Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
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Artist: Velvet UndergroundEdition: Music CD
Format: Deluxe Edition, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-06-25
Music Label: Polydor
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Sunday Morning [Stereo Version]
- I'm Waiting for the Man [Stereo Version]
- Femme Fatale [Stereo Version]
- Venus in Furs [Stereo Version]
- Run Run Run [Stereo Version]
- All Tomorrow's Parties [Stereo Version]
- Heroin [Stereo Version]
- There She Goes Again [Stereo Version]
- I'll Be Your Mirror [Stereo Version]
- The Black Angel's Death Song [Stereo Version]
- European Son [Stereo Version]
- Little Sister [Stereo Version]
- Winter Song [Stereo Version]
- It Was a Pleasure Then [Stereo Version]
- Chelsea Girls [Stereo Version]
- Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams [Stereo Version]
- Sunday Morning [Mono Version]
- I'm Waiting for the Man [Mono Version]
- Femme Fatale [Mono Version]
- Venus in Furs [Mono Version]
- Run Run Run [Mono Version]
- All Tomorrow's Parties [Mono Version]
- Heroin [Mono Version]
- There She Goes Again [Mono Version]
- I'll Be Your Mirror [Mono Version]
- The Black Angel's Death Song [Mono Version]
- European Son [Mono Version]
- All Tomorrow's Parties [Single A-Side (Mono Version)]
- I'll Be Your Mirror [Single B-Side (Mono Version)][Alternate Take]
- Sunday Morning [Single A-Side (Mono Version)]
- Femme Fatale [Single B-Side (Mono Version)]
Free Music Notes for The Velvet Underground & Nico
Free Music Review: One of the Birthplaces of Modern Rock!
Hit: 5 Stars
It has to be historically accepted that The Velvet Underground & Nico is one of the most inspirational and crucial albums ever made in rock 'n' roll history. This new deluxe edition has great additional features with Nico's voice as well as fine mono versions of the stereo versions of the original album.
This album was released before other masterpieces of other groups were released. Examples are the following: The Beatles-Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Doors(self-titled album), Pink Floyd-Piper at the Gates of Dawn, and Jimi Hendrix-Are You Experienced? However, hardly sold; it only reached 199 on the charts. Well, it just goes to show that commercial success and artistic merit do not always go hand in hand.
This album has one of the most groundbreaking songs of all time, "Heroin". It starts off quiet and slow, then it goes faster during the first verse. During the second and third verses, it does the same thing. Then, in the fourth verse where Lou Reed sings 'Heroin', John Cale starts to play his viola like a buzzing chainsaw. He does this until Lou Reed sings the last line of the song, 'Oh and I guess that I just don't know'. Finally, the song is fairly calm and slow again.
All of this is execeptional for this avant-garde type of music. All the songs on this album are great. A few in particular which I like besides "Heroin" are "Venus in Furs", "I'm Waiting For My Man", "Run, Run, Run", "All Tomorrow's Parties", "The Black Angels Death Song", and "European Son". Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker, and Nico demonstrate that you do not need to play exact same instruments over and over again or have a clean and clear signing voice to be a fine rock 'n' roll band.
They were the kind of musicians who thought outside the box and challenged the way rock 'n' roll should be played.
Lou Reed is one of the first artists to treat rock 'n' roll as an art. He uses just about any kind of instruments in his songs as well as writing poetic lyrics. We should get back to the song "Heroin".
In the first verse he sings,
'I don't know just where I'm going
But I'm gonna try for the kingdom if I can
'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man
When I put a spike into my vein
Then I tell you things aren't quite the same
When I'm rushing on my run
And I feel like Jesus' son
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know'
In my opinion, Lou gives you an impression or surreal situation about what a person experiences and feels after he/she injects heroin inside his/her body.
Do doubt has this song changed songwriting from then on!
This band is extremely fortunate to have a man like Andy Warhol as their friend and motivator. He designed an innovative album jacket. You see this white album with Andy Warhol's name and a banana on the front. In the upper right hand corner, you read, 'Peel Slowly and See'. Then when you do peel it open, you expect to see something vulgar like a penis. Yet it turns out to be a pink banana. Gotcha!
Well, I would say that since its release in March of 1967, it has gradually had a huge influence on musicians that would follow: The Stooges, Queen, KISS, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, The New York Dolls, Blondie, The Ramones, Television, Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, INXS, Devo, Marilyn Manson, Sonic Youth, REM, David Bowie, U2, Jesus and Mary Chain, and others.
This is why I think this is one of the places where modern rock started!
The Velvet Underground & Nico Poster
When the Velvets recorded this debut, they were best known as the protégés of Andy Warhol (who designed the sleeve), and as a grating, combustive live band. Fueled by drummer Moe Tucker's no-nonsense wham and John Cale's howling viola, some of the straight-up rock & roll and arty noise extravaganzas here bear that out. But before Lou Reed was singing about sadomasochism and drug deals and writing lyrics inspired by his favorite poets, he was a pop songwriter, and this album has some of his prettiest tunes, mostly sung by Nico, the German dark angel who left the band after this disc. Even the sordid rockers are underscored by graceful pop tricks, like the two-chord flutter at the center of the classic "Heroin." --Douglas WolkAlternative Rock Music CDs
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