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| The Velvet Underground Nico | 
 enlarge | Artists: The Velvet Underground, Nico
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
Buy New: $5.76
You Save: $4.22 (42%)
Buy New/Used/Collectible from $4.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  (267 reviews)
Sales Rank: 821
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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| Customer Reviews:
 a landmark album April 30, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is one of the great albums of the 60's.. It represents everything experimental in late 60's art-rock.. There are the cool mellow vibrations of 'Sunday morning', 'femme fatale', 'I'll be your mirror' - and there are the more drug induced hypnotic tracks like 'I'm waiting for the man', 'Venus in furs', and 'Heroin'- it is overall some of the most memorable music Lou Reed and co. would make - John Cale's influence is also felt especially on 'Heroin' and 'the black angel's death song'. This one will blow your mind..
 Old Acid Rock March 20, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This album originally came out in the mid 60's and was a staple of many of those of us who were in college during the Hippie era. It's not a recording for everyone due to the subjects of drugs and sexuality which are somewhat explicit. The majority of it is hard driving and discordant but the throaty sensuality if Nico's voice is both haunting and memorable. I wore out three LP's of this album and to have it remastered and on CD is wonderful, psychedelic and groovy. It's a good listen and reflects some of the fringe sound produced at this time. It was definitly an UNDERGROUND sound.
Absolutely essential to any music fan February 25, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Velvet Underground was so far ahead of their time, they could've released this album in the 80's, and it would still be groundbreaking. But it was actually released in early 1967, the equivalent of space aliens accidently leaving a piece of their light-years-ahead-of-us technology on the face of the Earth for us to stumble upon.br /br /At the time, NOBODY was making music like this. The vast majority of the rock world was stuck in hippie mode, and the VU was like stepping into a different dimension:br /To hell with sitars and LSD, the Velvets had avant-garde noise freakouts, rockabilly-style guitar work(The Velvets hit the scene JUST before distortion started taking off), long droning instrumental sounds, a knack for exotic poetry, abrasive taboo lyrics, and a viola! br /br /The band wasn't commercially successful, but those who DID hear their records were all inspired to start bands themselves. They refused to sacrifice their art for a few record sales, and tension began to mount between band leaders Lou Reed and John Cale as a result, but it showed how utterly respectable they were. It also didn't hurt that they reveled in their scary misfit image, and that their their live performances were nightmarish freak shows (and I mean that in the best way possible).br /br /The Velvets are more influential than any rock band in history, except The Beatles. Without this album, no Ramones. No Television. No REM. No Joy Division, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Nirvana or White Stripes. And that's just scratching the surface.br /br /But that's also disturbing. Because the Velvets seem to have a reputation of "an influential band" than they were "a good band". It's true that finding a left-of-center band that wasn't inspired by these guys is like trying to find an evolutionist that wasn't inspired by Darwin, but this album proves that their music was as good as it was influential. Which would be impossible with any other band.br /br /Out of the 4 VU albums, this, their debut, is their best. Practically every style of music they ever did is summarized in here PERFECTLY. Every song is good, but a small handful of best cuts alone are enough to give this 5 stars. The opener "Sunday Morning", is one of the dreamiest, most gorgeous songs ever written, with Lou Reed giving his best-ever vocal performance, with great use of echo. "Venus In Furs" is a scary, mailcious, unbelievably pitch-black violin drone with SM related lyrics (which was unheard of back then). "European Sun" shows the Velvets rocking out for almost 8 minutes, with the guitars bass swirling, stumbling, exploding, and trying to tear eachother apart. Incredible. br /br /But it all takes a backseat to the album's centerpiece: "Heroin". br /It starts off innocent enough: two chords repeated over tom-toms and a viola. But after a while, the song randomly begins speeding up and slowing down with the drums emulating a heartbeat, much like a person using heroin actually would do. The song gradually gets more intense, until around the 5-minute mark, where the viola goes INSANE and just starts screeching and howling it's metallic howl, and ripping itself apart for the next 90 seconds. Overdose time. And Lou chose not to use any metaphors in this song's lyrics at all, making him even more daring. Compared to "Heroin", Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" looks laughable and boring.br /br /"The Velvet Underground and Nico" is in my Top 5 albums ever made, and is essential to any music fan. It's also a great alternate look at the Summer of Love. While you're at it, check out "White Light: White Heat" and their self-titled album as well. You'll be craving more after listening to this. I guarantee it.
A Velvet Revolution January 28, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Bob Dylan revolutionized the way rock lyrics were written, but the Velvet Underground kicked that door wide open with its debut album. Widely ignored by the record-buying public during the Summer of Love, "The Velvet Underground Nico" now assumes its rightful throne as the most influential album of 1967. It easily surpasses other landmark albums from that year, such as the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper", the Doors' self-titled album and Jimi Hendrix' "Are You Experienced". br /br /The Velvets' aim was complete shock and awe with this album, which they fully achieved -- and then some. Most counter-cultural music from '67 still featured lyrics saying pretty much the same thing, namely wow-look-at-me-I'm-so-high. br /br /The Velvet Underground, on the other hand, painted the entire picture of drug addiction with masterpieces such as "I'm Waiting For The Man" and "Heroin". These songs covered the highs ("and I feel like Jesus' son") and the unspeakable lows ("Up to Lexington, 125/Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive/I'm waiting for my man") in plain, compelling lyrics. br /br /In a way, they were true reporters covering the streets of New York City, and its effect went beyond the mere risque. It was downright too abrasive for the mainstream, who preferred the Doors' "Break On Through" or Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit". "Heroin"? Too much for your average record-buyer. br /br /The music itself is positively creepy, with Lou Reed's flat, nasal delivery or Nico's cold-as-ice vocals over the discordant, amateurish playing and deliberately lo-fi production values. It's almost as if Reed was expressing his own death wish perfectly (he is, after all, a leading member of the "I Can't Believe He's Still Alive" Club, along with Keith Richards and Iggy Pop), in both lyrics and song. br /br /It's not hard to picture this record being played in the Manson Family's hideaway, because what really pops out of this CD, even 39 years later, is the specter of death. It's dated, for sure, so it will take today's listener some time to get into. However, when placed in the context of other late-60s music, it represents nothing less than a true revolution. The Sgt. Peppers of the world have nicely faded away into the pages of Rolling Stone, but "The Velvet Underground Nico" still resonates unsettlingly today.
Beatnick music at its very best. January 10, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you feel like venting, this album is for you. This album is brilliant. It shows how the true 60's really was, not about peace, love, and the pursuit of happiness, but about a rejectful time filled with sin of drugs and hopelessness, young adults living as if they were in the barrio. Sunday Morning is a good start to that, better pray now. Waiting For My Man, pretty much to the point. Heroin, definitely to the point. There She Goes, good little number I think that speaks truth in such relationships. Angel of Black Death, doomy indeed. BEWARE, not for all all ears, very advant garde, definitely a good album to be mad with, and very poetic in the same.
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