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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
ORIGINAL 1967 FIRST PRESS
WITH ERIC EMERSON TORSO COVER...
ORIGINAL 1967 MONO MIXES
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Andy Warhol
The VELVET UNDERGROUND
Featuring NICO
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USA - VERVE - V-5008 - MONO
HOLY GRAIL
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Andy Warhol , 1967, Velvet Underground Nico LP Verve V-5008 ORIGINAL MONO MIXES INCLUDING THE WITHDRAWN TORSO COVER ... USA 67 FIRST Pressing, TOP-QUALITY RARE
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.... ABSOLUTE INVESTMENT COLLECTIBLE ....
SOLID 1967 INVESTMENT COLLECTIBLE with
CLEAN VISUALS, PLAYING TERRIFIC...
PEELED BANANA SKIN, YET HARD TO FIND A BETTER COPY
..........................................................THE MONO MIXES CONTAIN DIFFERENT VERSIONS FROM THE STEREO ISSUE , BY FAR SO HARD TO COME BY ...
A GREAT 67 ORIGINAL COLLECTIBLE CONTAINING THE ORIGINAL ERIC EMERSON WITHDRAWN TORSO ON BACK GATEFOLD ..........................................................
The VELVET UNDERGROUND
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Recorded in 66 during Andy Warhol s multimedia event tour, The Velvet Underground Nico would gain notoriety for its experimentalism 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 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 3:11
European Son 7:46
ORIGINAL 1967 FIRST PRESS
WITH ERIC EMERSON TORSO COVER
MONO ORIGINAL MIXES ... looks PLAYS CLEAN
The cover: rated: EX excellent ... 55 Years ago first MONO pressing guaranteed well preserved LP thick GATEFOLD cover ... yes the outer banana skin is peeled though remains a definite beautiful artifact of the era containing CLEAN TORSO back, front and insides cover ... way hard to find any better
Hard to find an original in ANY condition,
this one is near TOP LEVEL There are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ...
The vinyl:
Rated: EX excellent plays VERY enjoyable, No problems start to finish, investment collectible will only rise in value as times goes by ... both dark blue/silver MONO MONO 67 Verve labels
are clean ... look
A cool addition to anyone s music library
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GRADING SCALE: M, M-, EX, VG ,VG , VG, VG-
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VG- surface noise present, will not have skips or jumps
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