Few rock albums are as important as The Velvet Underground & Nico, and fewer still have lost so little of their power to surprise and intrigue more 50 years after first hitting the racks. Velvet Underground & Nico LP Gets Vinyl Reissue. While the significance of Nico's contributions have been debated over the years, she meshes with the band's outlook in that she hardly sounds like a typical rock vocalist, and if Andy Warhol's presence as producer was primarily a matter of signing the checks, his notoriety allowed The Velvet Underground to record their material without compromise, which would have been impossible under most other circumstances. The bracing discord of "European Son," the troubling beauty of "All Tomorrow's Parties," and the expressive dynamics of "Heroin" all remain as compelling as the day they were recorded. Not sure if the banana is a just a sticker or also peelable. ANDY WARHOL ART COVER THE VELVET UNDERGROUND NICO LP Verve Records V6 5008 ORIGINAL 1968 PRESSING Highly sought after original 1968 pressing featuring. The Velvet Underground & Nico is the debut album by American rock band the Velvet Underground and German singer Nico, released in March 1967 through Verve.
Lou Reed's lyrical exploration of drugs and kinky sex (then risky stuff in film and literature, let alone "teen music") always received the most press attention, but the music Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker played was as radical as the words they accompanied. 2012 reissue of 1967 releaseLP in a single pocket jacket. This release listing is for the original Mono vinyl (V-5008) that came. Here, the Velvets dipped their toes into dreamy pop ("Sunday Morning"), tough garage rock ("Waiting for the Man"), stripped-down R&B ("There She Goes Again"), and understated love songs ("I'll Be Your Mirror") when they weren't busy creating sounds without pop precedent. While The Velvet Underground had as distinctive a sound as any band, what's most surprising about this album is its diversity.
#THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO VINYL PLUS#
This album features the first professional line up of The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen 'Moe' Tucker, plus Nico singing on three tracks ('Femme Fatale', 'All Tomorrow's Parties' and 'I'll Be Your Mirror').
#THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO VINYL CRACK#
While it reportedly took over a decade for the album's sales to crack six figures, glam, punk, new wave, goth, noise, and nearly every other left-of-center rock movement owes an audible debt to this set. Audiophile pressing on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl in gatefold sleeve. One would be hard-pressed to name a rock album whose influence has been as broad and pervasive as The Velvet Underground & Nico.
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