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| The Velvet Underground & Nico | 
 enlarge | Artists: The Velvet Underground, Nico
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (269 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2498
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 531250
UPC: 731453125025
EAN: 0731453125025
ASIN: B000002G7C
Publication Date: 1996
Release Date: May 7, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | 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 Sun |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
When the Velvets recorded this debut, they were best known as the proteges 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 Wolk
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| Customer Reviews: Read 264 more reviews...
 Slow June 27, 2009
The album is great, definately a classic. But the shipping was slow, it took almost a month! Not buying from IGOTLUCKY again anytime soon...
 a lifelong fan May 16, 2009
a dang fine reason to get up in the morning, and a dang good reason to go to bed at night
One of the Greatest Albums Ever March 3, 2009
In my growing up days, I listened to this album and The Clash's London Calling and little else for about three years straight. This album may be the most influential album of the past 40 years, amazing since most people haven't even heard of it.
 The Velvet Underground & Nico February 6, 2009
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Strange bedfellows Lou Reed & Nico, but somehow it seems to work, one or two tracks end in a cacophany of noise (reminisant of Lennon's Number 9 on the double white)which I presume is to do with being strung out on Heroin, either way I could do without it. Overall I like this album but then again I have always like Lou and the Underground.
Mark Thomas
Noise that mattered December 25, 2008
One of the most influential discs on deconstructionist rock and rightfully so, with the edgiest production that side of '67 accentuating simultaneously appealing and repelling freak-folk, peering further down into this unhinged musical underground then anything record companies were willing to give before. Long-form sonic experimenters sit nicely, if a little consciously beside sleepy-pretty, sadly tinged ballads. Reed and the gang definitely had their limitations, technically and musically as well, and I was never a big Nico fan. But they worked with what minimal knowledge they had (as well as sometimes providing intelligent subtle counterpoints) in such a manner as to sear the U.S.'s landscape with an electric distortion of utmost sincerity.
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