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.
wow.it's really cold and i'm really sick but i really don't care.i got to watch one of my fave movies, high fidelity, not once, but twice in a row yesterday.i listened to the whole neon bible by the arcade fire three times in a row and it blew me away.right now i have [on permanent loan lol] the velvet underground - chronicles - 3 classic albums in my possession. along with a book of poetry fro...
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Yes. I am going through a bit of a binge of the velvet underground. It makes me SOO nostaglic of the 60s and 70s. I was a 90s baby. :(I think i might be a hippie. At least for a little bit.my hippie name... tequila mockingbird(haha)Here is an mp3 of five o'clock charile.... your new favorite band. weexoxoxmaddy
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"FM Shades":http://fm-shades.blogspot.com/ originally posted them as a .zip, but the fine and dandy "Brian Turner":http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/brian_turners_posts/index.html has made them available as individual tracks.Enjoy and visit "wfmu":http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/oh yes, and a happy new year to all!
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I just happened upon an interesting audio blog called Moistworks (http://www.moistworks.com/) put together by some New York-based cats with some serious cred. They have music for download in MP3 format (high quality) from all sorts or sources, I haven't figured it all out yet.I found the site because they have MP3s of an early Velvet Underground acetate, bought at a street sale in Chelsea for 7...
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I just happened upon an interesting audio blog called Moistworks (http://www.moistworks.com/) put together by some New York-based cats with some serious cred. They have music for download in MP3 format (high quality) from all sorts or sources, I haven't figured it all out yet.I found the site because they have MP3s of an early Velvet Underground acetate, bought at a street sale in Chelsea for 7...
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Original article appears here at CNN.com.Record bought at flea market fetches $155,401NEW YORK (AP) Forty years after it was made, The Velvet Underground's first recording has become a financial hit -- in cyberspace.Bought for 75 cents four years ago at a Manhattan flea market, the rare recording of music that ended up on the influential New York band's first album, "The Velvet Underground & Ni...
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You see that? That is quite possibly the rarest record in existence. That is a test-pressing of the Velvet Underground's classic album. THE album. Maybe you remember it. It's this one....A fucking test-pressing. It's got alternative takes, and different mixes, it's a veritable gold mine of music memorabilia.....and it's going for a cool $20K. Chump change right?I think it's worth it. (I...
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A good example of the multi-media head trip that was Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable is viewable in the form of a film by Ronald Nameth over at Ubu.comHere's a quote of some of the info cited about this performance:"Music: The Velvet Underground & Nico, I'll Be Your Mirror and European Son from The Velvet Underground & Nico LP and It Was a Pleasure Then from Nico's Chelsea Girl LP, ...
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Sunday mornings are the best... the impending crush of Monday usually ruins the rest of Sunday... but the mornings... awesome!... Here's my favorite Velvet Underground song of all time and the perfect soundtrack for the moment...
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Nothing like having a little free time on your hands. Check out what the kids have been up to lately. More at Pitchfork: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/148161
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A bright, quiet day with lots of cold sunshine round here this morning.
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yes this is part two of my breakfast and music set. the first album I listen to in the morning tends to set the tone for the day so today I'm in slightly nostalgic mello mood with under tones of regret and surface happiness.the steak and eggs were excellent.
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wow.it's really cold and i'm really sick but i really don't care.i got to watch one of my fave movies, high fidelity, not once, but twice in a row yesterday.i listened to the whole neon bible by the arcade fire three times in a row and it blew me away.right now i have [on permanent loan lol] the velvet underground - chronicles - 3 classic albums in my possession. along with a book of poetry fro...
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"FM Shades":http://fm-shades.blogspot.com/ originally posted them as a .zip, but the fine and dandy "Brian Turner":http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/brian_turners_posts/index.html has made them available as individual tracks.Enjoy and visit "wfmu":http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/oh yes, and a happy new year to all!
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So, upfront, I'm not in the space to make many comments back right now, I've got school and two jobs to care for, so apologies about any forthcoming incommunicado, but I'll at least keep up with the music blog thing.Browsing through the MOG-O-Sphere, I have to say, I'm not sure how I feel about the range in taste. And that gets a chuckle, because I'm not so serious about friend rejection based ...
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Just watched a delightfully cringe-ful video from American Idol of some girl covering thnks fr th mmrs by fall out boy, and who couldn't sing OR pronounce her "th"'s.Got my wonderful white outfit for the school production [a rubiks cube inspired musical infringing on every kind of copyright possible: Two or three songs for each colour on the cube such as "A whiter shade of pale" and "I guess th...
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You see that? That is quite possibly the rarest record in existence. That is a test-pressing of the Velvet Underground's classic album. THE album. Maybe you remember it. It's this one....A fucking test-pressing. It's got alternative takes, and different mixes, it's a veritable gold mine of music memorabilia.....and it's going for a cool $20K. Chump change right?I think it's worth it. (I...
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Original article appears here at CNN.com.Record bought at flea market fetches $155,401NEW YORK (AP) Forty years after it was made, The Velvet Underground's first recording has become a financial hit -- in cyberspace.Bought for 75 cents four years ago at a Manhattan flea market, the rare recording of music that ended up on the influential New York band's first album, "The Velvet Underground & Ni...
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Tracklist:CD1:01 - Sister Ray02 - Who loves the Sun03 - Beginning to See the Light04 - Some Kinda Love05 - Who Loves the Sun06 - I Found a Reason07 - Walk and Talk08 - Ride Into the Sun09 - Ride Into the Sun10 - It's Just Too Much11 - Oh Mickey12 - radio ad.CD2:01 - I Love You02 - Wild Child03 - Ride Into the Sun04 - Lisa Says05 - She's My Best Friend06 - Hanging 'Round07 - Walk On the Wild Sid...
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Yes. I am going through a bit of a binge of the velvet underground. It makes me SOO nostaglic of the 60s and 70s. I was a 90s baby. :(I think i might be a hippie. At least for a little bit.my hippie name... tequila mockingbird(haha)Here is an mp3 of five o'clock charile.... your new favorite band. weexoxoxmaddy
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I don't think there is a better way to wake up in the morning than with Femme Fatale. Nico's voice is like a glacier slowly rolling over me.
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this weeks saturday throwback is “sunday morning”, the opening track of the classic sort of self titled album “the velvet underground & nico”, the album where the velvet underground collaborated with, you guessed it, nico! nico is basically one of those artsy women that every guy wants to date. singer, model, actress, artist. shes probably the femme fatale she sings about on this album.
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| 1 Sunday Morning |
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| 2 I'm Waiting for the Man |
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| 3 Femme Fatale |
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| 4 Venus in Furs |
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| 5 Run Run Run |
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| 6 All Tomorrow's Parties |
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| 7 Heroin |
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| 8 There She Goes Again |
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| 9 I'll Be Your Mirror |
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| 10 The Black Angel's Death Song |
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| 11 European Son |
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