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The Velvet Underground & Nico

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Album Review

Many of the songs are melodic pop tunes, and the lyrics can be charming, but they also take on the experience of shooting heroin and other hard-edged subjects, and some of the music reflects Cale's taste for avant-garde music. All together, a remarkable document for 1967, and far more provocative than any debut album released since.

Customer Reviews

It's All True! Buy it!

Brian Eno has a really famous qoute about this record. He said that when it first came out, only one hundred people actaully bought it...but after hearing it, each and everyone of them formed a band. I've never heard a better review of any album than that. PEACE

O MY GOSH!

Lou Reed's dark voice is so compelling and scary. His songs are soo unique and full of emotion.

Just AMAZING!

Indescribable piece of musical genius. the ESSENTIAL album of the 1960's. Buy it, own it, listen to it, love it.

Biography

Formed: 1964 in New York, NY

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '90s

Few rock groups can claim to have broken so much new territory, and maintain such consistent brilliance on record, as the Velvet Underground during their brief lifespan. It was the group's lot to be ahead of, or at least out of step with, their time. The mid- to late '60s was an era of explosive growth and experimentation in rock, but the Velvets' innovations — which blended the energy of rock with the sonic adventurism of the avant-garde, and introduced a new degree of social realism and sexual...
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