The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground & Nico

• 1 Sunday Morning 02:56
• 2 I'm Waiting For The Man 04:40
• 3 Femme Fatale 02:39
• 4 Venus In Furs 05:12
• 5 Run Run Run 04:22
• 6 All Tomorrow's Parties 06:00
• 7 Heroin 07:14
• 8 There She Goes Again 02:41
• 9 I'll Be Your Mirror 02:14
• 10 Black Angel's Death Song 03:12
• 11 European Son 07:47
• Total Runtime 48:57

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Wenige Veröffentlichungen haben die Rockgeschichte so umgekrempelt wie “The Velvet Underground & Nico“. Parallel mit “Sgt. Pepper´s“ und “Pet Sounds“ gilt es als wegweisendes Rockalbum der Geschichte. Viereinhalb Dekaden nach Erstveröffentlichung hat sich das Prestige der Pionier-LP nur noch erhöht.

Das Remastering (von den originalen Masterbändern) in den renommierten Sterling Sound-Studios, New York überwachte mit Bill Levinson eine VU-Koryphäe, seit über 30 Jahren ist Levinson in verschiedene Velvet-Wiederveröffentlichungen involviert gewesen.

Ihr Debütalbum brachte die New Yorker Band in die Rock´n´Roll Hall of Fame. Die angelsächsische Rock-Presse und das Feuilleton räumen ihm einen Platz in den Top-20 der “größten“, “einflussreichsten“, “prophetischsten“, “revolutionärsten“ Alben aller Zeiten ein: vom „Rolling Stone“ über Spin, Uncut und Mojo bis hin zum Guardian. Die altehrwürdige Nationalbibliothek der USA (Library of Congress) hat es in ihr Archiv aufgenommen. “The Velvet Underground & Nico“ inspirierte 1989 sogar die “Velvet Revolution“ in der ehemaligen Tschechoslowakei.

Protegiert vom Pop-Art-Paten Andy Warhol, der das weltberühmte Cover designte, aufgenommen in einem morbiden New Yorker Studio, ist “The Velvet Underground & Nico“ ein kühnes Unterfangen voller lyrischer Abgründe und toller Klang-Experimente. Bei Veröffentlichung war die LP ein kolossaler Flop. Selbst 1967, dem Jahr von Jimi Hendrix, den Doors und Frank Zappa, waren die Velvets zu harte Kost. Keiner wollte sich im Jahr von Sgt. Peppers damit auseinandersetzen. Erst Jahrzehnte später sprach man “The Velvet Underground & Nico“ heilig. Ohne jemals über Platz 171 der US-Charts hinaus gekommen zu sein, gehören The Velvet Underground damit zu den drei einflussreichsten Rockbands der Geschichte. Ohne ihr erstes Album hätte es Glam-Rock so nicht gegeben, ebenso wenig Krautrock und Punk, Gothic, Grunge oder Noise-Rock. David Bowie? The Stooges, Can, Roxy Music oder The Jesus And Mary Chain? Sie würden alle anders klingen.

Das berühmte Zitat von Brian Eno bringt es auf den Punkt: “Only five thousand people ever bought a Velvet Underground album, but every single one of them started a band.”

Lou Reed, vocals (on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11), backing vocals (on tack 3), lead guitar (on tracks 1-5, 7-11), ostrich guitar (on tracks 4, 6)
Sterling Morrison, rhythm guitar (on tracks 2, 5, 7, 8, 9), lead guitar (on tracks 3, 10, 11), bass (on tracks 1, 4, 6), backing vocals (on tracks 3, 5, 8)
John Cale, electric viola (on tracks 1, 4, 6, 7, 10), piano (on tracks 1, 2, 3, 6), bass (on tracks 2, 3, 5, 8-11), backing vocals (on track 8), celesta (on track 1), hissing (on track 10), sound effects (on track 11)
Maureen Tucker, percussion (on tracks 1, 3, 7-8, 10-11), drums (on tracks 2, 5), snare drum, (on track 3), tambourine (on tracks 2, 3, 4, 6, 9), bass drum (on tracks 4, 6)
Nico, vocals (on tracks 3, 6, 9), backing vocals (on track 1)

Recorded April–May and November 1966 at Scepter Studios, Manhattan; T.T.G. Studios, Hollywood; Mayfair Recording Studios, Manhattan
Produced by Andy Warhol, Tom Wilson

Digitally remastered

The Velvet Underground
were an avant-garde New York City band whose unconventional and screeching sounds paved and shaped the roads of “underground” Rock and Roll. Beginning in small clubs and bars around NYC, the band originally enjoyed a cult like following of dedicated fans, who rejoiced in a sound that, at the time, was deemed “undanceable” and ludicrous by mainstream media. Eventually, the band emerged from the cracks and shadows of Greenwich Village to form a union with the infamous Andy Warhol, whose notoriety catapulted the group of experimentalists to new and unseen heights. As they linked up to travel the Unites States, they overwhelmed audiences everywhere with a surreal concoction of images, films, lighting effects, and music, known as The Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour. Warhol also introduced the band to the young Nico, creating a partnership that went on to produce the coveted “The Velvet Underground & Nico” album, which is considered one of the most influential albums of all time. Fifty years later and The Velvet Underground’s works continue to inject their nonconformist and unique sounds into the ears of indie kids around the globe. With not only a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction under their belt but also four albums in the Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of all Time, The Velvet Underground still influences a younger generation of artists, who one can only hope will uphold the underground’s tradition of challenging and piercing the conventional boundaries of not only music, but creativity as a whole.

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