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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:
 Warning: NOT FOR EVERYONE. August 14, 2006
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
If your idea of rock is good-timey, happy and fun, avoid. To quote one of the group's most famous songs, "Sick and dirty" is a good way to describe The Velvet Underground and Nico. Themes of choice include kinky sex, drug abuse and murder. Not exactly the Monkees.br /1. Sunday Morning: 10/10. Okay, seems all nice, dreamy and peaceful, right? Yeah, until you hear the line "Watch out, the world's behind you," and realize that this is one disturbed, paranoid narrator we're dealing with. Then it suddenly becomes eerie.br /2. I'm Waiting For the Man: 10/10. Unabashadely loud, crude and simple (It lacks even a bridge), not to mention explicit about its subject (a drug deal). No wonder they had so much influence on the punk-rockers. Second-best tune on the album.br /3. Femme Fatale: 7.5/10. An almost pleasant, folksy song sung by Nico.br /4. Venus In Furs: 10/10. SM was a subject nobody dared touch at the time, and here we have Lou Reed making poetry out of it. The droning viola and odd percussion add a layer of otherworldliness.br /5. Run, Run, Run: 6/10. Primitive RB-based filler.br /6. All Tomorrow's Parties: 5.5/10. Endless, repetitive and monotonous.br /7. Heroin: 10/10. Not only the best song on the album, but one of rock's best drug songs. I myself can admit with pride to never having used drugs, and if this is supposed to simulate use of the title drug (as I have heard), I have one more reason to avoid it. It starts off slowly and calmly, a la Sunday Morning. But when John Cale's nightmarish viola enters, you know that Lou Reed was living through hell daily at the time. But to quote the song, "Thank your god that I just don't care". Lou Reed's phrasing is also excellent.br /8. There She Goes Again: 8/10. Lou Reed's bid for a brutally ironic, cynical-yet-catchy pop song, and he pulls it off, though the harmonies are annoying. I can see Elvis Costello eating this up.br /9. I'll Be Your Mirror: 10/10. Nico's best song by far, a clever pop tune with brilliant phrasing and a cool title to boot!br /10. Black Angels Death Song: 7.5/10. This is one weird song. Lou spits out garbled, hard-to-understand vocals that involve sex and murder over John Cale's viola, which sounds like a rusty swing set. It's good, though.br /11. European Song: WTF?/10. Seriously, this is a real head-scratcher, sort of like Revolution 9 by the Beatles but more so. The first minute is fairly normal, when you exclude the lyrcis which are again about murder. Then it takes a left turn, becoming a near-eight minute excuse for the group to make as much noise as humanly possible.
 Finally got it on CD August 4, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I finally got it on CD after all these years. I love this album, when I had it on vinyl I went through three copies. I think this is the VU's best album,br /although they are all good. Lou and Nico sound great on the vocals and Lou wrote some of his best songs on this album. For me this is where Rock n Roll begins.
Feeling Sick and Dirty, More Dead Than Alive July 13, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Velvet Underground are an amazing band that influnced millions. Lou Reed is a genuis and one of my heros. The Velevt Underground were an offbeat band that were very different from music in the yesteryear and even today. They were different cause they were real. They sang about real situations such as hookers, hang overs, and drug dealers, and of corse some SM, but it was all in a smart way, unlike some music out there today. It was hidden underneath a little jingle and seemed like a sweet song until you looked at the lyrics and were able to realize what it is about. VU rock and are radical! Peel and see for your self.br /
Ignore the hype and simply enjoy this masterpiece July 8, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Sure, there are idiotic hipsters who will buy and listen to this because it was raved about by their favorite indie band, or they read about it on some lame 'classic albums' list which placed it next to 'Abbey Road' and 'Astral Weeks'.... but that doesn't detract from the glory of this recording. This is a unique, amazing set of songs that seem to never grow old. The performers, especially John Cale on viola, ooze creativity. If one comes to this album with no preconceived notions, one will almost certainly fall in love with the Velvet Underground.
The Velvet UnderGround June 26, 2006
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
I feel really sorry for any fans of punk rock who stumble on this album, thinking it will sound like the Dictators or MC5 or one of those other "proto-punk" bands, and discovering the opening notes of "Sunday Morning". Can you imagine the look on their faces? Despite what people say (and I've seen the lists here on Amazon, listing this as an "essential punk album"), this album does NOT have "punk rock". Fans of bands like the Ramones, the Clash, the Sex Pistols, or any of today's punk bands should definitely check out the samples before buying.br /br /That said, this isn't a bad album. The songs here are, to put it nicely, nice. "Sunday Morning" is a beautiful little song, "I'm Waiting for the Man" is a cool rock and roll tune, and so on. Some of the songs are pretty daring for their time period, both lyrically and musically, exploring sexual themes (Venus in Furs) and drug use (Heroin) openly. My only real complaint is that the music sometimes is a little too relaxing. I've fallen asleep a couple of times listening to this album. Fortunately, the unholy racket raised in Heroin never fails to wake me up.
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