Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico 180g LP

The Velvet Underground & Nico (45th Anniversary Edition 180g Gatefold Album)

Track Listing

A Staple For Every Record Collection

The Velvet Underground's classic self-titled third album, released in March 1969 by MGM, was a departure from the band's first two albums in more ways than one. Gone was co-founding member John Cale, and in his place was a 21-year-old with Long Island roots named Doug Yule, who stepped right in. The record was also a stylistic leap, as Lou Reed describes it in Rolling Stone editor David Fricke's liner notes, "I thought we had to demonstrate the other side of us. Fricke calls it "a stunning turnaround... 10 tracks of mostly warm, explicit sympathy and optimism, expressed with melodic clarity, set in gleaming double-guitar jangle and near-whispered balladry. Or as the late rock critic Lester Bangs put it, "How do you define a group like this, who moved from 'Heroin' to ‘Jesus' in two short years?"

This album features the first professional line up of The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Maureen "Moe" Tucker, plus Nico singing on three tracks ("Femme Fatale", "All Tomorrow's Parties" and "I'll Be Your Mirror"). Most of the songs were recorded in April 1966 in a run-down recording studio before the band even had a contract.

Release Information

Label: Verve Records – 371 710-8, Verve Records – 0602537171088

Series: Back To Black

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 45th Anniversary Edition,180g, Gatefold

Country: Europe

Released: 2015

Genre: Rock

Style: Art Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Experimental