le Velours Souterrain

Further reading

External links

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