They’ll have a hard time doing so - it last changed hands for $25,200 - but luckily they can now get at least one step closer with its brand new vinyl release.Ī Symphony of Sound (1966): Velvet Underground Improvises, Warhol Films It, Until the Cops Turn UpĪndy Warhol Quits Painting, Manages The Velvet Underground (1965)Ĭolin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture and writes essays on literature, film, cities, Asia, and aesthetics. He’s at work on a book about Los Angeles, A Los Angeles Primer. Much of the context that lifts The Velvet Underground & Nico to the top of many a music snobs favorite records list- the anachronistic late-1960s doom and gloom, the death drone, Nico herself. For Velvet Underground purists, of course, only hearing the acetate disc itself will do. The Velvet Underground & Nico, a 1967 release by the rock group, was designed by Andy Warhol for the Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia promotional tour of 1967, which made Andy Warhol famous for his designs. It demonstrated that rock music could - through dissonance. The acetate received a legitimate release last year as part of The Velvet Underground & Nico‘s “45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition,” and you can hear cuts from it, like “ Heroin” at the top of this post and “ All Tomorrow’s Parties” just above. The Velvet Underground and Nico is obviously one of the most influential records ever recorded. “Turns out, the acetate contained early recorded takes and mixes of songs in different form.” That man had stumbled upon the coveted Scepter Studios acetate version of the album that launched 30,000 bands, bootleg files of which soon began circulating on the net. The Velvet Undergrounds seedy, druggy music defiantly. “In 2002, a fellow paid 75 cents at a New York City flea market for a curious acetate recording of the Velvet Underground,” reports Boing Boing’s David Pescovitz. Andy Warhol, Album cover The Velvet Underground & Nico for The Velvet Underground. Its sales were dismal, due in part to legal troubles, and MGMs bungled attempts at promoting the record.
From the Andy Warhol-designed banana cover to the music contained within, The Velvet Underground & Nico has become one of the most influential albums in Rock history. I refer to the record’s “first release” because it’s recently undergone a couple more, both of which originate in a version never even intended for market. Digitally remastered edition of this classic 1967 album, a collaboration between New York art rockers The Velvet Underground and German vocalist Nico.
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