

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'). 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. Audiophile pressing on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl in gatefold sleeve. 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. Very rare and essential 1967 US East Coast press blue & silver Verve label 11-track stereo LP, housed in the. 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. Velvet Underground: 45th Anniversary Deluxe. 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. 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. The Velvet Undergrounds legendary debut album with the original peel-able Andy Warhol BANANA cover art Although Warhol, who was listed as producer on the. While The Velvet Underground had as distinctive a sound as any band, what's most surprising about this album is its diversity. Tracklist A1Sunday Morning2:53A2Im Waiting For The Man4:37A3Femme Fatale2:35A4Venus In Furs5:07A5Run, Run, Run4:18A6All Tomorrows Parties5:55A7Ill Be.CA39.
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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. One would be hard-pressed to name a rock album whose influence has been as broad and pervasive as The Velvet Underground & Nico.
