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VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO LP UNpeeled Banana Andy Warhol Cover 1967 VERVE 5008
Sold Date:
December 11, 2024
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November 15, 2024
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The Velvet Underground & Nico was recorded in 1966 while the band were featured on Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour. Warhol, who designed the album's record sleeve, co-produced with Tom Wilson. The album has elements of avant-garde music incorporated into brash, minimal and groove-driven rock music. Lou Reed delivers explicit lyrics spanning themes of drug abuse, prostitution, sadomasochism and urban life. Characterized as "the original art-rock record", it was a major influence on many subgenres of rock and alternative music, including punk, garage rock, krautrock, post-punk, post-rock, noise rock, shoegaze, gothic rock, and indie rock. Brian Eno said that while the album only sold approximately 30,000 copies in its first five years, "everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band".
The album was ranked number 13 on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2003. In 2006, it was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
