Lp VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO Orig 1967 Warhol BANANA Cover Stereo V6-5008 EXC

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One would be hard-pressed to name a rock album whose influence has been as broad and pervasive as The Velvet Underground & Nico. While it reportedly took over a decade for the album's sales to crack six figures, glam, punk, new wave, goth, noise, and nearly every other left-of-center rock movement owes an audible debt to this set. While The Velvet Underground had as distinctive a sound as any band, what's most surprising about this album is its diversity. Here, the Velvets dipped their toes into dreamy pop ("Sunday Morning"), tough garage rock ("Waiting for the Man"), stripped-down R&B ("There She Goes Again"), and understated love songs ("I'll Be Your Mirror") when they weren't busy creating sounds without pop precedent. Lou Reed's lyrical exploration of drugs and kinky sex (then risky stuff in film and literature, let alone "teen music") always received the most press attention, but the music Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker played was as radical as the words they accompanied. The bracing discord of "European Son," the troubling beauty of "All Tomorrow's Parties," and the expressive dynamics of "Heroin" all remain as compelling as the day they were recorded. While the significance of Nico's contributions have been debated over the years, she meshes with the band's outlook in that she hardly sounds like a typical rock vocalist, and if Andy Warhol's presence as producer was primarily a matter of signing the checks, his notoriety allowed The Velvet Underground to record their material without compromise, which would have been impossible under most other circumstances. Few rock albums are as important as The Velvet Underground & Nico, and fewer still have lost so little of their power to surprise and intrigue more than 40 years after first hitting the racks. 

                                      “RECORDELITE”

                   AUTHENTIC HARD TO FIND ORIGINAL 

                                Lps ~ 45s ~ 12” SINGLES

                        HIGH QUALITY ROCK~JAZZ~SOUL

ARTIST: VELVET UNDERGROUND

TITLE: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND  & NICO

LABEL:   VERVE           

CATALOGUE #:  VS-5008 STEREO            

YEAR: 1967

SPECIAL NOTES: 

Absolute 1967 Original Pressing (Band's very first album) (not a reissue)

PEELED BANANA COVER ("Peel Slowly and See" is printed  atop banana on front cover)

COVER Art by ANDY WARHOL

Original Gatefold Cover

"THREE PRONG MUSIC" Credit on Labels

Original Blue Verve labels with Silver print

CONDITION:  Records are Visually graded unless noted

VINYL:  Side One: VG+ light hairlines that do not appear to affect play (see SOUND TESTED)

               Side Two: NM- Very clean & glossy with some rub marks (nothing serious)

COVER: : VG  to VG+ range.  3 neatly taped seam splits, some spotting on front and back cover,

 stains noticeable upper and lower right side of front cover (please see all pics)  

LABEL: NEAR MINT!!  Gorgeous

SOUND TESTED:  Excellent!   Plays great

Some surface noise was detected in only the quietest areas of play and between tracks.  Overall really fine sound fidelity.  The hairlines that were found on side one were tested and in general do not affect play.  No skips, no pops.  Just some very light surface noise  in those quieter areas.

SHIPPING:   Next day media mail shipping.  Packed in sturdy Lp mailer with an additional cardboard insert pad. 

International:  $18.50      Australia: $20.50     Canada:  $14.50

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