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It Has Not Taken Long | Nico | 4:11 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Secret Side | Nico | 4:08 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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You Forgot to Answer | Nico | 5:07 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Innocent and Vain | Nico | 3:51 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Valley of the Kings | Nico | 3:57 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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We've Got the Gold | Nico | 5:44 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The End | Nico | 9:36 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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8 |
Das Lied Der Deutschen | Nico | 5:29 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 8 Songs |
iTunes Review
Along with Big Star's Third/Sister Lovers, Neil Young's On The Beach, and Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue, Nico's The End is an album that surrenders to darkness with some of the most beautifully desolate human deterioration ever recorded. Released in 1974, Nico's fourth album found her collaborating with John Cale again. Like her two preceding albums Desertshore and The Marble Index, Cale gave her haunting dirges a natural inborn feel with rich old acoustic tones, undulating harmonium drones, dramatic piano touches, and spare cello notes. This time Brian Eno was brought in to contrast Cale's organic production with cold synthesizer sounds that helped haunted songs like "You Forgot To Answer" sound more ghostly and spectral — quite appropriate since her lyrics are about not being able to reach Jim Morrison by phone only to later learn that her Lizard King lover had died (hence the bleak cover/title track). The brooding "Innocent And Vain" is bookended with Eno's synths distorting and howling to sound like mass destruction and her rendition of the German national anthem "Das Lied Der Deutschen" is wonderfully disturbing.
Customer Reviews
Nico the Goddess
You really have to love and appreciate Nico, especially Marble Index or later, to love this album. Which I do. Vocals, while not "classically" beautiful, has it's own gorgeous and painful tonality. Definately do not listen to this while in the tub, or you may feel the need to drop your docking station, or nearest electrical appliance in with you. But enjoy Nico for what she is, the tragic female archetype that men and women can embrace, if only during the rougher patches we all inevitably go through.
Haunting
Shut the lights and enjoy the voice and the music on this one. It's classic heroin music at it's best
The Title Cut!
The Title Cut! The best dollar you'll ever spend. Even if you don't know it right away, it's more frightening than any great horror movie. Once you've entered this hollow world of addiction, you'll wonder how she lived as many years as she did. (I should hesitate using the word 'lived'.) After you've traveled her ~10 minute dark pathetique, you'll feel the morbid compulsion to fork-over the other 7 dollars, and explore Hades further. Don't underestimate the power of a recording studio, the shell of a woman, and her needles. A near-death experiment gone horribly left of sanity.
Biography
Born: October 16, 1938 in Cologne, Germany
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s
Top Albums and Songs By Nico
| Name | Album | Time | Price | ||
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1 |
These Days | Chelsea Girl | 3:30 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Heroin (Stereo) | The Velvet Underground & Nico | 7:12 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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3 |
Venus in Furs (Stereo) | The Velvet Underground & Nico | 5:12 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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4 |
I'm Waiting for the Man (Stereo) | The Velvet Underground & Nico | 4:39 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Sunday Morning (Stereo) | The Velvet Underground & Nico | 2:56 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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6 |
I'll Be Your Mirror (Stereo) | The Velvet Underground & Nico | 2:14 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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7 |
Femme Fatale (Stereo) | The Velvet Underground & Nico | 2:38 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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The Fairest of the Seasons | Chelsea Girl | 4:06 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Venus in Furs | Peel Slowly and See (Box Set) | 5:12 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Heroin (Stereo Mix) | The Velvet Underground / Nico (Deluxe Edition) | 7:12 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
- $7.92
- Genres: Rock, Music, Alternative, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Punk
- Released: 1974
- ℗ 1974 Island Records Ltd.
