Nico - Classic Years
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Artist: NicoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-09-15
Music Label: Polydor / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- I'm Not Saying
- The Last Mile
- I'll Be Your Mirror
- Femme Fatale
- All Tomorrow's Parties [Single Version]
- The Fairest of the Seasons
- These Days
- Little Sister
- Chelsea Girls
- No One Is There
- Ari's Song
- Frozen Warnings
- Nibelungen
- Janitor of Lunacy
- Abschied
- Afraid
- Secret Side
- You Forgot to Answer
- The End
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Free Music Review: Classic
Hit: 5 Stars
She was the Velvet Underground's tambourine-shaking chanteuse, an influence on punk and goth, and the dark side to the vast expanse of pop music. In her solo career, Nico released some of the best music in all of pop-dom, full of despair, darkness and beauty.
"The Classic Years" is an excellent compilation of Nico's best. It's a bit of a surprise to hear it open with the bouncy melody of the Gordon Lightfoot cover "I'm Not Saying," with Nico doing her best to keep up. Her thick vocals seem more appropriate in "The Last Mile," a stripped-down guitar ballad.
Then we venture into VU territory, with songs that Nico did on the one album where she performed. "All Tomorrow's Parties" is slow, stately and rich, while "Femme Fatale" is a light, sharp song with a tambourine, and "I'll Be Your Mirror" is an exquisite, delicate little ballad. These are among Nico's best songs.
But things remain exquisite in her following solo songs, which stray away from typical pop rhythms, and the gritty, unpolished sound that the Velvet Underground made famous. Instead we have the darkly erotic cover of the Doors' "The End," the sensuous "Chelsea Girls," and the eerie, haunting "No One Is There."
"The Classic Years" is in more or less chronological order -- it starts off with her first single, recorded for Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, goes into her Velvet Underground Roots, and finishes with her solo pop career. Nico died in 1988 in a car accident, but had she lived, it would be easy to imagine that she would be just as much a legend today.
And away from English ubermanagers and American alt-bands, Nico's true musical style starts to shine through. It's more European in style: stately, polished, dark and rich as mahogany. In those songs, Nico seems most as home, singing almost cheerfully about isolation and death.
In technical terms her singing is not great -- deep, thick, heavily accented and monotone. But she's strange compelling, just because her voice is so unusual. The first song is the only one where she doesn't sound good -- uptempo made her sound artificially cheerful. The rest of the time, she stays slow and meditative.
Even today, Nico is a much underrated artist. But "The Classic Years" show her off at her best, with most of her best songs grouped as one album.
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