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Prelude | Nico | 0:59 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Lawns of Dawn | Nico | 3:11 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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No One Is There | Nico | 3:37 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Ari's Song | Nico | 3:21 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Facing the Wind | Nico | 4:55 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Julius Caesar (Memento Hodie) | Nico | 5:02 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Frozen Warnings | Nico | 4:02 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Evening of Light | Nico | 5:40 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Roses In the Snow (1991) | Nico | 4:09 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Nibelungen (1991) | Nico | 2:43 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Songs |
iTunes Review
Recorded in 1968 and released in 1969, The Marble Index is a unique experience that was shockingly avant-garde for its time. The singer/songwriter conventions of her solo debut album, Chelsea Girl, were jettisoned for John Cale's avant-classical arrangements. Her harmonium was matched by his electric viola, mouth organ, and a variety of treated keyboards and guitars. Just as her work with The Velvet Underground expanded the definition of rock 'n' roll, The Marble Index expands the definition of the singer/songwriter. Nico's own songwriting is presented for the first time, and it's as eerie as her singing voice. "Lawns of Dawn" is a web of sound where nothing is stable and everything is forever changing. "No One Is There" aches with a loneliness that Cale's swaths of strings can do little to assuage. These are brooding numbers that inspired the next generation of doom and goth rockers, few of whom truly understood the eloquence of these unusual tunes. "Roses in the Snow" and the a capella "Nibelungen" were bonus tracks added when the album was reissued in the '90s, flawlessly extending the record's mood.
Customer Reviews
Wow...SCARY but worth every second
This is a record completely beyond time and genre. Yes, it's not an uplifting pop record, but a dark, intense, moody and completely original sound. Nico's voice and its deep, inflexible tonal dissonance reflect a very other-wordly, nightmarish landscape...this is indeed a great record for some (lightly) chemically-induced experiences, try this record late at night and you will have guaranteed nightmares:) This is also a masterpiece, and a record that is not trying to please, which is a lot...strange how you can see it reflected in music made much later, for example Birthday Party and all the "Goth" bands...also any female vocalist who is NOT singing syrupy love songs...she is more of a rock Chanteuse than a "singer" per se...I have ll of her records and I cannot find anything similarly affecting, macabre and human...she took all the drugs so you didn't have to, you can hear this record.
Brilliant.
"The Marble Index" is hauntingly beautiful and extremely, extremely important in musical history. The isolating and abrasive nature of Nico's music and voice must have come as a shock in 1969, year in an era still infatuated with easily digestible peace-and-love rock. "The Marble Index" can be described as "gothically elegant." As the iTunes reviewer noted, it does owe quite a bit to European classical music (just listen to "Lawns of Dawn," or "Julius Caesar (Memento Hodie)"); and while listening to the album, one can imagine Nico as a tortured European princess, locked away in a tall and haunted tower, singing songs of isolation and sorrow.
Nico was an unrecognized revolutionary. In "The Marble Index," she is at her most experimental, her most shocking, and, ultimately, her most beautiful. A must own for any fan of avant-garde music or any fan of "goth-rock." I assure you that there would be no Bauhaus, no Cure, and maybe even no Nick Cave without the influential work of Nico.
Nico.
Nico's the "Marble Index" Is an exquisitely unique and dark album that both encompasses her life and her death. Filled with great tunes that will bring you to the darkest days of her life. Nico does an outstanding job in setting herself apart from the normal music of her days. Nico is both haunting and marvelous.
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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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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Venus in Furs (Stereo) | The Velvet Underground & Nico | 5:12 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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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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I'll Be Your Mirror (Stereo) | The Velvet Underground & Nico | 2:14 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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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 |
- $9.90
- Genres: Rock, Music, Adult Alternative, Alternative, Punk, Prog-Rock/Art Rock
- Released: May 1969
- ℗ 1991 Elektra Entertainment, a division of Warner Communications Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
