Editing Peel Slowly and See (section)

==Compilation==
The name of this box set comes from the instruction presented on vinyl copies of the band's [[The Velvet Underground & Nico|debut album]] to peel back the banana sticker featured on the cover. The set includes all four studio albums by the Lou Reed-era line-ups of the Velvet Underground, alongside [[Demo (music)|demo]] recordings and live performances, some of which had been previously [[Bootleg recording|bootleg]]ged, and some of which had never before been released. ''[[Squeeze (Velvet Underground album)|Squeeze]]'', recorded after Reed's departure from the band, is not included. ''[[The Velvet Underground (album)|The Velvet Underground]]'', the band's self-titled third album, uses the "closet mix", [[Lou Reed]]'s mix of the album that gives more emphasis to the vocals, and was the mix used on the original release.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VJegBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT58|page=58|title=The Life and Music of Lou Reed|author=Jeremy Reed|publisher=Music Sales Limited|date= 13 Oct 2014|isbn=9781783231898}}</ref> The band's fourth album, ''[[Loaded (The Velvet Underground album)|Loaded]]'', is presented with "full-length versions" of three of its tracks, "[[Sweet Jane]]", "[[Rock & Roll (The Velvet Underground song)|Rock & Roll]]" and "[[New Age (The Velvet Underground song)|New Age]]".

''[[Rolling Stone]]'' journalist [[David Fricke]] wrote extensive [[liner notes]] in an accompanying booklet, which also pictured many items of Velvet Underground [[memorabilia]] from the collection of guitarist [[Sterling Morrison]].