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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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| Customer Reviews:
 After So Many Years It Still Has A Peel June 10, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Dark, sinister, bizarre, bipolar - the first VU effort deserves its cult icon status - it is truly a fleur du mal of the flytrap variety. Arriving as it did in that sunniest, most hopeful of times - the era of flower power - this odd and unsettling mixed bag stuck out like a sore, gangrenous thumb. What disquieting contradictions! Nico's sweet, flat affect - hypnotizing on Sunday Morning, Femme Fatale, All Tomorrow's Parties, and I'll Be Your Mirror - lured listeners in like an elegant and deceptively fragile spider. Venus In Furs, unnerving and dirge-like, drew you in further, while There She Goes Again and Run, Run, Run kicked good and hard. br /br /But the showstopper here that everybody talked about is Heroin, an unapologetic tribute to the roller-coaster rush provided by this King of all addictive substances. At the time it all seemed just too hip, now it's a little harder to overlook all the lives, famous and forgotten, that have been senselessly shed on the altar of this bloodthirsty goddess. The Black Angel's Death Song feels like a cross between Bob Dylan and the Kronos String Quartet on crack while European Son sets the stage for a legion of derivative and less-talented punksters who would follow decades later. VU's debut is an absolutely amazing piece of work that satisfies completely. Sadly, Nico left immediately after recording it and the VU never approached this level again, although they had their moments. Things really started to decline as Lou Reed separated from the pack and became less interesting with each album. br /br /What's funniest of all though is how, in addition to providing a wonderful remix, the nice folks at Polydor have faithfully reproduced the now legendary cover with the Warhol peel-off banana skin. It was as though, if you owned the album you "owned a Warhol." With this reissue, you can have that same experience. That there was nothing original about the peel-off idea, that Warhol simply picked it up from peel-off ads in magazines, only shows that the genius of Warhol was to take credit for what had already been done and sell American culture back to itself. Perhaps it does take genius to pull that off. As much as it pains me though, Warhol must be given a certain amount of credit for launching one of the most eccentric and interesting albums ever.
 Three Stars For The Music. Ten Plus For The Historical Importance. June 3, 2006
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
The famous adage about the Velvet Underground is that although the band never sold many records everybody who bought one went out and started a band, and there is some truth to that.br /br /Certainly the band never sold many records. They were generally poorly distributed and the minimalist, often atonal arrangements to songs about transvestites drug addiction and SM practices ran totally contrary to the "summer of love" vibe of "wear some flowers in your hair" that was sweeping the nation at the time.br /br /Yet despite this the band's influence is undeniable and it is difficult to think of many bands that sprang up in the late 70's/early 80's punk/new wave movement (which itself morphed into the "alternative" scene of the early to mid 90's) that doesn't owe, at the very least, a small amount of debt to the VU.br /br /Still I have to admit that detractors who label the VU as "overrated" aren't entirely off the mark. I've known many, many people who have at least one of the band's albums (and if it is only one it is invariably this one) in their collection but with only one exception did I even know anybody who actually listened to it as anything more than an academic exercise. I even knew one person who only used the album to clear his house of unwanted party guests by playing "Black Angel's Death Song" when he was ready for said party to be over.br /br /This is not to say that the album does not have its merits that stretch beyond the historic. Songs like "Sunday Morning," "I'll Be Your Mirror," and even "Femme Fatale" have a genuine pop accessibility although admittedly Nico's flat and tuneless singing on the latter two can make it hard to notice.br /br /Released in 1967 "The Velvet Underground and Nico" spent the better part of the 1970's in out of print limbo and was more heard off and talked about than actually heard. It was reissued in remastered form in circa 1980 and, over the years, has managed to sell quite a few more copies than it did upon its initial release when few outside critics circles and arty subculture circles in New York ever heard of it. It would certainly be interesting to know how many of those people who own it today ever play the thing, but for all its academics I'm glad it exists. A good portion of my music library wouldn't without it.
 Dull, tedious and immensely overrated May 23, 2006
4 out of 22 found this review helpful
I'm about to comitt heresy: I don't understand why this band is so revered, and why it's almost a necessity in certain social circles to pretend you like this band if you really don't. Despite what hipster rock critics have told you for decades, there's a reason why the VU didn't sell many records in their day: they were dull, tedious, derivitave, and simply not that good. The VU formula was to play the same riffs that every mid-60's garage band played(minus the energy), and mask their lack of drive and originality with "shocking" lyrics about sm and heroin addiction and screechy, obnoxious sounding viola and over-long feedback noise-fests. Aside from There She Goes, Venus in Furs and Waiting for the Man, this album is plodding and incredibly boring. They were considered a joke band then, nothing more than the equally overrated Andy Warhol's pet project, and it's easy to see why. This has been called a primary influence on punk, though I can't seem to remember a single punk musician ever saying so. If you want REAL mid-to-late 60's, wildass rock n' roll, go with the Stooges, or the criminally obscure Sonics or the Monks. Lester Bangs once wrote that every critic he knew praised the VU, yet when he would go to their houses, this album would still have its original shrinkwrap and look nearly unplayed. This is not for listening to, this is for displaying on your shelf so you can look cool in front of your hipster doofus friends.
PEOPLE RATING THIS LOW SEEM MUSICALLY UNEDUCATED May 16, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
i was looking through the reviews on this piece of art and i came across someone who said that the vu had ripped off a rolling stone song? called hitch hike? well lets see, first of all that isnt a rolling stone's song its a marvin gaye song which the rolling stones used on their album, i mean the rolling stones version is the exact same as marvin gaye's,chord for chord,i mean i understand its suppose to be a cover and everything but its an exact replica rip off, so who stole off of who? and might i add that marvin gay's song had been released 2 years prior to that of the rolling stone's version of hitch hike, secondly, let me clear up some confusion people might have with the vu song "there she goes again" the vu used marvins riff intentionally, to blow the listener away, if you listen to marvin gayes version and then the vu's there she goes again you will understand, the song is suppose to mislead you and blow you away from the expectation of a marvin gaye pop song atmosphere but it is infact the complete opposite. so please please please before you review this make sure you know what you are talking about, ide hate to see this scored low from innacurate assumptions about the band, do a little research prior to listening, and give this band a chance, ill admit it is a complete turn off at first listen but it does take awhile to get into and ill admit i dont yet appreciate the album as much it should be appreciated, but im in the stage of learning to comprehend the album and understand why it is the masterpiece that it is instead of shoving it aside after one listen, so like all masterpieces, they take time to comprehend, especially ones that are far ahead of their time.
 Uhhh?? May 15, 2006
0 out of 26 found this review helpful
I've been hearing about this band forever. People really like them. That's awesome. However, these guys dont even mask ripping off other artists. There She Goes Again, IS, Hitch Hike from the Rolling Stones. I have never heard a band rip off anything like that before. br /br /I think this CD is pretty lame. If you want to buy something different thats a bit off the mainstream, don't start here.
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