For post number 100, it works out cool that I get to write about White Light/White Heat, the second and arguably the most adventurous and disturbing album by The Velvet Underground. It's an album that is meant to explore the underside of rock, without any dishonesty or apology. Its sound, while certainly not to everyone's taste, matches its subjects and succeeds in shaking up a listener, even today. The title track opener has (like "Sweet Jane") entered into the "very frequently covered" category, and deservedly so. The second track, "The Gift", consists of a short story written by Lou Reed and read by John Cale in one channel, and the band playing an instrumental (elsewhere called "Booker T.") in the other. "Lady Godiva's Operation", like "Here She Comes Now", features a melodic sense that is unique to The Velvets with an outrageous lyric (even by their standards) to top it off. It's bizarre but marvelous, as is the rest of the album, which closes with the escaped id screamer "Sister Ray", perhaps the most polarizing song in rock and roll. I'll let Sterling Morrison have the last word: "We were all pulling in the same direction. We may have been dragging each other off a cliff, but we were all definitely going in the same direction. In the White Light/White Heat era, our lives were chaos. That's what's reflected in the record."