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Dionysians / Apollonians; avant-garde chamber group / rock and roll dance band; violent nihilists / compassionate humanists; white noise tornado / neo-folk tonic; satanists / moralists

1967 M0N0 Issue

UNPEELED BANANA GATEFOLD COVER

 

       

Andy Warhol

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND   

& Nico

      The VELVET UNDERGROUND             

     

            

\                                                  USA - VERVE - V-5008 - MONO

                  

...Sought After UN-PEELED BANANA GATEFOLD COVER

INVESTMENT COLLECTIBLE ....

Original = UNPEELED BANANA COVER 1967 printing (no TORSO on back cover) ... This is the much more sought, harder to find 49 year old release containing the MONO song mixes & bold punchy production which greatly differs from the stereo release...

Includes Verve Records printed inner sleeve

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Recorded in '66 during Andy Warhol's multimedia event tour, The Velvet Underground & Nico would gain notoriety for its experimentalist performance sensibilities, as well as its focus on controversial subject matter expressed in many of their songs.

Theirs was the dim world of drugs and sexual perversion, of heroin addiction and the desperate loss of hope that goes with it. Their concern was with death and violence... Oozing evil and lubricity, they made every other group look like kid stuff, and they made a lot of people nervous... There is no word for their sound but sometimes it seems as if a presence has taken it over, perhaps even His Satanic Majesty himself. You can easily imagine someone performing black masses with the Velvet Underground’s albums. Not for the kiddies.

Their world view was dark and nihilistic at a time when everyone else was singing about peace and flowers... The Doors (whose first album was a hit when Velvet Underground & Nico was released) had a darker vision than The Velvet Underground! Even Jefferson Airplane, whose Surrealistic Pillow LP defined for the time capsules the romance of the Hippie Moment, didn’t turn a blind eye to the dark side of the counterculture-- and the Airplane and The Doors were the most popular bands in America during the Velvets’ time.

The Velvet Underground & Nico (the latter being a Warhol-recommended "chanteuse" who departed after the album was released to pursue an even more quixotic solo career) does function as a kind of "map of their music" (to paraphrase The Doors’ description of their own debut LP). The overall impression created is dark, noisy, more than a little paranoid and seemingly amoral (as opposed to immoral)-- "Heroin" makes a point of being neither for nor against, but simply about; similarly, no specific judgment is passed upon the characters in songs like "I’m Waiting For The Man" and "Venus In Furs." The album concludes with "The Black Angel’s Death Song" and "European Son," likably self-indulgent exercises in sonic (and verbal) envelope-pushing. But the ballads Lou wrote for Nico to sing (including the album opener "Sunday Morning" ) provide a disarmingly sweet balance, and even a specific reassurance: "When you think the night has seen your mind, / That inside you’re twisted and unkind, / Let me stand to show that you are blind-- / Please put down your hands, / ‘Cause I see you-- / I’ll be your mirror..."

Side one "Sunday Morning" (Reed, Cale) – 2:54 "I'm Waiting for the Man" – 4:39 "Femme Fatale" – 2:38 "Venus in Furs" – 5:12 "Run Run Run" – 4:22 "All Tomorrow's Parties" – 6:00 Side two "Heroin" – 7:12 "There She Goes Again" – 2:41 "I'll Be Your Mirror" – 2:14 "The Black Angel's Death Song" (Reed, Cale) – 3:11 "European Son" (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker) – 7:46

CONDITION: The Cover: rated: VG++  The gatefold cover reveals a FULL outer banana skin without tears or the usual heavy wrinkles and wear found on most surviving copies. Only slight general prior use. The cover, front and back and insides are WHITE without a lot of the dirt and soil usually found after 49 years ...There is a very tiny, hard to see delete drill at lowest bottom spine; it's very small and relatively unnoticeable. There are no bends, no split seams, no cut corners, no saw marks, no writing and no fading ... the spine is aligned and has but a little wear, still reads: "The Velvet Underground & Nico ... produced By Andy Warhol"
The Vinyl: still has lots of shine; rated: "EX" (excellent) no more than a few micro hard to see inner sleeve-type paper scuffs... play-grade was smooth and very enjoyable !  Both  ((mono)) Verve labels are very clean .
                         

A cool addition to anyone's music library!

            

      

 

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