Velvet Underground & Nico LP Japan NEAR MINT Verve

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Item : Japanese gate-fold LP with unpeeled banana & lyric sheet

Title : Andy Warhol

Artist : The Velvet Underground and Nico

Release details : Japanese gate-fold issue on the VERVE Label (23MM 0191).

Condition :
Vinyl ~ This vinyl here is brilliant. 'Thick as' , un-marked, glossy throughout and impossible to fault, no spindle marks, appears un-played and is certain to please. To be honest I've never seen a more pristine example of this classic psych-rock album, and over the years I've seen the odd good one … but nowhere near as magnificent as this pressing.
Graded Mint minus at the very least.

Sleeve ~ The gate-fold cover here is incredibly pleasing. No splits, writing or marks and simply cannot be faulted. The spine is intact and as new.
The banana is intact and un-peeled … great stuff !!
The lyric sheet is as new.
You would be hard pressed to find a better example of this album unless it was sealed.

Track Listing :
Sunday Morning
I'm Waiting for the Man
Femme Fatale
Venus in Furs
Run Run Run
All Tomorrow's Parties
Heroin
There She Goes Again
I'll Be Your Mirror
The Black Angel's Death Song
European Son

Description :
Here is the best pressing of this long out of print classic debut album from The Velvet Underground with Nico that you'll see for a long time.

Album review :
One would be hard pressed to name a rock album whose influence has been as broad and pervasive as The Velvet Underground and 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 30 years after first hitting the racks - Mark Deming.

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