Velvet Underground, The - White Light / White Heat [LP] (with skull tattoo on cover)

White Light/White Heat is the second studio album by American rock band the Velvet Underground, released in 1968. It was the Band's last studio recording of new material with bassist and founding member John Cale. After the disappointing sales of the Velvet Underground's first album, "The Velvet Underground & Nico" (1967), the Band's relationship with Andy Warhol deteriorated. They toured throughout most of 1967. Many of their live performances featured noisy improvisations that would become key elements on White Light/White Heat. The band eventually fired Warhol and parted ways with Nico also. The Velvet Underground ultimately went on to record their second album with Tom Wilson credited as producer. Nearly every song on the album contains some sort of experimental or avant-garde quality.The record's lyrics vary from themes of drug use and sexual references (such as fellatio and orgies), including the song "Lady Godiva's Operation", about a transsexual woman's botched lobotomy and the title track "White Light/White Heat", which describes the use of amphetamine. "Here She Comes Now" is built around a double-entendre. On the album's last track, "Sister Ray", Lou Reed tells a tale of debauchery involving drag queens having a failed orgy, while the band plays an improvised seventeen-minute jam around three chords.