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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:
 Don't you just love this record? January 19, 2000
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
It is about time, that this record is getting the attention it deserves. The Velvet Underground and Nico is very possibly the most important, influential, and ground breaking album in the history of rock and roll. Filled to the top with great "hits". It takes you to the streets, holding your hand like a dear freind and then turns you loose into the madness. This is an album that speaks to all of us, and even almost 35 years later it still speaks the loudest....
Seminal and compelling January 14, 2000
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
One of the most brilliant and influential albums ever recorded. I'm serious. Just about every genre that could possibly be labeled "alternative", especially punk, was profoundly influenced by this masterful album. It is not only artistically brilliant, but a whole lot of fun to listen to. The Velvet Underground may be the greatest American band in the history of rock music. Not bad for only four real albums (and you should own all four, starting with their self-titled disc).pWe must all bow down to Lou Reed.pp.s. Anyone who only gives this album one star must be smoking some serious rock.
Nevermind the Cliches, This is an incredible record November 23, 1999
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Im sure anyone who has gotten this far has heard the anecdote about everyone who has bought a VU record started a band. The fact of the matter is, even if you buy a record because it is influential, you wont listen to it unless it is good. This album is better than good. Every song here sounds like it could have been written in the last 10 years. Even the more avant-garde tracks, once played to annoy club owners, sound good by todays standards. This is a classic and an absolute must have.
 an inauspicious non-event October 18, 1999
23 out of 81 found this review helpful
This record was released in 1967, the same year The Beatles's "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", The Jefferson Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow", Creams "Disraeli Gears", and Pink Floyd's "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" were-in other words, in a year of amazing, brilliant, and original rock and roll records. "Velvet Underground Nico" is very different from these four records (except that "European Son" is slightly reminiscent of "Piper at the Gates of Dawn"'s "Interstellar Overdrive"), but obviously derived from 1965's "Bringing It All Back Home" and "Highway 61 Revisited" by Bob Dylan, with a bit of mid-sixties Rolling Stones thrown in. Really, I think "Velvet Underground Nico"'s claim to unusualness rests mainly on the ineptitude of its musicians. The guitars and Nico's and Lou Reed's singing (when he tries to sing, that is,--a big mistake) are very, very much out of tune, and no one here knows how to play his instrument-and I'm not just talking about John Cale on "electric viola"; the rest can't claim to be doing it deliberately. Lou Reed's lyric imagery differs from Bob Dylan's mainly in that it is much cruder (but for that matter, with "Blonde on Blonde" in 1966 Dylan had already gone well past "Bringing It All Back Home" and "Highway 61 Revisited"). "Velvet Underground Nico" gets my votes for worst record of 1967 and worst record with which Lou Reed was associated--including "Machine Metal Music".pRecommended: Lou Reed's "New Sensations" and "Legendary Hearts" and "The Norton Manual of Music Notation" by George Heussenstamm.
AMAZING! October 10, 1999
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
At a time when people tried as hard as they could to make a political difference and 'trip' everyone out the Velvet Underground told it straight out. It wasn't all peace, love, and flower power it was also heroin overdoses, depressed homosexuals, powerful hypocrites, and so forth and the Velvets were the only ones preaching. It's not just the lyrics or the fact that it's their debut album it's a medium between their sophmore album, 'White Light/White Heat' which is often too hard, and their third self-titled album which is often to hard. The album mixes druming that's just a beat, a screeching viola with guitar strings, low grunting distorted guitars, and monitone vocals. The first album that really said what is.
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