Another View is anouttakescompilation album bythe Velvet Underground. It was released in 1986 byVerve Records and is composed of material recorded between 1967 and 1969.

Another View
Compilation album by the Velvet Underground
Released	September 1986 (1986-09)
Recorded	1967–69, New York City
Genre	Rock
Length	36:21
Language	English
Label	Verve
Producer	The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground chronology
VU (1985) Another View (1986) Live MCMXCIII (1993)

When the Velvet Underground moved fromVerve Records (who had released their first two albums) to parent companyMGM Records, they signed a two-album deal, releasing their third albumThe Velvet Underground in March 1969. Later that same year, however, there was a management change and MGM Records' newCEO,Mike Curb, was brought in to try to rescue the financially struggling label. He decided to purge the record company of its many controversial and unprofitable acts. The Velvet Underground quickly became one of the groups blacklisted and were released from their contract. The band had, however, in the meantime recorded fourteen tracks for possible release as their second MGM album. All of these were shelved and forgotten by their record company until the early 1980s.

As Verve (by then animprint ofPolygram) prepared to re-release the band's three Verve/MGM albums on vinyl and, for the first time, on CD, they found nineteen previously unreleased tracks: five Cale-era tracks and the fourteen "lost album" tracks, some of them in two-trackmixdown format, some of them even onmultitracks. The cream of the nineteen tracks was released in February 1985 onVU; the rest remained for the time being in the vaults.

In 1986,Polydor decided to prepare a vinyl box set forEuropean release. Simply titledThe Velvet Underground, this box, which was released in June, consisted of the band's first three albums,VU, and an untitled bonus album containing the remaining nine tracks from Polygram's vaults. That untitled album was later separately released on vinyl and CD asAnother View.

An acetate-sourced alternative mix of this album's version of "Ride into the Sun", featuring vocals by Lou Reed, has appeared on bootlegs and on the Australian box setWhat Goes On.

As the Velvet Underground moved from MGM to Atlantic, they re-recorded two of the songs onAnother View, "Ride into the Sun" and "Rock and Roll", for possible inclusion onLoaded. Only "Rock and Roll" made the grade, but two of theAnother View songs would be recycled by Lou Reed during his early solo career: "Ride into the Sun" (onLou Reed, 1972) and "We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together" (onStreet Hassle, 1978).

The Velvet Underground

• John Cale –viola on "Hey Mr. Rain (Version I)" and "Hey Mr. Rain (Version II)",bass guitar on "Guess I'm Falling in Love"
• Sterling Morrison –guitar,backing vocals, bass guitar on "Hey Mr. Rain"
• Lou Reed –vocals, guitar,piano
• Maureen Tucker –percussion
• Doug Yule – bass guitar,keyboards, backing vocals

Technical staff

• The Velvet Underground –producers
• Bill Levenson –executive producer
• J. C. Convertino –engineer