314) The Velvet Underground

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The Velvets began as the black-booted antidote to the flower-power sound of the Sixties; this album turned folk music inside out. Their disillusion, exhaustion and ache is explosive, and the churning rhythm guitar in "What Goes On" could shame lead guitarists.

Total album sales: Under 500,000

Peak chart position: 197

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