In the annals of rock history,The Velvet Underground & Nicois filed under “Important Albums.” Sure, it sold all of five copies at the time of its release, but it is has since risen through the ranks to define not just a sound, not just an era, but an entire lifestyle. This one ...
In John Cale: The Velvet Underground The band’s influential debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico was recorded in 1966 and released in 1967. Cale’s influence is apparent on tracks such as “Venus in Furs” and “Heroin,” which feature his droning viola, and “All Tomorrow’s Parti...
WhenThe Velvet Underground & Nicoalbum was released in March 1967 on Verve Records, with its Andy Warhol-designed, peel-off banana cover, it was far from a chart-topper. In fact, as the famed quote attributed to Brian Eno famously put it, the album may not have sold many copies, “but...
Recorded in 1966 but not released until the following year, The Velvet Underground and Nico was one of rock’s most important debuts, a pioneering work that applied the disruptive aesthetics of avant-garde music and free jazz (drones, distortion, atonal feedback) to rock guitar. It also ...
Femme Fatale is a track by The Velvet Underground from the album Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground Featuring Nico released in 1971. This track has received 0 comments and 14 ratings from BestEverAlbums.com site members. This track is rated in the top 2% o
reed and john cale provided the cool and nico was around a while for the beauty, but the velvet underground picture is so must more interesting when you consider that this sweet-voiced woman occasionally took the mic to sing a simple ditty. still, where summarizations of their catalog are ...
the underground, pop, Pop, and a healthy handful of isms. Andy Warhol, producer of the Velvets' first album and designer of its iconic banana cover, hovered over the Velvets like the Drella of his reputation. Nico wafted in, then out again just as suddenly. There's the psychodrama of th...
When The Velvet Underground’s first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, came out in early 1967, it was part of a continuum with Beat poetry, pop art and French New Wave filmmaking: movements that stripped away myths about expertise and put art in the hands of whoever wanted to make it...
the reception was dull, with a legal issue causing the record to be pulled off the shelves and solidifying that it was not meant to be a commercial success at the time. Despite the album’s initial stalling, The Velvet Underground kept on, releasing its second album without Nico to similarl...
The Velvet Underground, ‘The Velvet Underground and Nico’ Verve, 1967Powered byPlay the Full Song “We were trying to do a Phil Spector thing with as few instruments as possible,” John Cale, the classically trained pianist and viola player of the Velvet Underground, once said of this reco...