The Velvet Underground s White Light White Heat is one of the most confrontational and inspirational sophomore albums ever made by a rock band. Recorded in a matter of days in the summer of 1967, a season in which everything seemed possible in rock, it s an album that reeks of the gritty New York street life and could only have been made by one band, which is the classic lineup of Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker. Half-Speed Master LP.