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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: 787
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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 probaly one of the greatest albums ever... December 16, 2005
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
this album has influenced so many differant bands like jesus and the mary chain, the strokes,david bowie and many others...im not going to write a lengthy review telling how great this album is...just buy it!!!
Pre- Punk On It's Best December 3, 2005
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
The Velvet Underground Nico is an album that should have sold way more than it did. It didn't even go gold. GOLD!!! This is one of the best albums ever! Why not even gold!?! God, this is insanity! This has such classics as "Herion", "I'm Waiting For The Man" and "Sunday Morning". Albums like Back In Black, Jagged Little Pill, and Thriller have come out and sucked, but sold a s#!t load of copies while this, A GOOD ALBUM, only sold 311,000 copies! Rolling Stone placed it at Number 13 on the 500 best album of all time and still didn't sell any copies. So please buy this album, let the other people know!!!
Great November 27, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This album is awesome. Please, please, please don't pay attention to the lame review by the idiot who suggested Beyonce or Ashanti (who, by the way, weren't even around until waaaay after The Velvet Underground disbanded!!) as singers instead of Nico. The band is great, Nico's great, the songs are awesome. I definitely recommend it.
Art-rock is born November 18, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Not in vain is this album - which is called neither Velvet Underground, The Banana Album, The Andy Warhol Album , or any of those bogus names, many of which are admittedly catchier and stronger than the rather clumsy real title - considered one of the most important albums in rock history. It's not only - without doubt - the Velvet Underground's best work and one of the greatest albums of the psychedelic era - it also bore the seeds of art-rock, punk, new-wave and post-punk, as well as in some subtle ways progressive rock and metal. Like it or not - and I can certainly see how many people wouldn't - Velvet Underground Nico is a piece of rock history and essential listening.br /br /Velvet Underground Nico is the rare kind of album that achieves perfection not through one person's vision but through the perfect combination of several very distinct personalities and talents, and as is usually the case with these works - see King Crimson's and Pink Floyd's debuts - that combination lasted only for one album, which makes it a truly unique and one-of-a-kind creation. There are four such talents at work in this album. First and foremost is without doubt Lou Reed, who was lead songwriter, singer and guitarist for the Underground, and in a way the leader of their sound. As the writer of classics like 'Heroin' and 'I'm Waiting for the Man', Reed assured his place as one of the great and most original songwriters of history. However, the part played by John Cale - bass and violin - is absolutely essential to the greatness of the album, and the next two Underground albums; after he left the band, it lost most of its edge, and it took Reed a few years to get his act back together. The sonic terrorism, as he himself called it, Cale employs here was unlike anything else heard before, and was an important part of the band's appeal and controversy. The last two pieces of the puzzle are singer Nico, one of the greatest and strangest voices in the history of rock, as well as a very charismatic performer, who played a huge part in this album's success; and producer, mentor and friend Andy Warhol, whose inexperienced and experimental sound helped the album make its mark. Warhol and Nico would never work with the Underground again, and they're an important part of this album being so unique in space and time.br /br /Many of the songs on the album are classics; 'Sunday Morning' in particular springs to mind as one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded; 'Run Run Run' and 'I'm Waiting for the Man' are both perfect, pre-punk songs, and Nico's harrowing voice makes 'Femme Fatale' and 'I'll Be Your Mirror' haunting and unforgettable experiences. The album's main contribution to the music world however was in its uncompromising, often disharmonic sound, and so it's songs like 'Heroin' and 'Venus in Furs' that really stand out. 'Heroin', the most haunting track on the album, with its obsessive, gradually speeding chorus, was probably the most important track the Underground had recorded, and is their most memorable; 'Venus in Furs' as well, with Cale's unignorable electric violin, was a song that sounded like nothing made before by anyone and made the Underground impossible to overlook, and their contribution is felt to this day, in rock as well as in electronic music, modern classical music, jazz and hip-hop. If you're hoping to build up some kind of formidable history of rock or pop, don't let yourself be left without their debut album. Also, don't chunk it away after one listen, because Velvet Underground Nico is a difficult album to swallow, with some unpleasant sounds, and it takes some time to grow on you. Give it the time it deserves.
Still my favorite Velvet album. November 2, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I own the orginial four (Peel, White Light, Self Titled and Loaded) and this is still my favorite. I was born damn close to 20 years after it's release and I can honestly say, it does not get old for me. My musical taste runs from Rap to Metal to Country, and I could say Velvet Underground maybe be the most inspirational band I've heard 2nd only to the Beatles. br /br /Anyways, with Peel Slowly, Lou Reed and company drags you through the reaches of every emotion. "Waiting For the Man", can truly be understood only when you have been in that situation. While, "Femme Fatale" tells of the woman who will shatter your heart and play you like millions of others. But, the diamond here is "Heroin". A song written about the drug first hand by Reed, not as a pro drug song, but an understanding of what it does. It's a slow beat running faster and faster to a climax then back to it's dull lifeless rhythm.br /br /This album is a treat for those who really adore music and see art in so many forms. While this disc may seem dated to some younger audiences, it's hard to doubt the credibilty of Velvet Underground, even Forty years later.
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