THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO 1971 UK MGM 2nd PRESSING

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  THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO 1971 UK MGM 2nd PRESSING SUPERB COPY, NEAR MINT AUDIO, MacNEILL GATEFOLD SLEEVE
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO

HERE WE HAVE A SUPERB, MGM (VERVE SUPER 2315 056) UK 1971 SECOND PRESSING OF THE VELVET UNDERGROUND'S BLISTERING DEBUT LP, "The Velvet Underground & Nico" - ONE OF THE GREATEST LPs EVER ISSUED FROM ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT ROCK BANDS

THE RECORD HAS THE FIRST GOLD/TURQUOISE MGM LABELS
FIRST 1971 MGM MATRIX: 2315056 A//1 ∇ 420 11 10 / 2315056 B//1 ∇ 420 12 4
AND IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATTE GATEFOLD SLEEVE, "Printed and made by MacNeill Press Ltd., London, S.E.1"
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED POLYDOR INNER SLEEVE

One would be hard pressed to name a rock album whose influence has been as broad and pervasive as The Velvet Underground & Nico.
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.
While The Velvet Underground had as distinctive a sound as any band, what's most surprising about this album is its diversity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Few rock albums are as important as The Velvet Underground and Nico, and fewer still have lost so little of their power to surprise and intrigue more than 40 years on.

Track Listing:
Side One: Sunday Morning (2:53) / I'm Waiting For The Man (4:37) / Femme Fatale (2:35) / Venus In Furs (5:07) / Run, Run, Run (4:18) / All Tomorrow's Parties (5:55)
Side Two: Heroin (7:05) / There She Goes Again (2:30) / I'll Be Your Mirror (2:01) / Black Angel's Death Song (3:10) / European Son To Delmore Schwartz (7:40)

LABELS: CLEAN, BRIGHT and UNMARKED with moderate spindles
VINYL Visual: The surfaces retain their original DEEP, LIKE-NEW, GLOSSY SHEEN and are UNMARKED
VINYL Audio: OUTSTANDING audio - CRYSTAL CLEAR, SHARP, POWERFUL and VIBRANT SOUND - STUNNING LP. There are NO scratches, NO sticks/jumps, barely any clicks or pops (really, hardly any) and NO surface noise. The LP plays BEAUTIFULLY throughout to an extremely high standard with NO groove-wear and NO distortion and must be graded NEAR MINT for audio - the playback is practically FLAWLESS throughout. NOT over-graded in ANY way as I use STRICT RECORD COLLECTOR grading standards (please check my feedback and "about me' page)
SLEEVE: The gatefold cover is EXCELLENT - There are some light marks (the sleeve is mostly white) and a small patch of staining to the bottom right front of the sleeve (see close-up photo) but otherwise, the sleeve is in GREAT shape and all text on the spine is CLEAR and BOLD

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EXCELLENT UK SECOND PRESSING OF AN ABSOLUTELY STUNNING LP WHICH PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY THROUGHOUT- VERY, VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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