The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico

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Jun 17, 2016 Sold Date

May 3, 2016 Start Date

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Article name: Velvet Underground & Nico
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: VINYL LOVERS Number of tracks: 12

Tracklist LP - 1

1. The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning 2. The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting for the Man 3. The Velvet Underground - Femme Fatale 4. The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs 5. The Velvet Underground - Run Run Run 6. The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties 7. The Velvet Underground - I'll Be Your Mirror 8. The Velvet Underground - Heroin 9. The Velvet Underground - There She Goes Again 10. The Velvet Underground - Black Angel's Death Song 11. The Velvet Underground - European Son 12. The Velvet Underground - Chelsea Girls

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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 & Nico, and fewer still have lost so little of their power to surprise and intrigue more than 40 years after first hitting the racks. ~ Mark Deming

Mark Deming